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Tony Martin (racing driver)

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Name
  
Tony Martin


Role
  
Racing driver

Tony Martin is a racing driver from Durban, South Africa. He won the Daytona 24 Hours in 1984 driving for Kreepy Krauly Racing, an all-South African team in a March 83G-Porsche. He shared the win with Sarel van der Merwe and Graham Duxbury.

He was born to WWII veteran Ian Martin and his wife Iris Martin (née Momple), the second of two sons, the eldest being Glen.

He lives in Umhlanga Rocks in Kwa-Zulu Natal with his second wife. He continues to race, amongst other things, hand-made AC Cobra replicas which he hand crafts in South Africa under the brand name 'Backdraft Racing'.

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