[Armando Moreno Teran was a 22 y/o from Culver City Ca. He died in Indianapolis, Indiana in a practice run during the first day of time trials for the 1973 Indianapolis 500. Walther touched wheels with Jerry Grant's car in the sixth row and was launched into the catch fence near the starting line. The pride of Roseburg and Medford, Oregon had driven his last lap. After a while, I told my friend that I had to get back home to watch the time trials. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. clean this time, with Bobby Unser getting a jump on Rutherford, who missed a gear change. It was a needed and welcome improvement. Fast forward 36 years. All photos uploaded successfully, click on the Done button to see the photos in the gallery. And third, what happened? Jackson Pollock died in a car crash in the summer of 1956 at age 44. Kunzman took over Pollard's car for the remainder of the 1973 season. Then they had two big fellas, two great big fellas, come in and lift me up and hold me up in the air and let me try and move my legs. Pollard was born in Dragon, Utah, but spent much of his youth in and around Los Angeles. You can always change this later in your Account settings. respectfully declines requests to talk about the race. On race day, Monday, May 28, the massive crowd included 23 U.S. prisoners of war recently released by Hanoi. He finished in the top ten 30 times, with two victories, at Milwaukee and Dover, both in 1969. builder who was credited with discovering Savage. His racing career started in Roseburg racing hydroplanes on the Umpqua River, and micro-midgets at the fairgrounds. Art's dad was born in Anderson, Texas. I actually had an opportunity to meet him once in Lexington. Bob Green remembers that windy Saturday morning, too; cant forget it really. Art Pollard. He died of natural causes last year, at the age of 85. admitted that seeing an old friend's accident kept him on the safe side of 200. while injuring a dozen spectators. Pollard dominated racing on the super modified circuit on the West Coast in the late '50s and early '60s. Art L. Pollard. Email to Arts brother, Robert Bob Pollard. Art was born May 5, 1927 in Dragon, Utah. During pole qualifying earlier that month, driver Art Pollard was killed in a horrific crash when his car topped 191 mph, then struck the outside wall, burst into flames, spun into the infield. In 1937 Pollock began psychiatric treatment for alcoholism, and he suffered a nervous breakdown in 1938, which caused him to be institutionalized for about four months. The car was demolished. Year should not be greater than current year. google_page_url = document.location; Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. A TV news report, that included interviews with friends and daughter, Judy Dippell. Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. Pollard died in Indianapolis, Indiana, as a result of injuries sustained in a crash during practice on the first day of time trials for the 1973 Indianapolis 500. Art L. Pollard, 61, of Commerce City, passed away October 2, 2019 in Brighton CO surrounded by his family. "I thought, my goodness, we're never going to recover from this," said the speedway's Carnegie. Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? This browser does not support getting your location. A native of Portland, Oregon, Bob Kehoe is a freelance automotive journalist and photographer who wrote his first car column for his high school newspaper. "It's probably the lowest point in my life," said Patrick, who continues as a Walther, 25, suffered a crushed kneecap and severe burns over most of his body. Just didn't go that way.". cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. When it snapped, Art lost a wheel, spun around and slammed into the third turn concrete." Article, "Hospital Room Looks Like a Greenhouse," Robin Miller, The Indianapolis Star, 1972 In time trials, with a car with the new air wing design, and running in high winds, the car went out of control and flipped several times at speeds over 190 miles an hour. Art is shown holding his three year old daughter Judy. | This biographical article related to United States auto racing is a stub. //-->. Art Pollard was crowned Champion (shown above) and awarded a 9 2 trophy after compiling 1,150 out of a possible 1,200 points over the two days. He turned away from the flatbed truck he was working on when the radio news mentioned his fathers name. That's 500 pounds of high explosive. ", Meanwhile in the pits, Teran, an STP crewman, headed toward the accident scene. Photo courtesy of Mike Pollard. One driver, when he saw me, made a claw of his hand and with that warped fist, waved and said, "Hi, how are you?" Raw speed ruled. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? His father, LeRoy Pollock, was. BARBARA POLLARD OBITUARY. And that soon became a tradition, and he was the first one to do that. On the track, he won 83 championship events and became one of Southern Oregons biggest stars in Indianapolis. 1954 Art competes in Bob and Ollies Micro-Midget at the Roseburg Fairgrounds in Oregon. It wasnt big money, but enough to do what we needed to, Judy Dippell said. Last Updated: Jan 24, 2023 Article History Table of Contents Jackson Pollock See all media Born: January 28, 1912 Cody Wyoming Died: August 11, 1956 (aged 44) East Hampton New York Notable Works: "Mural" Movement / Style: Abstract Expressionism Action painting automatism modern art Notable Family Members: spouse Lee Krasner Johncock, who led 64 laps, was declared the winner while sitting in the pits. "By Wednesday, when we showed up at the race track, the place stunk," he said. . Johncock left the track quickly. He was a people magnet, and I feel privileged that he was my dad, for that reason. Pollard died Wednesday of cardiac arrest at a Los Angeles hospital, his longtime. Who Painted the Most Expensive Paintings in the World? Current IndyCars generate 670 horsepower. Born in Dragon, Utah, Pollard died in Indianapolis, Indiana, as a result of injuries sustained in practice for the 1973 Indianapolis 500. Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. He always made time for the people he knew and for the fans, Judy Pollard enjoying Arts race car in their Medford driveway in 1967. