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A. J. Foyt
Anthony Joseph Foyt, Jr. (born January 16, 1935) is an American retired auto racing driver who has raced in numerous genres of motorsports.
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ABC Supply 500
The ABC Supply 500 is an Indy car race held at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania.
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ABC Supply Wisconsin 250
The ABC Supply Wisconsin 250 at Milwaukee IndyFest Presented by the Metro Milwaukee Honda Dealers was a IndyCar Series race held at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin.
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Al Loquasto
Albert John (Al) Loquasto (Jr.) (June 21, 1940 – July 31, 1991), was an Italian-American racecar driver.
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Al Unser
Alfred "Al" Unser (born May 29, 1939) is an American automobile racing driver, the younger brother of fellow racing drivers Jerry and Bobby Unser, and father of Al Unser Jr. Now retired, he is the second of three men to have won the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race four times, the fourth of five to have won the race in consecutive years, and won the National Championship in 1970, 1983, and 1985.
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Alan Jones (racing driver)
Alan Stanley Jones, (born 2 November 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian former Formula One driver.
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Arizona
Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.
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Avondale, Arizona
Avondale is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to Phoenix.
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Bertil Roos
Bertil Roos (October 12, 1943 – March 31, 2016) was a Swedish racing driver from Gothenburg.
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Bill Puterbaugh
Bill Puterbaugh (June 6, 1936 – October 9, 2017) was an American racing driver in the USAC Championship Car series.
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Bill Simpson
Bill Simpson (born March 14, 1940 in Hermosa Beach, California), is a retired American racecar driver, but is best known as a pioneer in the racing safety business with his company Simpson Performance Products.
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Bill Vukovich II
William John Vukovich II (born March 29, 1944 in Riverside, California) is a former driver in the championship car division of USAC and CART series.
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Bob Harkey
Bob Harkey (June 23, 1930January 16, 2016) was an American driver in the USAC Championship Car series from Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Bobby Olivero
Bobby Olivero (born December 24, 1946, Lakewood, California), is a former driver in the USAC Championship Car series.
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Bobby Unser
Robert William "Bobby" Unser (born February 20, 1934) is an American former automobile racer.
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Bowmanville
Bowmanville is a community of about 40,000 people located in the municipality of Clarington, Ontario, Canada.
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Brooklyn, Michigan
Brooklyn (formerly Swainsville) is a village in Jackson County of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Bubby Jones
Norman "Bubby" Jones (born June 4, 1941, Danville, Illinois), is a former driver in the USAC Sprint Car series, with 22 victories, and a member of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame, inducted in 1998.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Canadian Tire Motorsport Park
Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (formerly Mosport Park and Mosport International Raceway) is a multi-track motorsport venue located north of Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada.
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Clay Regazzoni
Gianclaudio Giuseppe Regazzoni (5 September 1939 – 15 December 2006), commonly called "Clay", was a Swiss racing driver.
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Cliff Hucul
Cliff Hucul (born August 21, 1948, Prince George, British Columbia), is a former driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series.
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College Station, Texas
College Station is a city in Brazos County, Texas, situated in East-Central Texas in the heart of the Brazos Valley, in the center of the region known as Texas Triangle.
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Danny Ongais
Danny Ongais (born May 21, 1942) is an American former racing driver.
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Desert Diamond West Valley Phoenix Grand Prix
The Desert Diamond West Valley Phoenix Grand Prix was a Verizon IndyCar Series race held at the ISM Raceway in Avondale, Arizona.
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Dick Simon
Richard Raymond Simon (Dick Simon)(born September 21, 1933 in Sandy, Utah) is one of the oldest men to ever have raced in the Indianapolis 500.
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Ed Crombie
Ed Crombie (b. October 13, 1945 in Williams Lake, British Columbia) is a former Canadian-born United States Automobile Club Championship Car racecar driver.
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Eldon Rasmussen
Eldon Rasmussen (born July 7, 1936, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), is a former driver in the USAC Championship Car series.
