TY - BOOK AU - Russell,Jesse TI - Chris Amon SN - 9785510850536 U1 - 796.72 PY - 2012/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Lennex corp KW - Amon, Chris, KW - Automobile racing drivers KW - Biography KW - New Zealand N2 - High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Christopher Arthur Amon MBE (born 20 July 1943 in Bulls, New Zealand) is a former motor racing driver. He was active in Formula One - racing in the 1960s and 1970s - and is widely regarded to be one of the best F1 drivers never to win a championship Grand Prix. His reputation for bad luck was such that fellow driver Mario Andretti once joked that if he became an undertaker, people would stop dying . Apart from driving, Chris Amon also ran his own F1 team for a short period in 1974. Away from F1, Amon had some success in sports car racing, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 1966 ER -