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USAC Sprint Car race
Terre Haute Action Track, Terre Haute, IN
June 21, 1970
40 laps on 0.5 mile dirt oval; 20 miles

Fin	St	Driver	#	Owner	Car	Laps	Money	Status	Laps Led
1	5	Jim McElreath	83	Rufus Gray		40		running
2	3	Greg Weld	4	Paul Leffler
3	13	Don Nordhorn	71	Mark Hughes
4	14	Dick Tobias	17	Russ Ruppert
5	10	Gary Bettenhausen	69	Bob Lockard
6	4	Lennie Waldo	80	Hilton Wachholz
7	8	Larry Dickson	2	Kenny Lay
8	12	Jimmy Oskie	91	Jimmy Oskie
9	7	Rollie Beale	11	Ronald Kilman
10	11	Charles Booth	76	Walter Winterbotham
11	9	George Snider	56	Jack Colvin
12	18	Johnny Capels	65	George Bignotti
13	15	Andy Brown	49	Don Colling
14	19	Carl Williams	82	Carl Williams
15	6	Tom Bigelow	84	Carl Gehlhausen				did not finish
16	16	Johnny Parsons	3	Duane Carter				did not finish
17	1	Karl Busson	95	Bernie Cedoz				did not finish
18	20	Ralph Liguori	42	Robert Ziegler				did not finish
19	17	Bill Puterbaugh	60	Glen Niebel				did not finish
20	2	A.J. Foyt	15	Walter Meskowski				engine
21	21	Gary Bettenhausen	1	Willie Davis		0		did not start	0
22	22	Dee Jones	75	Harold Thomas		0		did not qualify	0
23	23	Larry Cannon	10	Larry Cannon		0		did not qualify	0
24	24	Al Smith	30	Dick Hoffman		0		did not qualify	0
25	25	Dave Strickland	32	David LeFevre		0		did not qualify	0
26	26	Todd Gibson	7	Carl Forberg		0		did not qualify	0
27	27	Gordy Lee	55	W.L. Otis		0		did not qualify	0
28	28	Gil Hess	73	Mauri Amerling		0		did not qualify	0
29	29	Charles Masters	43	Virgil Welch		0		did not qualify	0
30	30	Bill Hamm	48			0		did not qualify	0
		Merle Bettenhausen	69	Bob Lockard		0		time trialed car	0

Notes: Tom Bigelow was the fast qualifier.
Race Purse: $ 10,026