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James Simon Wallis Hunt (29 August 1947 – 15 June 1993) was a British racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1973 to 1979. Nicknamed " the Shunt ", [ a ] Hunt won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1976 with McLaren , and won 10 Grands Prix across seven seasons.
James Hunt (left) and Niki Lauda (right) at Autodromo Nazionale Monza in 1976. The Hunt–Lauda rivalry or Lauda–Hunt rivalry was a Formula 1 rivalry between British racing driver James Hunt and Austrian racing driver Niki Lauda that ran from the 1973 season up until Hunt's retirement after the 1979 season.
James Hunt, a brash and self-confident individual, and Niki Lauda, a cool and calculating technical genius who relies on practice and precision, are exceptional racing car drivers who develop a fierce rivalry in 1970 at a Formula Three race in London, when both their cars spin before Hunt wins the race.
The Hesketh 308 and its derived sister model the 308B are Formula One racing cars designed by Harvey Postlethwaite for Hesketh Racing to compete in the 1974 and 1975 World Championships. The car gave James Hunt his first World Championship Grand Prix win in the 1975 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.
Noted drivers: James Hunt Alan Jones: Website: heskethracing.co.uk: ... Hesketh Racing was a Formula One constructor from the United Kingdom, which competed from 1973 ...
James Hunt won the British Grand Prix, but was later disqualified after the race. At the end of 1975 Fittipaldi left the team to join his brother's Copersucar -sponsored Fittipaldi Automotive team. He was replaced by James Hunt , who went on to win a dramatic and controversial 1976 season with the final evolution M23, the M23D.
After beginning his professional racing career in 2006, the Malcolm in the Middle alum is joining Reaume Brothers Racing as a full-time driver of the No. 33 F-150 for the 2025 season of the NASCAR ...
James Hunt took pole position by less than 3 tenths from Northern Irish racing driver John Watson in the Brabham, whilst the rest of the top 10 qualifiers were Niki Lauda, Jody Scheckter, Gunnar Nilsson, Mario Andretti, Hans Joachim Stuck, Vittorio Brambilla, Gilles Villeneuve and Ronnie Peterson in the leading Tyrrell. It was also proven to be ...