Conny Andersson

Born: 28th December 1939, Alingsas, Sweden.

After a successful career in motocross, Swedish garage owner Conny Andersson switched to cars in the late 1960s in Formula Vee before purchasing a Brabham BT21 F3 car. The Swede spent seven years in Formula 3 around Europe, lacking the finance to move up the ladder, perhaps his best performance coming when he won the Monaco F3 race on the road in 1975 only to be penalised for jumping the start.

In 1976 he was just pipped to the European F3 title by Riccardo Patrese, but he finally made his Grand Prix debut at Zandvoort in a one off drive for Surtees, retiring with engine trouble. He tried again the next year with the quite frankly hopeless Stanley BRM, failing to qualify the machine at any of his four attempts. After this debacle, Andersson retired from racing.