Jody Scheckter

On 29 January 1950 Jody David Scheckter was born in East London, Eastern Cape .[i] Scheckter became South Africa’s first and thus far only Formula One World Driver’s Championship winner in 1979.[ii] Scheckter drove a Ferrari, and won several Formula One races in Europe.[iii] Jody Scheckter is also infamously known for being the cause of one of the biggest accidents in the history of Formula One.[iv] End Notes [i] Jody Scheckter: Ferrari favourite, https://www.brandsouthafrica.com/people-culture/sport/greats/scheckter , 27 March 2002. ↵ [ii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 214. ↵ [iii] Jody Scheckter, http://www.kyalamigrandprixcircuit.com/pebble.asp?relid=442 ↵ [iv] Jody Scheckter, https://www.formula1.com/en/championship/drivers/hall-of-fame/Jody_Scheckter.html ↵