Denny Hulme
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| Born |
18 June 1936 Motueka, New Zealand |
|---|---|
| Died |
4 October 1992 (aged 56) Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia |
| Formula One World Championship career | |
| Nationality |
 New Zealander |
| Active years | 1965–1974 |
| Teams | Brabham, McLaren |
| Races | 112 |
| Championships | 1 (1967) |
| Wins | 8 |
| Podiums | 33 |
| Career points | 248 |
| Pole positions | 1 |
| Fastest laps | 9 |
| First race | 1965 Monaco Grand Prix |
| First win | 1967 Monaco Grand Prix |
| Last win | 1974 Argentine Grand Prix |
| Last race | 1974 United States Grand Prix |
Denis Clive "Denny" Hulme, OBE (18 June 1936 – 4 October 1992) was a New Zealand racing driver, the 1967 Formula One World Champion for the Brabham team. Between his debut at Monaco in 1965 and his final race in the 1974 US Grand Prix, he started 112 Grand Prix, resulting eight victories and 33 trips to the podium. He also finished third in the overall standing in 1968 and 1972.[1]
Hulme showed versatility by dominating the Canadian-American Challenge Cup (Can-Am) for Group 7 sports cars. As a member of the McLaren team that won five straight titles between 1967 and 1971, he won the individual drivers’ championship twice and runner-up on four other occasions.[1]
Following his Formula One tenure with Brabham, Hulme raced for McLaren in multiple formats—Formula One, Can-Am, and at the Indianapolis 500. Hulme retired from Formula One at the end of the 1974 season but continued to race Australian Touring Cars.
Hulme had the nickname ‘The Bear’; this was a reference to his gruff nature and his rugged features, yet he was known to be a sensitive man, only able to show his feeling in a racing car.[2]
During his career, Hulme drove the most powerful cars of his era. He raced in F1, F2, Indycars, Saloon/Touring Cars, CanAm and endurance races, all during the same season. After retiring form F1, he even drove in trucks races. Maybe Denny wasn’t the fastest driver of the field, but made it to the top anyway. All because he was determined and hard to himself. He would race like no other and took full advantage when something happened.
Hulme's death by heart attack, whilst driving a BMW M3 during the Bathurst 1000 in Australia, made him the seventh former Formula One champion to die, and the first to die of natural causes (versus three racing incidents, two incidents on the public road and one incident involving an aircraft.)
Early racing career
He was born and raised on a tobacco farm belonging to his parents in Motueka in the South Island of New Zealand. His father Clive Hulme was awarded a Victoria Cross, as a sniper, while fighting in the Battle of Crete in 1941.[2]
Whilst growing up on his family’s farm, Hulme learned to drive a truck while sitting on his father’s lap, and by the age of six, he was driving solo. He left school and went to work in a garage. He saved up enough money to buy an MG TF, promptly entering this in hillclimbing events. After that his father brought a MGA for him. After making impressive progress he purchased a F2 Cooper-Climax, subsequently being chosen for the New Zealand Driver to Europe program, along with fellow Kiwi, George Lawton. The pair of young New Zealander began competing in Formula Junior and Formula Two across Europe, in a Cooper-BMC and Cooper–Ford respectively. Hulme won the 1960 Gran Premio di Pescara for Formula Juniors, but the newspaper back in New Zealand made no mention of this, as they wrote only about Bruce McLaren. However, the year, 1960 ended in disaster, when Lawton crashed during a race at Roskilde (Denmark) dying his Hulme’s arms.[2][3][4]
As the New Zealand press were ignoring Hulme, he hired a 2½ litre Cooper from Reg Parnell and entered it in the 1961 New Zealand Gold Star Championship. He won the title straight away. He appeared at Le Mans for the Abarth team, taking a class win in S850 the class (partnered by fellow Kiwi Angus Hyslop), before Ken Tyrrell invited the likable (but sometimes gruff) New Zealander to race in his Formula Junior and Formula Two team, in 1962, when Tony Maggs was unavailable due to his Formula One commitments.[3][4][5]
