(c) 'Who is Who' by Steve Small, 2000

Родился: 12.09.1944 Йоханнесбург Сезонов в Ф1: 3 Лет в Ф1: 3 Гран При: 3 Старты: 3 Победы: - подряд: Подиумы: - подряд: Поул-позиции: - подряд: Первый ряд: - подряд: Быстрые круги: - подряд: Лучший финиш: 13 Лучший старт: 22 Дубли: Хет-трики: Лидирование старт/финиш: Большие шлемы: Круги: 219 - лидирования: Километры: 898.78 - лидирования: Очки: - за один сезон: - подряд:

Ф1: 1973-1975

Год	Команда	Шасси
1973	Blignaut-Lucky Strike Racing	Tyrrell 004
1974	Alex Blignaut/Embassy Racing SA	Tyrrell 004
1975	Team Gunston	Lotus 72E

Eddie raced saloons in his native South Africa from the late sixties, winning the championship twice, before switching to a mixed diet of Formula Ford and sports car racing with a Lola T212 in 1971. It was the purchase of an F5000 Surtees in 1972 which put him on the map as Gold Star champion in that class.

He then raced a Tyrrell 004 and then an ex-Fittipaldi Lotus 72 in the domestic series, and naturally the local Grands Prix as well. Eddie loved the Lotus, setting his fastest-ever lap time at Kyalami with it, but it was to prove unreliable and he endured a terrible run of mechanical failures with the car.

At the end of 1975 it was decided that the South African championship was no longer able to sustain 'pukka' Formula 1 machinery for financial reasons and the premier class was henceforth to be for Formula Atlantic cars. These relatively underpowered machines held little appeal for Eddie, who moved into the South African touring car championship with his own team, running a BMW 535, and won the title twice more in 1977 and 1978.

He crowned his career by scoring a great victory in the Wynn's 1000 at Kyalami in 1979, when he was forced to drive for most of the race after his co-driver, Helmut Kelleners, was taken ill, defeating such luminaries as Watson, Mass, Surer and Stuck. When Ian Scheckter suffered a neck injury, Keizan was back in the BMW in the Wynn's in 1980 but this time an almost certain victory was lost when a driveshaft broke.

With his thriving business interests taking up more of his time, Eddie did not race again for ten years, but thereafter he occasionally donned his overalls to drive a BMW in South African endurance events.

(c) 'Who is Who' by Steve Small, 2000