* 1942 – Frank Williams, English founder and team principal of the WilliamsF1 Formula One racing team

* Adrian Sutil ( born 1983 ), German Formula One racing driver

* 1963 – Mike Gascoyne, British engineer, designer of Formula One cars

: See also: Aston Martin Racing, List of Formula One constructors

** British American Racing, a Formula One constructor

* Bernie Ecclestone was involved in a political scandal when it transpired he had given the Labour Party a million pound donation-which raised eyebrows when the incoming Labour government changed its policy to allow Formula One to continue being sponsored by tobacco manufacturers.

Motor Racing Developments Ltd., commonly known as Brabham (), was a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team.

Founded in 1960 by two Australians, driver Jack Brabham and designer Ron Tauranac, the team won four drivers ' and two constructors ' world championships in its 30-year Formula One history.

The team won two more Formula One drivers ' championships in the 1980s with Brazilian Nelson Piquet.

British businessman Bernie Ecclestone owned Brabham during most of the 1970s and 1980s, and later became responsible for administering the commercial aspects of Formula One.

In 2009, an unsuccessful attempt was made by a German organisation to enter the 2010 Formula One season using the Brabham name.

There he started driving for the Cooper Car Company works team and by 1958 had progressed with them to Formula One, the highest category of open wheel racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ), motor sport's world governing body.

In 1959 and 1960, Brabham won the Formula One world drivers ' championship in Cooper's revolutionary mid-engined cars.

By the 1961 Formula One season, the Lotus and Ferrari teams had developed the mid-engined approach further than Cooper.

Motor Racing Developments initially concentrated on making money by building cars for sale to customers in lower formulae, so the new car for the Formula One team was not ready until partway through the 1962 Formula One season.

The Brabham BT3, the first Brabham Formula One design.

The FIA doubled the Formula One engine capacity limit to 3 litres for the 1966 season and suitable engines were scarce.

Brabham used engines from Australian engineering firm Repco, which had never produced a Formula One engine before, based on aluminium V8 engine blocks from the defunct American Oldsmobile F85 road car project, and other off the shelf parts.

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.

Jack Brabham won his third title in 1966, becoming the only driver to win the Formula One World Championship in a car carrying his own name ( cf Surtees, Hill and Fittipaldi Automotive ).

Graham Hill took his final Formula One win in the unique " lobster claw ". Tauranac signed double world champion Graham Hill and young Australian Tim Schenken to drive for the 1971 season.

Although Hill, no longer a front-runner since his 1969 accident, took his final Formula One win in the non-championship BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone, the team scored only seven championship points.

* 2006 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss Formula One driver ( b. 1939 )

* 1971 – Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish Formula One driver

Formula 3000 races during the " open chassis " era tended to be of about 100 – 120 miles in distance, held at major circuits, either headlining meetings or paired with other international events.

* 1980 – Jenson Button, English Formula One driver

* 1950 – The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.

* 1982 – Timo Glock, German Formula One driver

* 1956 – Jonathan Palmer, British Formula One racer

* 1973 – Christian Horner, British Formula One team owner

* 1950 – " Nino " Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers ' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix.

* 1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.

* Giorgio Scarlatti ( 1921 – 1990 ), Italian Formula One driver

* March 5 – Formula One driver Tom Pryce dies after colliding with a track marshal at the South African Grand Prix in Kyalami.

* March 5 – Tom Pryce, British Formula race car driver ( b. 1949 )

* December 7 – Robert Kubica, Polish Formula One racing driver

* August 4 – Juan Manuel Fangio, driving for Maserati, wins the Formula One German Grand Prix, clinching ( with 4 wins that season ) his record 5th world drivers championship, including his 4th consecutive championship ( also a record ); these 2 records endure for nearly half a century.

* August 15 – George Ryton, British Formula One engineer

* April 7 – Racing driver Jim Clark is killed in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim.

* February 24 – Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish Formula One driver

* April 9 – Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian race driver, Formula 1 world champion

* May 10 – Lorenzo Bandini, Italian Formula One driver ( b. 1935 )

* May 31 – Racing driver Jim Clark wins the Indianapolis 500, and later wins the Formula One world driving championship in the same year.

* January 5 – Franck Montagny, French Formula One driver

* June 13 – Riccardo Paletti, Italian Formula 1 driver ( b. 1958 )