Danny Sullivan earned 17 wins in the CART Indy Car World Series, including the 1985 Indianapolis 500.
29 Facts About Danny Sullivan
Danny Sullivan competed in the 1983 Formula One season with Tyrrell, scoring 2 championship points.
Danny Sullivan was born in Louisville, Kentucky to a building contractor father.
Danny Sullivan attended the Kentucky Military Institute and then the Jim Russell Racing School.
Danny Sullivan had several odd jobs before his racing career, including lumberjack, and most famously, New York City cab driver.
Danny Sullivan was given a 21st birthday present of a course at the Jim Russell Racing Drivers School at the Snetterton circuit in England.
Danny Sullivan competed in Formula Ford, Formula Three and Formula Two before returning to race in the United States.
Danny Sullivan competed in the fifteen races of the 1983 season, scoring two points with a fifth place at the Monaco Grand Prix and finishing seventeenth in the World Drivers' Championship.
Danny Sullivan performed strongly in the non-championship Race of Champions held at the Brands Hatch circuit in April, seeing off an early race challenge from 1980 World Champion Alan Jones, before finishing second behind reigning World Champion Keke Rosberg, finishing only half-a-second behind the Williams after 40 laps of racing.
For 1984, Danny Sullivan returned to North America, where he competed in the CART PPG Indy Car series.
Danny Sullivan first landed at Shierson Racing, winning three races including the Pocono 500, and placing 4th in points.
Danny Sullivan would set the pace at Indy again in 1988, qualifying second and leading 91 of the first 101 laps.
Danny Sullivan was part of the all-Penske front row with teammates Rick Mears and Al Unser Sr.
Danny Sullivan finished the season with five top-5 finishes over the final five races, including two wins.
At the second-to-last race of the season at Laguna Seca, Danny Sullivan won the pole position, led the most laps, and won the race.
Danny Sullivan won two races in 1990, including the season finale at Laguna Seca.
Danny Sullivan won the pole and led wire-to-wire in his final start for Roger Penske.
In 1991, Danny Sullivan switched to the Patrick Racing Alfa Romeo team.
Danny Sullivan won two more CART races between 1992 and 1993, driving for Galles-Kraco Racing.
Danny Sullivan scored the first win for the Galmer chassis at Long Beach.
In 1986, Danny Sullivan was a guest star on the television show Miami Vice playing a race car driver accused of murdering a prostitute.
Danny Sullivan had limited dialogue in the episode; his longest piece of dialogue was in a police station interrogation scene.
In 1994, Danny Sullivan took a sabbatical from Indy car racing.
Danny Sullivan attempted to run selected events in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series that season.
Danny Sullivan returned to CART racing for one final year in 1995.
Danny Sullivan's season ended early after a serious crash at Michigan International Speedway.
Danny Sullivan was instrumental in the Red Bull Driver Search program to find an American driver to compete in Formula One.
Danny Sullivan was the drivers' representative on the stewards' panel for the 2010 German Grand Prix, 2010 Singapore Grand Prix, 2012 Hungarian Grand Prix, 2013 Australian Grand Prix, 2014 Spanish Grand Prix, 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, 2018 Bahrain Grand Prix, 2018 Chinese Grand Prix, and 2018 Monaco Grand Prix.
Danny Sullivan was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2012, and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame in 2022.