On this day: 13 February in racing history

Eugen Bjornstad drove his Alfa Romeo 2300 8C Monza to victory in the 1937 Stockholm ice race on a frozen Flatenloppet, while it was anything but cold when Nino Farina took his Ferrari 125 to victory in the 1949 Argentinean Temporada race in Rosario.

Moving down under in 1960 Johnny Mansel won the Waimate Street Circuit 50 in a Maserati 250F, while John Riley won that same race in a Lotus 18/21 Climax in 1965. Frank Matich took his Matich A50 Repco-Holden to 1972 Warwick Farm 100 honours and Warwick Brown took the ‘77 Surfers Paradise International 100 in his Lola Chevrolet.

On the same day in 1977 back up in the Arctic wastes of Sweden, Stig Blomqvist steered his, Saab 99 EMS (Below) to victory in the annual World Rally round there. It was Hannu Mikkola’s turn to win Rally Sweden in his Audi quattro A1 in 1983, while Marcus Gronholm won in 2000 in a Peugeot 206 WRC, Petter Solberg 2005 in a Subaru Impreza and Mikko Hirvonen driving a Ford Fiesta RS in 2011.

Williams boss Patrick Head in 2004 speculated that his driver Juan Pablo Montoya had already signed a contract with McLaren for 2005. That allegedly over a 2003 French Grand Prix disagreement when Montoya swore at the team over concerns that it had changed strategy to allow the Columbian’s teammate Ralf Schumacher an advantage.

And Motorsport said goodbye to a legend when Maurice Trintignant passed away at 87 years old on 13 February 2005. Trintignant was France’s first Grand Prix winner at Monaco in 1955 and also won the ’54 Le Mans 24 Hour with Froilan Gonzalez, having raced Grands Prix in Bugatti, Vanwall, Ferrari, BRM, Aston Martin, Cooer and Lotus, among others.