Joe Nikrent
Joseph August Nikrent (4 August 1879 in Detroit, Michigan – 25 July 1958 in Los Angeles, California) was an American racecar driver. He competed in four AAA Championship Car races from 1909 to 1913, winning the 1909 point-to-point race between Phoenix, Arizona and Los Angeles behind the wheel of a Buick. He drove in the 1913 Indianapolis 500 behind the wheel of a Case but burned a bearing on the 67th lap and failed to finish. He returned to Indy in 1915 but failed to qualify.[1] He later made land speed record attempts.[2]
Joe Nikrent in 1911
Indy 500 results
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gollark: Which is ~~somewhat over~~ 140MiB/s, sad.
gollark: So apparently compression of my 735MiB of bee neuron data took 5.14 seconds.
gollark: Oh yes, those are on some dubious-quality 4TB hard disk.
gollark: NVMe, even; it can do a few gigabytes per second.
gollark: My laptop has a fairly fast SSD.
References
- Joe Nikrent, Champ Car Stats, Retrieved 2010-06-14
- Jenkins, Richard. Joe Nikrent, Old Racing Cars, Retrieved 2010-06-14
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