Biography
Jim McWithey was born on 4 July 1927 in Grammer, Indiana. He competed in the USAC Championship Car series in 1956, 1957, 1959 and 1960, making 20 starts in total. He finished in the top ten nine times, with a third place at Trenton in 1960 as his best result. In 1959 he took three fourth places and won sprint car races on dirt tracks at Terre Haute and Williams Grove.
In the Formula One World Championship McWithey started two races, both of them the Indianapolis 500. That race counted towards the drivers' championship from 1950 to 1960, so he is counted among Formula One drivers. He drove a Kurtis Kraft in 1959 and an Epperly in 1960. McWithey died on 1 February 2009 in Gainesville, Georgia, aged 81.
Source: Wikipedia, “Jim McWithey”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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