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Nationality
  
Australian

Name
  
Ken Kavanagh


Role
  
Racing driver

Active years
  
1958

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Born
  
12 December 1923 (age 100) Melbourne, Australia (
1923-12-12
)

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Ken Kavanagh Quotes


Thomas Kenrick Kavanagh (born 12 December 1923) is an Australian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and racecar driver.

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In 1952, Kavanagh became the first Australian to win a motorcycle Grand Prix race when he won the 350cc Ulster Grand Prix. In 1956, he won the Junior TT at the Isle of Man TT races. Kavanagh entered two Formula One Grands Prix in 1958 with his own Maserati 250F, firstly in Monaco where he failed to qualify, and lastly in the Belgian Grand Prix where he missed out on the race having blown his engine in practice, after having qualified 20th of 28 entrants.

Motorcycle Grand Prix results

Points system from 1950 to 1968

5 best results were counted up until 1955.

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Complete Formula One World Championship results

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References

Ken Kavanagh Wikipedia