Alfred Unser also known as Al Unser is the younger brother of fellow racing drivers Jerry and Bobby Unser, and the father of Al Unser Jr. He was born on May 29, 1939, and died on December 9, 2021, at the age of 82.
Al Unser was the second of four men (A. J. Foyt, himself, Rick Mears, and Hélio Castroneves) to have won the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race four times (1970, 1971, 1978, 1987), the fourth of five to have won the race in consecutive years, and won the National Championship in 1970, 1983, and 1985.
The Unser family has won the Indy 500 a record nine times. Al Unser was the only person to have both a sibling (Bobby) and child (Al Jr.) as fellow Indy 500 winners (coincidentally, all three captured their final Indy 500 wins racing for Team Penske). His nephews Johnny and Robby Unser have also competed in that race.
After his son Al Unser Jr. joined the national championship circuit in 1983, Unser was generally known by the retronymic name of “Al Unser Sr.” or “Big Al”.
Who is Al Unser’s wife Wanda Jesperson?
Wanda Jesperson is well known for being the wife of the late Alfred Unser well known as Al Unser, an American automobile racing driver. Wanda and Unser have been married for decades and blessed with one child named Al Unser Jr, nicknamed “Little Al”, “Al Junior”, or simply “Junior”, is also a retired American race car driver and two-time Indianapolis 500 winner.