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The following is a list of 74 individuals whose deaths have been related to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, located in Speedway, Indiana: 42 drivers, 1 motorcyclist, 13 riding mechanics, and 18 others including a pit crew member, track personnel, and spectators have sustained fatal injuries or have had fatal medical conditions.
Race Driver Frank Galvin lost control of his racer, smashed through the guard rail and slammed into the press stand, injuring several of its occupants and crushing to death Hughie Hughes, who had crashed out of the race himself and was standing by the press box. Gaston Weigle, Galvin's mechanician, was also killed.
This is a category for racing drivers who were killed while driving a racing car, either in competition or during testing.It includes drivers who were killed immediately, as well as those who were not killed immediately but succumbed to their injuries some time later.
This is a list alphabetically sorted, and structured after the kind of competition, of the more notable driver deaths, excluding those of motorcycle riders. In addition, several racing drivers have been killed in public road crashes; see List of people who died in road accidents.
At the 1964 Indianapolis 500 on May 30, 1964, Sachs and sports car driver Dave MacDonald, an Indianapolis 500 rookie, were killed in a fiery crash involving seven cars on the second lap. [5] MacDonald was driving a car owned and designed by Mickey Thompson, the #83 "Sears-Allstate Special". [6]
Parnelli Jones, a hard-bitten, hard-charging race driver who came out of Torrance and won the controversial Indianapolis 500 in 1963, then was the hard-luck loser four years later, died Tuesday at ...
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Scott Everts Brayton (February 20, 1959 – May 17, 1996) was an American race car driver on the American open-wheel circuit. He competed in 14 Indianapolis 500s , beginning with the 1981 event. Brayton was killed in practice after qualifying in pole position for the 1996 race .