Pete Lovely
Gerald Carlton " Pete " Lovely ( born April 11, 1926 in Livingston, Montana, † 15 May, 2011 Tacoma, Washington) was an American race car driver.
Career
Pete Lovely won the 1955 SCCA sports car series in the United States and arrived in the late 1950s to Europe to drive for Lotus Racing. In 1958 he celebrated together with Innes Ireland a class victory at the 12 - hour race at Reims. A first attempt to grasp one foot in the formula, failed because it called for the Grand Prix of Monaco in 1959 did not qualify.
Lovely returned to the United States in 1960 and celebrated its debut at the highest single-seater class. When the U.S. Grand Prix he was driving a Cooper T45 and was with six laps behind the winner Stirling Moss eleventh.
In the 1960s he built a Volkswagen representative on in Seattle in 1969 and gave a comeback in Formula 1 with the Lotus 49B, he played 1969-1971 six Grand Prix World Championship races. Points for the drivers' championship, he could not achieve. Lovely remained faithful to the racing in the 1990s and participated often in racing events for historic racing cars.