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January in Racing History

Juan Manuel Fangio, driving a Maserati 250F, wins the Argentine Grand Prix at Buenos Aires (1954).
Gilles Villeneuve
Gilles Villeneuve
Jean-Pierre Wimille
Jean-Pierre Wimille

1 Sports car racer James “Hap” Sharp is born (1928).

11 American John Walter Christie, free-lance engineer, auto builder and racer dies. Christie helped build first submarine and designed tanks used by Britain in WWII. His 1907 WC-5 Grand Prix racer was the first to use a 4-cylinder engine, front-wheel drive and a transverse engine (1944).

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