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Don Branson

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Nationality
  
American

Active years
  
1959–1960

Teams
  

Years active
  
1956-1966

Name
  
Don Branson

Team(s)
  
Leader Card

Role
  
Race car driver

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Born
  
June 2, 1920Rantoul, Illinois (
1920-06-02
)

Died
  
November 12, 1966, Gardena, California, United States

1959, 1964
  
USAC Sprint Car Series

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Donald L. Branson (June 2, 1920 – November 12, 1966) was an American racecar driver.

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Career

Born in Rantoul, Illinois, Branson drove in the USAC Championship Car series and also in sprint cars, racing champ cars in the 1956–1966 seasons with 128 starts, including the 1959–1966 Indianapolis 500 races. He finished in the top ten 85 times, with 7 victories.

Branson was also the 1959 and 1964 USAC Sprint Car Series Champion.

He was killed in 1966 in a crash at a sprint car race at Ascot Park in Gardena, California, along with fellow driver Dick Atkins. 1966 was to be his last year of competition, and the fatal wreck occurred with only a few races left in the season for the USAC series.

Awards

He was inducted in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1994 and the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 2012.

Complete Formula One World Championship results

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References

Don Branson Wikipedia