Myron George Stevens (February 17, 1901 – July 2, 1988) was an American racing driver and constructor.
| Myron Stevens | |||||||
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| Born | Myron George Stevens February 17, 1901 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | ||||||
| Died | July 2, 1988 (aged 87) Sun City West, Arizona, U.S. | ||||||
| Champ Car career | |||||||
| 2 races run over 3 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 9th (tie) (1929) | ||||||
| First race | 1929 Altoona 200 #2 (Altoona) | ||||||
| Last race | 1931 Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis) | ||||||
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Career
editStevens started working for Harry A. Miller in 1922, building bodies, frames and fuel tanks for Miller race cars. In 1927, Frank Lockhart, the winner of the 1926 Indianapolis 500, hired Stevens to help create the body for Lockhart's Stutz Black Hawk land speed record car.[1]
After Lockhart was killed in that car while attempting a land speed record in 1928, Stevens established his own shop and continued building racecar bodies.[2] In 1930, the second through sixth-place finishers at the Indianapolis 500 all had Stevens chassis. He built cars for Indianapolis stars such as Louis Meyer, Wilbur Shaw, Peter DePaolo, Chet Gardner, Rex Mays and others. In 1955, one of his cars took pole position at Indianapolis.[3]
Awards and honors
edit- He was inducted in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1993.
- Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame inducted Stevens into its ranks in 1993.
Motorsports career results
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World Drivers' Championship Indianapolis 500 results as a car builder
editThe Indianapolis 500 was a round of the World Drivers' Championship from 1950 to 1960. During that period, Stevens cars' achieved the following results:
| Season | Driver | Grid | Classification | Points | Note | Race Report |
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| 1950 | Duane Carter | 13 | 12 | Report | ||
| 1951 | Bill Mackey | 33 | 19 | Report | ||
| 1952 | Bill Schindler | 15 | 14 | Report | ||
| 1952 | Bobby Ball | 17 | 32 | Gearbox | Report | |
| 1953 | Ernie McCoy | 20 | 8 | Report | ||
| 1953 | Andy Linden | 5 | 33 | Accident | Report | |
| 1954 | Cal Niday | 13 | 10 | Report | ||
| 1954 | Ed Elisian | 31 | 18 | Report | ||
| 1955 | Jerry Hoyt | 1 | 31 | Oil leak | Report | |
| 1956 | Cliff Griffith | 30 | 10 | Report |
References
edit- ^ "Hall of Fame Inductees | National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum". www.sprintcarhof.com. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
- ^ "Stevens". Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
- ^ "Hall of Fame Inductees | National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum". www.sprintcarhof.com. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
- ^ "Driver Stats". IndianapolisMotorSpeedway.com. Archived from the original on 2019-08-01. Retrieved 2016-07-30.