Trivia number two...

[A Horse With No Name]

Trivia number two...I am thinking about a race car driver...

Race car driver was an SCCA member...and the first race they ran was in a Ford Pinto...which was promptly sunk into an on course lake during the drivers first ever race.

Driver towed the P{into home and actually used the oven to dry out the windshield wiper motor and a bunch of other parts...and then drove it to work the Monday after it was totally submerged.

This driver was most noted for racing Mustangs....but also ran at the Indy 500. Driver qualified well, and won an award...but never won the race.

Driver set a track record at Talledega in a NASCAR prep Thunderbird that to this day the Monte Carlo has never beaten....

Driver won at the 24 hours of Daytona...and the 12 hours of Sebring...and drove at (but never won) LeMans.

A few more hints...driver is from my home state of Ohio.

This driver had a wreck that ended their competition career at Indy...and it was a historic, never to be repeated accident. And the source of the other hint that (if you are lucky or smart) will help you figure out this puzzle. The other driver in the Indy wreck was also from my home state of Ohio...

Name the Driver, tell why the Monte Carlo never beat the record set at Talledega, and tell me what is unique and never to be repeated about the career ending Indy wreck.

Good luck!

[SAmadei]

Driver set a track record at Talledega in a NASCAR prep Thunderbird that to this day the Monte Carlo has never beaten....

Driver won at the 24 hours of Daytona...and the 12 hours of Sebring...and drove at (but never won) LeMans.

A few more hints...driver is from my home state of Ohio.

This driver had a wreck that ended their competition career at Indy...and it was a historic, never to be repeated accident. And the source of the other hint that (if you are lucky or smart) will help you figure out this puzzle. The other driver in the Indy wreck was also from my home state of Ohio...

Name the Driver, tell why the Monte Carlo never beat the record set at Talledega, and tell me what is unique and never to be repeated about the career ending Indy wreck.

Good luck!

To my knowledge, Bill Elliott holds the record at Talledega in a NASCAR prepped T-bird. Nobody, MC or not, has beat it since due to the restrictor plates. However, to my knowledge, Bill Elliott didn't do the other things... for example, Bill is from Georgia, not Ohio.

OTOH, I want to answer Bobby Rahal, as I know he's from Ohio and matches your description closer. I can't answer the bit about Indy, as Rahal's Indy career is not something I'm steeped with.

Edit: Rahal can't be the answer... I didn't realize you specified that his DIDN'T win the Indy 500. I know of no other Ohio drivers.

Edited October 11, 2011 by SAmadei

[A Horse With No Name]

Another huge hint...the mother of one of the drivers is a personal friend of my thirteen year old son Daniel....Geography might help....

Oh, and this is not the Bill Elliot record....that record could still be broken. Next hint....the Chevy Monte Carlo will NEVER break this record....nor will any other car....for one very big and obvious reason....

[SAmadei]

Another huge hint...the mother of one of the drivers is a personal friend of my thirteen year old son Daniel....Geography might help....

Oh, and this is not the Bill Elliot record....that record could still be broken. Next hint....the Chevy Monte Carlo will NEVER break this record....nor will any other car....for one very big and obvious reason....

I know who you are talking about now, but I had to Google the bejesus out of it, so I'll withhold the info, giving someone else a shot at it... but I still came back to the same roadblock that eliminated the driver in the first place... that record at Talladega appears to have been broken twice. I can't find anything that makes it particularly unique that it cannot be broken again. Same with the Indy wreck... I see what makes it unique, but not so unique it cannot happen again.

[Robert Hall]

I'm embarrased I don't know the answer, being from Ohio and an Indy racing fan. I'm drawing a blank, but I do remember the Talledega record.. will have to do some googling.

[Robert Hall]

Ah...I'm surprised..didn't know that particular driver was from Ohio. Cool.

Ah...I'm surprised..didn't know that particular driver was from Ohio. Cool.

[A Horse With No Name]

Another huge hint...the mother of one of the drivers is a personal friend of my thirteen year old son Daniel....Geography might help....

Oh, and this is not the Bill Elliot record....that record could still be broken. Next hint....the Chevy Monte Carlo will NEVER break this record....nor will any other car....for one very big and obvious reason....

I know who you are talking about now, but I had to Google the bejesus out of it, so I'll withhold the info, giving someone else a shot at it... but I still came back to the same roadblock that eliminated the driver in the first place... that record at Talladega appears to have been broken twice. I can't find anything that makes it particularly unique that it cannot be broken again. Same with the Indy wreck... I see what makes it unique, but not so unique it cannot happen again.

It can happen again and will happen again in terms of the Indy accident, but the Taledega record is unique as it is a first...and the Indy accident is a "first also..."

Another hint...driver was rookie of the year....at Indy....and the oldest rookie of the year ever....