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Elliott Forbes-Robinson
Elliott Forbes-Robinson (born October 31, 1943 in La Crescenta, California) is a road racing racecar driver.
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Firestone Indy 400
The Firestone Indy 400 was an IndyCar Series race held at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan.
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Gary Bettenhausen
Gary Bettenhausen (November 18, 1941 – March 16, 2014) was an American auto racing driver.
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George Snider
George "Ziggy" Snider (born December 8, 1940, in Fresno, California) is a retired American race car driver.
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Gordon Johncock
Gordon Johncock (born August 5, 1936, in Hastings, Michigan) is an American former racing driver, best known as a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 and the 1976 USAC Marlboro Championship Trail champion.
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Graham McRae
Graham McRae (born 5 March 1940) is a former racing driver from New Zealand.
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Indiana
Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.
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Indianapolis 500
The Indianapolis 500 is an automobile race held annually at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, United States, an enclave suburb of Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is an automobile racing circuit located in Speedway, Indiana (an enclave suburb of Indianapolis) in the United States.
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ISM Raceway
ISM Raceway is a 1-mile, low-banked tri-oval race track located in Avondale, Arizona, near Phoenix.
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Janet Guthrie
Janet Guthrie (born March 7, 1938, in Iowa City, Iowa) is a retired professional race car driver and the first woman to qualify and compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500.
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Jerry Grant
Gerald Wayne "Jerry" Grant (January 23, 1935 – August 12, 2012) was a driver in the USAC Championship Car series.
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Jerry Karl
Jerry Karl (April 29, 1941, Manchester, Pennsylvania - February 16, 2008, Baltimore, Maryland), was a driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series.
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Jerry Sneva
Jerry Sneva (May 23, 1949 – January 27, 2018) was an American off-road driver from Spokane, Washington, who also drove in the USAC and CART Championship Car series.
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Jim Hurtubise
James Hurtubise (December 5, 1932 – January 6, 1989) was an American race car driver who raced in USAC Champ Cars (including the Indianapolis 500), as well as sprint cars and stock cars (USAC and NASCAR).
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Jim McElreath
Jim McElreath (February 18, 1928 – May 18, 2017) was an American racing driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series.
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Joe Saldana
Joe Saldana (born November 14, 1944 in Clay Center, Nebraska. Joe moved to Lincoln, Nebraska at an early age where he grew up and started his auto racing career. Joe's uncle, Orville Hoffman, along with Buck Fallstead, had modified stock cars and Joe was bit by the racing bug before he was old enough to drive. In 1961 he bought his first car for $500 and he made his debut at Capital Beach Speedway in Lincoln. By 1964 "Lil' Joe" was winning features in his own creations and by 1967 he was ready to dominate. During the winter Joe and master car builder Don Brown constructed the Mechanical Rabbit roadsterstyle sprint car. After a few weeks early in the season sorting out the new car, which was one of three built and raced by Brown, Saldana and Greg Weld, Joe and his Rabbit went on a tear. He won many features, while finishing second in the Knoxville points to Bill Utz. He set a one-lap record at Knoxville, Iowa, during qualifying at the Knoxville Nationals with a 21.45 second lap. With the lap record in hand, Joe set out to put a Nationals win in his pocket as well. Everything was going according to plan, with Joe leading easily, until a wheel came off with six laps left. He was able to scramble back to a 7th place finish after replacing the errant rubber. Saldana got off to a rocky start in 1968, as he crashed his sleek roadster during the second night of racing at Knoxville on May 4th. Joe injured his wrist in the accident and his Mechanical Rabbit suffered severe