August 17

August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
==Births==
* 1913: Oscar Alfredo Gálvez (d. 1989)
* 1952: Nelson Piquet
* 1952: Mario Theissen
* 1954: Noritoshi Arai
==Deaths==
* 1966: Ken Miles (b. 1918)
* 1994: Luigi Chinetti (b. 1901)
==Races==
(Italics indicates a non-championship race)
* 1952: 
* 1952: 
* 1968: 
* 1975: 
* 1980: 
* 1986: 
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