On New Year’s Day of 1967 the South African Champion, John Love, was pipped at the post in the season opening South African Grand Prix at Kyalami when his Tasman Cooper faltered in the closing stages whilst comfortably in the lead and was forced to stop for fuel because of a defective fuel pump. The 42-year old Rhodesian privateer had come close to pulling off one of the biggest upsets in World Championship history with his obsolete racecar.
Pedro Rodriguez inherited the lead and raced to victory in the unloved Cooper T81 Maserati.
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