Mack Hellings
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 United States
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| First start: | Indianapolis 500 1950 | ||||||||
| Last start: | Indianapolis 500 1951 | ||||||||
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| 1950 Charles Pritchard 1951 CG Tuaffanelli & J. Derrico | |||||||||
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Mack Hellings (born September 14, 1917 in Fort Dodge , Iowa , USA ; † November 11, 1951 in Kern County , California , USA) was an American racing car driver .
Career
Mack Hellings competed in 21 races in the AAA National Series between 1948 and 1951 . His greatest successes were two second places in June 1948 on the Milwaukee and Langhorne routes .
He competed four times in the Indianapolis 500 . A fifth place in a Kurtis Kraft KK2000 Offenhauser in 1948 was his best result. In 1949 a broken valve on the engine meant that he could only place in 16th place. At his third start in 1950 , he reached 13th place on a Kurtis Kraft 2000-Offenhauser, six laps behind the winner Johnnie Parsons . 1951 , this time on a Deidt -Offenhauser, he retired on the 18th lap with a piston damage (place 31). Since the race from 1950 to 1960 was classified as a Formula 1 world championship race , Hellings also had two Grand Prix starts.
He died in a plane crash in November 1951.
statistics
Indy 500 results
| year | Start number | begin | Agony (km / h) | Result | Round | guide | failure |
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| 1948 | 58 | DNQ | |||||
| 35 | 21st | 205.913 | 5 | 200 | 0 | ||
| 1949 | 8th | 14th | 206,396 | 16 | 172 | 0 | engine |
| 1950 | 15th | 26th | 210.290 | 13 | 132 | 0 | |
| 1951 | 19th | 23 | 199.412 | 31 | 18th | 0 | engine |
| 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| WD | withdrawn | |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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hellings, Mack |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fort Dodge |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1951 |
| Place of death | Kern County |