David Oxton was born on 22 December 1945 and is a former New Zealand racing driver.
10 Facts About David Oxton
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David Oxton's career started in the late 1960s, driving a Daimler SP250 in New Zealand motorsport events and in 1968 he made the move to open-wheel racing.
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David Oxton won two consecutive New Zealand Formula Ford Championships from 1970 to 1972 and in 1971 he debuted in both the New Zealand Gold Star Championship and the Tasman Series.
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In 1973 David Oxton travelled to the United Kingdom to compete in Formula Atlantic and Formula 5000 but he did not achieve great success on his overseas venture.
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David Oxton competed in the BRDC International Trophy, a non-championship Formula One race, at Silverstone the same year, but failed to finish.
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David Oxton competed in Formula Atlantic in Canada in 1977, a year in which he began competing in the New Zealand International Formula Pacific Series.
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David Oxton then partnered Brock in the Holden Dealer Team in Australia's first year of Group A touring car racing in 1985 at the Castrol 500 at Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, their VK Commodore suffering engine failure after just 41 laps.
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David Oxton went on to race in the 1986 Australian Touring Car Championship, finishing 17th in the series after competing in three of the ten rounds in an ex-Andy Rouse Ford Sierra XR4Ti.
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David Oxton had earlier in the year shared the Sierra with Rouse at the Wellington 500.
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David Oxton partnered Australian television commentator Neil Crompton in the team's second VL Commodore SS Group A, the car in which Brock, David Parsons and Peter McLeod had won Bathurst in a few weeks earlier.