Biography
Bobby Ball was born in Phoenix in 1925. He began racing with the Arizona Roadster Association before switching to midgets. He won the Arizona State Midget Association championship in both 1949 and 1950.
From 1950 to 1960 the Indianapolis 500 counted towards the Formula One drivers' world championship. Ball took part in just two world championship races, and both were this event. In 1951 he finished fifth in a Schroeder, and he was 17th in the championship standings. In 1952 he finished 32nd in a Stevens. He won an AAA Championship race at San Jose in November 1952. He died in February 1954 after an accident in Los Angeles in January 1953. From autumn 1954 the Bobby Ball Memorial, a race in his memory, was held in Phoenix.
Source: Wikipedia, “Bobby Ball (racing driver)”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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