Denny Hulme
Denis Clive Denny Hulme, OBE was a New Zealand racing driver who won the 1967 Formula One World Drivers Championship for the Brabham team. Between his debut at Monaco in 1965 and his final race in the 1974 US Grand Prix, he started 112 Grand Prix, resulting eight victories andtrips to the podium. He also finished third in the overall standing in 1968 and 1972.
He was born and raised on a tobacco farm belonging to his parents in Motueka in the South Island of New Zealand. His father Clive Hulme was awarded a Victoria Cross, as a sniper, while fighting in the Battle of Crete in 1941.
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