Jimmy Davies (August 18, 1929 Glendale, California – June 11, 1966 Chicago, Illinois) was an American racecar driver in Champ cars and midgets. He was the second man to win three USAC National Midget Championships. When Davies won the 100-mile (160 km) AAA Championship race at Del Mar, California on November 6, 1949 - aged 20 years, 2 months, 29 days, he became the youngest driver to win a race in a major U.S. open wheel series, a record not broken until Marco Andretti won the IRL race at Sonoma, California in 2006. Davies raced AAA on a false birth certificate showing him older, (as did Troy Ruttman and Jim Rathmann), and was racing illegally.
Read more about Jimmy Davies: Midget Car Career, Career Award, Indy 500 Results, Complete Formula One World Championship Results
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