Jimmy Davies
Jimmy Davies ( born August 18, 1929 in Glendale, † June 11, 1966 in Chicago) was an American race car driver.
Career
Jimmy Davies was in the 1950s, the second rider to have three USAC National Midget Championships - win. In 1949, he became the youngest winner of a U.S. single-seater race when he won the 100 -mile Midget race at Del Mar at the age of almost 20 years - a record that was broken only in 2006 by Marco Andretti. As Troy Ruttman and Jim Rathmann Davies falsified his birth certificate in order to participate in the race at all.
Davies went almost exclusively Midget race and won in his career at 46 race events. 1962 his race car it was stolen after a race in Indianapolis. A year later, the vehicle reappeared - in a race in Sacramento, the car was driven to scrap - as Davies based on recognized him from pictures in a local newspaper.
Except for Midget race started Davies also five times in the 500 miles of Indianapolis. Since this race between 1950 and 1960 belonged to the world championship of Formula 1, stand for Davies also five starts to book. In 1955 he was third in Indianapolis, his best finish in this race.
Davies died in 1966 as the result of a racing accident at the Santa Fe Speedway in Chicago.