1956 to 1971. Bonnier won the 1959 Dutch Grand Prix with BRM. Born and raised in Stockholm, Bonnier was the son of geneticist Gert Bonnier and born into...
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Targa Florio with Hans Herrmann being joined on the winner podium by Jo Bonnier and Graham Hill. The RS 60 also ensured that Porsche successfully defended...
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Bristow's BRP Cooper alongside, while Jo Bonnier shared the second row with Tony Brooks's BRP Cooper. Bonnier took the lead at the start, with Brabham...
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was won by Swedish driver Joakim Bonnier driving a BRM P25. It would be the only World Championship victory of Bonnier's fifteen-year Grand Prix career...
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fuel pump problems, and so Jo Bonnier and Dan Gurney took third and fourth in their Porsches. On Lap 14, both Moss and Bonnier were able to pass Ginther...
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1966 and 1967. It famously won the 1966 1000 km Nürburgring, driven by Jo Bonnier and Phil Hill. "Chaparral 2D, 1966 [Auta5P ID:2577 EN]". auta5p.eu. "Petroleum...
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the race counted towards the F1 championship. For the Dutch Grand Prix, Jo Bonnier, driving for the BRM works team, clinched his first career pole, ahead...
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Ecurie Bonnier, Ecurie Suisse, Joakim Bonnier Racing Team and Anglo-Suisse Racing Team were names used by Swedish racing driver Joakim Bonnier to enter...
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of the 1968 season in South Africa in the hands of privateers Jo Siffert and Jo Bonnier, as by this time the works team had moved on to the T86 chassis...
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both drivers and spectators. After Moss retired from the sport in 1963, Jo Bonnier succeeded him. The organisation was disbanded following the events during...
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positions and the highest percentage of fastest laps. Swedish driver Jo Bonnier had entered the season under his own name but moved to BRM for the final...
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ensuring his fourth title. The race saw the World Championship debuts of Jo Bonnier (the first Swede to do so), Les Leston, and Wolfgang von Trips, and the...
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entered the 1951 German Grand Prix, however he would later withdraw. Jo Bonnier was the first Swedish Formula One driver. He made his debut at the 1956...
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1 1951–1960, 1963 1959 Indianapolis 500 1959 Indianapolis 500 Sweden Jo Bonnier 1 1956–1971 1959 Dutch Grand Prix 1959 Dutch Grand Prix United States...
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in the order Brooks, Gurney, Hill. Maurice Trintignant was fourth from Jo Bonnier and Ian Burgess. This was the fastest Formula One race recorded at this...
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Hawthorn and Bonnier to pass. Moss, now unhampered, began to draw away from Hawthorn who was being caught by Hill who had passed Bonnier after recovering...
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classified and eligible for points, meaning that whilst Guy Ligier and Jo Bonnier were still racing, they were considered far enough behind to have actually...
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Lorenzo Bandini took over at the front, ahead of Richie Ginther (BRM) and Jo Bonnier (Brabham). The latter's engine gave up as well near the finish, the Swede...
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at the sweeping Burnenville corner, where the heavy wall of rain was. Jo Bonnier crashed with his Cooper T81 coming to rest balancing on a parapet, the...
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finished in a superb fourth place in his home race from Jim Hall and Jo Bonnier. This race was notable for being the only time Jim Clark ever finished...
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The 1958 Dutch Grand Prix was won by Moss in a Vanwall. 1959 saw Swede Jo Bonnier win his only Formula One championship event and 1960 saw Dan Gurney have...
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dual-World Champion and the second time a BRM driver had won the race after Jo Bonnier in 1959. Hill finished over 27 seconds ahead of Team Lotus driver Trevor...
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Scottish blue Lotus for Stirling Moss. BRM had three mid-engined P48s for Jo Bonnier, Graham Hill and Gurney. With the Championship chase over, Enzo Ferrari...
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retire with an engine failure. Piers Courage, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, and Jo Bonnier rounded out the top six, with no other finishers. This was the Formula...
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covered a record distance. The second was the Ferrari of Graham Hill and Jo Bonnier for the British Maranello Concessionaires team, ahead of the works 330...
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after 1962, choosing to focus on their road-going sports cars. Ex-driver Jo Bonnier signed with Rob Walker's private team, while Dan Gurney signed with the...
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McLaren M5A (section Joakim Bonnier Racing Team)
blood-red, and finished 2 laps adrift in fifth place. Swedish privateer Jo Bonnier bought the M5A to replace his ageing Cooper T81, and used it to take part...
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and finishing sixth in the Netherlands. The car then switched hands to Jo Bonnier who used it for two more races that year. The M7D was used intermittently...
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motorsport-related job with his idol Bonnier in 1971, assisting with the preparation of an old customer McLaren chassis. When Bonnier was killed in a Lola T280 at...
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Fellow driver Vic Elford described Bonnier's Lola as "spinning to the air like a helicopter". Critically injured, Jo Bonnier died soon afterward. He was a...
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