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Walt Brown (racing driver)

Walter Charles Brown (December 30, 1910 – July 29, 1951) was an American racing driver.[1][2] An Indy car specialist, his career in the big cars began in 1941, and he recorded one win, in 1948 at Langhorne Speedway.

World Drivers' Championship career

The AAA/USAC-sanctioned Indianapolis 500 was included in the FIA World Drivers' Championship from 1950 through 1960. Drivers competing at Indianapolis during those years were credited with World Drivers' Championship participation, and were eligible to score WDC points alongside those which they may have scored towards the AAA/USAC National Championship.

Brown participated in two World Drivers' Championship races at Indianapolis. His best finish was 19th place,[1] and he scored no World Drivers' Championship points.

Death

Brown died in a low speed accident at Williams Grove Speedway on 29 July 1951,[3] the day widely known as "Black Sunday" because two other drivers also died (in consecutive qualifying runs at Funk's Speedway in Winchester, Indiana) on the same day.[4]

Motorsports career results

Indianapolis 500 results

AAA Championship Car results

FIA World Drivers' Championship results

(key)

References

  1. ^ a b "Walt Brown". www.champcarstats.com. Retrieved 2023-06-10.
  2. ^ "Motorsport Memorial - Walt Brown". Motorsport Memorial. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Walt Brown killed at Williams Grove". Pottstown Mercury. Associated Press. July 30, 1951. Archived from the original on July 31, 2018.
  4. ^ "Three Indianapolis race drivers killed". Reading Eagle. July 30, 1951.
  5. ^ "1946 AAA National Championship Trail". www.champcarstats.com. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
  6. ^ Capps, H. Donald (October 2009). "The Curious Case of the 1946 Season: An Inconvenient Championship" (PDF). Rear View Mirror. 7 (2): 1–16.

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