Tom D'Eath

Tom D’Eath is an American hydroplane and racecar driver from Michigan.

Career summary

Tom D'Eath (pronounced deeth) won three American Power Boat Association Gold Cups and three the Prince Edward Canadian Gold Cups. He remains the only three-time winner of both. He has also won National Championships in virtually every other class of hydroplane racing. D'Eath also competed on land, by driving in the USAC Formula Vees from 1977 to 1981 and midget cars from 1982 through his retirement from racing in 1991.

Arguably his most memorable victory was in the bicentennial 1976 APBA Gold Cup unlimited hydroplane race, held on the Detroit River. D'Eath piloted the Miss US to a narrow upset victory over Bill Muncey in the Atlas Van Lines, a hull that won the two previous Gold Cups and the three previous APBA National Championships. In addition to being D'Eath's first Gold Cup win, it was the first Gold Cup win for a turbocharged V-12 Allison aircraft engine, the first for a cabover unlimited hull, and the first Gold Cup win for Miss US owner George Simon, who had competed in unlimited hydroplane racing since 1953.[1]

In 1994 Tom became the first Chairman of the Vintage and Historic Division of APBA.

Awards

Racing record

Complete USAC Mini-Indy Series results

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pos Points
1977 United States
TRE
United States
MIL
Canada
MOS
19
United States
PIR
19
- -
1978 United States
PIR1
23
United States
TRE1
Canada
MOS
United States
MIL1
United States
TEX
United States
MIL2
United States
OMS1
United States
OMS2
United States
TRE2
United States
PIR2
22
55th 6
1979 United States
TEX1
12
United States
IRP
13
United States
MIL1
United States
POC
United States
TEX2
United States
MIL2
United States
MIN1
United States
MIN2
32rd 15
1980 United States
MIL
23
United States
POC
United States
MDO
United States
MIN1
United States
MIN2
United States
ONT
55th 3

References


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