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20 News Journal, Mansfield, 0. Monday, September 22, 1969Mansfield Driver Wins in Nationals(overlook the class’s leading car and stayed ahead for the entire race, other than laps five through eight when he spun because of a broken brake pedal and let Ron Justice of Illinois in a Porsche 906 take the class lead. Steve isoon erased Justice's nine -’second margin and roared home with a 90.59 mph average speed win. a lap behind the overall winners.Jack Baumgardner of Mansfield, Ohio scored another win with his hot C Sedan Mini Cooper S, coming from ninth on the starting grid to first place in the 1,000 feet between the starting line and the first turn.• Baumgardner led the first seven laps of the race with no close competition then slowed to let the first F Production car, a Sprite driven by John Rand of Michigan,, into the lead since Jack had his class wrapped up. First official results had Baumgardner win-, ning the class at an 82.39 mph average and a new class rec-1 ord of 2:08.6 or 89.02 mph. six miles per hour faster than Rand’s supposed fastest lap.LATE SWITCHESTimers later quietly changed the results taking away the records from both men and re - assigning them to other drivers. Poor organization and equipment malfunctions had the races more than an hour late in starting and it was 9 p.m before drivers of the last race knew whether they had officially won or not.Race officials once again changed the path of the course in mid - week without giving notice to the drivers, planned their gearing othcr-until his season - long bugaboo, weak axles, dropped him from competition once again.In the Formula SCCA race. John Eitelgeorge of Crestline, eighth in Formula Ford with his Lotus 51 - Ford after starting 25lh and working hjs way through the pack.ALL RECORDSAll race winners set new lap speed records since it was the first race on that particular MIS course path, although long after the races were over and official results posted, timers and scorers found they were using incorrect speed conversion charts and all records were wrong.The only good thing about the track or organization was t:iat it marked the first time this year MIS has had a dry and somewhat sunny race weekend, only this time they had barred spectators from the course.Statistics ...C*v«lan,f ......... 7 4 i a €-271Philatfeljthll ..........0 1 C 13-50!Clev. — Collin* a lorn NcU«n;(Cockrell kick}Orv. - PG Cockroft 22 Pmt — wowKshtCk I run (Baker kick) j Oc. - PB - Cockrell Clev. — Jcnnson I run (Corkralt ViCkl i Cicv. -- Johnson 48 run (CJCkrelt kick) I Phi - scaroaii 24 interceoilon (Kick: failod)PhH — Hawkins 11 torn Sneaa tanker kick)First downs .. 19....... 2RushktO y»rlt;uue . 173....... 54Pissing yd'dag* ........194.......159;Return yaro»oe ........ 3! — IS*!Pss«s ..... ...13-28-2_____12-31-21Punts 1-18.3......2-35.9 •F,-moles tost ............... 3.........0Yards penalized ...... 3»......M!Brisker Now PiperBy DAVE ARNOLDJACKSON, Mich. - For one of the first times in his long sports car racing career, Mansfielder R. Steven Payne - Herbert has won back - to- back Sports Car Club of America na t i o n a 1 championship points races.Herbert and his veteran B o b s y - Porsche yesterday outlasted the finest crop of exotic Porsche 906s and other B Sports - Racing cars assembled this year in the midwest to win his class at the Michigan International Speedway three * mile road racing course near here.Just seven days prior the Mansfield, Ohio driver won the class at Steel Cities International Raceway near Warren. O. The win gives him 24 points and second place in the SCCA Central Division.Herbert qualified second in his class and fourth overall in the 30 - minute race with a 1:58.0 but in the first turn heLexington Pilot Sets Mini MarkThe course record was lowered by six seconds and all other individual class records were broken as 61 sports car drivers yesterday roared through the Mid - Ohio Sports Car Club’s Mini - Sebnng” course at the M a n s f i e 1 d -Lahm Airport.Bill Phaneuf of Ix*xinglon. president of the MOSCC and chairman of the event, erased six seconds from the old course record with his Lotus 7-A and turned two laps of the .35 mile course in 1:16.2. The course was an exact 1-15th replica of the five - mile Sebiing, Fla. course. Entrants were given three runs of two laps apiece.wise. It made the third different course MIS has used in three sports car races this season.PITTSBURGH lt;AP — The Pittsburgh Pipers of theAmerican Basketball Association have announced the sign-•irg of John Brisker, a for-•ward from the University of Also in the F Production'Toledo. Brisker slunds 6 footrace, Russ Sprang of Mans- 6 and averaged 15 points and field, Ohio, was running asj9.8 rebounds per game at To-high as seventh in his class,ledo.
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Mansfield, Ohio, US
Mon, Sep 22, 1969
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