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Chris Amon, the man widely considered to be the best never to have won a Formula One race, has died aged 73 in New Zealand after a long battle with cancer.Amon competed in F1 between 1963 and 1976, which included a three-year spell at Ferrari. His career began slowly with races for Reg Parnell Racing but his performances improved enough to catch the attention of Enzo Ferrari in 1967, prompting an invitation to join his team that year.Despite a run of podiums and pole positions in his time at Ferrari, reliability issues and bad luck continued to dog his career and prevented him claiming the win his peers felt he deserved. He quit Ferrari mid-way through the 1969 season after his most frustrating campaign, joining March Engineering the following year.Spells at Matra and Tyrrell followed, before a failed attempt at running his own team, Chris Amon Racing, in 1974. His career finished with further stints at Ensign and Wolff in 1975 and 1976.Amon called time on his career after witnessing Niki Laudas horrific crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix. Having seen the flaming wreck of Laudas Ferrari, Amon refused to join the race restart and was fired by the Ensign team -- prompting him to retire from F1. ?He briefly returned with Wolf at the end of the season but failed to qualify for a race.?Amon did enjoy more success outside of Formula One, winning the 1966 Le Mans 24 Hours with fellow Kiwi Bruce McLaren - founder of the eponymous team which still carries his name. Current McLaren chairman Ron Dennis paid tribute to the late Amon on Wednesday morning.It was with profound sadness that I heard the news this morning that Chris Amon had passed away, Dennis said.Chris started 96 Grands Prix but won not one of them -- and it is safe to say that he was the greatest racing driver never to have won a race at the very highest level. He nearly won a fair few, but always it seemed that his luck would run out before he saw the chequered flag.However, he won at Le Mans, in a mighty 7.0-litre Ford, exactly 50 years ago, his co-driver his friend and fellow Kiwi, Bruce McLaren, whose name still graces the team to which I have devoted my working life. I have not met Chris for many years, but, even so, I have extremely fond memories of him, and indeed I would describe him as one of the most likeable men I have met in my long racing career.For all those reasons I want to take this opportunity to extend the heartfelt sympathies of all 3300 of us at McLaren to the family and friends of a great New Zealander, a true gentleman, and one of the fastest racing drivers there ever was: the one and only Christopher Arthur Amon.May he rest in peace.Ben Powers Jersey . In Europe, top teams seem to be largely happy with their squads after spending nearly $1 billion in the off-season. 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Price opened the tournament with a sturdy 19-save performance against the Norwegians, yielding just one goal.Important Hawthorn defender Josh Gibson is free to play against Geelong in their highly anticipated AFL qualifying final clash after he was cleared by the match review panel of any wrongdoing for his high hit on Collingwoods Levi Greenwood.Gibson caught Greenwood high in the second quarter of Sundays thrilling one-point win by the Hawks, but the MRP found it was a genuine attempt to spoil and worthy of only a free kick against the influential back man.The AFLs MRP offered only one player a suspension from round 23 - Brisbane defender Daniel Merrett, who was slapped with a two-match ban for striking St Kildas Shane Savage.Merrett made sure he finished his career with a bang when he was charged with striking Savage in the last quarter of his 200th and final AFL game.Sydney ruckman Sam Naismith is free to play in his fiirst AFL final after he escaped with a fine for his bone-jarring tackle on Richmonds Bachar Houli.ddddddddddddNaismith faced a nervous wait after he lifted Houli off the ground and slammed him back-first into the turf in the second quarter of the Swans 113-point belting of the Tigers at the SCG.But the 24-year-old can accept a $1000 fine after the incident was assessed as careless conduct with medium impact to the body.West Coast midfielder Sharrod Wellingham was also found to have no case to answer for his collision with Adelaides Mitch McGovern.North Melbournes Lindsay Thomas, Carltons Jacob Weitering, Fremantles Matt de Boer and Greater Western Sydneys Devon Smith can all accept fines. 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