Bob Tattersall’s
entry into the Hall of Fame added an international flavor to
the list. The 1969 USAC National Midget Champion also raced in
Australia and New Zealand for thirteen winters, winning over
fifty percent of the races he competed in, as well as the
World Championship at the Sydney Showgrounds on seven
different occasions. He also drove sprint and championship
cars and passed his rookie
test at the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1966.
Bob started his
career in stock cars and switched to midgets in 1950. He won
the UARA Midget Championship twice and consistently beat the
Offies with Frank Pavese’s famous Ford 60 V-8. In 1955 he won
a heat race at Terre Haute with the car against the top AAA
drivers.
He began racing with USAC on a full time basis in 1960 and in
eleven years of competition was never lower than 8th in the
point standings. During many of those years, he got off to a
late start due to his schedule in Australia.
At the time of his death from cancer on October 27, 1971, he
had recorded 63 USAC feature wins.
