Denny Hulme
Denis Clive "Denny" Hulme, OBE (18 June 1936 – 4 October 1992) was a New Zealand racing driver, and the 1967 Formula One World Champion for the Brabham team.
Hulme went on to race for McLaren in Formula One, the Canadian-1970 (driving the McLaren M8D "Batmobile"). He drove the McLaren M8F in 1971; teammate Peter Revson won the CanAm championship that year. Hulme and Revson drove the McLaren M20 in the 1972 CanAm races, but the M20 was overpowered by Roger Penske's Porsche American Challenge Cup series (for Group 7 sports cars), and at Indianapolis. He was CanAm champion in 1968 (driving the McLaren M8A) and 917s (driven by Mark Donohue and George Follmer). Hulme retired from Formula One at the end of the 1974 season and raced only sporadically until the mid 1980s when he began racing Touring Cars seriously. Hulme's death, caused by a heart attack whilst driving a BMW M3 during the Bathurst 1000, made him the first former Formula One champion to die of natural causes.
Read more about Denny Hulme: Early Racing Career, After F1, Death, Awards, Formula One World Championship Results, Indy 500 Results
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“Oh, God, make small
The old star-eaten blanket of the sky,
That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie.”
—Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883–1917)