Basil van Rooyen

Racing for South African, Basil van Rooyen competed at the highest level of motorsport. Made two world championship starts, one in each of the 1968 and 1969 seasons. he first appeared in a cooper-climax in 1968, then returned a year later at the wheel of a mclaren-ford.

Neither outing brought points or a championship classification, and his second start proved to be his last. His brief record — two starts with two different chassis over two consecutive seasons — is typical of the local drivers of the period who made occasional championship appearances without securing a full-time drive.