On this day in 2006, Formula 1 mourned the loss of Clay Regazzoni, one of the sport's larger-than-life characters from the golden age of Grand Prix racing. Just 67, the Swiss died in a head-on road accident collision with a lorry driver just outside Parma. The flamboyant Swiss driver was an F1 icon of the seventies and a man who missed the world championship by just three points in 1974, when he finished the season as Ferrari's runner-up to McLaren's Emerson Fittipaldi. Regazzoni was also the driver who brought Williams its very first Grand Prix victory, a feat achieved at Silverstone in 1979. His colorful career, which included 132 race starts and five wins with five different teams, came...
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