The 1965 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 18 races, beginning in Avondale, Arizona on March 28 and concluding at the same location on November...
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From 1956 to 1978, the United States Auto Club (USAC) sanctioned Championship Car class featured the top teams and drivers in U.S. open-wheel racing....
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United States Auto Club (redirect from USAC National Sprint Car Championship)
sanctioned the United States National Championship, and from 1956 to 1997 the organization sanctioned the Indianapolis 500. USAC serves as the sanctioning body...
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The USAC Stock Car division was the stock car racing class sanctioned by the United States Auto Club (USAC). The division raced nationally; drivers from...
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A. J. Foyt (category USAC Silver Crown Series drivers)
most American National Championship titles in history, winning seven. Foyt competed in United States Automobile Club (USAC) Championship cars, sprint cars...
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American open-wheel car racing (redirect from National Championship Trail)
riding mechanic (or "mechanician"). The national championship was taken over by the United States Auto Club (USAC), a new sanctioning body formed by the...
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location on November 22. There was also one non-championship event at Pikes Peak, Colorado. The USAC National Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was A....
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Chuck Rodee (section Championship car career)
1956 USAC National Midget points, and third in 1965. He drove in the USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1957, 1958, 1960, and 1962-1965 seasons...
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location on November 20. There was also one non-championship event at Fuji Speedway in Japan. The USAC National Champion was Mario Andretti, and the Indianapolis...
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Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park (category IMSA GT Championship circuits)
USAC RRC, USAC National Championship, IMSA GT (1961–1963, 1965–1970, 1973, 1994) USAC Stock Car - Yankee 300 (1963-1972) USAC P1 Insurance National Midget...
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Mario Andretti (category USAC Silver Crown Series drivers)
1969 he won 29 of 85 USAC championship races. In 1973, USAC split its National Championship into dirt and pavement championships. Andretti had one win...
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Langhorne Speedway (section USAC Champ Car winners)
States Auto Club (USAC) made Langhorne one of the stops on their national circuits. These events included AMA-sanctioned National Championship Motorcycle races...
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Indianapolis 500. Additionally, Bignotti-prepared cars were used to win nine USAC Championship Car seasons. Bignotti also found success as a team owner, co-owning...
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Illinois State Fairgrounds Racetrack (category National Register of Historic Places in Springfield, Illinois)
100 ARCA stock car race, USAC Silver Crown dirt cars, UMP Late Models and Modifieds and the A.M.A. Grand National Championship. The only driver who has...
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USAC Road Racing Championship collapsed, leaving many competitors looking for a series. The SCCA created the United States Road Racing Championship as...
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Butch Hartman (racing driver) (category USAC Stock Car drivers)
American stock car racing national champion in the United States Automobile Club (USAC) from Zanesville, Ohio. After winning the USAC Stock Car Rookie of the...
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Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (category World Sportscar Championship)
throughout its history. The circuit has held Formula One, USAC, World Sportscar Championship, Can-Am, Formula 5000, and many other sports car, open-wheel...
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Night Grand Prix in 1965 and was rewarded by race promoter J. C. Agajanian with a chance to race in the USAC National Championship in 1966. He failed to...
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Ken Miles (category World Sportscar Championship drivers)
"Ken Miles". Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. "USAC Road Racing Championship – Championships". Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved 18 April 2014. "Ken...
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Bob Wente (section Championship Car)
the USAC National Midget championship in 1960, and finished second by 9.75 points to Jimmy Davies. Wente won the USAC Indoor Midget championship in 1961...
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Jud Larson (category National Sprint Car Hall of Fame inductees)
American racecar driver. Larson drove in the USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1956-1959 and 1964-1965 seasons with 53 starts, including the 1958...
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sometimes in the days surrounding the Wisconsin State Fair. USAC sanctioned Championship car races from 1956 to 1979. In 1980, the race switched to a...
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Roger McCluskey (category USAC Silver Crown Series drivers)
earned four USAC Midget Car wins, 23 USAC Sprint Car wins, 23 USAC Stock Car wins and five USAC Championship Car (national championship) wins (including...
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Eddie Sachs (category USAC Stock Car drivers)
eight USAC Championship Trail wins, 25 top-five finishes in 65 career AAA and USAC starts, including the 1958 USAC Midwest Sprint Car Championship. He was...
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Bobby Unser (category USAC Stock Car drivers)
Unser won the 1968 and 1974 United States Automobile Club (USAC) national championships. He won the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb overall title...
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Dan Gurney (category British Touring Car Championship drivers)
Race USAC Yearbook 1962. Floyd Clymer Road & Track magazine September 1962 "World Championship 1964". "World Championship 1965". "World Championship 1966"...
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Eldora Speedway (redirect from 4 Crown Nationals)
"half-mile" standard required by the United States Auto Club (USAC) for national championship events featuring the stars of the Indianapolis 500. The track...
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Rodger Ward (category USAC Stock Car drivers)
the "3 W's". Ward won his first Indianapolis 500. He won the USAC National Championship with victories at Milwaukee, DuQuoin and the Indy Fairgrounds...
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Lloyd Ruby (category World Sportscar Championship drivers)
– March 23, 2009) was an American racecar driver who raced in the USAC Championship Car series for 20 years, achieving 7 victories and 88 top-ten finishes...
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Paul Goldsmith (category USAC Stock Car drivers)
achieving success in each discipline. Goldsmith won the USAC Stock Car national championship in 1961 and 1962, driving a Pontiac for Ray Nichels. Earlier...
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