USAC Indy car race
Pocono International Raceway
Pocono, Pennsylvania
Winning driver: "Super Tex" A.J. Foyt
Shortened by rain after 170 laps and 425 miles
Full results: Racing-Reference.info
Gordon Johncock won the pole in his #20 Pat Patrick-owned Wildcat. Foyt took the outside of the front row. Jerry Grant, Bobby Unser and Johnny Rutherford rounded out the top 5 starters. The start of the race was delayed two hours as rains pelted the track - a common occurrence for Pocono races.
Credit: Frank Hadl at Picassa Thanks for use of the pic Frank and especially for your service in Vietnam! |
Source: Reading Eagle archives June 30, 1975 |
The end of the race was affected the same way as the start of it - with rain. With 32 laps to go, showers returned to bring out the caution. Two laps later as it intensified, the race was called and Foyt was shown the checkered flag.
Credit: Frank Hadl at Picassa |
- Johncock's teammate, Wally Dallenbach finished 2nd. He is the father of Wally Dallenbach, Jr. who once raced in NASCAR (including for Petty Enterprises) and now works as a color announcer for TNT.
- Al Loquasto, who later drove a Schaefer Buick in the 1981 Mountain Dew 500 NASCAR Cup race at Pocono, finished 12th driving for himself.
Credit: jkracing50 at Flickr |
- NASCAR's Bobby Allison, driving for Roger Penske, jumped the fire line to USAC Indy cars and finished 27th.
- Tom Bigelow finished 21st. No special trivia here - I just like saying "Bigelow".
Foyt arrives to a soggy victory lane with gloomy clouds still lingering above the track.
Source: Palm Beach Post via Google News Archive |
TMC
Edited June 28, 2014
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