From a world champion to a fellow Red Bull reserve – How Liam Lawson’s New Zealand compatriots have fared in F1

Tony Shelly

Becoming a member of Bruce McLaren in F1 throughout 1962 was the second driver to hail from New Zealand, Tony Shelly, who entered the British Grand Prix on the wheel of a John Dalton car. His look was temporary, although, as he retired after simply 5 laps because of a fault with the automotive.

Shelly went on to enter two extra world championship occasions – on the Nurburgring and Monza – however did not qualify on each events.

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Chris Amon

Only one 12 months later Chris Amon arrived within the sport, making his debut with the Reg Parnell Racing group on the 1963 Belgian Grand Prix. This marked the start of a profession in System 1 that spanned 96 Grands Prix throughout 13 years with many various groups, together with Ferrari, March and Ensign.

Whereas he got here near sealing a victory greater than as soon as, Amon’s greatest consequence was in the end second place, taken on three events. Very extremely rated however someway by no means fairly in the suitable place on the proper time to take an F1 win, his dangerous luck grew to become well-known, main Mario Andretti to joke: “If he grew to become an undertaker, folks would cease dying.”

Amon known as time on his F1 profession in 1976 and, regardless of leaving with no Grand Prix wins to his title, he did show victorious at Le Mans in 1966, the place he teamed up with countryman Bruce McLaren behind the wheel of a Ford GT40 Mk.II.