Danny sullivan of louisville, ky, sits on his championship race car. Cart founded the first fulltime driver safety team that. A year ago, i lost my california drivers license and discovered the nightmare world of getting it replaced. Daniel john sullivan iii born march 9, 1950, better known as danny sullivan, is an american former racing driver. Paul newman raced cars before nascar turned car racing into a lowbrow.
The best and most comprehensive book about driving racing cars, including. Photos and pictures danny sullivan with julie nini 1992. States that danny sullivan and galles racing international have resolved the dispute over their separation prior to the 1994 season. Danny boy looking good to auto racing, now that hes up to. With film star looks and easy charm, danny sullivan was one of the leading champ car stars during the late 1980s and early 1990s. By larry edsall special to the christian science monitor indianapolis the day before this years indianapolis 500, danny sullivan was one of the race car drivers riding in the 500 festival parade. He has performed two tours of duty each with patrick racing and with newmanhaas and has planned race strategy for many of the sports most outstanding drivers, including tom sneva, bobby unser, rick mears, al unser, nigel mansell, gordon johncock, emerson fittipaldi, and danny sullivan. Danny sullivan joined penske racing in 1985 and started with a bang. He was founder and organiser of historic grand prix series which ran a few years back. The win, labeled spin and win, is seen on highlight reels everywhere.
Race car driver and model knows a thing or beauty when she sees it. Reports on the career plans of automobile racing driver danny sullivan for 1999. Sullivan won the 1988 cart championship, and placed third in points in 1986. Even more than his win at indianapolis or the cart championship he won with us in 1988, he changed the way people look at race car drivers and racing as a. Andretti retired after last years indy 500 still at the top of his form, typically. She has been married for 18 years and has two teenage children. Penske scouts race drivers the way notre dame does football players and when he signed danny sullivan, the racing establishment realized they had underestimated danny. Unlike the other penske drivers of the mid1980s, sullivan was eager to. A chaste affair keeps a marriage alive chicago tribune. He changed the way people look at race car drivers and racing as a whole. Using a loan from his father to buy his first dealership, penske had to. He earned 17 wins in the cart indy car world series, including the 1985 indianapolis 500. Bobby browns racing experience has spanned over 30 years of highspeed exhilarating competition and continues today.
Danny sullivan bio, fact age,net worth,married,wife. Falkner agreed to enroll sullivan in a race car drivers school if he agreed. His passion began at an early age with gokarts in flint, michigan and grew with him resulting in a racing career spanning multiple professional racing series and classes. Talented mclaren driver james hunt was one of the most complicated, charismatic and.
Indy car racing indy cars drag racing danny sullivan mario. Driver is making a go of things but lacks the proper backing to move up in the sport. Danny sullivan celebrity profile check out the latest danny sullivan photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. Among autoracing drivers, 34yearold danny sullivan is not a household name yet. Chip ganassi drove in five indianapolis 500 races 198286 and scored three indy car podium finishes including runnerup to danny sullivan at the cleveland road course in 1984 prior to creating a multifaceted, openwheel racing team. Led balloon reusable imagine that your birthday or wedding is illuminated in.
Which brings us to the 1984 ppg indycar circus, two events down, 14 to go, which is inyourface racing of the meanest kind. Falkner, once an amateur driver and international racing official, made a deal. Brickyard vintage racing invitational the pedigree of the brickyard vintage racing invitational june 2021 at the indianapolis motor speedway is elite, for both machines and drivers. Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty images. Chip ganassi racing has become one of the most successful teams in the history of the sport. Danny sullivans spin and win indy 500 made him unequaled. See more ideas about indy cars, indy car racing and race cars. Team penske brings nascar, indycar stars together under. Penske fob a license plate like the one mears got after winning indy. See more ideas about racing, porsche and race cars. He won one of the most memorable 500s in history in 1985.
California dmv struggling to issue drivers licenses. Danny sullivan was born in louisville, kentucky in march 1950. See popularity across the us and find out what else bing knows. Foyt tapped fellow indy 500 winners al unser and danny sullivan. Motorsports dan sullivan returns to tv by tony sakkis. A year ago, i lost my california driver s license and discovered the nightmare world of getting it replaced. A graduate of the kentucky military institute with the hollywood tag, an image he never liked, danny sullivan is the son of a building contractor from louisville, kentucky. He was the son of a louisville building contractor but his racing roots were embedded in european road racing. Indy 500 winner danny sullivan to host new show on siriusxm.
