José Carlos Pace, Brazil 1944-10-06 - 1977-03-18

F1 Career: S.Africa 1972 - S.Africa 1977

Races Wins Pole Podiums FastLaps Points

72 1 1 6 5 58

% Wins % Poles % Podiums % FastLap Points/Race

1,39% 1,39% 8,33% 6,94% 0,81p

Having raced for most of the 1960s in Brazil, where his long-time friends and rivals were the Fittipaldi brothers, Carlos came to Britain in 1970. Success in F3 and F2 led to a drive with Frank Williams' Formula One team in 1972. He left Williams at the end of the year to join Surtees, where some excellent performances were ruined by poor reliability and in mid-1974 he quit. Soon though, he was snapped up by Bernie Ecclestone's Brabham team, and in 1975 he took a fine victory in the Brazilian Grand Prix. Second in the 1977 Argentinian Grand Prix boded well, but he was killed in a light aircraft accident just a few months later. The Brazillian GP circuit is named in his memory