Pilot motorist who died Sunday 4 of October of 1992 when failing to him the heart when she piloted a BMW m3 in a classic test of resistance for tourism, Tooheys 1,000 RACE (or 200 Bathurst Touring Car; in any case, of the Australian Touring Car Championship), that was celebrated on the circuit of Panorama Mount (Bald Hill, the New Wales of the South). Under an intense rain and in the anticipated return 33ª of the 161, Hulme restrained of unexpected form its car that, slowly, went to collide against the left lateral embankment of the Conrod straight line. When the attendances arrived already was corpse, to him being diagnosed a massive cardiac failure.
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Hulme flies towards the victory in XXIX the Grosser Preis von Deutschland of 1967. In that one Denny season it was raised with the crown in front of Jack Brabham (MV*)
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Denis Clive Hulme, born the 18 from June of 1936 in You Puke, had made debut in 1955 with a MG TF and, after one decade of races, it acceded to the formula I (Grand Prix de Monaco 1965), to which it spent another decade of his life. In this supreme specialty it gained 8 victories, 9 second places and 19 third, with 1 pole position and 9 fast returns in race, adding altogether 248 points secured in 112 Grands Prix. Denny Hulme devoted champion of the world of formula l in 1967 and was bronze medal in 1968 and 1972, besides conquering the Dog-A.m. championships of 1968 and 1970, and its moral victory in Le Mans 1966. In his first participation in the 500 Miles of Indianapolis (1967), Denny finished 4º, after A.J. Foyt, To the Unser and Joe Leonard.
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Hulme leading 40 Ford GT Mk II of Shelby Inc. American finished second and shared the driving of its car with Ken Thousands There. This race gained the pair Bruce McLaren-Chris Amon (MV*)
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In his European beginnings, just arrived at England, it surprised the spectators who saw him jump barefoot of their Cooper of formula ll. The New Zealand indómito, nicknamed The Bear, was had customary to lead thus to sensitize the communication with its mechanics. It is necessary to add that, adopting the European customs, from then it piloted with socks and shoes. “To tough, gruff old to bear with to heart of gold.” (“A robust and rough old bear with a gold heart. ”, they define as it in the work of Tremayne & Hughes).
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In season '68 Denny Hulme was added to the McLaren equipment, where it remained until his last race of F1, disputed in Watkins Glen of 1974 (MV*)
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Because Hulme, the dear Bear, that lacked the charisma and the physical prestancia of some of its colleagues, was, in return, an excellent person, an inestimable companion and a pilot rapidísimo when it was pleasure. In legendary the 24 H of Le Mans 1967, first in breaking the old record of fast return (They give Gurney, Ford Mk II 1966, 3 mn 30.6 s = 230.1 Km/h) was Frank Gardner (Ford Mk IV nº 5); but Denny took the relief him and it was allowed to improve the mark six consecutive times, leaving it definitively in 3 mn 23.6 s (= 238.01 Km/h) with his Ford Mk IV nº 4, mark that was only even in extremis by the ace of aces Mario Andretti (Ford Mk IV nº 3).
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In its 112 race of Formula 1, Hulme gained 1 title of the world, gained 8 victories, 1 pole positions, 9 fast returns and acceded to podio in 33 opportunities (MV*)
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And, besides express, Denny was always a tenacious pilot and extraordinarily surely, who never put in risk the life of a companion of gaining a position. Possessor of the Gold medal of the BARC, the Gold Star of BRDC 1967 and of one appraised decoration granted by his graceful Majesty, Denny The Bear Hulme OBE retired at the end of 1974 (a year marked by the death of its old team-mate Peter Revson), although continued more being president of the GPDA a year before returning to his native country to live in a cabin, on the brink of madness a lake; it was beautiful and a Pacific scene, but the inextinguishable passion by the competition pilotage took the barefoot I go from Puke to participate to You in several local tests, like that one in which it reached the death to him.
Denny belongs to the MotorSport New Zealand Wall of Fame from 1994 and to the Motorsport Hall of Fame of America from 1998
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Bugler: 5 of October of 1992The Nation: 5 of October of 1992Car Magazine: 10 of October of 1992, pg. 50Classic motor: January of 1993 (E. Olive), pg. 81It brushes Jones: pg.153Formula F1 99/00: pg. 197Rainer NybergFelix TeethThe Forum Nostalgia: 11 of June of 2000 (Falcadore); 22 of January of 2001 (Graham Clayton)Niels Lund (Group 7 - Denmark: http://wwwgroup7.suite.dk/html/body_biography_html)Tremayne & Hughes: pg. 25G.A. Engels (191002, 310303)http://perso.wanadoo.fr/did.legrand/pilotes/hulme.htmhttp://www.mshf.com/hof/hulme_denis.htmhttp://www.motorsport.org.nz/Awards/wallfame.htm
Photos: Forix.com
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