Myron Stevens
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| Born | Myron George Stevens Script error: No such module "person date". Los Angeles, California, U.S. | ||||||
| Died | Script error: No such module "person date". Sun City West, Arizona, U.S. | ||||||
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| 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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Myron George Stevens (February 17, 1901 – July 2, 1988) was an American racing driver and constructor.
Career
Stevens 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
- Stevens 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
Indianapolis 500 results
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World Drivers' Championship Indianapolis 500 results as a car builder
The 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
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hall of Fame Inductees | National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum". www.sprintcarhof.com. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Stevens". Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hall of Fame Inductees | National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum". www.sprintcarhof.com. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Driver Stats". IndianapolisMotorSpeedway.com. Archived from the original on 2019-08-01. Retrieved 2016-07-30.
