Malcolm Fox

13/3/1906 - 21/8/1968

Record updated 13-Mar-23

Raced at Indy twice. Was involved in the fatal accident of Les Spangler in 1933.

Malcolm Fox
Malcolm Fox was born in Westville, New Jersey. He was an American racecar driver who raced at Indy on two occasions. His day job was working as a bus driver in Westville. A respectable mid-field runner, he began his career racing locally in New Jersey before getting a shot to race on a semi-professionally basis.

In 1931 he drove a Duesenberg but had no results



In 1932 he finished 3rd at the Reading Fairgrounds in April driving a Fox Frontenac and qualified for the Indy 500 at the end of May with the William Richards entered Studebaker at an average speed of 111.149. The day was marred by a second fatality in the past three days of qualification. In the race, he started on the 11th row, he had a spin in Turn 2 but managed to avoid contact with the wall and other competitors. He would later drop out of the running with a broken spring.

He drove in the Eastern AAA Circuit Championship, taking a win driving a Miller at the Little Valley Speedway on 26th August. In October came 5th also in a Fox Frontenac and scored another 5th in November at the Virginia State Fairgrounds, Richmond, driving a Drake-Winfield



Then in the 1933 Indy 500, his Universal Service Garage Studebaker lost a wheel on lap 121 and was stranded on the racing line. Les Spangler was unable to avoid hitting him. Both Spangler and his riding mechanic riding mechanic, G. L. Jordan died shortly after the accident.

After being involved in that crash his heart went out of racing and driving in general. In September 1934 he won at Rhinebeck Fairgrounds driving a Lynch Ambler and decided he had had enough and retired.

After racing he seems to have moved around a bit working as a gardener on Rhode Island, a salesman in Seattle, Washington, and running the Fox-Nailer Corporation, his own equipment rentals business. Fox died suddenly of a heart-attack aged sixty-two and was buried back on Rhode Island.

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