Once there, basing himself in London, he worked as a mechanic in Jack Brabham's garage in Chessington and began to pave his way on his motor-racing path. It was Brabham who gave him drives in his Brabham sportscars and single seaters. During the 1963 season, he won seven International Formula Junior and after some impressive performances there, it was his old boss Jack Brabham who gave Hulme the call and he joined the Australian legend's F2 team. In 1964, the pair set about dominating the Championship that year, resulting in a one–two finish in the FFSA Trophée de France series. Hulme was rewarded with some non-championship Formula One races.[2][3][6]
Away from single seaters, Hulme also raced the occasional saloon car. In appalling conditions, on 6 July 1963, Hulme won his first major saloon car race. The second Motor-sponsored Six-Hour, a round of the European Touring Car Championship, saw the pre-race favourite, a 7-litre Ford Galaxie driven by Dan Gurney and Jack Brabham floundered in the wet and the Jaguars dominated the race. Hulme would win, partnered by Roy Salvadori, after the winners on the road were disqualified for engine irregularities.[7]
Formula One career
1965–1967 (The Brabham Years)
After making numerous appearances in non-championship events for Brabham during the 1964 season, as the Brabham team had signed Dan Gurney for race along their boss. Hulme finally got the call he had been waiting for, making his World Championship debut in 1965 at Monaco. Later that year, he scored his first points, for fourth position at the daunting Clermont-Ferrand (Charade) circuit in France.[3]
1966 was Hulme's first full season of Formula One. Now, after the departure of Dan Gurney, he was the outright number two at the Brabham team behind Jack himself. Finishing a fine fourth that year (with Jack winning the Drivers' and the Brabham team the Constructors' championship), the highlights came with a third place at Reims in France, a second behind Brabham at Brands Hatch, and the fastest lap at Zandvoort, before ignition problems put paid to his race there. Whilst his boss won the World title, Denny made it to the podium four times during season, finishing fourth overall in the standings.[2][6]
The 1967 Championship was essentially an internal affair within the Brabham Racing Organisation team for most of the year, but the new Lotus 49 gave Jim Clark and Graham Hill the opportunity to bite back. Their Brabham-Repcos were not the fastest cars, however they were reliable and consistent, as were Brabham and Hulme. During the season, he would take two wins in the 11-race Championship, at Monte Carlo and the ferocious Nürburgring (the Green Hell).[2]
Although Hulme silenced many critics with his excellent win in Monaco, the race was marred by the appalling accident that would claim the life of Lorenzo Bandini, who was chasing Hulme at the time of the crash. His second Grand Prix win of 1967, was on the legendary Nordschleife of the Nürburgring. This victory proved his versatility on any type of track. A further six visits to the podium, gave Hulme the advantage he needed. He won the Championship by five points from Brabham, and a further five from Jim Clark. Hulme was the first (and to date, only) Formula One World Champion from New Zealand.[2]
1968–1974 (The McLaren Years)
1968 saw a move to the McLaren team, owned by fellow Kiwi Bruce McLaren. Although the ‘Bruce and Denny Show’ dominated the North American Can-Am sportcar series for since 1966, their time in Formula One was less successful. The South African race, held at the legendary Kyalami circuit, proved difficult for the team. Despite having to use the old BRM V12 engines on an old M5A chassis, Denny brought it home a creditable fifth.[2][6]
Photo by Bob Sanderson
By the Spanish round at Jarama, the awesome Cosworth V8 engine was installed in the brand new M7A chassis and the good times rolled. After victory in the BRDC International Trophy, Hulme picked up second place in Spain, before taking two more wins that year at Monza and in Canada, leaving him with an outside chance of retaining the Championship crown against Graham Hill and the young Jackie Stewart.
The finale, in Mexico City, determined the champion that year—but unfortunately for Denny he was robbed by a suspension failure on his McLaren.
1969 was a disaster for Hulme: the revised M7A chassis struggled with reliability and Hulme managed only 20 points, attaining one victory—ironically, in light of the previous season's events, at the final round in Mexico. Hulme ended the season in sixth position in the drivers' standings.
