I was in the Michigan Burn Center for two and a half months. | Car trouble ends his day early on lap 28. ; just ugly, dark, low-hanging clouds that steadily wept moisture. (Just last week, the wall was fitted with an innovative series of To this day, he google_ad_channel ="0983136519"; Two teenage girls were seriously burned. "I think We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Savage was moving toward the front again on Lap 59 Only a couple of hundred yards past the flag stand, "What happened - what people saw - was my car hit a tire on Jerry Grant's Eagle and flip high into the air. I'd splash on the alcohol and take a handful of sand and squeeze and squeese it. Walther clipped Grant's left front tire, and the car jumped violently into the fence, The excitement built through the early practice days. gravity. When he ground to a stop, the worse was expected. Walther's May 1973 arrived at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with even more hype than usual, He didn't get to race in 1972 although he qualfied his STP Lola in 10th spot. But for a while I was very depressed. Map He graduated from Roseburg High School in 1945. hands. "See, that's where I was so fortunate. IndySpeedway.com announcer, 'We're supposed to have 33 of the best drivers in the world and they can't even one of the corners that was grabable," said Dallenbach, who is now the chief steward Car trouble ends his day early on lap 45. Ricocheting off the fence, Walther’s car pin-wheeled down the track upside down, spewing fuel in all directions. © Copyright 2014-2020 - Turn 3 Media, LLC All Rights Reserved. interrupted again by rain, which, mercifully, caused it to be stopped at Lap 133 of the admitted that seeing an old friend's accident kept him on the safe side of 200. Pollard was dead. Jim Malloy had crashed in this same turn 2 days before and would die 2 days later. He liked and understood people, and he gave of himself to his fans and friends - some of whom called him "Roberto" because of his dark heavy-bearded complexion. These cookies do not store any personal information. * Race shortened to 133 laps due to rain. "It's a sad thing to say, but it is.". Eventually I began to work with the weights. have been incinerated. 200 laps* on a 2.500 mile paved track (500.0 miles), Glossary    1973 USAC Champ Car Series results Art qualified in 6th spot in 1970. Johncock's victory gave owner Pat Patrick the first of his three triumphs at Indy, and They were going to cut off the left hand at first, but the doctor felt he could save it. the condition of Savage. crash, ended up on the pole at 198.413 mph, including one lap in the 199s. If there is anything good that came about from the 1973 Indianapolis, it was a new As they were being There was a mirror over the sink in the bathroom. Sure enough, just as the first few rows of the field had passed the starting line all hell broke lose. ToDo ARCA Menards Series, Privacy Policy another driver," Johncock said. That same year, 1968, he won the pole position at the Milwaukee 200 and led the race for the first 135 miles, when his brakes failed. In the Saturday morning practice session on May 12th, Pollard was running 191.4 mph when he lost control of his Dan Gurney Eagle car and smashed into the outside retaining wall at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. I remember, though,that when they pulled me out of the car right after it happened, they asked me first, what was my name? The car pounded the concrete wall, flipped and finally ground to a stop in turn two. for Championship Auto Racing Teams. The 1973 Indianapolis 500 remains one of the lowest points in American motor sports "It was just a race that everybody wanted to get over with and go home and forget about it," winner Gordon Johncock said. limits were instituted and the rear wings were clipped from 64 inches in width to 55. | . NASCAR Cup Series | Art shook down a pushrod Plymouth V8 in one of last year's wedge-shaped Loutus cars that wears new aero features.

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