Clay Regazzoni

Clay Regazzoni, born Gianclaudio Giuseppe Regazzoni, was a Swiss racing driver and broadcaster who competed in Formula One from 1970 to 1980. He won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in his debut season with Ferrari, drove a season for BRM, then returned to Ferrari from 1974 to 1976 and was runner-up to Emerson Fittipaldi in the 1974 World Drivers Championship. He later drove for Ensign and Shadow, and in 1979 won the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, the first Grand Prix victory for the Williams team. In 1980 an accident at the United States Grand Prix West left him paralyzed from the waist down and ended his Formula One career, but he kept racing with hand controls, including the Paris to Dakar rally and the Sebring 12 Hours, and became an Italian television commentator in 1996. He won five Grands Prix and died in a road accident in Italy in 2006.