1970 brought a new decade, but Hulme's luck didn't change. Team boss and great friend Bruce McLaren was killed whilst testing the CanAm McLaren M8D, which affected Denny. Another problem occurred that year when he suffered burns to his hands from a methanol fire during practice for the Indianapolis 500. As a result, he missed the Dutch Grand Prix in 1970. Undeterred, he felt he owed it Bruce and the McLaren to continue racing. Besides his emotional distress and seriously burns, he still managed a creditable fourth in the championship with 27 points.[2]
Although Hulme would claim third place in the 1970 Mexican Grand Prix, the race was marred by the immense crowd of over 200,000. The crowd proved almost uncontrollable and almost forced the cancellation of the race. They were crammed in front of the guard-rails, sat at the trackside and ran across the track itself. The drivers were concerned that someone would be killed. During qualifying Hulme missed some children by inches. They were playing a game of chicken to see who got nearest to the cars as they hurtled past.[8]
1971 started with a bang. At Kyalami, he led dominantly—but the rising-rate suspension system forced him out, after only a few laps. The McLaren team were in disarray. The season was even worse than 1970 results-wise, as Hulme didn’t even make the podium, although he set the fastest laps in Canada and the United States that year—but results were hard to come by. Hulme ended up ninth in the standings for 1971.[6]
Beauty, fragrance and men's products company Yardley took over title sponsorship of a new McLaren in 1972, and it paid dividends for Denny. Partnered with good friend Peter Revson, Denny was back on winning ways taking victory in South Africa, and a few fine podiums elsewhere, finishing 1972 in third place with 39 points. Meanwhile, Hulme also won the non-championship International Gold Cup race at Oulton Park.
Amazingly, Hulme scored only one pole position in his F1 career aboard a McLaren M23, in 1973 at Kyalami—he appeared to have a good relationship with the South African venue. However, Hulme was outshone by friend and team-mate Peter Revson in 1973, and he finished a place down on the American in sixth, 12 points adrift.
By the 1973 Belgian Grand Prix, Hulme and McLaren had taken F1 safety forward, when his car introduced the Graviner life-support system to Formula One, supplying the driver breathable air in the event of fire.[9]
Hulme won the Swedish Grand Prix luckily, though he also set the fastest lap. The race seemed to be set-up for a home victory for Ronnie Peterson, with his Lotus team-mate, Emerson Fittipaldi in second, when the Lotuses hit trouble. Fittipaldi being slowed with gearbox issues, and then Peterson with tyre wear. As Hulme decided to run with harder tyres, he passed Peterson on the penultimate lap to win. Hulme expressed sadness to "have taken that away from Ronnie."[10][11]
He and Revson had built up a strong friendship off the back of their F1 camaraderie—they also competed together in the Can-Am series. When Revson left McLaren at the end of 1973 to join Shadow, Hulme would have been disappointed.
In his time at McLaren, Hulme won six Grands Prix, but he was nearing the end of his time in F1, and his competitive urges were being blunted by a growing apprehension about the dangers of racing. After the Brazilian Grand Prix in which Hulme finished in twelfth place, these fears were founded, when testing at Kyalami commenced, in March 1974. Revson lost control of his car, veering head-on into the barriers. Hulme tried in vain to save his friend's life, but to no avail. After the accident Hulme announced that he would see out 1974 before retiring from Grand Prix racing. However, other than winning the Argentine event (he inherited the lead when his now team-mate Fittipaldi inadvertently knocked-off the electrical “kill-switch” on his steering wheel, on the penultimate lap) and coming home second in Austria, he did not make much of an impact on the season, and he retired dignified at the end of the year and stepped away from the sport and returned to New Zealand.[2][9]
Away from F1
1966 Le Mans 24 hours
At the finish of the 1966 Le Mans 24 hours, the two Shelby-American Inc. entered Ford GT40 MK II’s were both on the lead lap, running first and second, with the car Hulme was partnering with Ken Miles in the lead. In the lead half-hour of the race, the Fords bunched up together in a pre-arranged plan for Bruce McLaren and Miles to cross the line, headlights ablaze, in a dead-heat. Unfortunately the dead-heat that Henry Ford II had so proudly planned did not come off, as the timekeepers decided that a dead-heat was technically impossible as the Hulme/Miles car had qualified faster than the McLaren/Amon car, and therefore covered a shorter race distance. Therefore, when the two cars arrived side-by-side at the finish, Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon were classified as the winners with Denny Hulme and Ken Miles in second.[12]
Can-Am (1966–1972)
In 1966, while driving for the Brabham team in Formula One, Hulme drove in the inaugural season of the Can-Am racing series of FIA Group 7 racing, joining the McLaren team of New Zealand countryman Bruce McLaren. This partnership would became so successful, the Americans called them the ‘Bruce and Denny Show’, such was their domination.[2]
Hulme's debut season in the Can-Am series, driving a McLaren M6A, heralded no points. In the 1967 season, the year of his F1 Championship win, Hulme finished second to team leader Bruce McLaren for the Can-Am championship, scoring three wins in six races and earning 24 points in the McLaren M6A. Hulme won the Can-Am Championship in 1968, taking three victories in the six race season, earning 35 points in the McLaren M8A. 1969 saw the McLaren team continue to dominate the series; driving the McLaren M8B, they won every race, with multiple 1–2 finishes, and even a 1–2–3 finish when Dan Gurney drove the spare car. Hulme scored five victories in eleven races in 1969, earning 160 points to finish second to team mate McLaren in the championship.
