| 词条 | Billy Winn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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|name = Billy Winn |nationality = American |birth_name = James Murdock Winn |birth_date = {{Birth date|1909|08|27}} |birth_place = Weston, Missouri, U.S. |death_date = {{Death date and age|1938|08|20|1909|08|27}} |death_place = Springfield, Illinois, U.S. |death_cause = Injuries from racing accident }} Billy Winn (27 August 1909 – 20 August 1938) was an American racecar driver. Primarily a sprint car driver, Winn competed in four Indianapolis 500 races (1931, 1932, 1936, and 1937) and drove as a relief driver in 1933, 1934, 1935, and 1938. He also drove his single-gear sprint car in the 1936 and 1937 Vanderbilt Cup races, running near the front of both races but being sidelined by mechanical failure both years. Winn was killed in a non-points paying AAA Champ Car event held at the Illinois State Fairgrounds on August 20, 1938 when tire failure caused Winn's Miller to overturn on the fourth lap of the 100-mile race.[1] AwardWinn was inducted in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 2003.[2] Indianapolis 500 results{{col-begin|width=auto}}{{col-break}}
References1. ^{{cite news|title=Winn, auto race driver, dies of crash injuries|url=|newspaper=Chicago Sunday Tribune|date=August 21, 1938}} 2. ^https://www.sprintcarhof.com/helper_pages/FileGet.aspx?id=49 External links
11 : 1909 births|1938 deaths|People from Weston, Missouri|Sportspeople from Kansas City, Missouri|Racing drivers from Missouri|Indianapolis 500 drivers|AAA Championship Car drivers|20th-century American racing drivers|Racing drivers killed while racing|Sports deaths in Illinois|National Sprint Car Hall of Fame inductees |
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