Monday 22nd January 1951

Bill Holland, winner of the 1949 Indianapolis 500, was suspended from AAA Indy Car racing. Holland, who had never finished worse than second in four starts in the Memorial Day classic, was kicked out of AAA for one year for competing in a three-lap Lion’s Charity race at Opa Locka, Florida, on November 14, 1950. The AAA had a strict rule forbidding its drivers to participate in any race other than its own.