The 1970 season was a difficult one for the team, as they mourned the loss of leader Bruce McLaren, who had died while pre-season testing the McLaren M8D "Batmobile" at the Goodwood Circuit. Teamed first with driver Dan Gurney, then with driver Peter Gethin, Hulme led the team with six wins in ten races, winning his second Can-Am Championship driving the M8D to 132 points—more than double the number of the second-place competitor. For the 1971 season Hulme's teammate was his good friend Peter Revson, who took the Can-Am crown that year with Hulme in second (three wins in ten races), driving the McLaren M8F. In his final season, Hulme drove the McLaren M20 to second place in the 1972 championship on 65 points, with two wins in the nine race season.
Following his quiet start in the 1966 season, Hulme scored 22 wins with 11 second place and 2 third place finishes in 52 Can-Am races from 1967 through 1972 – standing on the podium for 67% of the races during those six seasons. In those same six seasons, he was the Can-Am season champion twice, and championship runner-up four times. His 22 career wins are the most by any driver in the Can-Am series.
Indy 500
Hulme competed in the Indianapolis 500 on four occasions: 1967, 1968, 1969, and 1971. His best results in the event were in 1967 and 1968, both times finishing fourth. He did not compete in the 1970 race, due to methanol burns to the hands after a fire during practice.[4]
Tasman Series
Hulme finished third in the 1964 Tasman Series with one win and three podiums. He would later compete in 1967 and 1968, collecting a podium in each year.
British Sportscar Championship (1965–1969)
On weekends away from the Formula One, Hulme would sometimes race for Sid Taylor Racing in the British Sportscar Championship. During this time, he won a total of 12 races, mostly in a Lola T70.
After F1
After leaving the sport, Hulme led the GPDA (Grand Prix Drivers' Association) for a brief period, but the cut and thrust nature of the post was ill-suited to his gentlemanly nature and he did not fill the post for very long. He then retired to New Zealand, returning to touring cars to race occasionally in the Benson & Hedges 500 race at Pukekohe Park Raceway in the late 1970s first in Chrysler Chargers then later a Volkswagen Golf, partnering Stirling Moss on occasion for the 500 kilometre endurance format.[13]
Hulme began racing regularly again in 1982 with amateur racer Ray Smith, building up a team with the Holden Commodore V8 capable of winning the New Zealand Production Car Series for Group A toruing cars in 1983/84. Hulme also started racing in Australia, racing in the team of former European compatriot Frank Gardner's JPS Team BMW, which included second in class at the 1984 Bathurst 1000.
Hulme returned to Europe in 1986 racing in the European Touring Car Championship in a Tom Walkinshaw Racing prepared Rover Vitesse. That campaign culminated in a victory in the RAC Tourist Trophy, Hulme's fourth win in the event, 18 years after his third win. After that Hulme raced briefly for Bob Jane's Mercedes-Benz team before linking up with Larry Perkins in 1987, moving with Perkins in 1988 to the newly formed Holden Racing Team. Hulme would later join Benson & Hedges Racing, another team run by Frank Gardner in 1990. In the meantime Hulme was one of the founding drivers driver a truck racing craze in New Zealand in the early 1990s running Scania trucks, returning to Europe to race in European Truck Championship.[3]
Death
A favourite event of Hulme's was the Bathurst 1000, held at the famous Mount Panorama track in Australia. In the 1992 event he was driving a semi-works supported BMW M3 for the Benson & Hedges Racing when after complaining over the car to pits radio of blurred vision (originally thought to be because of the heavy rain) Hulme suffered a massive heart attack at the wheel whilst driving along the high-speed Conrod Straight. After veering into the wall on the left side of the track at about 140 mph (230 km/h),[14] he managed to bring the car to a relatively controlled stop sliding against the safety railing and concrete wall on the right side of the track. When marshals reached the scene they found Hulme still strapped in. He was taken from the car straight to Bathurst Hospital where he was officially pronounced dead.
