Floyd Roberts (February 12, 1900 - May 30, 1939) is a former Championship Car racing driver from Jamestown, North Dakota. He won the Indianapolis 500 in 1938 with a record speed of 117.2 mph (188.6 km/h). He led for 92 laps. The following year, 1939, driving the same car, he was killed in a crash on the backstretch after hitting a wooden fence at near 100 mph (160 km/h). Roberts was the first former winner and defending champion of the race to have lost his life while competing. Indy 500 results
Starts(5);Poles(1);Front Row(2);Wins(1);Top 5(2);Top 10(2): In five starts at Indy this great driver had major control, until 1939 when Floyd Roberts lost his life because of an accident on the back straight a way of the Indy 500 during the 1939 five hundred mile race. I used to study and read about Floyd Roberts in the Thorntown, Indiana Library. When I was much younger and reading about racing, the Floyd Roberts story hit me hard. I started to talk to so many former drivers and the Indy old timers club and everyone said the Floyd Roberts was such a great man. I knew he would make a great guardian angel for the main character in my fiction novel. The thought of a driver that has passed away from and accident on a race track to come back as an guardian angel to a young driver. That thought came to me after a wonderful driver lost his life after hitting the second turn of the Indy 500 during practicing for the race. I was so sad over the loss of this driver. I started to study the drivers that have lost their life in racing over the years. The Lord in this story helps the dreams of young man to be a great race car driver, by supplying a great group of guardian angels to help Bobby Wright in his quest of driving in the Indianapolis 500 mile race.
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