Bert Dingley Explained
| Bert Dingley |
| Birth Name: | Albert Francis Dingley |
| Birth Date: | 21 August 1885 |
| Birth Place: | Oakdale, California, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Beech Grove, Indiana, U.S. |
| Module1: | | Embed: | yes | | Total Champ Races: | 17 | | Years In Champ: | 5 | | First Champ Race: | 1909 Portland Race #1 (Portland) | | Last Champ Race: | 1914 Montamarathon Trophy (Tacoma) | | First Champ Win: | 1909 Wemme Cup (Portland) | | Last Champ Win: | 1911 Panama-Pacific Race (Portola) | | Champ Wins: | 3 | | Champ Podiums: | 10 | | Champ Poles: | 0 |
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Albert Francis Dingley (August 21, 1885 – April 7, 1966) was an American racing driver.[1]
Racing career
Having started his career on the West Coast by 1904, Dingley appeared in a couple of Vanderbilt Cup races and sustained serious injuries at Tacoma in 1914.[2]
1909 AAA national championship
Dingley was selected as the 1909 "driver of the year" by American automotive journal Motor Age. He gained recognition as the 1909 national champion by the AAA Contest Board when championship results were retrospectively calculated in 1927. However, when results were being revisited in 1951 by negationist sportswriter Russ Catlin, who selected "winners" of retroactively awarded 1902 through 1908 championships, Dingley was stripped of the 1909 revisionist championship, which was instead given to George Robertson.[3]
Death
Dingley died in a nursing home in Beech Grove, Indiana on April 7, 1966, aged 80.[4]
Motorsports career results
Indianapolis 500 results
| Year | Car | Start | Qual | Rank | Finish | Laps | Led | Retired |
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| 1912 | 12 | 10 | 80.770 | 14 | 13 | 116 | 0 | Rod |
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| Totals | 116 | 0 | | |
| Starts | 1 |
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| Poles | 0 |
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| Front Row | 0 |
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| Wins | 0 |
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| Top 5 | 0 |
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| Top 10 | 0 |
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| Retired | 1 | |
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[5] Notes and References
- Web site: Bert Dingley. ChampCarStats.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20210819203610/http://www.champcarstats.com/drivers/DingleyBert.htm. 2021-08-19. live.
- Web site: Bert Dingley. Vanderbilt Cup Races. https://web.archive.org/web/20160306051704/http://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/drivers/bio/dingley. 2016-03-06. live.
- Capps. Don. March 29, 2010. Case history: John Glenn Printz and the struggle for the past. Rear View Mirror. 7. 6. https://web.archive.org/web/20211010202108/http://forix.autosport.com/8w/rvm/rvm-vol07-no06.pdf. 2021-10-10. live. Forix.autosport.com/8w.
- News: Auto racing star Bert Dingley dies. The Indianapolis Star. April 8, 1966. https://web.archive.org/web/20230516024225/https://www.newspapers.com/article/75224269/. 2023-05-16. live.
- Web site: Bert Dingley Indianapolis 500 stats. IndianapolisMotorSpeedway.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20160529172007/https://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/events/indy500/history/historical-stats/driver-stats/drivers/bert-dingley. 2016-05-29. dead.
