Pete
Lovely

Pete Lovely was born in Livingston, Montana, in 1926. In 1957 he won the first race ever held at Laguna Seca, driving a Ferrari. At the 1960 12 Hours of Sebring he won the S3.0 class in a Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa and also finished on the overall podium.

In the Formula One World Championship he was entered in a Lotus in 1959 but did not start. In 1960 he raced once in a Cooper, and between 1969 and 1971 he made six more starts with Lotus. In total he had 11 entries and 7 starts, and he scored no championship points. During his Formula One years he drove various privately entered Lotus cars, including a hybrid built from a Lotus 69 Formula Two car fitted with a 3.0-litre Cosworth DFV V8. After Formula One he remained involved in various forms of racing in the USA as an entrant until the 1980s, and he took part in vintage and historic events into the 2000s. He died in 2011.

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