Lee Wallard
Race car driver, Athlete
1910 – 1963
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Who was Lee Wallard?
Lee Wallard was an American race car driver. In the 1951 Indianapolis 500 Wallard drove the Number 99 Belanger Special to victory, at age 40. Tony Bettenhausen had passed up the car, because he wanted to drive a newer front-wheel drive vehicle. A week after winning the Indianapolis 500, Wallard was injured during an auto race in Reading, PA. He suffered from severe burns when his race car caught fire in the home stretch of that race. He required 27 skin grafts.
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- Born
- Sep 7, 1910
Schenectady - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Nov 29, 1963
St. Petersburg
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on July 23, 2013
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