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The grief stricken families waiting for news of their loved one on Flight 370 have been forced out of their hotel on Friday. Their rooms had been booked months in advance buy the Ferrari Formula One team for the upcoming Malaysian Grand Prix.
Bernie Eccleston, F1 Chief, confirmed to NBC News that the block of rooms at the Cyberview Hotel in Kuala Lumpur were being taken by the Ferrari team. “I feel terribly, terribly sorry for these people,” he said. “But it is up to the hotel. What would happen if you told somebody that they no longer had a booking? You would get sued, I’d imagine.”
Ferrari has yet to release a statement.
F1 2017 Drivers. GP Hub Homepage » Formula One. The 2017 driver lineup has seen some key changes compared to last year. The key transfers include Nico Rosberg’s shock retirement from F1 prompting Mercedes to rapidly seek out a new driver.
More than 3,000 team members, support staff and media travel to each Grand Prix race – this does not include the huge number of fans that are filling hotels in advance of the March 30th race.
Malaysian Airlines has transferred the families to another hotel – but it is about 30 miles from the headquarters that is heading up the search for the missing plane and providing updates to the relatives who are desperate for answers.
Born | 13 April 1940 Cairo, Egypt |
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Died | 29 December 1988 (aged 48) Los Angeles, California, USA |
Formula One World Championship career | |
Nationality | British |
Active years | 1971–1973 |
Teams | Non-works March |
Entries | 29 (28 starts) |
Championships | 0 |
Wins | 0 |
Podiums | 0 |
Career points | 0 |
Pole positions | 0 |
Fastest laps | 0 |
First entry | 1971 British Grand Prix |
Last entry | 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. [1]
Beuttler was also the brother-in-law of politician Alan Clark.
Complete Formula One results[edit]
(key)
Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | WDC | Points |
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1971 | Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie Racing | RSA | ESP | MON | NED | FRA | GBR Ret | GER DSQ | AUT NC | ITA Ret | NC | 0 | ||||||||
CAN NC | USA | |||||||||||||||||||
1972 | Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie Racing | ARG | RSA | ESP DNQ | MON 13 | BEL Ret | FRA Ret | GBR 13 | GER 8 | AUT Ret | ITA 10 | CAN NC | USA 13 | NC | 0 | |||||
1973 | Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie-Durlacher | ARG 10 | BRA Ret | RSA NC | NC | 0 | ||||||||||||||
ESP 7 | BEL 11 | MON Ret | SWE 8 | FRA | GBR 11 | NED Ret | GER 16 | AUT Ret | ITA Ret | CAN Ret | USA 10 |
References[edit]
- ^'» Remembering Mike Beuttler – Richard's F1'. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
- Philippe Vogel et le sport automobile (French)
- mikebeuttler.hautetfort.com/
- www.comultipress.fr/spip/spip.php?article165
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