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{{Infobox racing driver
| name = Ted Horn
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| birth_name = Eylard Theodore Horn
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| birth_place = [[Cincinnati, Ohio]], U.S.
| death_date = {{
| death_place = [[Du Quoin, Illinois]], U.S.
| titles = [[AAA Contest Board|AAA Midwest]] [[Sprint car racing|Big Car]] (1938, 1939) <br/> [[AAA Contest Board|AAA]] [[Championship Car]] ([[1946 AAA Championship Car season|1946]], [[1947 AAA Championship Car season|1947]], [[1948 AAA Championship Car season|1948]]) <br/> [[AAA Contest Board|AAA Eastern]] [[Sprint car racing|Big Car]] (1947, 1948)
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{{Infobox Champ Car driver|embed=yes
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| Best_Champ_Pos = 1st ([[1946 AAA Championship Car season|1946]], [[1947 AAA Championship Car season|1947]], [[1948 AAA Championship Car season|1948]])
| First_Champ_Race = [[1935 AAA Championship Car season|1935]] [[1935 Indianapolis 500|Indianapolis 500]] ([[Indianapolis Motor Speedway|Indianapolis]])
| Last_Champ_Race = [[1948 AAA Championship Car season|1948]]
| First_Champ_Win = [[1946 AAA Championship Car season|1946]]
| Last_Champ_Win = [[1948 AAA Championship Car season|1948]]
| Champ_Wins = 24
| Champ_Podiums = 49
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'''Eylard Theodore
== Early life and career ==
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When Horn began his racing career in earnest at a [[California]] race track called [[Legion Ascot Speedway]] he found he had much to learn as he was usually the slowest driver on the track. Eventually a few of the drivers gave him pointers on how to pick up his lap times which started to help develop his driving style. He suffered a serious racing accident which broke his foot and burned his back and kept him on the mend for several weeks. At the urging of his parents he promised to abandon the sport. He fully intended to abide by his parents wishes but after three years he began racing again.<ref name=":0" />
Horn steadily improved to the point he finished a close second in a race to [[Indianapolis 500]] winner [[Louis Meyer]]. Meyer was impressed with young Ted Horn, who felt he now needed to travel to the mid-western and eastern regions of the [[United States]] where there were more race tracks and opportunities for a young race driver.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=AutoRacingRecords.com |url=https://www.autoracingrecords.com/series.php?srid=01022 |access-date=2024-03-31 |website=www.autoracingrecords.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=AutoRacingRecords.com |url=https://www.autoracingrecords.com/series.php?srid=00233 |access-date=2024-03-31 |website=www.autoracingrecords.com}}</ref>
== Championship car career ==
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In 1934 in preparation for the Indianapolis 500 Horn practiced in a car called the Mick Special. However, he did not feel comfortable with the car and decided against trying to qualify it. Throughout that summer he campaigned a [[sprint car]] on a rigorous schedule once again in the east and midwest. He was successful enough to attract the attention of [[Harry Miller (auto racing)|Harry Miller]]. [[Preston Tucker]] was putting together an ambitious effort with Miller and the [[Ford Motor Company]] for the [[1935 Indianapolis 500]]. When asked by Miller, Horn accepted a ride in one of the new Miller Ford V8 cars. He did make the field for the 1935 Indianapolis 500.<ref name=":0" /> Unfortunately a flaw in the design of the car would eventually result in the steering gear in the car to eventually freeze up and the car being impossible to steer. He dropped out of the race after 145 laps, most of which was spent fighting the steering problem.<ref name=":1" />
After his first Indianapolis 500, Horn felt that he failed to make an impression. Former driver turned car owner [[Harry Hartz]] felt otherwise about the young driver and thought that he did an excellent job of driving under difficult circumstances. Hartz was impressed enough to offer Horn a chance to drive his car in the [[1936 Indianapolis 500]], which he gladly accepted. Hartz, consistent finisher in his years driving the Indianapolis 500, took Horn under his wing.
[[File:Indy500winningcar1932.JPG|thumb|The car Horn drove to a second place finish in the [[1936 Indianapolis 500]] - later repainted to look as it did when [[Fred Frame]] drove the vehicle to victory in the [[1932 Indianapolis 500|1932 event]]]]
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== Death ==
== Awards and honors ==
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* [[Auto Racing Hall of Fame]] (1964)<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Ted Horn |url=https://imsmuseum.org/fame_inductee/ted-horn/ |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=IMS Museum |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Eastern Motorsports Press Association]] Hall of Fame (1987)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eastern Motorsports Press Association - Hall of Fame A thru L |url=http://empamedia.com/halloffameAthruL.html |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=empamedia.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Eastern Motorsports Press Association - Hall of Fame |url=http://empamedia.com/halloffameTed%20Horn.html |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=empamedia.com}}</ref>
* [[National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum|National Sprint Car Hall of Fame]] (1991)<ref name=":3">{{cite web |title=Ted Horn |url=https://www.sprintcarhof.com/helper_pages/FileGet.aspx?id=220 |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=www.sprintcarhof.com}}</ref>
* [[Motorsports Hall of Fame of America]] (1993)<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Ted Horn |url=https://www.mshf.com/hall-of-fame/inductees/ted-horn.html |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=www.mshf.com}}</ref>
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* 1946 table only includes results of the six races run to "[[Championship Car|championship car]]" specifications. Points total includes the 71 races run to "[[Sprint car racing|big car]]" specifications.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1946 AAA National Championship Trail |url=http://www.champcarstats.com/year/1946.htm |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=www.champcarstats.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Capps |first=H. Donald |date=October 2009 |title=The Curious Case of the 1946 Season: An Inconvenient Championship |url=http://forix.autosport.com/8w/rvm/rvm-vol07-no02.pdf |journal=Rear View Mirror |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=1–16}}</ref>
=== Indianapolis 500 results ===
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://racer.com/2015/06/25/malsher-ted-horn-s-sad-lesson-for-indycar/ David Malsher-Lopez
* [http://www.champcarstats.com/drivers/HornTed.htm Ted Horn
* {{Find a Grave|31645388}}
* [http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=134 Ted Horn
* {{Racing-Reference driver|Ted_Horn}}
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