front end damage. By mid-June however "Little Joe" had the car back to full song, winning again on a regular basis. His early season crash no doubt cost him the Knoxville point championship, as he narrowly lost to Dick Sutcliffe. In the 1968 Knoxville Nationals, he finished 4th behind Ray Lee Goodwin, Jerry Blundy and Earl Wagner. The year 1969 brought wins at Eagle and Knoxville and a Big Car Racing Association (BCRA) sprint win at Belleville, Kansas. At the Knoxville Nationals, Joe held on for a 6th place finish with Kenny Gritz winning the race. He was able to take the Knoxville season point battle down to the last night, but for the third year in a row, had to settle for second behind Bob Williams. For 1970, Joe drove the upright Roger Beck house car, which was owned by John Leverenz and Bill Chadborne. "Little Joe" swept to wins just about everywhere he raced. By the time August rolled around, he was the odds-on favorite to finally get that Knoxville Nationals win he had been seeking for so long. He proceeded to run away with the National Championship race defeating Dick Sutcliffe, Ray Lee Goodwin, and Jan Opperman. He also easily won the Knoxville season point title. In the fall of 1970, Joe ventured out to California, where he drove the 1969 California Racing Association (CAA) championship winning Ernie Duncan Chevy, and won the Ascot Grand Prix. As strong a year as 1970 was, Joe had his sights set on a much loftier goal -the Indianapolis 500. In order to get there, Joe knew he had to go USAC racing. So in 1971, he went back east to pursue his dream of racing in the Indy 500. He had sprint car rides that year with "Boston Louie" Seymour, Steve Stapp, Robert Ziegler and E.T. Morse. The year 1972 saw Joe's first USAC feature win, but oddly enough, it did not come in a sprint car, it was in George Gamester's USAC midget at Champaign, Illinois. The year 1973 was the year Joe broke in the win column with the USAC sprints for the first time, and what a first time win it was aboard the Lloyd Weaver Excavating Special! The Tony Hulman Classic was the only dirt track event to be nationally televised at the time, and "Little Joe" showed ABC's Wide World of Sports viewers (and even color commentator and former World Champion, Jackie Stewart) just what a sprinter can do in the hands of a master driver, as Saldana never set a wheel wrong the entire 40 laps at the Terre Haute Action Track, easily defeating Rollie Beale, Don Nordhorn, Bruce Walkup and Sammy Sessions. Saldana moved to the Smith Speed Shop Special of Ray & Cissi Smith for 1974. Although he was close on several occasions, Joe did not manage any wins with the Smith Chevy as the car proved less reliable than desired. If 1974 had made Joe's Indy 500 dream seem further away than ever, 1975 brought it right back into focus. Piloting the powerful Mauri Amerling Chevy, Saldana took back to back wins at the Indy Fairgrounds mile and Terre Haute. The Terre Haute being especially dramatic, with nine lead changes, and Joe finally taking to the cushion for the victory. Then, in mid-July, just as he was looking like a serious title contender, Joe dumped his ride hard at Eldora. Joe wasn't hurt in the mishap, but the Amerling car was out of commission for the rest of the year. Saldana was able to land a ride in one of Don Siebert's sprinters, and even score his first pavement win in the car at St. Paul, Minn., but faded to seventh in the final USAC points. Joe also started making some Indy car connections in 1975, crewing for A.J. Watson at Indy, that year. September of 1976 saw Saldana record the biggest win of his career in the Hoosier Hundred dirt champ car race. Joe ran solidly in the top ten until the 51st lap, when a crash involving several front running cars, caused a red flag. Severe injuries to family friend Jan Opperman overshadowed a great dual between Saldana and A.J. Foyt once the race resumed. Saldana had the lead on the restart with Foyt taking the lead on the high side on lap 63. Joe fought back however, and when Foyt bobbled and caught the first turn fence four laps later, Saldana took his Ron Killman-Lloyd Weaver dirt champ car to the lead for good. Foyt held on for second, followed by Sheldon Kinser, Cassella, and Jim Hurtubise. On the strength of his Hoosier run, Joe was fifth in the 1976 USAC Dirt Champ standings, right behind Cassella, Parsons, Kinser, and Larry Rice. Saldana broke into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1977. Driving the Ralph Wilke Leader Cards Eagle-Offy wrenched by A.J.Watson, Joe breezed through his rookie test and qualified at 184.596 mph, only to be bumped from that race. Finally in 1978, the dream became reality, with Joe qualifying Gus & Dick Hoffman's