USAC Indy car race
Pocono International Raceway
Pocono, Pennsylvania
Winning driver: "Super Tex" A.J. Foyt
Full results: Racing-Reference.info
Road course legend Peter Revson surprised the oval racing bunch by laying down the quickest qualifying lap to nab the pole.
Source: Spartanburg Herald via Google News Archive |
Though I'm uncertain if the Falcons sponsorship was the first in motorsports for the NFL, it certainly preceded the NFL's associate sponsorship of Joe Gibbs Racing's NASCAR team by two decades.
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Source: Observer-Reporter via Google News Archive |
Credit: National Speed Sport News |
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Winner celebration FAIL. You win the SCHAEFER 500 - yet you drink champagne in victory lane? C'mon A.J., you shoulda known better than that.
Source: The Victoria Advocate via Google News Archive |
Source: Reading Eagle via Google News Archive |
- Jerry Carl finished 26th driving for legendary NASCAR innovator and trickster Smokey Yunick.
- Wally Dallenbach finished 29th driving a #40 STP Eagle/Offenhauser (shown below in his 1974 colors at Indy):
Credit: Russ Thompson |
- Two decades later, his son and current TNT announcer, Wally Dallenbach, Jr., found himself driving the #43 Petty Enterprises Pontiac - also sponsored by STP.
Source: Reading Eagle via Google News Archive |
TMC
Edited July 1, 2014
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