Jim Clark, who had already secured the world championship, won the inaugural Mexican Grand Prix, his sixth victory of the season (equalling Juan Manuel Fangio's record) by a minute-and-a-half from Jack Brabham. John Surtees, who had been on the front row with Clark, was disqualified for receiving a push at a pit stop. The grand prix saw the only appearance of No.13 in a championship race when local driver Moises Solana drove with it emblazoned on his BRM.
2004
German football coach Jurgen Klinsmann announced he was recruiting Michael Schumacher to boost the side's mental training in the build-up to the 2006 World Cup. Team sports manager Oliver Bierhoff said: "We want Schumacher on board because he knows what's needed to be a world champion." Germany did not win.
2001
Schumacher might not have been able to motivate footballers, but he could spot F1 talent in the making as he faced off against teenage Lewis Hamilton in the final round of the Formula Super A Karting World Championship in his home town of Kerpen. "He's a quality driver, very strong and only 16," Schumacher said. "If he keeps this up I'm sure he will reach F1. It's something special to see a kid of his age out on the circuit. He's clearly got the right racing mentality. If I win everyone will say it is expected, but if I lose I'll look like an idiot." Blushes seemed possible after he crashed out of the first race, but he salvaged pride with a third, four places ahead of Hamilton, in the second.
1936
Born in Yorkshire on this day, Dave Charlton moved to South Africa at a young age and was a leading local driver, winning the national Formula One championship every year from 1970 to 1975. He bought a string of ex-works car and entered 13 grands prix over 11 seasons, all but four of them in his homeland, but only finished three and none in the top ten. In 1971 he drove a Lotus in the British Grand Prix, shipping it home and returning for three more fruitless races in 1972.
2008
Ferrari's ongoing battle with the FIA rumbled on with a threat by the team to withdraw from F1 following a proposal to standardise engines and transmissions from 2010. In the stand-off, it was eventually FIA president Max Mosley who lost out.
2001
Jordan earned an extra £1 million in prize money after winning an appeal against being thrown out of the previous month's US Grand Prix. Jarno Trulli was stripped of fourth place at Indianapolis for allegedly having an illegal skid block. Eddie Jordan said: "We are very satisfied with the outcome and delighted to have fifth place in the constructors' championship confirmed." The FIA's initial verdict was overruled because one of the stewards missed a track-side appeal from Jordan immediately after the race.
1913
Milan-born Luigi Piotti was primarily a sports car specialist who nevertheless entered eight grands prix as a Masarati-driving privateer between 1956 and 1958. His moment in the sun came at Monza in 1956 when he pushed Stirling Moss' Masarati 250F to the pits after it had run out of fuel. Moss faced disqualification for receiving outside assistance but stewards ruled Piotti was an informal member of the Masarati team.
