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Roaring around the tracks of the world in his flame red Ferrari, Racing Driver Mike Hawthorn, 29, was all that hero-hungry Britons could ask for. His big body hunched in cramped cockpits, his face set in a ferocious scowl, their Mike was a throwback to Battle of Britain fighter pilots -a carefree daredevil with unruly flaxen hair and polka-dot bowtie. In eight lusty years, lead-footed Mike punished cars, survived six serious accidents -and last October became the first world champion in British racing history. Two months later moody Mike abruptly retired from racing, said...
Last month flaxen-haired Mike Hawthorn, 29, became the first Briton to win the world's driving championship (by a single point over Britain's Stirling Moss). Last week Hawthorn announced he was retiring. Saddened by the racing deaths this year of Ferrari teammates Peter Collins and Luigi Musso, Hawthorn decided to devote his energies to his garage in Surrey. Said the champion: "I can't properly explain all the reasons, even to myself, except that it's better to get out when...
CASABLANCA, Morocco, Oct. 19--Mike Hawthorn yesterday became the first Briton to win the world auto driving championship by finishing second to Stirling Moss, another English ace, in the Grand Prix of Morocco. The race was the final grand prix of the season and Hawthorn clinched the title in the final moment...
...Hawthorn finished with a total of 42 points. Moss, piloting a British Vanwall, scored 41 points by gaining nine Sunday. Phil Hill, of Santa Monica, Calif., finished third Sunday in another Ferrari. The title is decided by adding the points scored by drivers in their six best grand prix races of the year...
Died. Peter Collins, 26, sports-car racer, one of Britain's three top speed drivers (with Stirling Moss and Mike Hawthorn), winner of the British Grand Prix (1958), the French Grand Prix (1956) and the Belgian Grand Prix (1956); when his Ferrari crashed in the German Grand Prix; near Adanau, Germany...