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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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  • The 1964 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 13 races, beginning in Avondale, Arizona on March 22 and concluding at the same location on November...
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    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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  • Auto Club USAC Silver Crown Series USAC Sprint Car National Championship USAC National Midget Series USAC Western States Midget Series USAC East Coast...
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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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    Troy Ruttman (category USAC Stock Car drivers)
    times. Ruttman drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1949–1952, 1954, 1956–1957 and 1960–1964 seasons with 58 starts, including...
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    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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  • Arizona on November 17. There was also one non-championship event at Pikes Peak, Colorado. The USAC National Champion was A. J. Foyt, and the Indianapolis...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 1970 USAC Championship, winning ten races during the season and equaling the feat achieved by himself and Foyt in 1964. Bignotti won two further USAC Championships...
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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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    Mario Andretti (category USAC Silver Crown Series drivers)
    exodus. Andretti won the Formula One World Championship in 1978, four IndyCar titles, including three under USAC sanctioning, and one in CART. He is the...
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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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  • 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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  • Jimmy Bryan (category USAC Stock Car drivers)
    Indianapolis 500 and the 1954 AAA and 1956 and 1957 USAC National Championship. During his 1957 championship season, Bryan also won the inaugural running of...
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  • Fred Lorenzen (category USAC Stock Car drivers)
    a broken fuel pump, winning $25. He moved to a USAC stock car, and won the 1958 and 1959 championships driving his Talarico Bros. built Chevrolet. On...
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    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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    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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    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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  • Don Branson (category National Sprint Car Hall of Fame inductees)
    American racecar driver. Born in Rantoul, Illinois, Branson drove in the USAC Championship Car series and also in sprint cars, racing champ cars in the 1956–1966...
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  • Times. Retrieved 2 August 2017. "USAC National Midget:1967-53". The Third Turn. Retrieved 2 August 2017. "USAC National Midget:1968-62". The Third Turn...
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    Ken Miles (category World Sportscar Championship drivers)
    "Ken Miles". Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. "USAC Road Racing ChampionshipChampionships". Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved 18 April 2014. "Ken...
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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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  • 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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    Zerex Special (section 1964)
    USAC Road Racing Championship title (he had previously used the car in Cooper T53 form in the first two races), beating Gurney by 60 points. The USAC...
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    Denny Hulme (category British Formula Three Championship drivers)
    March 2014. "USAC National Championship usac-national-championship 1967 | Motorsport". Driverdb.com. 8 April 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2014. "USAC Champ Car...
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    Dan Gurney (category British Touring Car Championship drivers)
    500 in the NASCAR Grand National Series and, in American open-wheel racing, was a six-time race winner in USAC Championship Car and twice runner-up in...
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