Awards
- 1967, New Zealand Sportsman of the Year.[1]
- 1967/1970/1974, winner of the Hawthorn Memorial Trophy.
- 1993, Inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame.
- 1994, Inducted into the New Zealand Motorsports Wall of Fame.
- 1998, Inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America.
- 2002, Inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.
Motorsports career results
Career summary
Formula One World Championship
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)
Non-Championship Formula One events
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Tasman Series
| Year | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Rank | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Brabham BT4 | LEV 1 |
PUK 2 |
WIG 3 |
TER Ret |
 SAN 5 |
WAR 5 |
LAK 9 |
LON |
3rd | 23 |
| 1967 | Brabham BT22 | PUK Ret |
WIG 3 |
LAK 4 |
WAR Ret |
SAN Ret |
LON Ret |
8th | 7 | ||
| 1968 | Brabham BT23 | PUK |
LEV |
WIG 3 |
TER 6 |
SUR 6 |
WAR 5 |
SAN 9 |
LON DNS |
7th | 8 |
Indianapolis 500
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24 Hours of Le Mans
| Year | Class | No | Tyres | Car | Team | Co-Drivers | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | S850 | 60 | Fiat-Abarth 850 S Fiat 847cc L4 |
 Abarth & Cie |
Angus Hyslop |
263 | 14th | 1st | |
| 1966 | P+2.0 | 1 | G | Ford Mk II Ford 427 V8/90° OHV 6982cc |
 Shelby American Inc. |
 Ken Miles |
360 | 2nd | |
| 1967 | P+5.0 | 6 | F | Ford Mk IV Ford 427 V8/90° OHV 6980cc |
Holman & Moody |
Lloyd Ruby |
86 | DNF Accident | |
24 Hours of Daytona
| Year | Class | No | Tyres | Car | Team | Co-Drivers | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | P+2.0 | 28 | Ferrari 250LM Ferrari V12 2v 1xOHC 3300cc |
Team Chamaco Collect |
Victor Wilson |
53 | DNF | ||
| 1967 | P+2.0 | 4 | F | Ford Mk IV Ford 427 V8/90° OHV 7000cc |
Ford Motor Company (Holman & Moody) |
Lloyd Ruby |
299 | DNF Gearbox | |
Further reading
- Eoin Young. Memories of the Bear: A Biography of Denny Hulme. J H Haynes & Co. Ltd. ISBN 978-1844252084.
References
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External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Denny Hulme. |
- An Appreciation of Denny Hulme
- "Follow The Bear" - a personal memoir of Hulme
- Denny Hulme statistics
- Biographical article and video clip on The Speed Blog
- The Bruce McLaren Trust Official Website
- New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame
- Trio At The Top - a documentary about Bruce McLaren, Denny Hulme and Chris Amon on NZ On Screen
| Sporting positions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Syd Jensen |
New Zealand Gold Star Champion 1961 |
Succeeded by Pat Hoare |
| Preceded by Jackie Stewart |
Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year |
Succeeded by Bill Vukovich II |
| Preceded by Jack Brabham |
Formula One World Champion 1967 |
Succeeded by Graham Hill |
| Preceded by Mike Parkes |
BRDC International Trophy Winner 1968 |
Succeeded by Jack Brabham |
| Preceded by Bruce McLaren |
Can-Am Champion 1968 |
Succeeded by Bruce McLaren |
| Preceded by Bruce McLaren |
Can-Am Champion 1970 |
Succeeded by Peter Revson |
| Awards and achievements | ||
| Preceded by Jack Brabham |
Hawthorn Memorial Trophy 1967 |
Succeeded by Graham Hill |
| Preceded by Jackie Stewart |
Hawthorn Memorial Trophy 1970 |
Succeeded by Jackie Stewart |
| Preceded by Jackie Stewart |
Hawthorn Memorial Trophy 1974 |
Succeeded by James Hunt |
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