List of Piston Cup fatalities

This list concludes racers that died during sessions of Piston Cup sanctioned races.

## List

### International

#### Piston Cup Euro Junior Series

1. Carlton Roy Jr. in 1999 - Upstarting prospect Carlton Roy Jr. tragically lost his life after popping his tire and spinning into the pit barrier and nearly getting split in half in the BBVA 250. He died instantly.

### Other Series

#### Piston Cup No Stall Experimental Series

1. Leroy LaGas and Roy Walter in 1972 - LaGas and Walter died in a crash together at Mid-Ohio. The crash began when Kevin Axelrod spun out after hitting the side of pit wall. Walter then smashed into him and lost so many parts after flipping 2 times. He then flipped for 4 more times before LaGas crashed into him and made it worse by causing Walter to fly into the air and nearly hit the grandstands. LaGas himself cartwheeled 3 times before James Daniels smashed right into him and caused his engine to fall out. LaGas died instantly but Walter survived but was in a coma until he died 2 years later in 1974.
2. Tommy Diane in 1985 - Diane, who won the championship 10 years prior in 1975, had a violent crash at Petroleum City Super Speedway. It began on the 85th lap when Diane was battling Carl Tirettow for the lead until at one point, Diane fell 5 seconds behind and tried to make up for lost ground. However, on the 3rd turn, Diane's rear tire exploded causing him to go airborne at about a whopping 16 feet before flying out of the Speedway and crashed right into a nearby grandstand. 11 spectators were injured with 2 announced to have died. Afterwards, Petroleum City closed the Oval layout and built a Road Course layout that has hosted races since. The oval layout however remains.
3. Lester McGraff in 1992 - In the final race of the 1992 season the Mad Max Cola 200 Lester was involved in a big one and was turned sideways by Zoe Pain in the gas tank into a catch fence on fire and fall down upside down. He was in a coma and died 4 days later.
4. Tucker Whipplefilter in 1994 - Whipplefilter was racing in the Corrosion Seal 200 at Alabama when his brakes failed on turn 3 and he slammed at 129 mph into John Vrooman and flipped 19 times and fell into the infield. He was pronounced dead on the spot.

#### Piston Cup Gasprin Dash Series

1. Fu Chun Fei in 1985 - Fei lost his life while qualifying for the Dash 200 due to having a scary flip in turn 3.
2. John Bearings Sr. in 2005 - Bearings Sr unexpectedly died at the final race of the season at Washington where he was pushed into the grass by Tommy Lee Nitro and hit the outside wall front-end first hard. Then flipped 4 times before he was engulfed in flames. Then Ty Drift's tire blew out and ran right into Bearings nearly splitting him in half. Eventually the race would be stopped and the Gasprin Dash Series would merge with the Busch Series.

### Others

1. Steve Alcott in 1957 - Alcott was attending the 1957 Virginia 500 but was killed after debris from River Scott penetrated his roof and pretty much destroyed his brain when Tommy Gearson caused an accident.
2. Jim Hilton in 1965 - Alfred Myers' crew chief Jim died after Sam Crossbar hit him, which killed him instantly as his engine fell down.
3. Denny Wallace in 1992 - Wallace was attending the 1992 Florida 400 as Crusty Rotor's pitty when a tire belonging to Rusty Cornfuel hit him. Suprinsingly he did not die but he suffered brain injuries after the accident which shortened his lifespan and he died in 2014 at the age of 49. The death was confirmed to be directly related to the accident.

## By track

* Florida International Super Speedway - 8
* Motor Speedway of the South - 7
* Alabama Speedway - 4
* Glen Ellen - 3
* Brands Hatch - 2
* Pocono Raceway - 2
* Virignia Speedway - 2
* Beachside Raceway - 1
* BnL Raceway - 1
* Boston Raceway - 1
* Hollywood Speedway Park - 1
* Indianapolis Motor Speedway - 1
* Langhorne Speedway - 1
* Los Angeles Street Circuit - 1
* Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course - 1
* Silverstone Circuit - 1
* Sun Valley Speedway - 1

## Trivia

* Fatalities happened in CARCA. But racers who died in series sanctioned by them are not included as the sanctioning bodies were acquired by the Piston Cup years after their latest fatalities occurred in a sanctioned series. The Piston Cup Pinty's Series is not included as its predecessor the CASCAR Super Series had fatalities before the Piston Cup purchased CASCAR.
* Florida International Motor Speedway has the most deaths.