Bert Dingley
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Champ Car career | |||||||
| 17 races run over 5 years | |||||||
| First race | 1909 Portland Race #1 (Portland) | ||||||
| Last race | 1914 Montamarathon Trophy (Tacoma) | ||||||
| First win | 1909 Wemme Cup (Portland) | ||||||
| Last win | 1911 Panama-Pacific Race (Portola) | ||||||
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Albert Francis Dingley (August 21, 1885 – April 7, 1966) was an American
racing driver.[1]
Racing career
Having started his career on the West Coast by 1904, Dingley appeared in a couple of Vanderbilt Cup races and sustained serious injuries at Tacoma in 1914.[2]
1909 AAA national championship
Dingley was selected as the 1909 "driver of the year" by American automotive journal Motor Age. He gained recognition as the
negationist sportswriter Russ Catlin, who selected "winners" of retroactively awarded 1902 through 1908 championships, Dingley was stripped of the 1909 revisionist championship, which was instead given to George Robertson.[3]
Death
Dingley died in a nursing home in Beech Grove, Indiana on April 7, 1966, aged 80.[4]
Motorsports career results
Indianapolis 500 results
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References
- ^ "Bert Dingley". ChampCarStats.com. Archived from the original on 2021-08-19.
- ^ "Bert Dingley". Vanderbilt Cup Races. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06.
- autosport.com/8w.
- ^ "Auto racing star Bert Dingley dies". The Indianapolis Star. April 8, 1966. Archived from the original on 2023-05-16.
- ^ "Bert Dingley Indianapolis 500 stats". IndianapolisMotorSpeedway.com. Archived from the original on 2016-05-29.