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New Zealand racing driver
Thomas Pitt Cholmondeley-Tapper
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Wellington, New Zealand
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27 July 2001 (aged 91 years)
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91 years
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Thomas Pitt Cholmondeley-Tapper (31 July 1910, in Wellington – 27 July 2001, in Headington, Oxfordshire) was an auto racing driver from New Zealand, the first great New Zealander auto driver before Graham McRae, Chris Amon, Bruce McLaren, Denny Hulme and others. He was known as "George", he came from Norwegian ancestry. An expert skier and amateur driver racing Bugattis, an old GP Maserati 8CM he had bought from Earl Howe, and a Ferrari Monza. He was offered a Mercedes-Benz test drive at the end of the 1936 season, and would participate at the 1936 German Grand Prix. He died in England at the age of 90.
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- Cholmondeley-Tapper, Thomas Pitt (1953). Amateur Racing Driver. London: G.T. Foulis & Co., Ltd.
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