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Kevin Whitesides

American racing driver

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ6397751
Source-derived summary

Kevin Whitesides (born May 1, 1964) is an American race car driver who competed in the Formula Super Vee and attempted rookie orientation for the 1989 Indianapolis 500. In the 1985 Super Vee season, he finished 23rd in points, with a high finish of fifth at Indianapolis Raceway Park.

Racing record

SCCA National Championship Runoffs

References

"Kevin Whitesides career statistics at Driver Database". driverdb.com. Retrieved 2011-07-18.

"Kevin Whitesides". champcarstats.com. Retrieved 2011-07-18.

"1985 Robert Bosch Formula Super Vee Championship". The Formula Super Vee Website and Historic Registry.

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“Kevin Whitesides” enters the record as american racing driver. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kevin, Whitesides and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1964, 1989, 1985, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1964-05-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kevin, Whitesides and American.
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“Kevin Whitesides” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kevin, Whitesides and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6397751. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1964, 1989, 1985 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from Kevin Whitesides” 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.