Lee Wallard

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Lee Wallard
Lee Wallard after winning the Indianapolis 500 in 1951
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Automobile world championship
First start: Indianapolis 500 1950
Last start: Indianapolis 500 1951
Constructors
1950  Lou Moore 1951  Murrell Belanger
statistics
World Cup balance: Seventh World Cup ( 1951 )
Starts Victories Poles SR
2 1 - 1
World Cup points : 9
Podiums : 1
Leadership laps : 159 over 639.657 km
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Leland "Lee" Wallard (born September 8, 1911 in Schenectady , New York , † November 28, 1963 in Saint Petersburg , Florida ) was an American racing driver.

Career

Wallard took part in 46 races of the AAA National Series between 1941 and 1954 , of which he won six. Between 1948 and 1951 Wallard competed four times in the Indianapolis 500 , in 1951 he won the race and thus entered the Formula 1 list of winners, as the Indy 500 were part of the World Cup from 1950 to 1960. Just four days after his victory, he had a serious accident in a sprint car race in Reading, Pennsylvania. He was badly burned and incapacitated for months. Then tried to continue his racing career, but he was no longer competitive enough.

After his retirement, he built a highway restaurant and tried his hand at racing as a racing instructor. He died of a heart attack in 1963.

statistics

Grand Prix victories

Indy 500 results

year Start number begin Agony (km / h) Result Round guide failure
1948 67 DNQ
91 28 206.653 7th 200 0
1949 6th 20th 207.442 23 55 19th transmission
1950 8th 23 213.106 6th 136 0
1951 99 2 217,290 1 200 159
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WD withdrawn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 : Lee Wallard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Race results
  2. ↑ Lee Wallard in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 7, 2015.
  3. ↑ About Lee Wallard
personal data
SURNAME Wallard, Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wallard, Leland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Schenectady , New York , USA
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1963
Place of death Saint Petersburg , Florida , USA