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There've been other one-armed drivers, but of course even in the 50s GP organizers were very loath to let Archie race, despite his great success in sports cars. That's really why he has only one GP to his name.
There are, however, drivers who've raced successfully with a prosthetic leg: Lotus F1 driver Alan Stacey and still-current (but now very much a veteran) sports car driver David Piper spring to mind. "Pipes" lost his leg during filming for the Steve McQueen film Le Mans, but still races energetically today, all over the world. Ironically, Stacey was - like Archie - killed at Spa: in his case in the tragic 1960 Belgian GP, when Chris Bristow was also killed and Stirling Moss had a serious shunt in practice.
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