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The 1977 South African Grand Prix (formally the XXIII The Citizen Grand Prix of South Africa) was a Formula One motor race held at Kyalami on 5 March 1977, won by Niki Lauda of Austria. The race is principally remembered for the accident that resulted in the deaths of race marshal Frederick Jansen van Vuuren and driver Tom Pryce .
1977 South African Grand Prix: Shadow DN8 - Cosworth 6 Johan Boshoff 11 June 1977 Jukskei Sweep 1977 Republic Trophy Races Practice Yamaha OW31 7 Keith Petersen
Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit (from Khaya lami, My home in Zulu) is a 4.529 km (2.814 mi) motor racing circuit located in Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa, just north of Johannesburg. The circuit has been used for Grand Prix and Formula One races and has hosted the South African Grand Prix twenty times.
1977 South African Grand Prix Thomas Maldwyn Pryce (11 June 1949 – 5 March 1977) was a British racing driver from Wales known for winning the Brands Hatch Race of Champions , a non-championship Formula One race, in 1975 and for the circumstances surrounding his death at age 27 .
[8] 1985 was the final South African Grand Prix until the end of apartheid, with FIA president Jean-Marie Balestre announcing days after the race that a Grand Prix would not return to the nation because of apartheid. [1] After the end of apartheid in 1991, Formula One returned to Kyalami for two Grands Prix in 1992 and 1993.
5 – British Formula One driver Tom Pryce dies during the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami when his car strikes and kills marshal Frederik Jansen van Vuuren. 7 – A Pretoria restaurant is destroyed by a bomb. April. 1 – Pik Botha, South Africa's ambassador in the United States of America, is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs. June
1977 Canadian Grand Prix Ian Scheckter (born 22 August 1947) is a South African former racing driver . He participated in 20 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 30 March 1974.
Pace was killed in a private light aircraft accident near São Paulo, Brazil [1] on 18 March 1977, 13 days after fellow F1 driver Tom Pryce and marshal Jansen Van Vuuren lost their lives during the 1977 South African Grand Prix. [2] The Interlagos track, the scene of his only F1 win in 1975, was renamed Autódromo José Carlos Pace in his ...