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From: Han Monsees <monsees@phys.uu.nl>
Subject: Re: Drivers in GPL -- Which ones are still alive?
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On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Han Monsees wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Brian Short wrote:
> 
> > A bit of a morbid topic... I was wondering which drivers in GPL are
> > still alive, and which ones died in racing related accidents.  I beleive
> > I heard that 50% or so of the drivers in the game were killed racing...
> > which ones?
> > 
> > Brian Short
> > bdshort@hotmail.com
> > 

After digging in my documentation, I finally found out following:

> 
> Jim Clark		Died in a F2 race at Hockenheim, Germany on
			April 7th, 1968
> Graham Hill		Killed in an Aircrash in England on November
			29th, 1975
> Sir Jack Brabham	Still alive, living in Monaco (?)
> Chris Amon		Still alive, living in New Zealand
> Jochen Rindt		Killed while training for the Italian GP on
			September 5th, 1970.
> 			Became posthumous world champion however.
> Jo Bonnier		Killed at Le Mans on June 11th, 1972
> Dan Gurney		Still alive, now a team-owner in CART
> Jacky Ickx		Still alive
> Lorenzo Bandini	Suffered severe burnings in the 1967 Monaco GP,
> 			died three days later, on May 10th
> Lodevico Scarfiotti	Killed in trainig for Rossfeld hill-climb on
			June 68th, 1968
> Mike Parkes		Killed in road-accident on August 28th, 1977
> Denis Hulme		Died from heart-attack while competing in Bathurst
			1000 km on October 4th, 1992.
> Bruce McLaren		Died in when testin CanAm car at Goodwood on Jult
			2nd, 1970
> Richie Ginther	Died of a heart-attack during holidays in France
			on September 28th, 1989
> John Surtees		Still alive
> Pedro Rodriques	Died in Interserie race at Norisring, Nuremberg
			(German) on July 11th, 1971
> Jean-Pierre Beltoise	still alive
> Chris Irwin		still alive
> 
> Greetings, Han 
> 
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