Al Chasteen

Al Chasteen was an American race car and motorcycle driver who became a national champion and a world record holder in the one-mile dirt track race. The English Wikipedia article reports that he set the world motorcycle one-mile dirt track record in April 1931 at 41.2 seconds, and that a faster run in a January 1932 trial was not accepted because it was not timed correctly. He won races in Oakland in November 1933 and November 1935 and the national motorcycle road race in Savannah, Georgia in 1936, racing against riders such as Sprouts Elder and Wilbur Lamoreaux and often representing Stockton, California. In 1942 he was charged, together with Clovis Duck Mallory, with receiving stolen property from the Stockton Motor Base. The birth and death dates given in the article conflict with the career it describes, so no dates are stated here.