[52][53], (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate *fastest lap), Complete Formula One World Championship results, Complete European Formula Two Championship results, Big Foreign Entry Is Represented In L&M Continental 5000 Field, Redman Captures First L&M Race; Scheckter 2nd, 1971 SCCA L&M 5000 Continental Championship, European Championship for Formula 2 Drivers, "Lime Rock, 4 Sep 1972 « US Formula 5000 «", "McLaren Formula 1 - Heritage - Brett Lunger", "Responsibility Today - I Am Responsible Movement and Workbook Series", "European Formula 5000 races « Formula 5000 «", "Formula 5000 Great Britain 1973 standings | Driver Database", "Formula Atlantic Canada 1975 standings | Driver Database", "Formula 5000 - SCCA 1976 standings | Driver Database", "British F1 Series 1978 standings | Driver Database", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brett_Lunger&oldid=968401250, European Formula Two Championship drivers, Articles with dead external links from May 2014, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2011, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2010, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 19 July 2020, at 05:00. He followed this up with another win, this time in the Lime Rock Grand Prix. On a single weekend in Rouen, France, Lunger blew three Ford BDA engines. [citation needed] Lunger said that Edwards was able to get by Lauda's car to the left but Lunger was unable to avoid the wrecked Ferrari. He was trying to pass a slower car and at the same time hold off eventual race winner, Mario Andretti. Lunger drove for the Dan Gurney’s Anglo American Racers team, in their Jorgensen Eagle 73A which debuted in Formula 5000 in 1974. He was in a Hogan Racing Lola. They lay for a few seconds in the grass. After a one-off drive for Ensign at the end of the season, Lunger moved on to sports car racing. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance as outback adventurer Michael "Crocodile" Dundee in Crocodile Dundee (1986), the first in the Crocodile Dundee film series. Nilsson would die in Los Angeles, California on July 27, 1989. [9] The Eagle marque was introduced in Formula 5000 in preparation for an entrance into Formula One in 1975. Lunger's fire extinguishers were set off by the collision which was fortunate and saved time in the rescue. [2] A former US Marine lieutenant[3] who served in the Vietnam war, his racing career was mostly spent in privateer cars, paid for by his family wealth (Lunger was a scion of the DuPont family). https://hogansheroes.fandom.com/wiki/Britt_Nilsson?oldid=16921. [citation needed] His first major win was that year at Brainerd International Raceway in the Minnesota Grand Prix. This meant that Lunger started the race at the rear. [1] On the 1st day of qualifying for the 1976 United States Grand Prix West in Long Beach, California, Lunger averaged only 83.61 miles per hour (134.56 km/h). Lunger came in 3rd overall in the overall standing, after David Hobbs had clinched the title with 99 points. [35] Lunger qualified 17th in Zeltweg for the 1977 Austrian Grand Prix. He moved into 3rd place following a win at Road Atlanta in August, in the Road Atlanta Grand Prix. He made contact about three quarters on because I was committed to a line and couldn't make it through the debris. Workers arrived and kept the fire down, eventually putting foam on the Ferrari. The burning fuel was moving toward them so Lunger and Lauda walked 6 to 8 steps away from the fire. As Lauda and Lunger emerged corner workers put foam on them. Lunger described Lauda's accident which occurred on the 2nd lap. By 1966 he was the "rich kid" of the Can-Am series. At the time he was preparing a thesis on U.S. policy on Southeast Asia. [39] Lunger's McLaren was 20th at Rio de Janeiro in the 1978 Brazilian Grand Prix[40] and was 11th at Johannesburg in the 1978 South African Grand Prix, in March. He developed engine problems with 4 laps to go. Again the fire flared up and kept the men back from the car's side.