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. Place of Birth - Dragon, Utah which became a ghost town shortly after his birth.. Siblings - A sister, Christine, 3 years older and a brother Robert, 3 years younger (shown in a 1930 photo).. He never looked back. Approximately one hour after the accident, Art Pollard was pronounced dead. 1961 Art Pollard won the 1961 Western States Race of Champions with the 34 Willys racer with a longer chassis and some added body work and a new fuel tank which increased the weight to 2050 pounds. All during practice he was saying that this might be his best year. Jackson Pollock is best known for his action paintings and Abstract Expressionist works. If you wait too long, you bog down.. The chassis dug into the grass and flipped upside-down, slid a short distance and then flipped back over as it reached the pavement again in turn two, finally coming to a stop in the middle of the track. Add to your scrapbook. google_color_text = "000000"; A popular super-modified champion in the Western States in the 1960s to ultimately the Championship Car Series achieving the pinnacle of racing at the famed Brickyard in Indiana. The death drew notice, but the loss of one more driver wasn't all that unexpected. Actually, it isnt the turbine, but the four-wheel drive and the engineering and the chassis. Racing Accident Of Art Pollard Matthew Cipolla 3.25K subscribers Subscribe 7.6K views 1 year ago INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY He died in Indianapolis, Indiana as a result of injuries sustained in. catching its nose and twirling like a propeller a half-dozen times while also overturning. "Well, you were running 150 mph, you're not running 250. Hell, we'd take him on hunting trips, fishing trips, everywhere. He was found unconscious, and was rushed to Methodist Hospital in the new Cardiac ambulance. "In that crash forty percent of my body was burned. The start was The car was demolished. From his years with Benton through 1938, Pollocks work was strongly influenced by the compositional methods and regionalist subject matter of his teacher and by the poetically expressionist vision of the American painter Albert Pinkham Ryder. Drag images here or select from your computer for Art Lee Pollard Jr. memorial. We were listening to the radio broadcast of the activity at Indy when they announced that Art had crashed and later passed away in the hospital. June 8, 1969 The STP team showed up at Milwaukee with Greg Weld in the #57 STP Gerhardt Offy and it was a good thing. Parts of my kneecap were smashed. have been incinerated. (Jackson dropped his first name, Paul, about the time he went to New York in 1930.) Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. "He was kind of cheering me on and was happy I was in a car, because we were To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. You never saw him when he wasnt smiling, Mike said. From the time I was a little girl, I never thought it would happen to him. Judy is an author, speaker and publishing consultant. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. ToDo This painting represents Pollocks breakthrough into a totally personal style in which Bentons compositional methods and energetic linear invention are fused with the Surrealist free association of motifs and unconscious imagery. get down the bloody straightaway.' Of course, he got along with everyone real well.. Oops, something didn't work. A lot of fans - and drivers too - said that Walther blew it. ", "To me, it was a horrible year," recalled Andy Granatelli. Teran and Vince Granatelli were the same height and build. It was too late for too many. | | And I looked in it. The first part of May, 1968, Granatelli signed Art Pollard to replace Jackie Stewart. By the mid-60s, car owners were trying to talk Pollard into driving their cars at Indianapolis. It came out in the papers that i said that maybe I didn't get bumped. Ive often wondered if maybe that was what Art may have experienced., Donald Davidson, Historian at Indianapolis Motor Speedway said, Art Pollard was a great ambassador for the sport of racing. During a subsequent practice lap, a wheel came off in the NE corner and he crashed, breaking his leg. The following year, while driving one of the celebrated STP-Turbo cars, he qualified 11th and was running fourth with just a few laps to go when a fuel pump drive shaft broke and forced him from the competition. Richards writes for The Indianapolis Star, a Gannett property. Share this memorial using social media sites or email. Recent studies by art historians and scientists . google_ad_width = 728; English At Milwaukee, on August 22, 1965 - Art Pollard made his USAC Champ Car debut, driving a rear-engine Rolla Vollstedt designed car owned by Jim Robbins. "He came off the wall and almost landed on the front of my car," said Lee Kunzman, whose first Indy start carried him only a few hundred yards. The racing thing interested me also.. In 1943, after the liquidation of the Federal Art Project, Pollock was given a contract by Peggy Guggenheim at her Art of This Century gallery in New York, and his first one-man show was held there in November. interrupted again by rain, which, mercifully, caused it to be stopped at Lap 133 of the If I can find it, I will attach a shot of it in another e-mail. Grandfather on the Pollard Side - Andrew Jackson Pollard . He is also one of the first American painters to be recognized during his lifetime and after as a peer of 20th-century European masters of modern art. Driver Art Pollard was killed in an accident during a practice Driver Swede Savage and mechanic Armando Teran also died A crowd estimated at 250,000 swarmed Indianapolis Motor Speedway's. Savage was moving toward the front again on Lap 59 In the fifties he soon built a reputation as a tough competitor. These spiritual explorations prepared him to embrace the theories of the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and the exploration of unconscious imagery in his paintings in subsequent years. In 1973, that figure was in excess of 1,000. car owner in Champ car. Over the course of time, speeds have continued to increase but safety measures have google_color_url = "0033FF"; It was pole day for the Indianapolis 500, a sunny Saturday bright with the promise of speed. Krasner, whom Pollock respected as an artist, had already proven her ability to handle his affairs with Guggenheim. Minutes later, Pollard's car smacked the outside wall in Turn 1, spun, flipped and slid to a stop in Turn 2, engulfed in flames. preparations four times. The chassis dug into the grass and flipped upside-down, slid a short distance and then flipped back over as it reached the pavement again in turn two, finally coming to a stop in the middle of the track. And I think it was a tribute to him and the fact that he cared. He went to the hospital with Patrick to visit Savage. He was unconscious until his death an hour later at Methodist Hospital of flame inhalation. Mike lives in Reno, Nev., and works at a jewelry shop. Verify and try again. overturned, flaming car came to rest right in front of Dallenbach, who helped firefighters Bring He was 46. 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