Frank Gardner (racing driver)
Frank Gardner OAM was a racing driver from Australia. Born in Sydney, he was best known as a Touring car racing and Sports car racing driver but he was also a top flight open wheeler driver. He was European F5000 champion, and participated in nine World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting onJuly 1964. He scored no championship points. Gardner also participated in numerous nonChampionship Formula One races and his results included a third placing at the 1965 Mediterranean Grand Prix at the Autodromo di Pergusa in Sicily, fourth in the 1965 Race of Champions at Brands Hatch and third in the 1971 International Gold Cup at Oulton Park. He participated each year in the open wheeler Tasman Series held in New Zealand and Australia during the European winter, and shared the grids with the likes of Jim Clark, Graham Hill and Jochen Rindt.
Gardner was born in 1931, not 1930 as is often quoted. He changed his date of birth on documents which permitted the underage Gardner to gain a racing licence. He sailed to England late in 1958 following his ownership of a Mobilgas service station in Avalon on Sydneys northern beaches, and a successful career driving Jaguar XK120s, a CType and DType . Both latter cars were insurance writeoffs and repaired by Gardner and his friends.
Source: Wikipedia