Myron Stevens Explained

Myron Stevens
Birth Name:	Myron George Stevens
Birth Date:	17 February 1901
Birth Place:	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Death Place:	Sun City West, Arizona, U.S.
Module1:	Embed: yes Total Champ Races: 2 Years In Champ: 3 Best Champ Pos: 9th (tie) (1929) First Champ Race: 1929 Altoona 200 #2 (Altoona) Last Champ Race: 1931 Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis) Champ Wins: 0 Champ Podiums: 1 Champ Poles: 0

Myron George Stevens (February 17, 1901 – July 2, 1988) was an American racing driver and constructor.

Career

Stevens started working for Harry A. Miller in 1922, building bodies, frames and fuel tanks for Miller race cars. In 1927, Frank Lockhart, the winner of the 1926 Indianapolis 500, hired Stevens to help create the body for Lockhart's Stutz Black Hawk land speed record car.^[1]

After Lockhart was killed in that car while attempting a land speed record in 1928, Stevens established his own shop and continued building racecar bodies.^[2] In 1930, the second through sixth-place finishers at the Indianapolis 500 all had Stevens chassis. He built cars for Indianapolis stars such as Louis Meyer, Wilbur Shaw, Peter DePaolo, Chet Gardner, Rex Mays and others. In 1955, one of his cars took pole position at Indianapolis.^[3]

Awards and honors

• He was inducted in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1993.
• Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame inducted Stevens into its ranks in 1993.

Motorsports career results

Indianapolis 500 results^[4]

Year	Car	Start	Qual	Rank	Finish	Laps	Led	Retired
1931	21	35	107.463	21	4	200	0	Running
Totals						200	0

Starts	1
Poles	0
Front Row	0
Wins	0
Top 5	1
Top 10	1
Retired	0

World Drivers' Championship Indianapolis 500 results as a car builder

The Indianapolis 500 was a round of the World Drivers' Championship from to . During that period, Stevens cars' achieved the following results:

Season	Driver	Grid	Classification	Points	Note	Race Report
	Duane Carter	13	12			Report
	Bill Mackey	33	19			Report
	Bill Schindler	15	14			Report
	Bobby Ball	17	32		Gearbox	Report
	Ernie McCoy	20	8			Report
	Andy Linden	5	33		Accident	Report
	Cal Niday	13	10			Report
	Ed Elisian	31	18			Report
	Jerry Hoyt	1	31		Oil leak	Report
	Cliff Griffith	30	10			Report

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hall of Fame Inductees National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum. www.sprintcarhof.com. 2020-04-27.
2. Web site: Stevens. Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum. en-US. 2020-04-27.
3. Web site: Hall of Fame Inductees National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum. www.sprintcarhof.com. 2020-04-27.
4. Web site: Driver Stats. IndianapolisMotorSpeedway.com. 2016-07-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20190801092746/https://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/events/indy500/history/historical-stats/driver-stats/drivers/myron-stevens. 2019-08-01. dead.