business firms, president of the Cam Wreckers Association and the founder and owner of the country’s pioneering Batangas Racing and Karting Circuit. He likewise organized the pioneer “Concourse d’ Elegance” Auto Show. He was also a silent election worker as he had successfully campaigned for his brother Doy's Senate bid in 1967. Death Laurel died during the Macau Grand Prix on November 19, 1967, at the age of 35. Eyewitness accounts revealed that Laurel, after his Lotus 41 skidded out of control, tried to avoid hitting some spectators by driving the car into the sea wall of Guia Circuit. The crash caused his car to burst into flames, leaving him trapped inside and was burned badly and died before marshals arrived to take him to the hospital. He was the first fatality of the Macau Grand Prix. References External links Memorial 1931 births 1967 deaths 20th-century Filipino lawyers Yale University alumni Filipino racing drivers Arsenio People from Tanauan, Batangas Sportspeople from Batangas Children of presidents of the Philippines