Lenard Sutton

Lenard Sutton

Nation:	United States
Automobile world championship
First start:	Indianapolis 500 1958
Last start:	Indianapolis 500 1960
Constructors
1958 Jim Robbins 1959 Wolcott Memorial Racing 1960 Peter Salemi & Nick Rini
statistics
World Cup balance:	-
Starts Victories Poles SR 3 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Lenard "Len" Sutton (born August 9, 1925 in Aims , Oregon , † December 4, 2006 in Portland , Oregon) was an American automobile racing driver .

Career

Sutton started 75 times in the AAA and USAC series between 1955 and 1965 . Also from 1958 to 1962, 1964 and 1965 at the Indianapolis 500 races. The three Indy 500 races in 1958, 1959 and 1960 were included in Formula 1 in order to do justice to their status as world championships . Thus the name Lenard Sutton also appears in the Formula 1 statistics in these years, although he was eliminated early in each of these races. He finished 43 races in the top ten in his career and won three times. He celebrated his greatest success when he finished second in Indianapolis in 1962, behind Rodger Ward .

Lenard Sutton died on December 4, 2006 at the age of 81 in Portland (Oregon) after a long history of cancer .

statistics

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th
1954	Ronald Ferguson	Lincoln Capri	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
								DNF

Web links

Commons : Lenard Sutton  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• "Lenard Sutton died," f1total.com
• Formula 1 overview
• Biography ( Memento from February 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)