When I first became interested in Formula One there was a fistful of drivers from South Africa. Tony Maggs was their first driver in 1961. His death due to cancer brought up two stories. One that I had forgotten and one that I never knew.
The one that I had forgotten was that in 1965 he had a racing accident that killed a little boy who was watching from a prohibited area. Such was racing in those days...always someone in the prohibited areas and always someone killed in them. Maggs never got over it, quit racing and went back to his beef farm in Africa.
The one that I never knew was that two years late, in 1967, he was the passenger in a small plane accident. He managed to escape but suffered serious burns as he tried to rescue the other passengers.
