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DRIVERS: DUNCAN HAMILTON

Name: Duncan Hamilton
Nationality: Great Britain
Date of birth: April 30, 1920 - Cork, Ireland
Date of death: May 13, 1994 - Sherbourne, Dorset

A rumbustious Surrey-based garage owner who flew for the RAF during the war in Lysanders, Hamilton raced a Talbot-Lago and an HWM in a handful of Championship Grands Prix. He also won Le Mans in 1953 sharing a works Jaguar C-type with his close friend Tony Rolt.