• Speedway Debut Flashback Friday: October 16, 1977. James McElreath Jr's Last Lap Race car drivers reunite to celebrate Jim McElreath's 85th birthday...
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  • McElreath is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jim McElreath (1928–2017), American racing driver in the USAC and CART Richard McElreath...
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    winning 25 times. George Snider had the second most starts with 24. Jim McElreath has the only other win with a Coyote chassis. Foyt drove a Coyote to...
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    California governor Ronald Reagan presented the trophy to race winner Jim McElreath, a teammate of car owner A. J. Foyt. President Richard M. Nixon was...
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    and required Gurney to later qualify and race the team's spare car. Jim McElreath was the first qualifier but all eyes were on Parnelli Jones who went...
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    the 500 miles in less elapsed time than Hill, Clark, and third place Jim McElreath. However, Johncock had suffered minor damage during the first lap accident...
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  • Maxwell - figure skater Mike McClendon - professional baseball pitcher Jim McElreath - professional racecar driver Scott McGarrahan - professional football...
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    Ronnie Bucknum, Johnny Rutherford, and Jim McElreath, who had a fire as the car went down into turn one. McElreath was able to stop the car in turn 1 and...
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    of 18 in the 1970 USAC Championship Car season. The race was won by Jim McElreath, his final Indy Car victory. The race commenced an 11-year history of...
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  • 1982 for the Domino's Pizza Pocono 500, in an Eagle chassis driven by Jim McElreath, although two Vollstedt chassis with Offenhauser engines failed to qualify...
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    Dick Simon, and Art Pollard got back into the field by bumping Jim McElreath.[4] Jim Hurtubise once again tried to qualify his front-engined roadster...
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  • second lap, Andretti was 8 car lengths ahead of Branson and Congdon. Jim McElreath who had started 11th, worked his way to sixth position during the early...
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    pits with a fuel pickup problem. Jim McElreath passed Dickson for second. Foyt led the final 53 laps and beat McElreath by two laps. It was Foyt's third...
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  • William Anderson "Dutch" McElreath (September 25, 1915 – April 18, 1993) was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served...
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    With 15 minutes left in the day. Jim McElreath bumped out Tom Bigelow. Sam Posey was now on the bubble. Next out was Jim Hurtubise, but he was 4 mph (6...
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    #44) John Martin (#57) Jim McElreath (#26) Larry Rice (#52) Phil Threshie (#67) Frank Weiss  R  (#93) Dale Whittington  R  (#91) Jim Buick  R  (#86) – Practice...
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    31, 1965. The five-year-old "British Invasion" finally broke through as Jim Clark and Colin Chapman triumphed in dominating fashion with the first rear-engined...
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  • problem. The car was entered again in 1966, taking a third place for Jim McElreath. From 1968 to 1970, Brabham returned to Indianapolis, at first with...
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    rear-ended by Jim McElreath. Mike Mosley also spun into the turn four grass trying to avoid the accident. Rutherford was out, but McElreath limped back...
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    Hurt  R  (#29, #98) Jim Hurtubise (#11, #56, #83) Bruce Jacobi  R  (#33, #75, #77) Bobby Johns (#71, #76) Ralph Ligouri  R  (#35) Sam McQuagg  R  – Did not...
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    watched "one of the most dramatic 500-mile finishes in history" as Jim McElreath crossed the finish line two seconds ahead of Art Pollard Clay Regazzoni...
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  • Pocono 500 despite the boycott. Tom Sneva, Dick Simon, Roger Rager, Jim McElreath, Tom Bigelow, and Geoff Brabham held CART licenses. Sneva, the 1977...
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    rear-engined, formula-style cars. It was Foyt's second of four Indy 500 victories. Jim Clark, who finished second the previous year, won the pole position in the...
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    traffic. As he was lapping Pancho Carter and Jim McElreath, Carter spun right next to him in turn one. McElreath narrowly avoided him, and all three cars...
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    1972–1974, 1978) Joe Leonard (1967) Jim Hurtubise (1967) Jim McElreath (1968, 1970) Carl Williams (1968) Roger McCluskey (1969) Donnie Allison (1970–1971)...
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  • songwriter (b. 1964) Jacque Fresco, futurist and social engineer (b. 1916) Jim McElreath, race car driver (b. 1928) Erwin Potts, business executive (b. 1932)...
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    waved off. Several cars went out in the first hour, and at 1:15 p.m., Jim McElreath filled the field to 33 cars. Larry Cannon was the first car on the bubble...
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    failing to finish the race the year before (with Al Unser behind the wheel), Jim Hall's radical new Chaparral 2K ground effects chassis was a heavy favorite...
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    severely injured, including a fractured left leg and possible skull fracture. Jim Rathmann and Troy Ruttman both were flagged off by their crews after they...
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  • Puterbaugh 1 Helen Reynard Kuzma Offenhauser 75 Jim Reynard All Jim McElreath McElreath 69 Chevrolet 14 Jim McElreath All Joe Hunt Lesovksy 58 Offenhauser 99...
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