Cal Niday
Calvin L. "Cal" Niday ( born April 29, 1914 in Turlock, California, † February 14, 1988 in Lancaster, California ) was an American race car driver.
Career
Niday started his career with Midget car racing. The fact that these vehicles had a hand brake and no clutch, it was therefore particularly accommodating, as he had during his time at the high school lost his left leg in a motorcycle accident. However, this did not prevent him to go in other classes racing cars at the start.
Three times Niday was the 500-mile race at Indianapolis he was at the start, place not. At the race in 1955, he crashed hard. Lying in third place on lap 170 he touched the outer boundary wall of curve 2 and was thrown inside. With contributed to his rescue should the fact that he was the first racing driver, who was wearing a full-face helmet in Indianapolis. When he awoke from a coma after several days, he decided to withdraw from racing. Since this race from 1950 to 1960 also belonged to the Drivers' World Championship, has the statistics at Niday of three Grand Prix starts.
Niday died in February 1988 with a vintage car race after an accident of a heart attack.