Don Edmunds
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| First start: | Indianapolis 500 1957 | ||||||||
| Last start: | Indianapolis 500 1957 | ||||||||
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| 1957 Roy MacKay | |||||||||
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Donald "Don" Edmunds (born September 23, 1930 in Santa Ana ) is a former American racing driver .
Career
Don Edmunds started once in his career in a race for the Formula 1 World Championship . He started on May 30, 1957 at the Indianapolis 500 - this race was part of the world championship between 1950 and 1960 - on a Kurtis Kraft 500- Offenhauser and retired on lap 170 after a spin. In 1958, his racing career ended after a serious accident while training in Indianapolis.
Don Edmunds founded Autoresearch Inc. in Anaheim, which specializes in the construction of midget cars . Its chassis won several National Midget Championships in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1991 he was inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame.
literature
- Rick Popely, L. Spencer Riggs: Indianapolis 500 Chronicle. Publications International Ltd., Lincolnwood IL 1998, ISBN 0-7853-2798-3 .
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Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Edmunds, Don |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Edmunds, Donald (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Ana |