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In 1949 Barkhimer took over San Jose Speedway and also started his own association, and in 1954 he co-founded west coast NASCAR. [3] Among top drivers who were killed at the Oakland Speedway was Clyde Rea Bray, who had held second place in the A.R.A. [clarification needed] points in 1939, behind champion Wally Schock. Bray had come in 5th in ...
Oakland, California, U.S. Died: May 30, 1955 (aged 36) Speedway, Indiana, U.S. Championship titles; AAA National Midget Car (1950) Major victories Indianapolis 500 (1953, 1954) Champ Car career; 22 races run over 6 years: Best finish: 3rd : First race: 1951 Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis) Last race: 1955 Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis) First win
Robert Charles "Bob" Sweikert (May 20, 1926 – June 17, 1956) was an American racing driver, best known as the winner of the 1955 Indianapolis 500 and the 1955 National Championship, as well as the 1955 Midwest Sprint car championship – the only driver in history to sweep all three during a single racing season.
The 1954 season included 9 individual races, with Oakland Speedway and Balboa Stadium both hosting two events. [1] Multiple of the season's races were in combination with the NASCAR Grand National Series .
A witness saw her struggling to escape and tried to help, but the flames engulfed the car and she burned to death. Ibrahim Dossey: 1972 2008 36 years Ghanaian footballer car Breaza, Romania The crash occurred on September 13, 2008, putting him in a coma until his death three months later. Dee Dowis: 1968 2016 48 years American football car
1954 Bobby Ball Memorial race [ edit ] On November 8, 1954, Reece crashed during the Bobby Ball Memorial , an AAA Champ Car event held at the Arizona State Fairgrounds , sustaining "a punctured lung, fractured right shoulder and possible internal injuries when his car flipped coming out of the south turn [...] and crashed into the east wall."
A postman from Redlands, California [2] who also became a Long Beach night club owner among other things, [1] Gordon took up racing in 1925. [2]Gordon made nine starts in the AAA-sanctioned national championship from 1932 to 1935 and entered two non-points paying races after that, scoring a win at Oakland Speedway in January 1936.
Creighton Hale (born Patrick Wills Fitzgerald; May 24, 1882 – August 9, 1965) [3] was an Irish-American theatre, film, and television actor whose career extended more than a half-century, from the early 1900s to the end of the 1950s.