Kieth O'dor

Kieth O'dor (5 April 1962 - 10 September 1995) was a British racing driver from Salisbury, who competed in the 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1994 seasons of the British Touring Car Championship. He was killed during a race at the AVUS circuit in Berlin.

Touring cars
Kieth began racing in the BTCC with his father's Janspeed Team. His results were generally good but not brilliant, although he won at Silverstone in 1993 in his #23 Nissan Primera. O'dor finished sixth in the championship of the same year, but then endured a difficult 1994 season in an uncompetitive car before Nissan chose to temporarily end their involvement with touring car racing in Britain.

Death
Kieth then moved to a works drive with the Nissan team in the ADAC Super-Tourenwagen-Cup in 1995.

He won the first race of the double header meeting at AVUS (giving Nissan it's first win in the series), defeating eventual champion and former BTCC driver Joachim Winkelhock. He was running third behind Winkelhock and Peter Kox in the second race when his Primera was pitched against the left wall, caused by a front left suspension failure which was probably triggered by the way he was riding the high kerbs of the chicanes installed in the temporary track. The Nissan spun twice and stopped sideways in the middle of the track. Two drivers close behind him managed to avoid him, one of them clipping the spinning Primera, but it was then hit hard in the right-side door by Frank Biela's Audi.

Because of his British racing background, Kieth was using a right hand drive vehicle, so he suffered serious injuries when the door on that side of the car was truck. He was airlifted to a Berlin hospital, but died later the same day.