The second man to win three USAC National Midget
Championships, Davies raced both the Championship cars and
midgets. He competed in four Indianapolis 500 events, placing
third in 1955.
In 1960 Jim won the USAC Pacific Coast Midget title as
well as the National Midget Championship. He repeated for the
National Midget crown in 1961 and
1962 and during
his career won 46 feature events in the small cars.
Davies won the
“Night Before the 500” midget race three times, twice at
Kokomo in 1960 and ’61 and repeated for his third time the
next year at the Indianapolis Speedrome.
He also traveled to Australia in 1961 and 1962 to
compete against Bob Tattersall and the “boys down under.”
His midget also became famous when it was stolen and
then recovered a year later when a driver was killed in the
car at Sacramento. Davies was able to recognize the car in the
newspaper photos of the wreck.
Jimmy Davies died on June 11, 1966 from injuries
suffered in a midget crash at Santa Fe Speedway in Chicago on
June 3rd.
