Biography
Johnny Mantz was born in Hebron in the United States in 1918. He made 17 starts in the AAA Championship Car series between 1948 and 1952 and won at the Milwaukee Mile in his first season. At the Indianapolis 500 he finished 13th in 1948 and seventh in 1949.
His only Formula One World Championship race was the 1953 Indianapolis 500, which counted towards the drivers' championship from 1950 to 1960. Mantz took over Walt Faulkner's Kurtis Kraft there and scored no championship points.
In stock car racing, he won the first Southern 500 at Darlington in 1950, NASCAR's first 500-mile race, and in 1956 he became the first USAC Stock Car national champion. He died in 1972 in a car accident near Ojai, California.
Source: Wikipedia, “Johnny Mantz”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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