Bridgeport Speedway, 7/21/15


Three for All: URC Sprints, 358 Modifieds, and Super Late Models from Bridgeport Speedway -- July 21, 2015.

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1919
Clark "Shorty" Templeman ... Born ... Shorty drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1954-1962 seasons with 42 starts, including the Indianapolis 500 races in 1955, 1958, and 1960-1962. He finished in the top ten 16 times, with his best finish in 2nd position, in 1961 at both DuQuoin and Syracuse. His best Indy finish was 4th in 1961. He won five Washington State and three Oregon midget state championships. Templeman won all three Night Before the 500 midget car features at the 16th Street Speedway in Indianapolis in 1956. Templeman won the first three USAC National Midget Series champions when he won titles in 1956, 1957, and 1958. Templeman died as a result of injuries sustained in a midget car crash at the Marion County, Ohio Fairgrounds track. He was inducted in the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 1984.
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1933
Rufus Parnell "Parnelli" Jones ... Born ... A retired American racing driver and racecar owner. He is most remembered for his 1963 Indianapolis 500 win, and almost winning the 1967 Indy 500 in a turbine car. He is also remembered for bringing the stock block engine to USAC Sprint car racing as one of the "Chevy Twins" with Jim Hurtubise. In his career, Parnelli Jones won races in many types of vehicles: sports cars, IndyCars, sprint cars, midget cars, off-road vehicles, and stock cars.
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1979
Roger McCluskey won the USAC sanctioned Tony Bettenhausen 200 on The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, WI. Tom Bigelow finished second followed by Billy Vukovich, Johnny Parsons and Janet Guthrie.
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1984
Darrell Waltrip won the NASCAR Winston Cup Champion 400 over Terry Labonte at the Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, MI.
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1990
Ricky Rudd won the NASCAR Winston Cup Bud at the Glen over Geoffrey Bodine at the Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, NY.

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