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[[Image:1939-05-28 Coppa Principessa Napoli Maserati 4CL Wakefield.jpg|thumb|Wakefield wins in Naples on 28 May 1939]]<br />
'''John Peter Wakefield''' (5 April 1915 in [[Marylebone]], [[London]] – 24 April 1942 in [[Wargrave]], [[Berkshire]]) was an English racing car driver.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/dw.htm |title=Driver overview |access-date=4 September 2007 |archive-date=12 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912200855/http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/dw.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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He debuted in a British [[Alta Car and Engineering Company|Alta]] (1936), next year<br />
in a [[Maserati 6CM]] at [[Gran Premio di Firenze]], 10th place (1937),<br />
ran a British [[English Racing Automobiles|ERA]] (1938), and became the<br />
second to own a [[Maserati 4CL]] (1939), in which he won the [[Grand Prix of Naples]], the [[French GP]] in [[Picardy]], and the [[Grand Prix de l´Albigeois]], coming in second at Rheims and third at the Prix de Berne.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://maseraticlub.co.uk/trident20-axaz.htm |title=Welcome to the web site of the Maserati Club |accessdate=4 September 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20070929130619/http://maseraticlub.co.uk/trident20-axaz.htm |archivedate=29 September 2007 }}</ref><br />
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During the Second World War Wakefield joined the [[Fleet Air Arm]]. He was killed whilst a test pilot working for [[Vickers Armstrong]] and died in a flying accident.<ref>”Obituary J. P. Wakefield and N. G. Wilson” in ''The Motor'', vol. 81 (London Temple Press Limited, 1942) p. 239</ref><br />
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