Eppie Wietzes

Wietzes
Nationality Canadian
Date of Birth 28 May, 1938
Entrants Comstock Racing (1967)
Team Canada (1974)
Races Entered 2
DNQ/DNPQ -
Best Result DNF (33 laps), Canada, 1974

Pilot of the most disastrous Grand Prix safety-car outing ever, this 2-time Canadian FAtlantic Champion and F5000 stalwart also had two abortive one-offs in F1, separated by seven years.

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Career Summary
Before F1
1960s • Canadian national racing in sports car and GT races.
1963 • Raced in USRRC-GT rounds in an AC Cobra.
1964 • Raced a Comstock Cooper-Cobra Ford, 1 race at Westwood.
1965 • Canadian sports car GP in a Ford Mustang 350GT.
• Shell 4000 Rally in a Ford Mustang with MacDuff.
1966 • Shell 4000 Rally in a Lotus Cortina with Davies.
• Can-Am in a Comstock Racing Ford GT40.
1967 • Can-Am in a Comstock Racing Ford GT40.
F1, part I
1967 • Comstock Racing works Lotus 49 Cosworth, 1 entry.
Between
1968 • USRRC, selected rounds in a McLaren M6B Chevrolet.
1969 • Canadian Formula Atlantic, 1st overall in a Lola T142.
1970 • Canadian Formula Atlantic, 1st overall in a McLaren M10.
• North American F5000, 4th overall in a McLaren M10.
1971 • North American F5000, 4th overall in a McLaren M18.
1972 • North American F5000, 5th overall, 1 win, in a Lola T300.
1973 • North American F5000, 6th overall in a Lola T330.
• Drove the first-ever safety car used in F1 at the Canadian GP.
1974 • North American Formula F5000, 4th overall in a Lola T332.
• Can-Am, at least 2 races in a Herbert Müller Racing Ferrari 512M Spyder.
F1, part II
1974 • Team Canada Brabham BT42 Cosworth, 1 entry.
After F1
1975 • North American F5000, 5th overall in a Lola T400M.
• Sebring 12hr in a NART Ferrari 365 GT4 BB with Minter.
• Watkins Glen 6hr in a Martini Porsche 908 Turbo with Müller and Kinnunen.
1976 • Began racing in Trans-Am, continuing to do so until 1985.
1977 • Mosport 6hr in a Porsch 935 Turbo with Busby.
1980 • Mosport 6hr in a Chevrolet Corvette with Bienvenue.
1981 • Trans-Am champion, 2 wins in a Chevrolet Corvette.
• Daytona 24hr in a Chevrolet Camaro with Carter and Valentine.
• Mosport 6hr in a Cooke-Woods Racing Lola T600 with Redman.
1982 • Daytona 24hr in a Cooke-Woods Racing Lola T600 with Kent-Cooke and Adams.
1983 • Mosport 6hr and Road America 500 miles in a Pontiac Firebird with Canary.
1986-7 • Selected events in a Peerless-Hendrick Chevrolet Camaro with Baldwin.
1993 • Inducted into the Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame.

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