Biography
Pat Flaherty, whose full name was George Francis Flaherty, was born in Glendale, California, on 6 January 1926. He began racing track roadsters in 1946 and moved to the Midwest in 1948 to compete in Andy Granatelli's Hurricane Hot Rod Association. In the AAA and USAC Championship Car series he made 19 starts between 1950 and 1963, winning at Milwaukee in 1955 and 1956.
The Indianapolis 500 counted towards the Formula One World Drivers' Championship from 1950 to 1960. Flaherty started it six times: in 1950 and from 1953 to 1955 in Kurtis Kraft cars, and in 1956 and 1959 in a Watson. He won the race in 1956 and finished fifth in the championship standings. It remained his only podium, and he also took pole position once.
Less than three months after that victory he had a crash in his race car and was therefore unable to start the 1957 Indianapolis 500. After his racing career he raced pigeons and built a portable go-kart track, where he took on all comers. He died in Oxnard, California, on 9 April 2002, and was inducted into the Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 2006.
Source: Wikipedia, “Pat Flaherty (racing driver)”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rates
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1956: wins 1 · podiums 1 · starts 1
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Where the most wins and podiums came.Statistics: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk and contributors, licence CC BY 4.0, prepared by Hotlap Delta.