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Mansfield Driver Triumphs In Nationals at Mid-Ohiom.} 2 J 1 Jra-II!. (*l LPI 0 i aMil-3laaweOil-i o 7 0Me-i _ Ml)7 0 ) 0 len-By DAVE ARNOLDJack Baumgardner turned loose his wet weather driving talents yesterday to power his Mini Cooper S to a 65.846 mile per hour class win at Mid - Ohio Sports Car Course. He came wjthin a single point of a Sports Car Club of America Central Division class points championship yesterday..J. A. LaGod of Palatine. 111., drove the fastest race of the day, a 76.022 mph win in his Camaro with a 1:51.2 or 77.70 mpb lap as his best effort and led home the Camaros of Warren Agor of Pittsford, N. Y. and Bill Petree of Riv-Mich.erview.PIT STOPVeteran T. King - Hedinger of Cleveland would have won the B Sedan class in hisThe Mansfield truck driver Porsche 911 had he not beencarried the ball for his area’s teammates by starting second on the 31 - car grid in the annual Buckeye Sprints SCCA Nationals, dropped as low as fourth on laps three and four. He then' climbed to second place on the fifth lap before taking it easy to finish first jn his class and sixth overall.BROKEN AXLEAlso in that race. Bill Pha-called into the pits for consultation by race stewards on his next - to - last lap. King -Hedinger was “meatballed” because of a fender rubbing on his right rear tire, a malfunction caused eight laps earlier when his car collided with another Porsche driven by Daytona Beach, Fla., neurologist Dr. Wilbur Pickett. His “angry crew” quickly changed the tire just as theneuf of Lexington drove hisicheckered flag fell and King-Lotus 7-A steadily to finish Hedinger sped back onto theninth in the F Production class, outlasting Russ Sprang of Mansfield in a Sprite who broke an axle after 10 laps.A downpour of rain which started after the first of 10 races eliminated all chances of any driver breaking a class record. The rain kept Mid - Ohio's record of not having a totally dry race weekend all season long intacttrack but was fourth in class by that time.One other Mansfield or area racer to win SCCA divisional points over the weekend was Roger Walton of Mansfield who finished sixtn in his E Production Porschevisityearlargest field ever to Mid - Ohio in its eight history.Mike Piper of Mansfield finished an uneventful 17th with his Zink Formula Vee while Chuck Haines of Mt. Vernon was 11th in a Bobsy. R. Steven Payne - Herbert of Mansfield suffered two costly spins and a leaking gas tank In his Bobsy - Porsche to finish seventh in B Sports - Racing after starting first on the grid in his class. Tliat race was won by veteran Harry Heuer of Oaklawn, 111., who this year came out of retirement to race a Lola - ChevroletTWO POINTERDon Schmitt of Mansfield motored steadily throughout the C-D Production race in his DP Datsun to place fifth, good enough for two class points.Closest race of the weekend was the 34-car Formula Vee blast. The first four finishers were never more than one second apart for 38.4 miles and only the fact that John Magee of Rochester, N. Y. passed John Mc-Collister of Columbus one -A total of 234 drivers compet- 'half mile from the finish gave ed in the races, the third j him the win.Perhaps the feature “boat” race was for A and B Produc tion cars. It had been dete mined prior to the race that as far as the Owens - Corning Fiberglas Team drivers A. J DeLorenzoof Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and Jerry Thompson of Clawson. Mich., went. DeLorenzo would win the race.Silent Screen Victor ;In Late, Late4 Show'i«n-*'YThompson, fastest qualifier of the entire weekend in his immaculate 427 Stxingray. ledBy The Associated PressWhy shouldn’t thewinnerof the Arlington - Washington Futurity be Silent Screen.? The race like an old movie$109,880 Matron Stakes lor two - year - old fillies at Belmont Park.AtJ*IdThe plane trip was certainly worthwhile for Rotz, as Sion television, didn’t start un- lent Screen earned $206,075til alter midnight.after running the seven furlongs in 122 3-5 and returning a winning mutuel payoffTelevision movie fans uumacimue w omngia, .eu mnt get a chance (o see Si- of-$]0.40. Favored Insubordi-for the first Japs lent Screen. If they had, they nation earned $75,000 and DeUrenzo slipped ahead. But have a ncw idol. third- place Windy TideDeLorenzo spun on the futn r u r t h umrthlap and dropped behind both Shortly after a field of 12-,*^™. Fo u ],B^torthtwo - year - olds left the post 525 000 »«*»«* Minister, at 12:27 a. m. (EDT) Sunday for the $366,075 race at Arlington Park. Sonny Werblin’s colt stormed home first, byThompson and Dwight Knupp of Detroit, Mich., m a AMX B Production car. He then made up a half - mile deficit and on the last lap, passedKnupp in the first of Mid - about eight lengths oyer Rob-Ohio’s 15 turns and started to bins’ and Resseguets Insur-■ bordination.catch his teammate.As the matched Stingrays came within 100 yards of the finish line, Thompson suddenly slowed down and let De-I.orenzo past for the win with Knupp close behind in third, his second consecutive Mid • Ohio win.The track did dry for the last race, A and B sedan, so“We felt we had a good horse, but we really didn’t know he was that good. said Johnny Rotz, who rode Silent Screen.But Rotz must have had a pretty good idea, for he flew to C h i c a g o after finishing eighth and last on Gay Missile Saturday afternoon in theColumbus Jets Open Series With SyracuseSYRACUSE. N. Y. (UPI) — The Columbus Jets and Syracuse opened their best -of - seven series here tonight for .the International League title.Jets Manager Don Hoak, in his first season with Columbus, indicated he would start righthander Bob Settle in the first game. The first three games will be played here and the remainder in Columbus.I1
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Mansfield, Ohio, US
Mon, Sep 08, 1969
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