Ken Kavanagh

Thomas Kenrick Kavanagh was an Australian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and racing driver, born on 12 December 1923 and died in Bergamo, Italy, on 26 November 2019. In 1952 he became the first Australian to win a motorcycle Grand Prix race when he won the 350cc Ulster Grand Prix, and in 1956 he won the Junior TT at the Isle of Man TT races. He later moved to cars and entered two Formula One Grands Prix in 1958 with his own Maserati 250F. He failed to qualify at Monaco and, in the Belgian Grand Prix, missed the race after blowing his engine in practice despite having qualified 20th of 28 entrants.