Cal Niday

Cal Niday

Nation:	United States
Automobile world championship
First start:	Indianapolis 500 1953
Last start:	Indianapolis 500 1955
Constructors
1953  Murrell Belanger 1954 Jim Robbins Co. 1955 Racing Associates
statistics
World Cup balance:	-
Starts Victories Poles SR 3 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Calvin L. "Cal" Niday (born April 29, 1914 in Turlock , California , † February 14, 1988 in Lancaster , California) was an American racing driver .

Career

Niday began his career in midget car racing. The fact that these vehicles had a handbrake and no clutch was particularly beneficial to him because he had lost his left lower leg in a motorcycle accident while at high school . However, this did not prevent him from competing in other racing car classes.

Niday competed three times in the Indianapolis 500 mile race but was unable to place. He had a serious accident in the 1955 race. In third place, he touched the outer boundary wall of turn 2 on lap 170 and was thrown inward. The fact that he was the first racing driver to wear a full face helmet in Indianapolis may have helped to save him . When he woke up from a coma after several days, he decided to retire from racing. Since this race was also part of the drivers' world championship from 1950 to 1960, the statistics at Niday show three Grand Prix starts.

Niday died in February 1988 of a heart attack in a classic car race after an accident.

statistics

Indy 500 results

year	Start number	begin	Agony (km / h)	Result	Round	guide	failure
1953	78	DNQ
	99	30th	218,996	30th	30th	0	Magneto ignition
1954	24	13	224,998	10	200	0
1955	22nd	9	225.771	16	170	0	accident
1957	32	DNQ

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1955	Porfirio Rubirosa	Ferrari 500 Mondial	Porfirio Rubirosa	failure	accident

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th
1955	Porfirio Rubirosa	Ferrari 500 Mondial	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
				DNF

literature

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see section on Niday: Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Mike Lang: Grand Prix! Volume 1: 1950-1965. Haynes Publishing Group, Sparkford Sommerset 1981, ISBN 0-85429-276-4 , p. 86 (English).
3. ↑ see section on Niday: Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Where are they know? [1]