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 | | He began racing in 1936, winning an AAA Midget championship, was the Bay Cities Racing Association champion in 1947, ’48 and ’49, and also won the 1948 Aztec Championship, a special 15-race series between BCRA and Mexican drivers. |
 | | After forming his own team racing Brabham cars, he won the world crown a third time in 1966 and the manufacturer’s title as well, to become the first to win both honors in a single year. |
 | | Although he was a successful race driver during the first years of the century, he helped boost the sport even more by his reliance upon racing to boost development and sales programs of the Ford Motor Co., including fielding a team of Ford cars in the 1935 Indianapolis 500. |
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