Art Bish

**Art Bish**
Nation:	United States
Automobile world championship
First start:	Indianapolis 500 1958
Last start:	Indianapolis 500 1958
Constructors
	1958 HH Johnson
statistics
World Cup balance:	-
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Art Bisch (born November 10, 1926 in Mesa , † July 6, 1958 at Lakewood Speedway in Atlanta , Georgia ) was an American racing driver.

Career

Art Bisch started once in his career in a race for the Formula 1 World Championship . He started the Indianapolis 500 on May 30, 1958 on a Kuzma - Offenhauser - this race was part of the world championship between 1950 and 1960 - and was involved in a mass collision on the first lap in which his compatriot Pat O'Connor was fatal crashed. He himself had a fatal accident in 1958, a week after his first AAA National Series victory in Milwaukee, on the Lakewood race track in the US state of Georgia .

literature

Rick Popely, L. Spencer Riggs: Indianapolis 500 Chronicle. Publications International Ltd., Lincolnwood IL 1998, ISBN 0-7853-2798-3 .

Web links

Art Bisch at StatsF1

Individual evidence

^ Art Bisch at Old Racing Cars

personal data
SURNAME	Bisch, Art
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH	November 10, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mesa
DATE OF DEATH	July 6, 1958
Place of death	Lakewood Speedway , Atlanta , Georgia

[1] Art Bisch at Old Racing Cars