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| Born | 13 April 1940 Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt |
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| Died | 29 December 1988 (aged 48) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Formula One World Championship career | |
| Nationality |  British |
| Active years | 1971–1973 |
| Teams | Non-works March |
| Entries | 29 (28 starts) |
| Championships | 0 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 0 |
| Career points | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| First entry | 1971 British Grand Prix |
| Last entry | 1973 United States Grand Prix |
Michael Simon Brindley Bream Beuttler (13 April 1940 – 29 December 1988) was a British Formula One driver who raced privately entered March cars. He was born in Cairo, Egypt, the son of Colonel Leslie Brindley Bream Beuttler, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, O.B.E., and a descendant on his mother's side of the Scottish ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, grandson of the 6th Earl of Seafield.[1][2]
He was a talented Formula Three driver from the late 1960s, who then graduated to Formula Two and then to Formula One in 1971.[3]
The finance for the team came from a group of stockbroker friends from whom the team took its name – at first Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie Racing, and in 1973 it became Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie-Durlacher Racing. This approach of funding the team earned his car the nickname of the "Stockbroker Special".[4]
He raced on one occasion, at the 1971 Canadian Grand Prix, for the works March team. Beuttler's best result was a seventh place in the 1973 Spanish Grand Prix.[5][6]
While Beuttler did not achieve a points-scoring finish during his career in Formula One, he did achieve six top-ten finishes in the 28 races in which he competed, results that would have delivered points by today's championship regulations.[7]
When his backers suffered amid the 1973 oil crisis, Beuttler retired from racing the following year, at the age of 34, after competing in the 1000 km of Brands Hatch.[8][9]
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- ^ Alan Clark: The Biography, Ion Trewin, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009
- ^ "Drivers Mike Beuttler". Grandprix.com. Inside F1. 2023. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ Martin Williamson (1 November 2009). "Mike Beuttler (Great Britain)". ESPN. Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ Andrew Marriott (19 September 1971). "1971 Canadian Grand Prix race report". Motor Sport Magazine. Mosport Park. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
- ^ "1973 Spanish Grand Prix race report". Motor Sport Magazine. Montjuich Park, Barcelona. 29 April 1973. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
- ^ Mark Wessel (25 October 2012). "F1 statistics for Mike Beuttler". Formula 1 points. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ Christopher Sharp (8 May 2020). "Mike Beuttler: The Pioneer in Yellow". Racing Pride. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
- ^ "Mike Beuttler was to this day the only openly gay driver in F1 history". globoesporte.globo.com. Globo. 13 April 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2023.