Eddie Keizan
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| First start: | 1973 South African Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1975 South African Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| 1973–1974 Blignault Racing • 1975 Team Gunston | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | no World Cup placement | ||||||||
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Eddie Keizan (born September 12, 1944 in Johannesburg ; † May 21, 2016 there ) was a South African racing driver .
Career
Eddie Keizan drove touring car races in South Africa and won the domestic championship twice before switching to sports cars and monoposto in 1970 . Keizan competed three times in the South African Grand Prix . He contested the 1973 and 1974 races with a Tyrrell 004 , in 1975 he entered the race for Team Gunston with the Lotus 72 , with which Emerson Fittipaldi became Formula 1 World Champion in 1972 . With the Lotus, he also managed the fastest lap ever driven on the old circuit of Kyalami in a race for the South African Formula 1 championship .
At the end of 1975 he left the monoposto scene to drive touring car races again. In 1977 and 1978 he won the overall ranking of the South African touring car championship with a BMW 535 . He celebrated the greatest success of his career in 1979 at the Kyalami 1000 km race . Since his team-mate Helmut Kelleners fell ill, Keizan had to contest almost the entire race alone and won for BMW against such strong drivers as John Watson , Jochen Mass , Hans-Joachim Stuck and Marc Surer .
literature
- Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who . 3rd revised edition. Travel Publishing, London 1999, ISBN 978-1-902-00746-5 .
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Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Keizan, Eddie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African racing car driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Johannesburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 2016 |
| Place of death | Johannesburg |