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Tom Pryce

British racing driver (1949–1977)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Thomas Maldwyn Pryce was a British racing driver from Wales, who competed in Formula One from 1974 to 1977.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tom Pryce” is british racing driver (1949–1977). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Pryce, British and racing, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1977—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Pryce, British and racing is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “british racing driver (1949–1977)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1974 and 1977.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tom Pryce” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.