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Regazzoni: Larger than life and a darling of the fans

Phillip van Osten 15/12/2024 at 12:1515/12/2024 at 11:15 ©TheCahierArchive On this day in 2006, Formula 1 mourned the loss of Clay Regazzoni, one of the sport's larger-than-life characters from the golden age of Grand Prix racing. Just 67, the Swiss died in a head-on road accident collision with a lorry driver just outside Parma. The flamboyant Swiss driver was an F1 icon of the seventies and a man who missed the world championship by just three points in 1974, when he finished the season as Ferrari's runner-up to McLaren's Emerson Fittipaldi. ©TheCahierArchive Regazzoni was also the driver who brought Williams their very first Grand Prix victory, a feat achieved at Silverstone in 1979....
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