Mr. WizeBuys Carpet Eagle-Offy solidly in the fields at 190.809 mph. Saldana ran steadily all day and came home 15th, collecting $20,690 for his efforts. Although they didn't run the entire Championship Trail, the Saldana-Hoffman combo made most of the events, with top tens at Michigan (9th), Atlanta (10th), College Station, Texas (10th), and Michigan again (10th). Also in 1978, USAC scheduled two road course races on consecutive weekends in Great Britain. Saldana and the Hoffman Racing Team were invited to both of these. At the first race in Silverstone, England, Joe dropped out with a burned valve. One week later, at Brands Hatch, however, "Little Joe" brought the Hoffman car home 10th. In 1979 Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) had split away from USAC, with each group running their own series. The KBHL/Nebraska/Hoffman team decided to race with CART, which was the tougher of the two circuits. Joe Saldana was again to be their driver, and he came up with some great efforts in making all the races. Joe again made the Indy 500 with a 188.788 mph run, and checkered 16th on race day. It was mid-summer when the team hit it's stride, running 10th and 8th in a Michigan double-header, 8th at Trenton, N.J., and 6th at Atlanta. Joe finished sixteenth in the CART Championship standings. Joe also won a USAC midget event at the Eldora Speedway that year. The bubble burst, in 1980, as Saldana and the Hoffman team could not muster the speed for a third straight Indy 500 appearance, and they missed the big show. Running selected races due to a limited budget, Joe's best, and only, Indy car finish in 1980 was a 12th at Milwaukee in August. Although the Indy car deal was a disappointment, it was good news for dirt track fans, as it meant a stepped up program in that department for "Little Joe". He claimed one win, at Terre Haute, and five other top five finishes, while steering the Snell Brothers car to ninth in the season standings. Joe ran all the 1980 USAC Dirt Champ shows wheeling the Johnson Sheet Metal Chevy, he finished ninth for the season. The year 1981 again found Joe out of the Indy after banging the wall in Hoffman's car. He followed that by practicing one of the Leader Cards machines, but never made a qualifying attempt. By now, Joe's sprint car tail-tank-building business (Plastic Racing Tanks) was limiting his racing somewhat, and he only made a few USAC sprint shows. Driving the Tipp Machine & Tool Special, he did win on the Indy Fairgrounds mile. Joe did make all the USAC dirt champ races in the Johnson Sheet Metal Special with a 5th place at Springfield, Illinois as his best effort. He ended up in eighth for the year. The year 1982 was to be Joe's final attempt at the Indy 500. After Tom Bigelow stepped out of Dick Hammond's Genesee Beer Wagon, Joe tried to get the car up to speed, but missed the show once more. Following Indy, they tried to qualify for both the Milwaukee and Cleveland CART races but missed both. Saldana crashed heavily on Cleveland's Burke Airport road course, escaping injuries. Driving the Snell Bros. Tipp Machine & Tool car on the Silver Crown (Dirt Champ) Trail in 1982, Joe had a fine year. Although unable to nail down any wins, he did finish 2nd at Springfield behind Bobby Olivero and had two other top five finishes in route to sixth in the final standings. In 1983, Joe won at Eldora again driving in Bert Emick's All Star Circuit of Champions (ASCoC). In February of 1984, Joe ventured to Florida for the East Bay Nationals, and won the feature on the third night of the All Star action. In another rare 1984 sprint car appearance, Joe jumped into Johnny Vance's Aristocrat Special and showed the kids the fast way around the mile at Indy, beating Larry Rice and Johnny Parsons. Saldana also won the Silver Crown 100-lap race at Du Quion, Illinois, on Labor Day driving Mauri Amerling's car after Ron Shuman blew his tire on the last lap. The year 1985 was Joe's 25th and final season on the speedways, but he did not just coast through his last summer of driving. Finishing 10th at Tampa, and 8th at the Indy Fairgrounds in his first two Silver Crown starts, he then ran 4th at the West Virginia Motor Speedway Silver Crown race after starting 20th. At Springfield, Joe set a new one-lap track record of 31.144 and then was barely beaten to the flag in the 100 lapper by Chuck Gurney. Joe had another fast time at the Hoosier Hundred, but tire and motor problems relegated him to 9th at the end. In Joe's last run before hanging up the goggles, he qualified 4th and finished 9th at the 4-Crown Nationals at Eldora Speedway, near Rossburg, Ohio, in October of 1985. Joe finished a close fourth in the Silver Crown Championship. About