Earl Cooper

Earl Cooper (born 2 December 1886 in Broken Bow, Nebraska, † 22 October 1965 Atwater, California ) was an American race car driver.

He began his racing career in 1908 in San Francisco with a rented vehicle. He won the race but then lost his job as a mechanic, as he defeated one of his superiors in this race. In 1912 he went to the Stutz team. In 1913, he won seven of the eight most important race of the year and finished second in the other. He also won the AAA National Championship. In the film, The Speed ​​Kings he stepped to the side of Mabel Normand on Himself. In 1914 he took part because of an injury to any race. The first few months of the season, 1915, he had to pause, but still won the championship for the second time. Also in 1916 he could not be there from the beginning, since Stutz got out of the racing, and thus finished only fifth in the championship.

In 1917 he won his third championship in a shortened due to the outbreak of the First World War season. After he retired from full-time racing and went in the coming years, only occasionally in the race at the start. So he started in 1919, among others at the Indianapolis 500 in 1921 and replaced Joe Thomas, who in October of this year, an arm broke. As a substitute, he won a 200 - mile race in Fresno.

In 1922 Cooper returned to full-time racing and won five races in the season 1923. In 1924, he led the Indianapolis 500 after 400 miles of when he had to make a pit stop due to a tire blowout. He came in second place back on the track and won back the lead when only 30 miles were back down. Just as he passed Joe Boyer, burst a tire again and the pit stop related forced him to settle for second place. Also in 1925, he raced in Indianapolis and at his last start in 1926 he was able to conquer the pole position. In 1928 he retired from racing.

• Champ Car racer
• Racers (United States)
• Americans
• Born in 1886
• Died in 1965
• Man