John MacDonald (racing driver)
John MacDonald(born 27 May 1936) is a racing car driver and a motor-cycle racer ofHong Kong.[1]He was originally fromEngland,where he started his career racing motorcycles, then cars until he served at theNational service.[2]He then lived in Hong Kong and raced as a competitor of Hong Kong, where he owned a garage business. He is best known as the most successful driver in theMacau Grand Prixduring the early 1970s.[1]
He is the only person to have won all the international races of Macau;Macau Grand Prix(1965, 1972,[3]1973[4]and 1975),Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix(1969) andGuia Race(1972).[1]He is also the winner of the most Macau Grand Prix competitions, with 4 wins, and the first winner of the Guia Race in 1972.[1]
In addition to his Macau victories, MacDonald won theMalaysian Grand Prixfour times.[5]He also won the1976 Indonesian Grand Prix.
References
[edit]- ^abcd"TAKING THE TRIPLE: JOHN MACDONALD"(PDF).www.macau.grandprix.gov.mo.
- ^"Motorsport People".Archived fromthe originalon 3 March 2016.Retrieved12 October2009.
- ^"520 entries".New Straits Times.16 November 1973.Retrieved16 October2010.
- ^"Sports in brief".Bangor Daily News.19 November 1973.Retrieved16 October2010.
- ^Wood, Ida (4 November 2019)."What if the Motorsport Games had taken place 50 years ago?".Formula Scout.Retrieved5 January2024.
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