• The 1963 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 12 races, beginning in Trenton, New Jersey on April 21 and concluding in Phoenix, Arizona 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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  • 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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    drivers from USAC's open wheel classes like Indy cars, Silver Crown, sprints, and midgets frequently competed in races and won championships. Several NASCAR...
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  • The 1962 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 13 races, beginning in Trenton, New Jersey on April 8 and concluding in Phoenix, Arizona on November...
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  • Racing#Bettenhausen Motorsports 1963 Tony Bettenhausen 200, the seventh round of the 1963 USAC Championship Car season All pages with titles containing...
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    termed championship auto racing, the highest level of USAC racing. For a while there was a separate series of specifications for championship cars designed...
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    Troy Ruttman (category USAC Stock Car drivers)
    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 the...
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    sanctioned singly by USAC, but points were paid towards the CART season championship. The cars and engines used in the CART races and USAC-sanctioned Indy...
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    allegedly caused at least one driver to spin and crash. USAC officials put off black-flagging Jones after car owner J. C. Agajanian ran down pit lane and convinced...
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    The 1963 Tony Bettenhausen 200 was the seventh round of the 1963 USAC Championship Car season, held on August 18, 1963, at the 1-mile (1.6 km) Milwaukee...
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    Roger McCluskey (category USAC Stock Car drivers)
    Champ Cars. He won the USAC Sprint Car title in 1963 and 1966, the USAC Stock Car title in 1969 and 1970. The Champ Car title in 1973. His first USAC Stock...
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  • Paul Goldsmith (category USAC Stock Car drivers)
    motorcycles, stock cars, and Indianapolis cars, achieving success in each discipline. Goldsmith won the USAC Stock Car national championship in 1961 and 1962...
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    Sam Hanks (category USAC Championship Car drivers)
    won the 1953 AAA National Championship in the Bardahl Special. He won the 1956 Pacific Coast championship in the USAC Stock cars. Hanks considered retiring...
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    Parnelli Jones (category USAC Stock Car drivers)
    Mercury Marauder USAC Stock car for Jones. Jones won the 1963 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in the car, and broke the stock car speed record. In...
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    sprint cars. Once dominant United States Automobile Club (USAC) became USAC/California Racing Association (USAC/CRA) after taking over the Sprint Car Racing...
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    Midget cars, also Speedcars in Australia, is a class of racing cars. The cars are very small with a very high power-to-weight ratio and typically use four...
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    Peter Revson (category World Sportscar Championship drivers)
    later in the 1969 USAC Championship Car season, where he finished third in leg one of the Indianapolis 200, followed by his first Champ Car win in the second...
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    Chuck Stevenson (category AAA Championship Car drivers)
    Stevenson drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1949–1954, 1960–1961, and 1963–1965 seasons with 54 starts, including the Indianapolis...
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  • been taken by rival USAC Road Racing Championship, a championship that folded after the 1962 season. For its first three seasons, the series featured...
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  • champions were named in each class. Following the 1962 season, the professional USAC Road Racing Championship collapsed, leaving many competitors looking for...
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    Rodger Ward (category USAC Stock Car drivers)
    Indianapolis 500. He won the USAC National Championship with victories at Milwaukee, DuQuoin and the Indy Fairgrounds. His 1959 season ended by competing in...
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  • Elmer George (category AAA Championship Car drivers)
    American race car driver. Born in Hockerville, Oklahoma, George died in Terre Haute, Indiana. He drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing...
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    American open-wheel car racing events dating back to 1937. The AAA Contest Board, USAC, CART, Champ Car World Series, and the IndyCar Series have all sanctioned...
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    A. J. Foyt (category USAC Stock Car drivers)
    Championship titles in history, winning seven. Foyt competed in United States Automobile Club (USAC) Championship cars, sprint cars and midget cars....
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  • Chaparral Cars was a pioneering American automobile racing team and race car developer that engineered, built, and raced cars from 1963 through 1970....
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  • Bob Christie (racing driver) (category World Sportscar Championship drivers)
    American racecar driver. Christie raced in the USAC Championship Car series in the 1956-1963 seasons, with 15 career starts, including every Indianapolis...
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    Duane Carter (category AAA Championship Car drivers)
    cars, and won the 1950 Midwest division. He drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1948–1955, 1959–1960, and 1963 seasons with...
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    Hatch. This was the first season where at least 22 cars started every championship race, except the Monaco Grand Prix, where 18 cars started. The following...
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    Mario Andretti (category USAC Stock Car 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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