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Frank Dochnal

racecar driver (1920-2010)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ2455901 ↗
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Frank Jack Dochnal (October 8, 1920 – July 7, 2010) was a race car driver from St. Louis, Missouri, United States. He had some success in local racing in Missouri before making a single attempt to qualify for a Formula One Grand Prix at the age of 43, with a Cooper T51 in the 1963 Mexican Grand Prix. Unfortunately, this bid failed after he crashed during unofficial practice. At this point, he retired from race driving and continued to work as a race mechanic.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Frank Dochnal” as racecar driver (1920-2010). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1920, 2010, 1963—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Frank, Dochnal and racecar can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Frank Dochnal” 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.