The Chief Mechanic on 7 Indianapolis winners and with 6 National Big Car Championships the only thing missing from the record is how George Bignotti achieved such goals.
     George started his racing career as a midget owner who would on occasion drive the car himself and wound up as one of the sport’s greatest mechanics.    

He honed his mechanical skills with such drivers as Fred Agabashian, Marvin Burke, Johnny Boyd, Earl Motter and Bob Sweikert. Agabashian, in the Bignotti V8-60 won the BCRA Championship in 1947 and '48 and Johnny Boyd took the 1951 title after Freddie left the midgets.
     In the “golden” days of midget racing Bignotti brought something extra to the track. That ability was translated into a Championship (Indy) career that named Bignotti as racing’s number one mechanic. In 1963 George showed that ability with an A.J. Watson roadster and A.J. Foyt behind the wheel. There were eight new Watson Roadsters built in 1963. Only two ever scored a victory, yet in 1964 George Bignotti took the year old chassis and won five of seven pavement races on the “Championship Trail” including the Indianapolis 500.
     The old adage that midget racing builds Champions applies to mechanics as well as drivers and has earned George Bignotti a place in The National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame.