At his funeral service in SwitzerlandFormer Formula One racing driver Clay Regazzoni, who died in a car accident in northern Italy last week, was laid to rest in Switzerland on Thursday following a funeral service attended by motor racing legends.
Former World Champions
Jackie Stewart, who branded Regazzoni as being crazy when he ran him off the track while battling for second place in the 1972 German Grand Prix, Emerson Fittipaldi, Niki Lauda, as well as ex Sauber-BMW team owner Peter Sauber, joined about 1,000 mourners at the main basilica in the southern Swiss city of Lugano.
Sixty-seven-year-old Regazzoni, whose F1 career ended after a crash that left him paralysed below the waist, died in an accident involving two other vehicles on the Milan-Bologna motorway last Friday.
Regazzoni, a native of Lugano, competed in 132 Grand Prix between 1970 and 1980, winning five races and five pole positions, and finished second to Fittpaldi in the world championship in 1974.
Councillors in the Swiss city are planning to name a street or a square after Regazzoni, who was known as the tough guy of the circuit.
