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Encyclopedia > Floyd Roberts

Floyd Roberts won the Indianapolis 500 in 1938 with a record speed of 117.2 mph. He led for 92 laps. The following year, 1939, driving the same car, he was killed in a crash on the backstretch. The Indianapolis 500 is an American race for open-wheel automobiles held annually over the Memorial Day weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. ...


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Floyd Roberts may live in a house in the middle of town.
Here, in what is now a county park, Floyd remembers swimming in warm springs and trudging a mile or so to the old Tanque Verde school.
But in the fall of '42, Floyd gave up the cowboy way, going to work for Southern Pacific, a job he would retire from in 1978 as a locomotive engineer.
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