Gene Hartley
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 United States
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| Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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| First start: | Indianapolis 500 1950 | ||||||||
| Last start: | Indianapolis 500 1960 | ||||||||
| Constructors | |||||||||
| 1950 Langley 1952 Mel.B. Wiggers 1953 Federal Auto Associates 1954 John Zink 1956 Pete Salemi 1957 Lesovsky 1959 RT Marley Sr. 1960 Chapman S. Root | |||||||||
| statistics | |||||||||
| World Cup balance: | no World Cup placement | ||||||||
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| World Cup points : | - | ||||||||
| Podiums : | - | ||||||||
| Leadership laps : | - | ||||||||
Leslie "Gene" Hartley (born January 28, 1926 in Roanoke , Indiana , † March 13, 1993 ibid) was an American racing driver .
Career
Gene Hartley was the son of midget car racing driver Ted Hartley and won the USAC National Midget Series in 1959 . He drove in 32 races in the AAA National Series and in the USAC Championship in the 1950s and 1960s . He achieved his best placement in 1956 in Langhorne in second place.
The 500-mile Indianapolis he was ten times at the start. His best placement was tenth in 1957 in a Lesovsky - Offenhauser . In 1953 he was able to take ninth place together with Tony Bettenhausen , with Bettenhausen driving around three quarters of the distance.
Since his active time as a driver in Indianapolis is almost identical to the ranking of the race for the drivers' world championship , eight of his ten Indianapolis starts also count as Grand Prix starts.
statistics
Indy 500 results
| year | Start number | begin | Agony (km / h) | Result | Round | guide | failure |
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| 1950 | 75 | 31 | 207.925 | 16 | 128 | 0 | |
| 1952 | 67 | 18th | 216.180 | 28 | 65 | 0 | Exhaust |
| 1953 | 41 | 13 | 220.879 | 28 | 53 | 0 | accident |
| 98 | 9 3 | 37 | 0 | drove Bettenhausen's car; Rd. 160-196; accident | |||
| 1954 | 31 | 17th | 224.644 | 23 2 | 151 | 0 | Handover to Teague |
| 1955 | 28 | DNQ | |||||
| 1956 | 82 | 22nd | 229.858 | 11 | 196 | 0 | |
| 1957 | 22nd | 14th | 227,332 | 10 | 200 | 0 | |
| 1958 | 24 | DNQ | |||||
| 1959 | 88 | 9 | 231,033 | 11 | 200 | 0 | |
| 1960 | 48 | 24 | 231,548 | 14th | 196 | 0 | |
| 1961 | 28 | 15th | 233,028 | 11 | 198 | 0 | |
| 1962 | 88 | 20th | 236,488 | 27 2 | 23 | 0 | Handover to Cheesbourg |
| Legend | ||
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| 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 |
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| () | Streak results | |
| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
literature
- Rick Popely, L. Spencer Riggs: Indianapolis 500 Chronicle. Publications International Ltd., Lincolnwood IL 1998, ISBN 0-7853-2798-3 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hartley, Gene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hartley, Leslie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roanoke , Indiana , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1993 |
| Place of death | Roanoke , Indiana , United States |