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    Joseph Siffert (French pronunciation: [ʒo sifɛʁ]; 7 July 1936 – 24 October 1971) was a Swiss racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1962 to 1971...
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    designation), and driven by Jo Siffert. Compared to the dominant McLarens, the car was underpowered and overweight. Siffert's best result was 3rd at Bridgehampton...
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  • Siffert is a Swiss surname. Notable people with the surname include: Emmanuel Siffert (born 1967), Swiss conductor Jo Siffert (1936–1971), Swiss racing...
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    for Formula One Manufacturers. The 54-lap race was won by BRM driver Jo Siffert after he started from pole position. Emerson Fittipaldi finished second...
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    his Ferrari 512 in July, at an Interserie race at the Norisring, and Jo Siffert died in October, in a fiery crash during the Victory Race at Brands Hatch...
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    faster – which is a lot in racing terms. The 1971 race saw Swiss driver Jo Siffert dominate in his BRM and Briton Jackie Stewart took his second Drivers'...
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    stayed there, finishing half a minute ahead of Surtees and a lap ahead of Jo Siffert in a privately run Brabham. It was the third time in F1 history that the...
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    Tyrrell driver François Cevert after he started from fifth position. Jo Siffert finished second for the BRM team and March driver Ronnie Peterson came...
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    procession in 10th. Jo Siffert put the quickest Porsche 22nd on the grid with 3:51.0, with Nino Vaccarella's Ferrari in 24th (3:53.5) and Jo Schlesser's Matra...
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  • Ludovico Scarfiotti, Richie Ginther, Joakim Bonnier, Bruce McLaren and Jo Siffert. One of the ten highest-grossing films of 1966, Grand Prix won three Academy...
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    Grand Prix wins - including the fourth of his five Monaco Grands Prix. Jo Siffert also drove a 49B, owned by Rob Walker, to win the British Grand Prix at...
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    Servoz-Gavin alongside him on the front row. The second row featured Jo Siffert (in Rob Walker's Lotus) and John Surtees in the Honda with Brabham's Jochen...
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    1963–1971 1967 South African Grand Prix 1970 Belgian Grand Prix  Switzerland Jo Siffert 2 1962–1971 1968 British Grand Prix 1971 Austrian Grand Prix  United States...
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    finished 14th and one lap down. Switzerland's first Grand Prix winner was Jo Siffert. In a career spanning 10 seasons he won two races (Britain 1968 and Austria...
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  • chassis with BRM power, and a BT7 chassis with Climax power. In 1965, Jo Siffert partnered Bonnier, and although the more experienced Swede was fastest...
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    was not present but Rob Walker entered a car for Jo Siffert and Guy Ligier entered his own car. Siffert qualified third but retired with a broken universal...
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  • victories for Jo Siffert and Peter Gethin in 1971 in the P160. The team had reached one of its intermittent peaks of success. Both Siffert and Rodríguez...
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    drivers Jo Siffert and Hubert Hahne. For 1969, the team switched to Lola 102s, and used a new development of BMW's 1600 cc engine, dubbed the M12. Siffert and...
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    Brabham BT7, while the overall lap record is 1:04.820 and was set by Jo Siffert in a Porsche 908 during the 1968 Zeltweg 500 Kilometres. The fastest official...
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    helmet, making him the first driver to do so in Grand Prix racing. After Jo Siffert had surprisingly won the previous race at Brands Hatch, the paddock arrived...
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    Königstrasse in Duisburg, Germany, a collaboration with Niki de Saint Phalle Jo Siffert Fountain (commonly called Tinguely Fountain), Fribourg, Switzerland La...
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    McLaren broke a rear suspension member early, crashed, and caught fire. Jo Siffert took the lead, but had to pit with a broken throttle cable.[citation needed]...
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    race-winner Jochen Rindt with current Hillclimb champion Gerhard Mitter and Jo Siffert/Hans Herrmann. As neither Alfa Romeo nor Dino showed, Porsche's main opposition...
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  • Santos Oliveira Joseph Jo Schlesser (1928–1968), French racing driver Joseph Jo Siffert (1936–1971), Swiss racing driver José Soares (1938–2022), Brazilian...
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    for Chris Amon and Jo Siffert, respectively. Amon had joined March as the works' lead driver from Scuderia Ferrari, while Siffert's drive had been bought...
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    Neerpasch.[clarification needed] When the car of the longtime leaders Jo Siffert and Hans Herrmann dropped to second due to a technical problem, these...
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  • by parenthesis. The fourth-place finish overall of Jo Siffert was determined posthumously as Siffert died in October 1971 at a Formula One race at Brands...
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    Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on September 10, 2012. "Jo Siffert". ESPN UK. Archived from the original on December 24, 2015. "François...
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    The 80-lap race was won by Jo Siffert, his first Formula One victory, and the first victory by a Swiss driver. Siffert's win also marked the 9th and...
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    512s, and the other Porsche teams, the JWA Gulf-Porsche 917s, raced by Jo Siffert, Brian Redman, Leo Kinnunen, Pedro Rodríguez, Richard Attwood, Herbert...
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