Robby McGehee, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Robby McGehee

American racing driver

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1973

Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Profession: racing driver, racing automobile driver

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Robby McGehee

  • Robby McGehee (born July 20, 1973) is an Indy Racing League driver from St.
  • Louis, Missouri.
  • He won the Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year award in 1999 after finishing fifth and raced for veteran owner Fred Treadway the next few seasons.
  • By 2002 Treadway's team had closed and McGehee bounced around several teams and last raced in the '500 for PDM Racing in 2004. In third grade, McGehee wrote a paper saying that when he grew up, he wanted to be a professional race car driver.
  • McGehee got started in racing in 1994 when he went to Skip Barber Racing School with his mother.
  • McGehee finished second in the Formula 2000 series Road to Indy Oval Crown series, including wins at Homestead-Miami Speedway and Atlanta Motor Speedway in 1998. The 1999 VisionAire 500K at Charlotte was the first IndyCar race he qualified for, starting 13th.
  • The race however, was cancelled after 79 laps due to spectator fatalities and struck from the record.
  • McGehee was running 9th when the race was stopped.
  • Later that month, the 1999 Indianapolis 500 would be his first official start in the IRL.
  • He finished fifth in that race.
  • Later that week, Robby presented his Rookie of the Year trophy to team mechanic Steve Fried, who was severely injured in a pit lane accident during the race, while he was in the hospital.In 2004, he was to have a fully sponsored effort, but the deal fell through weeks before the race.
  • He was able to get backing from a St.
  • Louis business (his hometown) and eventually Burger King.
  • In order to qualify, he had to sweat out a possible qualification effort by Tony Stewart that never came to pass. Robby currently lives in St.
  • Louis, with his wife, Norma (married in 2005), and works for his father's company, Huntleigh-McGehee.
  • He is the father of triplets born on April 27, 2009.

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