Mauri Rose

Mauri Rose

Nation:	United States
Automobile world championship
First start:	Indianapolis 500 1950
Last start:	Indianapolis 500 1951
Constructors
1950 and 1951  Howard Keck Co.
statistics
World Cup balance:	Twelfth World Cup ( 1950 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 2 - - -
World Cup points :	4th
Podiums :	1
Leadership laps :	15 over 60.345 km

Maurice "Mauri" Rose (born May 26, 1906 in Columbus , Georgia , † January 1, 1981 in Royal Oak , Michigan ) was an American racing driver .

Career

Mauri Rose started his career between 1932 and 1951 in 36 races of the AAA National Series, of which he won six. In 1936 he won the title of the series.

Between 1933 and 1951 he competed 15 times in the Indianapolis 500 and won the race three times. This makes him one of the most successful participants in this race. In 1941 he had to share the victory with Floyd Davis after he had retired with his original car after 60 laps with an engine failure. After that, he took the car from Davis and drove it to victory.

In 1947 he succeeded in victory, u. a. because his teammate, Bill Holland , who was lying in front of him, assumed that Rose was one lap behind and let him pass. In 1948 he won for the third time - again before Holland. In 1950 he was able to place third. After the race of 1951 , in which he was eliminated due to an accident, he retired from racing. Since the Indy 500 was part of the drivers' world championship from 1950 to 1960 , Rose also had two Grand Prix starts and four world championship points.

After his career worked as an engineer with General Motors and developed a. a. a device with which amputees could drive cars again.

statistics

Indy 500 results

year	Start number	begin	Agony (km / h)	Result	Round	guide	failure
1932	36	DNQ
1933	3	42	189,306	35	48		engine
1934	9	4th	186.732	2	200	68
1935	2	10	187,424	20th	103		engine
1936	36	30th	183.272	4th	200
1937	1	8th	190.755	18th	123		Oil pipe
	42			17 3	12		drove the car from Miller Rd. 159-170; cooling
1938	27	9	192.766	13	165		compressor
1939	16	8th	200.973	8th	200
1940	7th	3	202.148	3	200	5
1941	3	1	207.088	26th	60	6th	engine
	16			1 2	129	39	drove Davis Wagon Rd. 72-200
1946	8th	9	199.637	23	40	8th	accident
1947	27	3	193.748	1	200	47
1948	3	3	207.780	1	200	81
1949	3	10	205.575	13	192		ignition
1950	31	3	212.913	3	137	15th
1951	16	5	214.699	14th	126		Lathe operator

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

literature

• Rick Popely, L. Spencer Riggs: Indianapolis 500 Chronicle. Publications International Ltd., Lincolnwood IL 1998, ISBN 0-7853-2798-3 .

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