Jimmy Bryan

Jimmy Bryan

Nation:	United States
Automobile world championship
First start:	Indianapolis 500 1952
Last start:	Indianapolis 500 1960
Constructors
1952 Peter Schmidt 1953 John L McDaniel 1954–1955 AE Dean 1956 Dean Van Lines 1957 AE Dean 1958–1960 George Salih
statistics
World Cup balance:	World Cup tenth ( 1954 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 9 1 - -
World Cup points :	18th
Podiums :	3
Leadership laps :	217 over 909 km

James Ernest "Jimmy" Bryan (born January 28, 1926 in Phoenix , Arizona , †  June 19, 1960 in Langhorne , Pennsylvania ) was an American racing driver.

Career

Bryan was one of the leading American racing drivers in the 1950s. After five years in races in the midget car class (miniature racing cars) and races on dust ovals as well as a qualification attempt in 1951, Bryan started for the first time in a race of the AAA National Series in Indianapolis in 1952 and achieved sixth place, which was an excellent rookie. In the following years it established itself as a fixture in the American Champ Car series. He won the US-wide championship in this class three times (1954, 1956 and 1957), and was almost unbeatable, especially in races on dust ovals, which were part of this championship at the time. But it also performed well on asphalt, as demonstrated by its second place in the Indy 500 in 1954 and third place in the same race in 1957. In total, Bryan won 19 of his 62 races in the top American single-seater series.

In 1957, the first race of the two worlds was held in Monza , in which American Champ Cars competed against European Formula 1 cars, and Jimmy Bryan won this race. With his victory in the Indianapolis 500 mile race in 1958 - at that time this race was part of the Formula 1 World Championship - he crowned his career.

In 1960 Bryan had a fatal accident while racing in Pennsylvania. He had qualified for the front row on the Langhorne dirt track , but caught a bump on the first lap and rolled over.

statistics

Grand Prix victories

• 1958 Indianapolis 500 ( Indianapolis ) 

Indy 500 results

year	Start number	begin	Agony (km / h)	Result	Round	guide	failure
1951	72	DNQ
1952	77	21st	215.858	6th	200	0
1953	8th	31	218,047	14th	183	0
1954	9	3	224.741	2	200	46
1955	1	11	225.545	24	90	31	Oil loss
1956	2	19th	231,306	19th	185	0
1957	1	15th	227.187	3	200	0
1958	1	7th	232.014	1	200	139
1959	6th	20th	228.683	33	1	0	engine
1960	10	10	232.578	19th	152	0	fuel pump

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

Web links

Commons : Jimmy Bryan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Race results
2. ↑ About Jimmy Bryan