{"id":39663,"date":"2012-09-26T09:51:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T14:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/index.php\/?p=39663"},"modified":"2015-11-22T20:06:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T01:06:17","slug":"mike-sparken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/mike-sparken\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Sparken: Private Entrant Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mike Sparken, winning at Oulton Park in the rain with his trusty 750 Monza.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In the 1950s, if you had talent and the necessary finances, you could become a successful racing driver as a private entrant. This is the story of one of them, a French-born racing driver by the name of Mike Sparken. We were working on this article when on September 21, Sparken died at his home in the South of France at the age of eighty two. Our sincere condolences to his family; we wish he could have lived to read the following story.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

By Graham Gauld<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike Sparken, or Michael Poberejsky, to cite his proper name, was born in Paris in 1930 to a wealthy Russian family that had left Russia for Paris at the time of the 1917 Revolution.<\/p>\n

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Mike Sparken, winning at Oulton Park in the rain with his trusty 750 Monza. In the 1950s, if you had talent and the necessary finances, you could become a successful racing driver as a private entrant. This is the story of one of them, a French-born racing driver by the name of Mike Sparken. We... <\/p>\n

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