Roy Schechter

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With a Consolidated B-24 , Roy Schechter flew 52 sorties in World War II

Roy Schechter , also Roy Schecter (born June 27, 1921 in New York City , † April 2, 2016 ) was an American aviator and racing car driver .

Aviator in World War 2

Roy Schechter studied medicine at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville after compulsory schooling in the early 1940s . Shortly after it began, his studies were interrupted in 1942 when the United States entered World War II.

Schechter volunteered for the United States Army Air Forces and served as a pilot in the theater of war in Europe. He flew Consolidated B-24 on missions over the German Nazi state and during Operation Tidal Wave . He also flew Lockheed P-38 and Republic P-47 over the Mediterranean . He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal .

Racing career

After the war ended, Schechter moved to Florida and worked for his wife's company. Her family owned cinemas in Miami and Nassau in the Bahamas . He came into contact with motorsport through a cousin and contested his first car race in a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL in Boca Raton in 1957 . When Bob Holbert , he acquired a Porsche 550 and began irregular in SCCA National Sports Car Championship . His greatest success came in 1960 . Together with Holbert and Howard Fowler , he drove a Brumos Porsche 718 at the 12-hour race in Sebring, taking second place overall.

statistics

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1960 United StatesUnited States Brumos Porsche Car Corp. Porsche 718 RS 60 United StatesUnited States Bob Holbert United StatesUnited States Howard Fowler Rank 2

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season team race car 1 2 3 4th 5
1960 Brumo's Porsche Porsche 718 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM
2

literature

  • Ken Breslauer: Sebring. The official History of America's Great Sports Car Race. David Bull, Cambridge MA 1995, ISBN 0-9649722-0-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography Roy Schechter In: loveforporsche.com , accessed on July 30, 2020.
  2. ↑ Boca Raton sports car race 1957
personal data
SURNAME Schechter, Roy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schecter, Roy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American aviator and racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 2nd April 2016