Dave Steele

Racing career

Sprint Cars, Midgets, and Silver Crown Championships Steele won three Tampa Bay Area Racing Association (TBARA) championships.

Steele claimed sixty wins in USAC sprint car (26), midget (eighteen), and Silver Crown (sixteen) races between 1996 and 2007.

Race Wins Steele won the 2001 and 2003 Turkey Night Grand Prix midget car race. Other notable Turkey Night winners include A. J. Foyt, Tony Stewart, and Billy Boat.

Steele was also a two-time winner of the Little 500,

Steele drove in the first two races of the 2000 NASCAR Busch Series for Felix Sabates. After finishes of 23rd and 34th, he failed to qualify for the next three races and Steele and the team parted ways.

Steele also competed in four ARCA Racing Series races in 1999 and 2000 and two Infiniti Pro Series races (one each in 2002 and 2003). In 2002, Steele raced for Bowes Seal Fast Racing at Michigan finishing eighth in the Infiniti Pro Series.

Death

Steele was killed in a racing accident during a Southern Sprintcar Shootout Series race at Desoto Speedway in Bradenton, Florida, on March 25, 2017. His car's front wheel struck and overrode the rear wheel of another car during the event, sending him into the wall; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Honors The Carb Night Classic at Lucas Oil Raceway, starting in 2018, is now known as the Dave Steele Classic. He was elected to the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame on the first ballot in 2018 under the six month rule. He was elected to the United States Auto Club Hall of Fame in 2019.

Motorsports career results

American open–wheel racing results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Indy Racing League Indy Racing League results Year Team Chassis No. Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Rank Pts Ref 1996-97 ABF Motorsports Lola 96 Buick NHA LVS WDW PHX INDY TXS PPIR CLT NHA2 LSV2 NC 0 1998 RSM Marko Riley & Scott 22 Oldsmobile WDW PHX INDY TXS NHA DOV CLT PPIR ATL 36th 17 Panther Racing 43 TXS LVS 1999 G-Force WDW PHX INDY TXS PPIR ATL DOV PPIR LVS TXS NC 0

Indianapolis 500 Year Chassis Engine Start Finish Team Ref 1999 G-Force Oldsmobile DNQ Panther Racing 2000 DAY CAR LVS ATL DAR BRI TEX NSV TAL CAL RCH NHA CLT DOV SBO MYB GLN MLW NZH PPR GTY IRP MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV CLT CAR MEM PHO HOM 88th 155

ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.) ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Pts Ref 1999 Team SABCO 01 Chevy DAY ATL SLM AND CLT MCH POC TOL SBS BLN POC KIL FRS FLM ISF WIN DSF SLM CLT TAL 68th 355 02 ATL 2000 01 DAY SLM AND CLT KIL FRS MCH POC TOL KEN BLN POC WIN ISF KEN DSF SLM CLT TAL ATL 98th 175