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Charles Anthony Standish Brooks (25 February 1932 – 3 May 2022) was a British racing driver. Also known as the "Racing Dentist", he participated in 39 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, competing for the first time on 14 July 1956, and achieved six wins, 10 podium finishes and 75 career points.
May 3, 2022 · Tony Brooks, one of the defining Formula 1 drivers of the 1950s, has died aged 90, his daughter Giulia announced on Tuesday. The Briton won six grands prix and narrowly missed out on the...
May 3, 2022 · The 1978 world champion always was a pretty good judge of other racers’ skill. Tony Brooks – 1932-2022. His was a story that began in fairytale style, but which later saw him contractually obliged to play second fiddle to the legendary Stirling Moss when they were winning races together at Vanwall.
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May 5, 2022 · Tony Brooks, the last F1 driver to have won a race in the 1950s, has died at 90. Brooks was training to be a dentist when he got a call to drive a Connaught in a non-points GP in Sicily.
Tony Brooks, who has died at the age of 90, was one of the greatest racing drivers of the 1950s. Having started in club events in 1952, Brooks joined the Aston Martin sportscar team after ...
May 4, 2022 · Tony Brooks, the British 'racing dentist' who was Formula One's last surviving grand prix winner from the 1950s and finished second in the 1959 world championship, has died aged 90.
May 3, 2022 · Soft spoken, mild mannered and lacking the obvious star quality of fellow British racers like Stirling Moss, Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn, Brooks was nonetheless a searingly fast driver, winner of six Grands Prix (from just 38 starts), including his joint win at the 1957 British Grand Prix at Aintree – a victory he shared with Moss.
