Jimmy Davies... Born ... AAA / USAC driver from the 1940's - 1960's. He was the second man to win three USAC National Midget Championships. When Davies won the 100 mile AAA Championship race at Del Mar, California on November 6, 1949 - aged 20 years, 2 months, 29 days, he became the youngest driver to win a race in a major U.S. open wheel series, a record not broken until Marco Andretti won the IRL race at Sonoma, California in 2006. Davies raced AAA on a false birth certificate showing him older, (as did Troy Ruttman and Jim Rathmann), and was racing illegally. He ran the Indy 500 5 times with a best finish of 3rd in 1955. He died on June 11, 1966 aged 36 from injuries suffered in a midget crash at Santa Fe Speedway in Chicago. He was inducted into the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 1984
Nigel Mansell... Born ... A British racing driver from England who won both the Formula One World Championship (1992) and CART World Series (1993). He is the only person in history to hold both titles simultaneously, and was the first person to win the CART title in his debut season.
Bobby Grim won the IMCA Sprint Car race at the Aurora Downs , Chicago, IL.
Joe Sostilio won the AAA Eastern Sprint Car race over Tommy Hinnershitz at the Morristown Speedway, Morristown, NJ.
Mike Nazaruk won the AAA Midget race at the Soldier Field, Chicago, IL.
Fats Caruso won the Sportsman-Modified Stock Car race and Tom Green won the Novice race at the Fort Dix Speedway, New Egypt, NJ. ( Click here for the race report. )
Jim McElreath won the USAC Langhorne 125 Indy car race on the 1 mile paved oval Langhorne Speedway in Langhorne, PA. A.J. Foyt finished second followed by Gordon Johncock, Mario Andretti and Bobby Unser.
Ed "Dutch" Schaeffer won the ARDC Midget race on the 1/2 mile asphalt Old Bridge Speedway in Old Bridge, NJ. Schaeffer driving the Bennett Brothers Offy # 4 took the checkered flag from starter Nick Fornota followed by Bobby Alberts, King Carpenter and Jiggs Peters.
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