THE DALLAS POST, AUGUST 3, 1972 tie A Greenstreet News Co. Publication Stock Cars Compete in the Pennsylvania 50 Averaging 127.035 miles per hour in his winged, sharknosed 1970 Ply- mouth Superbird, Roger McClusky breezed to an easy win in the Penn- sylvania 500 stock car race at Pocono International Raceway The second-place finisher Hart- 2 man crossed the finish line in his Dodge Charger four laps behind the front-runner. Verline Eaker driving another Charger finished in third place six laps, or 15 miles, behind Sunday. g the winner. McClusky, whose victory at ; 2 Pocono marks his third of the David Marcis copped fourth place season, finished 10 miles ahead of and was fined $500 for passing the the second-place Dodge driven by pace car while the yellow caution 1971 USAC stock-car division light was on. He completed 194 laps champion Butch Hartman. in his Matador. With 192 laps Cecil Pressed by stock-car racing’s all- Gordon finished fifth in a Mercury. time money winner Richard Petty, McClusky, 37, of Tucson, Ariz., who led for 13 laps and made 255 "On $10,000 from a purse of $75,000 grueling miles before being forced PLUS Jon prizes and accessory out of the race when his Plymouth awargs. blew a tire breaking an oil line, the Casualties in addition to Petty winner started from the pole and led were Al Unser with a clutch failure 180 of the 200 laps or 450 of the 500 in his Torino; Dallenbach whose miles. Plymouth suffered a broken distri- McClusky’s victory netted him butor; and Gary Bettenhausen with 1,000 points and extended his lead in ignition and overheating problems the point standings of the United in a Dodge. States Auto Club’s ' stock-car Sixteen of the 40 entries were division. He won the championship . running at the finish of the race. in 1969 and 1970. There were no injuries. Maurice Petty, chief mechanic for his brother Richard, checks spark plugs prior to race. Petty was a heavy pre-race favorite. Pai Cancro Competing cars enter turn 2 on the final pace lap before the start of the Pennsylvania 500. Not your average sedan interior, this. Devices on floorboards are fire extinguisher and walkie talkie used for pit-car commu- nication. Gauges give engine speed, oil pressure, and tempera- ture, and water pressure and temperature readings. Toggle switches are for rear axle lubrication-cooling systems, trans- mission lubrication-cooling systems, ignition power, and engine : : starter. Roger McClosky, winner of Sunday’s race, anticipates the taste of victory. Pai Cancro “ Pat Cancro : : "The 40 cars entered were soon down to 36, when on the first lap Pa), Cancro Two grueling 500-mile races were the order of the weekend for : 4 after the green flag, Car 82 spun and skidded into the wall at the Al Unser, shown here driving his Ford through one of the turns right. No severe injuries resulted from the mishap, but four cars at the raceway. : left the race.
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