Ove Andersson Dies In Crash

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Ove Andersson has died in a car accident while competing in the South African Continental Milligan classic car regularity rally yesterday morning.

Andersson was a top world rally driver and was also the man behind taking Toyota into Formula 1.

The left-hand Volvo which Andersson was driving was involved in a head-on collision with a car travelling on the wrong side of the road while it was overtaking a truck on a twisting section of the George road approximately 20km outside Oudtshoorn.

Andersson's navigator and the owner of the car, Tubby Bennett was injured and rushed to hospital.

Swedish Andersson had partially settled in South Africa since retiring from his post as world motorsport boss of Toyota.

Toyota has paid tribute to Ove Andersson who was killed today.

"Everyone at Toyota is extremely shocked and truly saddened at this terrible news," said Tadashi Yamashina, Chairman of Toyota Motorsport GmbH. "Ove was an inspiration to our team and to many in motorsport. His passion for motorsport was legendary and he is a great loss to our sport.

"The thoughts of everyone at Toyota Motorsport are with Ove's family at this difficult time."

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Trevor Wilkinson founded TVR ("TreVoR") in 1947 and guided the company through its formative years in the late 1950s. He left in 1962, but his legacy includes about 30,000 odd but entertaining hand-built sports cars

Wilkinson passed away on June 6 in Minorca, Spain after a prolonged illness.

[Mani]

Oh dear. This is indeed sad and unfortunate news. RIP