Don White (racing driver)
| Don White | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Born | June 24, 1926 |
| Died | April 29, 2016 (aged 89) |
| Retired | 1983 |
| Years active | 1959 to 1983 |
| Wins | 53 |
| Best finish | 1st in 1963, 1967 |
| Previous series | |
| 1949 to 1958 | IMCA |
| Championship titles | |
| 1963 and 1967 champion 1954, 1955, and 1958 IMCA champion |
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| Awards | |
| 2013 | USAC Hall of Fame |
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| Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career | |||||||
| 24 races run over 9 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 79th (1955) | ||||||
| First race | 1954 (Daytona Beach) | ||||||
| Last race | 1972 Miller High Life 500 (Ontario) | ||||||
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Don White (June 24, 1926 – April 29, 2016) was an American from Keokuk, Iowa. He won two championships in the 1960s and was the series' winningest driver. White also had 24 starts in the NASCAR Grand National / Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup Series) between 1954 and 1972 with 12 Top Ten and 7 Top Five finishes. At his death in 2016, he was the oldest living winner in ARCA history. He also won three IMCA championships: 1954, 1955 and 1958.
White started his first national race in 1949. This IMCA race happened at Cedar Rapids, Iowa; he was second place before retiring because of mechanical problems. White won IMCA championships in 1954, 1955, and 1958. By the time that he ended IMCA racing in 1958, he had won at every track on the circuit. White's biggest competitor in IMCA was his brother-in-law Ernie Derr.
He moved to the series in 1959. His national racing career ended at a USAC Stock Car race at Milwaukee on August 28, 1983.
White won the most races USAC Stock Car history. He had 53 wins and A.J. Foyt was second with 41. In a mid-2015 interview on ARCA's website, he said "I think I liked Milwaukee as well as any place. Won 14 or 15 there, so I'd say that was my favorite. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel cited in his obituary that he was the winningest driver in major races at the track.
White died on April 29, 2016 at age 89.A.J. Foyt reacted to his death by saying, "Don White was a good racer, real fair because he never did anything dirty, and real smooth. He always had beautiful equipment and his cars handled real well. He was a super guy."
White was named to the USAC Hall of Fame in 2013.
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