Mastering the art of race driving carl lopez, danny sullivan on. Even more than his win at indianapolis or the cart championship he won with us in 1988, he changed the way people look at race car drivers and racing as a whole. When the drives in europe dried up he returned home, thinking his motor racing days were done. Race car driver danny sullivan and model christie brinkley attend the were no angels new york city premiere on december, 1989 at loews 19th street theater in new york city. Danny sullivan started at 21, which wasnt a super late start for a driver in 1971. If you know anything about car racing, you know the name danny sullivan. Marz 1950 in louisville ist ein ehemaliger us amerikanischer automobilrennfahrer. Lives in colorado, and during his career he raced in formula ford, formula b and formula atlantic amongst others. Team penske brings nascar, indycar stars together under one roof charlotte observer. Spin and win danny sullivan wins 1985 indianapolis 500 youtube. Cheever then set up his own team and had his first race as a driver owner at new hampshire later that august, which was the first race of the next season. Guests including actress lynda carter, tennis champions martina navratilova, billie jean king and pam shriver and racecar driver danny sullivan watched from white garden chairs.
After that danny and his marchcosworth car were so strong that not only did. Before starting a career as a professional car racer, danny worked as a lumberjack, janitor and car driver and even as a waiter too in different places. He would treat sullivan to an eightday course at the jim russell school of driving in england if danny agreed to return to college should the russell faculty decide he had no aptitude for racing. This popular american who celebrates the big 50 this millennial year, started out as many other fellow european and latin american drivers. Danny sullivan racing career profile driver database. Still racing, very competitively too, in historics around the world, in which he has been one of the leading lights of the genre. Danny has gifted a course at the jim russell racing drivers school in england when he was 21 years old. He stands as one of the icons of the racing world, having dominated in countless races in a variety of types of racing series around the world. But danny sullivan, born and raised in louisville, kentucky, had his first race in a formula ford at silverstone, and worked his way through f3 and f2 without ever racing in the us. Miami vice and auto racing would seem to be a marriage made in heaven or at least hollywood, but not so here. Now 25 years since his indy 500 win, danny sullivan is still going. Here are the top 5 most significant toronto indy races. Race car driver danny sullivan and model christie brinkley.
Derek daly, a former formula one and indy car driver himself, asked buddies dan gurney, danny sullivan, gil deferran, jimmy vasser, stefan johansson, scott. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Cheever ran for team menard for the threerace series, and at the 1996 indianapolis 500, he set the fastest race lap to date at 236. By his own admission, a dispirited danny sullivan became an exracing driver for a spell following his move back to kentucky from the uk with his girlfriend in tow. History records that after pitting for new tires, sullivan went on to pass andretti. Indy winner sullivan joins united autosports for daytona classic 24. If you know the answer to this question, please register to join our limited beta program and start the. They have a comfortable marriage and lead an uneventful life.
But she learned never to say never when she married the son of george hamilton and alana stewart in front of both sets of parents. Danny sullivan led the last 61 laps of the 1985 indianapolis 500 en route. Led balloon reusable led balloon reusable imagine that your birthday or wedding is illuminated in. Driving, and finding opportunities to drive, was his full time occupation from that point. Danny sullivan timeline featuring movies and other. Imagecollect is the webs largest subscriptionbased celebrity photo library. Andrettis car and popped above the white line and into the racing. Kentucky colonels 943 south first street louisville, ky 40203. More than 300 of the worlds most exceptional vintage race cars will compete in 12 different sportscar vintage racing association svra classes on the 14turn. Talented mclaren driver james hunt was one of the most complicated. I have a ton of respect for al, not just as a race car driver but as a person. Rick ravon mears born december 3, 1951, known by the nickname rocket rick, is a retired american race car driver.
Auto racing may never see another mainstream superstar like danny sullivan became after his 1985 indy 500 spin and win. Find everything in one place on danny sullivan including their biography, latest news and. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Saddled with a paint by numbers plot and a wooden performance from guest star danny sullivan a real life driver who shouldve stuck. Danny sullivan indy racing fan apparel and souvenirs for.
He is one of three men to win the indianapolis 500 four times 1979, 1984, 1988, 1991 and is the current recordholder for pole positions in the race with six 1979, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991. After 50 years, penske is the gold standard sfgate. But since late november of last year, the situation apparently has gotten much worse. As a racer, sullivan s greatest success came in 1988, when he claimed nine poles, won four races and the cart series championship for penske. Indy 500 paralleled upanddown life of winner danny sullivan. Many racing stars, including mario andretti, bobby rahal, and danny sullivan found success in cart, which by the mid1980s moved into sanctioning street races, taking over the detroit grand prix and the grand prix of long beach from formula one, and expanding to toronto and cleveland. Once nicknamed hollywood, the exrace car driver is back on the other side of a camera lens, and seems to be. Profile for racing driver danny sullivan from united states.
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