Biography
Guy Edwards was born in Macclesfield on 30 December 1942. He attended Liverpool College and graduated from Durham University in 1964. Straight after university he went to the Brands Hatch racing school, where he did secretarial work in return for laps at the circuit. He gained his first competitive experience in a Mini Cooper S, then moved up to a Chevron B8 and entered Formula 5000.
In the Formula One World Championship he was entered 17 times and started 11 races. He drove for Lola in 1974 (10 entries, 7 starts), for Hesketh in 1976 (6 entries, 4 starts), and was entered once for BRM in 1977 without starting. He scored no championship points. At the 1976 German Grand Prix he helped Arturo Merzario, Brett Lunger and Harald Ertl to pull Niki Lauda from his burning car, and he was later awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for it.
From 1978 to 1980 Edwards raced in the British Aurora Formula One Championship, winning several races with March, Fittipaldi and Arrows chassis. In 1979 he took the only race win by a Fittipaldi Formula One chassis. His son Sean was also a racing driver and died in a motor racing accident in Australia in 2013.
Source: Wikipedia, “Guy Edwards”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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