Bill Puterbaugh ... Born ... A former driver in the USAC Sprint & Championship Car series. He raced in the 1967-1971 and 1975-1977, and 1979 seasons, with 31 career starts, including the 1975-1977 Indianapolis 500. He finished in the top ten 11 times, with his best finish in 6th position in 1968 at Springfield and in 1969 at Sacramento. His 7th place finish in the 1975 Indianapolis 500 earned him Rookie of the Year.
Louis Chevrolet... Died ... AAA driver 1905 to 1923. He was a co-founder (with William C. Durant) of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company, which was acquired by General Motors and is their bestselling brand nationwide and in many cases synonymous with General Motors itself.
Louis also competed in the Indianapolis 500 four times, with a best finish of 7th in 1919. Younger brother Gaston won there in 1920 in a car Louis built, and brother Arthur also competed twice.
Chuck Stevenson won the AAA Indy Car Rex Mays 100 Mile Race at the "Milwaukee Mile in "West Allis, WI. Manuel Ayulo
was second followed by Jimmy Reece, Jack McGrath and Pat O'Connor.
Bob Slater won the IMCA Sprint Car race at the Iowa State Fair Speedway, Des Moines, IA
Tommy Copp won the 50 lap USAC Midget race at the Soldier Field, Chicago,IL.
Hal Minyard won the CRA Sprint Car race at the Orange Show Speedway, San Bernadino,CA.
Sammy Sessions won the Supermodified race at the Oswego Speedway , Oswego, NY. Norm Mackereth was second followed by Billy Yuma, Ron Wallace and Bob Pierce.
Parnelli Jones , in the J.C. Agajanian Lotus RE/Ford, won the USAC Indy Car Rex Mays 100 Mile Race at the "Milwaukee Mile in "West Allis, WI. Joe Leonard was second followed by Jim McElreath , Mario Andretti and Mickey Rupp .
Al Unser won the USAC Indy Car Rex Mays 150 Mile Race at the "Milwaukee Mile in "West Allis, WI. Joe Leonard was second followed by Billy Vukovich , Wally Dallenbach and Art Pollard .
Tom Bigelow won the 40 lap USAC Sprint car race over Pancho Carter, Larry Dickson, Bubby Jones and Chuck Gurney at the Terre Haute Action Track , Terre Haute,IN
Arnie Knepper... Died ... USAC driver 1950's to 1983. He drove Midgets, Sprints and the USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1963-1972 seasons, with 75 career starts, including the 1965-1969 Indianapolis 500 races. He finished in the top ten 21 times, with his best finish in 3rd position twice in 1966.
Kyle Larson won the Toyota/Save Mart 350 NASCAR Cup Series race at Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, CA. Chase Elliott was second followed by Martin Truex Jr., Joey Logano and Kyle Busch.
Bill Balog won for the second night in a row the FloRacing All Star Circuit of Champions presented by Mobil 1 Sprint Car Series race at the Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Ian Madsen was second followed by Rico Abreu, Cap Henry and Cory Eliason . Click to watch the feature highlights video.
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