August 2

August 2 is the 214th day of the year (215th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
==Births==
* 1923: Jimmy Somervail (d. 2011)
* 1949: Mario Illien
==Deaths==
* 1964: Carel Godin de Beaufort, practice accident (b. 1934)
* 1974: Douglas Hawkes (b. 1893)
==Races==
(Italics indicates a non-championship race)
* 1952: 
* 1953: 
* 1954: 
* 1954: 
* 1959: 
* 1964: 
* 1970: 
* 1981: 
* 1998: 
* 2020: British Grand Prix
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