retirement, Joe had this to say, "I just decided that if I could be lucky enough to complete my twenty-fifth year, I'd be satisfied." He says in retrospect, "I've been extremely fortunate during the past twenty-five years and the fact that there was no family pressure to make the decision, made it much easier." In looking back on the past 25 years, Joe easily points to the 1978 Indy 500 as the highlight of his racing career. "That first lap at Indy was something, with all those thousands of faces in the stands, but you know the next lap wasn't so bad and from then on it was just 'go racing' and it’s been that way ever since. I've been pretty lucky during my career and look back to highlights like the 1970 Knoxville Nationals, the 1973 Tony Hulman Classic and the 1976 Hoosier Hundred with a sense of accomplishment." Joe Saldana is married to Susie, who went to the same high school as he did in Lincoln, and they have three children: Laurie, Amy, and current World of Outlaws sprint car driver Joey. Joe and Susie continue to live in Brownsburg, Indiana, where he has successfully built a racing oriented industrial development complex.
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John Mahler
John Mahler (born November 16, 1936, Alpha, Iowa), is a former open wheel race car driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series.
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John Martin (American racing driver)
John Martin (born March 30, 1939, Long Beach, California), is a former driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series.
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Johnny Parsons
John Wayne Parsons (born August 26, 1944 in Van Nuys, California) is an American racecar driver.
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Johnny Rutherford
John Sherman "Johnny" Rutherford III (born March 12, 1938), also known as "Lone Star JR", is an American former automobile racing driver.
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Larry Cannon (racing driver)
Larry Cannon (April 13, 1937 - November 6, 1995), was an American racecar driver.
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Larry Dickson
Larry Dickson (born September 8, 1938, Marietta, Ohio), is a former driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series.
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Larry McCoy (racing driver)
Larry McCoy III (August 18, 1942 – December 9, 1979), was an American race car driver in open wheel racing.
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Lee Kunzman
Lee Kunzman (born November 29, 1944, Guttenberg, Iowa), is a former driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series.
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Lloyd Ruby
Lloyd Ruby (January 12, 1928 – March 23, 2009) was an American racecar driver.
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Long Pond, Pennsylvania
Long Pond is an unincorporated community in Monroe County in the Pocono Mountains region of Pennsylvania, a part of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Mario Andretti
Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940) is an Italian-born American former racing driver, one of the most successful Americans in the history of the sport.
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Mel Kenyon
Mel Kenyon (born April 15, 1933 in Dekalb, IL.) is a former midget car driver.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.
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Michigan International Speedway
Michigan International Speedway (MIS) is a moderate-banked D-shaped speedway located off U.S. Highway 12 on more than approximately south of the village of Brooklyn, in the scenic Irish Hills area of southeastern Michigan.
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Mike Mosley
Mike Mosley (December 13, 1946 – March 3, 1984), was an American racecar driver.
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Milwaukee Mile
The Milwaukee Mile is an approximately one mile-long (1.6 km) oval race track in the central United States, located on the grounds of the Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis, Wisconsin, a suburb west of Milwaukee.
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.
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Ontario
Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.
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Ontario Motor Speedway
Ontario Motor Speedway was a motorsport venue located in Ontario, California.
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Ontario, California
Ontario is a city located in southwestern San Bernardino County, California, east of downtown Los Angeles.
