years death_date championships races nationality points birth_date wins poles article_title name podiums
1950 , 1953 -- 1954 19 may 1984 0 3 -lrb- 2 starts -rrb- usa american 6 18 december 1907 0 0 bill holland
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bill holland

bill holland -lrb- born december 18 , 1907 , died may 19 , 1984 -rrb- was an american race car driver from philadelphia , pennsylvania , who won the indianapolis 500 in 1949 and finished second in 1947 , 1948 and 1950 .
he also was runner up in the 1947 aaa national championship .
he nearly won the 1947 indianapolis 500 as a rookie , but slowed and allowed teammate mauri rose to pass him seven laps from the end , mistakenly believing that rose was a lap down .
on november 14 , 1951 , holland was suspended from aaa indy car racing for one year after competing in a three-lap lion 's charity race at opa-locka , florida which was a nascar event .
the american automobile association , at the time the sanctioning body for indycar races , had a strict rule forbidding its drivers from participating in any races other than their own , and would blacklist violators .
holland is believed to have got over 40 sprint car feature wins and 150 podiums .
he won the first ever automobile race at selinsgrove speedway -lrb- selinsgrove , pa -rrb- on july 20 , 1946 .
holland died from complications of alzheimer 's disease , and was survived by his wife myra .
he was inducted in the national sprint car hall of fame in 2005 .
