Tomas Scheckter however this race was red flagged due to a multicar pile up early in the race in which Dan Wheldon was killed. He is the son of Formula One World Champion Jody Scheckter and the nephew of racer Ian Scheckter. He also has an older brother named Toby, and a younger brother Hugo, who often updates Tomas's fans through his Twitter page. Scheckter started on the fourth row of the Indy 500 his first seven races until 2009, when he qualified 26th. Tomas Scheckter Tomas Scheckter (born 21 September 1980) is a South African former racing driver. Scheckter was born
History of Formula One reliability. Despite his conflict with the "Commendatore" and his second driver status Lauda enjoyed immense respect from the Ferrari team, which did its best to give him a good car. There was in fact a very competitive field that year but no single challenger to the Austrian emerged and points taken away from Ferrari were shared between many teams and drivers. Surprisingly, the new Wolf team, born from the ashes of Frank Williams Racing Cars and Hesketh, made excellent use of its legacy with Jody Scheckter finishing second to Niki Lauda. 1977 also saw two radical technical innovations that would