RACING DRIVER

Luki Botha

1930 - 2006

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Lukas "Luki" Botha (16 January 1930 – 1 October 2006) was a Formula One driver from South Africa, who raced in one World Championship Grand Prix, driving a privately entered Brabham BT11 in the 1967 South African Grand Prix. Born in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, Botha was an avid sports car and endurance racer. His first car was a South African built Dart with a 1500cc Ford engine with a Cosworth camshaft. He achieved a second in class finish in his first three-hour race with this car. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luki Botha is the 786th most popular racing driver (down from 718th in 2019), the 240th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 208th in 2019) and the 18th most popular South African Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Luki Botha ranks 786 out of 1,080. Before him are Anthony Davidson, Emanuele Naspetti, Rinaldo Capello, Ernie Pieterse, Jean-Éric Vergne, and Mike Wilds. After him are Stéphane Sarrazin, Tim Parnell, Richard Robarts, Nyck de Vries, Leslie Thorne, and Franck Lagorce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Luki Botha ranks 617. Before him are Miguel Seijas, Norman Podhoretz, Shirley Williams, Joan Mondale, Arlen Specter, and Frank Shakespeare. After him are Charles Correa, Booker Ervin, Stuart Williams, Nicholas F. Brady, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar. Among people deceased in 2006, Luki Botha ranks 389. Before him are Buck Owens, Byron Nelson, Shekhar Mehta, Walter Mantegazza, Valentín Elizalde, and Gennadiy Tsygankov. After him are Marian Marsh, Stanley Kunitz, Brian Labone, Sybille Bedford, Irving Kaplansky, and Tamara Dobson.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Luki Botha ranks 240 out of 454. Before him are Ian Hunter (1900), Mark González (1984), Ernie Pieterse (1938), Kevin Anderson (1986), Stefan Mitrović (null), and Richard Goldstone (1938). After him are Jodi Balfour (1987), Stanley Skewes (1899), Robert Sobukwe (1924), Amanda Coetzer (1971), Antony Sher (1949), and Reeva Steenkamp (1983).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In South Africa

Among racing drivers born in South Africa, Luki Botha ranks 18. Before him are Basil van Rooyen (1939), Bruce Johnstone (1937), Guy Tunmer (1948), Trevor Blokdyk (1935), William Ferguson (1940), and Ernie Pieterse (1938). After him are Brad Binder (1995).

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