New Zealander Formula 1 and Sports Car driver
Chris Amon has died at the age of 73 after battling cancer. As the Kiwi was
deemed to be the most unluckiest driver in Formula 1, never winning a Grands
Prix due to bad luck and mechanical maladies.
As his greatest triumphs came in endurance
racing, where he not only won the 1966 24 Heurs du Mans for Ford with fellow
countryman Bruce McLaren, but also won the following year's Daytona 24 Hours
for Ferrari, having left to race the scarlet cars of Il Commendatore'
(Enzo Ferrari) in F1.
And Amon's luck was apparently so bad in
Formula 1 that Mario Andretti once famously quipped;
"If
he became an undertaker, people would stop dying."
