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1977 South African Grand Prix; Race 3 of 17 in the 1977 Formula One season: Race details; Date: 5 March 1977: Official name: XXIII The Citizen Grand Prix of South Africa: Location: Kyalami Transvaal Province, South Africa: Course: Permanent racing facility: Course length: 4.104 km (2.550 miles) Distance: 78 laps, 320.112 km (198.908 miles ...
Location of incident on track Vehicle involved Driver involved Incident description 1 Frederick Jansen van Vuuren [16] Marshal 5 March 1977 [17] 1977 South African Grand Prix: Pit-Straight [16] Shadow DN8: Tom Pryce: van Vuuren was a junior fire marshal in the pit lane.
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 .
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.
It was a popular F1 event, but the Grand Prix was suspended right after the controversial 1985 race, due to the nation's policy of apartheid. [1] Following the end of apartheid in 1991, the race returned to the Formula One schedule in 1992 and 1993. The 1993 race was the last South African Grand Prix, as of 2025. Plans to revive the race in ...
20 February – Christoffel Venter 84, South African Air Force general. (b. 1892) 5 March – Tom Pryce 27, a Welsh racing driver, (b. 1949) killed during the 1977 South African Grand Prix in Midrand; 8 March – Moses Kottler, sculptor. (b. 1896) 12 September – Steve Biko 30, black consciousness activist. (b. 1946) [3]
1977 South African Grand Prix This page was last edited on 8 August 2021, at 10:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
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 ...