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Astro Grand Prix

USAC Midget race
Houston Astrodome, Houston, TX
March 9, 1969
100 laps on 0.2 mile dirt oval; 20 miles

Fin	St	Driver	#	Owner	Car	Laps	Money	Status	Laps Led
1	6	Lee Kunzman	74	Bob Willey	Chevrolet	100	2,500	running
2	5	Bruce Walkup	90	Gus Sohm	Offenhauser	100	1,900	running
3	8	Sam Sessions	22	Shannon Buick	Offenhauser	100	1,550	running
4	9	Tom Bigelow	20	John Hajduk	Offenhauser		1,325
5	13	Jigger Sirois	55	Gene Hamilton	Offenhauser		675
6	10	Bob Wente	25	Walter Knepper	Offenhauser		1,275
7	24	Lloyd Ruby	6	Robert Nowicke	Offenhauser		540
8	17	Mario Andretti	61	Don Kenyon	Offenhauser		485
9	19	Mel Kenyon	1	Don Kenyon	Offenhauser		500
10	4	Wib Spaulding	73	Lee Elkins	Offenhauser		575
11	18	Dick Jones	8	Tom Krehl	Offenhauser		420
12	16	Bob Hare	39	Bob Hare	Offenhauser		385
13	20	Jim Malloy	64	Harry Conklin	Offenhauser		370
14	11	Bob Hauck	67	Math Schneider	Chevrolet		335
15	3	Dave Strickland	5	Owen Kincaid	Offenhauser		400
16	23	Johnny Rutherford	66	Scott Hunter	Offenhauser		305
17	7	Henry Pens	99	Howard Linne	Offenhauser		550
18	14	Dick Pole	37	William Cooper	Chevrolet		255
19	15	Bill Puterbaugh	14	Lloyd Rahn	Offenhauser		220
20	2	Gary Bettenhausen	7	Robert Nowicke	Offenhauser		225
21	21	Al Unser	89	Parnelli Jones	Offenhauser		250
22	12	Bobby Unser	98	Parnelli Jones	Offenhauser		130
23	1	Danny Frye	11	C.E. Kirchner	Offenhauser		100
24	22	A.J. Foyt	83	Marvin Edwards	1946 Edwards/Offenhauser		250
25	25	Ray Elliott	23	Lou Cooper	Falcon	0	200	did not qualify	0
26	26	Billy Vukovich	15	D.J. Caruthers	Offenhauser	0	200	did not qualify	0
27	27	Chuck Arnold	24	Glenn Trainor	Offenhauser	0	180	did not qualify	0
28	28	Roger West	9	Saemann Grabow	Offenhauser	0	190	did not qualify	0
29	29	Gene Roehl	82	Harry Turner	Offenhauser	0	150	did not qualify	0
30	30	Arnold Knepper	31	Arnold Knepper	Offenhauser	0	150	did not qualify	0
31	31	George Snider	60	Walter Schweitzer	Offenhauser	0	100	did not qualify	0
32	32	Rob Greentree	12	Rob Greentree	Offenhauser	0	155	did not qualify	0
33	33	Bob Tattersall	3	Jack Stroud	Offenhauser	0	100	did not qualify	0
34	34	Chuck Weyant	87	Ed Loniewski	Offenhauser	0	90	did not qualify	0
35	35	Mel Cornett	18	Clifford Cornell	Offenhauser	0	90	did not qualify	0
36	36	Jim McElreath	85	E.E. Silk	Offenhauser	0	90	did not qualify	0
37	37	Greg Weld	32	Han Hansen	Offenhauser	0	80	did not qualify	0
38	38	Bill Mehner	65	Louis Snook	Offenhauser	0	140	did not qualify	0
39	39	Bob Lithgow	28	Bob Lithgow	Offenhauser	0	60	did not qualify	0
40	40	Les Scott	10	Les Scott	Offenhauser	0	80	did not qualify	0
41	41	Warren Scheibe	68	Len Tetrault	Chevrolet	0	50	did not qualify	0
42	42	Larry Rice	36	Bob Rice	Offenhauser	0	50	did not qualify	0
43	43	Jim McClean	47	George McBeath	Offenhauser	0	70	did not qualify	0
44	44	Jim McVay	50	Bud Doty	Chevrolet	0	40	did not qualify	0
45	45	Don Vogler	29	Don Vogler	Chevrolet	0	40	did not qualify	0
46	46	Ron Hughes	45	Gay VanBerckelaer	Offenhauser	0	40	did not qualify	0
47	47	Bill Renshaw	38	Bill Renshaw	Offenhauser	0	30	did not qualify	0
48	48	Billy Engelhart	21	Vance Moore	Offenhauser	0	30	did not qualify	0
49	49	Sonny Ates	84	K.V. Welland	Offenhauser	0	30	did not qualify	0
50	50	Jack Calabrese	33	Coxie Bowman	Offenhauser	0	105	did not qualify	0
51	51	Roger Branson	69	J.H Rose	Chevrolet	0	80	did not qualify	0
52	52	Mike McGreevy	2	Howard Linne	Offenhauser	0	35	did not qualify	0
53	53	Jim Maguire	75	Edward Mataka	Offenhauser	0	30	did not qualify	0
54	54	Joe Giba	62	Joe Giba	Johnson	0	30	did not qualify	0
55	55	Merle Bettenhausen	96	Howard Linne	Offenhauser	0	0	did not qualify	0
56	56	Steve Troxell	35	George Gamester	Sesco	0	0	did not qualify	0
57	57	Mike McGreevy	93	Howard Linne	Offenhauser	0	0	did not qualify	0
58	58	Bobby Grim	97	Eddie Russo	Offenhauser	0	0	did not qualify	0

Notes: Bob Wente was the fast qualifier.
Time of race: 00:24:41
Average Speed: 60.755 MPH
Pole Speed: 12.64 seconds
Race Purse: $ 31,000