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Pancho Carter
Duane C. Carter, Jr. (born June 11, 1950), nicknamed "Pancho", is a retired American race car driver.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Phil Threshie
Phil Threshie (born April 12, 1953, Alamo, California), is a former driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series.
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Pocono Raceway
Pocono Raceway (formerly Pocono International Raceway) also known as The Tricky Triangle, is a superspeedway located in the Pocono Mountains in Long Pond, Pennsylvania.
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Pole position
In motorsport the pole position is the position at the inside of the front row at the start of a racing event.
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Rick Mears
Rick Ravon Mears (born December 3, 1951 in Wichita, Kansas), also known by the nickname "Rocket Rick," is a retired American race car driver. He is one of three men to win the Indianapolis 500 four times (1979, 1984, 1988, 1991), and is the current record-holder for pole positions in the race with six (1979, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991). Mears is also a three-time Indycar series/World Series champion (1979, 1981 and 1982).
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Road racing
In North America, road racing is motor racing held on a paved closed circuit with both left and right turns.
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Roger McCluskey
Roger McCluskey (August 24, 1930 – August 29, 1993) was an American race car driver.
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Salt Walther
David "Salt" Walther (November 22, 1947 – December 27, 2012) was a driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series.
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Sheldon Kinser
Sheldon Kinser (December 9, 1942 – August 1, 1988), was an American race-car driver.
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Speedway, Indiana
Speedway is a town in Wayne Township, Marion County, Indiana, United States.
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Spike Gehlhausen
Daniel William "Spike" Gehlhausen (born November 19, 1954, Jasper, Indiana), is a former driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series.
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Steve Krisiloff
Steve Krisiloff (born July 7, 1946, Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey), is a former driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series.
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Teddy Pilette
Theodore "Teddy" Pilette (born 26 July 1942, in Brussels) is a former racing driver from Belgium.
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Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.
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Texas World Speedway
Texas World Speedway, was built in 1969 and is one of only seven superspeedways of two miles (3 km) or greater in the United States used for racing, the others being Indianapolis, Daytona, Pocono, Talladega, Auto Club, and Michigan (there are several tracks of similar size used for vehicle testing).
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Todd Gibson
Todd Gibson (born December 23, 1936) is an American former racing driver from Morral, Ohio.
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Tom Bigelow
Tom Bigelow (born October 31, 1939 in Whitewater, Wisconsin), USA, is a former driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series.
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Tom Frantz
Tom Frantz (born July 9, 1943) is an American former racing driver from Denver, Colorado.
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Tom Gloy
Tom Gloy (born June 11, 1947 in Lafayette, California), is a former driver in the CART Championship Car series.
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Tom Sneva
Thomas E. "Tom" Sneva (born June 1, 1948) is a retired American race car driver, the winner of the Indianapolis 500 in 1983.
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Trenton Speedway
Trenton Speedway was a racing facility located near Trenton, New Jersey at the New Jersey State Fairgrounds.
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Trenton, New Jersey
Trenton is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County.
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United States Auto Club
The United States Auto Club (USAC) is one of the sanctioning bodies of auto racing in the United States.
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Vern Schuppan
Vernon "Vern" Schuppan (born 19 March 1943 in Booleroo Centre, South Australia) is a retired Australian motor racing driver.
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Wally Dallenbach Sr.
Wally Dallenbach Sr. (born December 12, 1936) is a former Indy car driver from East Brunswick Township, New Jersey, USA.
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West Allis, Wisconsin
West Allis is a city in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.
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1976 USAC Championship Car season
The 1976 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 13 races, beginning in Avondale, Arizona on March 14 and concluding at the same location on November 7.
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1977 in sports
1977 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
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1977 Indianapolis 500
The 61st International 500 Mile Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Sunday, May 29, 1977.
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1978 USAC Championship Car season
The 1978 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 18 races, beginning at Phoenix on March 18 and concluding at the same location on October 28.
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Redirects here:
1977 Champ Car season, 1977 USAC Champ Car season, 1977 USAC National Championship, 1977 USAC National Championship Trail.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_USAC_Championship_Car_season
