1. Warren Wilbur Shaw was an American racing driver.
10 Facts About Wilbur Shaw
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Wilbur Shaw eventually won the Indianapolis 500 race three times, in 1937,1939, and 1940.
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Wilbur Shaw was the second person to win the 500 three times, and the first to win it twice in a row.
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Wilbur Shaw sent out letters to the major car manufacturers trying to find a backer to buy the speedway.
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Hulman poured money into improvements, and Wilbur Shaw delivered the world's greatest automobile race to enthusiastic crowds, which grew in number by the year.
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The Indianapolis "500" of the late Forties and early Fifties was a very special event through the work of Hulman and Shaw, although Hulman was always sure to point out that it was Wilbur putting it all together.
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Wilbur Shaw was killed in an airplane crash near Decatur, Indiana, on October 30,1954, one day before his fifty-second birthday.
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Wilbur Shaw was the automotive test evaluator for Popular Science magazine.
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Wilbur Shaw's highly regarded autobiography, "Gentlemen, Start your Engines," was published in 1955, and covers events through 1953.
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Wilbur Shaw has been inducted into the following halls of fame:.