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          Denny Hulme

          18/6/ - 4/10/

          Record updated Oct

          Formula One World Champion with Brabham team. Hulme later went on to race for McLaren.

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        1. In truth, he had never recovered – how could he?
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        3. Hulme raced in Grand Prix in 10 years of Formula One. He won eight, set seven fastest laps, yet started only one Grand Prix from pole.
        4. Denny was educated at Pongakawa School and then Te Puke High School, and went on to travel the world as a Formula 1 driver.

          5. He was CanAm champion in and Hulme suffered a massive heart attack at the wheel of a BMW M3 in the Bathurst , making him the first Formula One World Champion to die of natural causes.


          Born and raised on a tobacco farm belonging to his parents in Moteuka in the South Island of New Zealand, Denny Hulme left school and went to work in a garage.

          His father Clive had been awarded his VC for valour during WW2 in Crete, fighting what amounted to a private war as an anti-sniper sniper in the mountains, picking off the enemy one at a time.

          If pronounced Hulme as ‘Hume’ you did so at your peril. Clive Hulme had told his family: “Never let them knock the ’L’ out of Hulme.” It was always ‘Hullm’.

          He saved up enough money to buy an MG TF, promptly entering this in hillclimbing events.

          After making impre