Christopher Arthur Amon, MBE -July 20th 1943-August 3rd 2016

[SPman]

New Zealand GP driver Chris Amon succumbed to cancer yesterday, aged 73. A superbly talented driver - if not the unluckiest driver ever to race, rated alongside Clark and Stewart for sheer natural ability. Considered the best driver never to have won a F1 GP, although wins at Le Mans, Daytona, the Tasman Championship and 8 non-championship F1 races, Mario Andretti once remarked - "if Chris became an undertaker, people would stop dying". Works driver for Ferrari, March and Matra, he finally quit in 1976 and went back to the family farm in New Zealand.
A quiet sense of humour and a true gentleman (I'd met him a few times over his early career), RIP Chris.

http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/opinion/f1/remembering-chris-amon?utm_source=Amon&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Mark

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[wombat666]

One of the true 'Gentleman Racers' that I remember so well from the Tasman Cup series.
He was truly unlucky in Formula 1, and that was so sad.
We Antipodeans certainly respected the man, as a driver and a human being.

 

[Panther_99FS]

Chris will be missed - one of the good guys.
He did however consider himself to be lucky by surviving one of the most dangerous periods of motor racing...