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1992 inductee Carroll Shelby said MacDonald “had more raw talent probably than any race driver I ever saw.” Coming from Shelby, that’s saying a lot. Despite competing professionally for just four years before his tragic Indy 500 crash, MacDonald assembled a world-class resume, winning 52 of 118 races, with 75 Top 3 finishes. At the 1963 LA Times Grand Prix, he won by a lap over what Indy champ Sam Hanks called "the greatest array of drivers ever assembled in the history of road racing.” A week later, against the same field at Laguna Seca, he finished 3+ laps ahead of all but 2nd place A.J. Foyt. MacDonald’s final season began just as promisingly. In March, he co-drove a Shelby Daytona to GT-class victory at Sebring, breaking Ferrari's six-year stranglehold. In May, he won his second USRRC race of the young season, tying him with Jim Hall for the series lead. Then came Indy… In 2014 MacDonald was inducted into the Corvette Hall of Fame. In 2016 he was inducted into the USRRC Hall of Fame.