Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday to Brakius and Elly Parker!
25 years ago today Scott Dixon won the CART IndyCar round at Nazareth for PacWest – the series’ first race since the preceding round in Texas was controversially cancelled
Born on this day in 1958: Tommy Byrne, future British F3 champion who was tipped as a potential F1 star but only entered five rounds for the struggling Theodore team
Born on this day in 1964: Andrea Chiesa, who qualified for just three of his 10 appearances in 1992 and retired from all of them
20 years ago today Lewis Hamilton scored his first GP2 victory, at the Nurburgring, almost 20 seconds ahead of ART team mate Alexandre Premat despite serving a drive-through penalty for pit lane speeding