Al Gordon | |||||||
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Born | Edgar Alan Gordon March 27, 1902 San Francisco, California, U.S. | ||||||
Died | January 26, 1936 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 33)||||||
Championship titles | |||||||
AAA West Coast Big Car (1933) | |||||||
Champ Car career | |||||||
9 races run over 3 years | |||||||
Best finish | 11th ( 1932) | ||||||
First race | 1932 Indianapolis 500 ( Indianapolis) | ||||||
Last race | 1935 Indianapolis 500 ( Indianapolis) | ||||||
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Edgar Alan Gordon (March 27, 1902 – January 26, 1936) was an American racing driver. [1]
A postman from Redlands, California [2] who also became a Long Beach night club owner among other things, [1] Gordon took up racing in 1925. [2]
Gordon made nine starts in the AAA-sanctioned national championship from 1932 to 1935 and entered two non-points paying races after that, scoring a win at Oakland Speedway in January 1936. He drove in the Indianapolis 500 in 1932, 1934, and 1935, but never finished the race, having qualified second in 1935. [3] A regular at Legion Ascot Speedway, Gordon won the AAA Pacific Coast championship in 1933. [2] [4]
While competing in another AAA non-championship race in January 1936, [3] both Gordon and his riding mechanic, Spider Matlock, were fatally injured in a crash at Ascot, [5] [6] which ended racing at the Los Angeles track. [7]
Gordon was inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1999. [2]
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Al Gordon | |||||||
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Born | Edgar Alan Gordon March 27, 1902 San Francisco, California, U.S. | ||||||
Died | January 26, 1936 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 33)||||||
Championship titles | |||||||
AAA West Coast Big Car (1933) | |||||||
Champ Car career | |||||||
9 races run over 3 years | |||||||
Best finish | 11th ( 1932) | ||||||
First race | 1932 Indianapolis 500 ( Indianapolis) | ||||||
Last race | 1935 Indianapolis 500 ( Indianapolis) | ||||||
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Edgar Alan Gordon (March 27, 1902 – January 26, 1936) was an American racing driver. [1]
A postman from Redlands, California [2] who also became a Long Beach night club owner among other things, [1] Gordon took up racing in 1925. [2]
Gordon made nine starts in the AAA-sanctioned national championship from 1932 to 1935 and entered two non-points paying races after that, scoring a win at Oakland Speedway in January 1936. He drove in the Indianapolis 500 in 1932, 1934, and 1935, but never finished the race, having qualified second in 1935. [3] A regular at Legion Ascot Speedway, Gordon won the AAA Pacific Coast championship in 1933. [2] [4]
While competing in another AAA non-championship race in January 1936, [3] both Gordon and his riding mechanic, Spider Matlock, were fatally injured in a crash at Ascot, [5] [6] which ended racing at the Los Angeles track. [7]
Gordon was inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1999. [2]
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