Guy Tunmer
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| First start: | 1975 South African Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1975 South African Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| 1975 Team Gunston | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | no World Cup placement | ||||||||
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Percival Guy Tunmer (born December 1, 1948 in Ficksburg , † June 22, 1999 in Sandton ) was a South African racing car driver .
Career
Guy Tunmer drove his first races as an amateur in the late 1960s. His first racing car was a Mini , which he used at small local events. After switching to Alfa Romeo automobiles , his brother Derek was usually a partner in endurance races, he made the leap to the South African monoposto series in 1973 . Tunmer also competed in races in other African countries, for example he took part in the Angolan sports car series in the mid-1970s and won the 3-hour race in Luanda in 1973 .
After the first races with a March 722 , he was involved with Team Gunston in 1975, whose Lotus 72E Tunmer then also drove at the Formula 1 race in South Africa . Two laps were missing from the finish on the winner Jody Scheckter , which was enough to be classified as eleventh. Tumner won the False Bay 100 in Killarney in 1975 with the Lotus and drove a March sports car in the Monza 1000 km race in the same year .
In 1976 Tunmer drove a Chevron B34 in the South African Formula Atlantic Championship , then he retired from racing. Tunmer died on June 22, 1999 at the age of only 50 as a result of a motorcycle accident.
literature
- Rainer W. Schlegelmilch: Portraits of the 60's . Könemann, 1994, ISBN 3-89508-047-0
- Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who . Travel Publishing, London 1999, ISBN 1-902-00746-8
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Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Tunmer, guy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tunmer, Percival Guy (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African racing car driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ficksburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 1999 |
| Place of death | Sand tone |