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Bob Finney

American racing driver

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ92249773 ↗
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Bob Finney (July 1, 1920 – May 10, 1999) was an American race car driver from Colorado Springs, Colorado. He won the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in 1955, when he was part of the AAA Championship Car. Finney also won this race in 1957, but at that time he was no longer part of the USAC Championship. He has a total of six AAA Championship races between 1950 and 1955.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bob Finney” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.