- Mike Beuttler
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Mike Beuttler Born 13 April 1940 Died 29 December 1988 (aged 48)Formula One World Championship career Nationality British Active years 1971 - 1973 Teams Non-works March Races 29 (28 starts) Championships 0 Wins 0 Podiums 0 Career points 0 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 0 First race 1971 British Grand Prix Last race 1973 United States Grand Prix Michael Simon Brindley Bream Beuttler (13 April 1940 – 29 December 1988) was a British Formula One driver who raced privately entered March cars. He was born in Cairo, Egypt.
He was a talented Formula Three graduate from the late 1960s, who then graduated to Formula Two and then to Formula One in 1971. The finance for the team came from a group of stockbroker friends from whom the team took its name - at first Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie Racing, and in 1973 it became Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie-Durlacher Racing. He raced on one occasion, at the 1971 Canadian Grand Prix, for the works March team. Beuttler's best result was a seventh place in the 1973 Spanish Grand Prix.
Beuttler retired from racing the following year and eventually moved to the United States, where he died of complications resulting from AIDS in 1988, in Los Angeles, aged 48.
Beuttler was also the brother-in-law of politician Alan Clark.
Complete Formula One results
(key)
Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 WDC Points 1971 Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie Racing March 711 Cosworth V8 RSA ESP MON NED FRA GBR
RetGER
DSQAUT
NCITA
RetNC 0 STP March CAN
NCUSA 1972 Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie Racing March 721G Cosworth V8 ARG RSA ESP
DNQMON
13BEL
RetFRA
RetGBR
13GER
8AUT
RetITA
10CAN
NCUSA
13NC 0 1973 Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie-Durlacher March 721G Cosworth V8 ARG
10BRA
RetRSA
NCNC 0 March 721G/731 ESP
7BEL
11MON
RetSWE
8FRA GBR
11NED
RetGER
16AUT
RetITA
RetCAN
RetUSA
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