Bennett Hill
John Bennett Hill (May 31, 1893 in New York City, New York – December 9, 1977 in Los Angeles, California) was an American racecar driver active in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1922, he won a 100-mile race in Berkeley.[1] He made 66 AAA Championship Car starts, capturing 5 wins and 7 poles. He was particularly a specialist at board track racing where all his wins and poles came. He was credited with 3rd place in the 1923 and 1924 national championships and 4th place in 1926. He started eight times in the Indianapolis 500 and started 5th in 1924 driving a Miller.
Hill at Beverly Hills Speedway in 1920
Indy 500 Results
|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
gollark: I mean, comparatively fast.
gollark: I also have code for bundled cable networking. *That* was fast.
gollark: It worked great, because Terra didn't actually say stuff I particularly cared about receiving quickly.
gollark: On the TC6.1 test server.
gollark: Redstonet was slow enough. We used it for communication between the TSS Explorer and GSS It's Technically A Starship Okay.
References
- "BENNETT HILL WINS RACE AT BERKELEY". Motor World Wholesale. New York: Chilton Company. November 3, 1922. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
Sources
Rick Popely with L. Spencer Riggs, Indianapolis 500 Chronicle
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.