John Love

John Love's Surtees TS9
Born	(1924-12-07)7 December 1924 Bulawayo,Southern Rhodesia
Died	25 April 2005(2005-04-25) (aged 80) Bulawayo,Zimbabwe
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland(1962–1964) Rhodesian (1964)(1965 and1967–1968) Rhodesian (1969–1972)
Active years	1962–1965,1967–1972
Teams	Cooper, privateer (Cooper, Brabham, Lotus, March, Surtees)
Entries	10 (9 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	1
Careerpoints	6
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	1962 South African Grand Prix
Last entry	1972 South African Grand Prix

John Maxwell Lineham Love (7 December 1924 – 25 April 2005) was aRhodesian racing driver. He participated in 10Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 29 December 1962. He achieved one podium, and scored a total of six championship points. He also won the 1962 British Saloon Car Championship, now known as theBritish Touring Car Championship.^[1] All but one of his Formula One entries were in races held within Africa, either as championship or non-championship rounds.

Love was born inBulawayo. He attendedGifford High School.^[2] He started his car racing career in a single-seatCooperF3 with aManx Norton 500 cc engine after racing aTriumph Grand Prix motorcycle, which Love then-allowedJim Redman to ride when starting his race career, in recognition of Redman's assistance in preparing and maintaining Love's Cooper.^[3]

Six timesSouth African Formula One Champion in the 1960s, he had originally shone in the EuropeanFormula Junior firmament back in 1961–62 at the wheel of a Cooper-Austin fromKen Tyrrell'steam. An unfortunate accident atAlbi resulted in a very badly broken arm and effectively thwarted his chances of moving into full-time Formula One, but he came close when he was nominated asPhil Hill's replacement in the works Cooper team for the1964 Italian Grand Prix at Monza.^{[citation needed]}

He was a regular contestant in theSouth African Grand Prix from 1965 to 1972. He was leading the1967 South African Grand Prix atKyalami in his 2.7 LClimax-enginedCooper, when a misfire prompted him to make a precautionary stop for extra fuel. He dropped back to finish second behind the works Cooper-Maserati ofPedro Rodríguez.^[4][5]

Love would dominate racing in southern Africa in the 1960s, winning theSouth African Formula One Championship six times in succession from 1964 to 1969. He would also win his home race, theRhodesian Grand Prix, six times.^{[citation needed]}

He owned the Jaguar dealership in Bulawayo and had his own stock car racing team in the 1980s.^{[citation needed]} He died in 2005, aged 80, from cancer, in Bulawayo.^[6]

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