Bobby Unser passed today at the age of 87.A three time Indianapolis 500 winner former IROC champ and 13 time Pikes Peak champion.Plus a record on the Bonneville Salt Flats for 13 years before being broken.Id call that a lengthy resume.And Eric McClure,the former Nationwide series driver and son of former Cup Series owner Jerry McClure,half of the former Morgan/McClure Cup Series team passed over the weekend.
RIP.
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Bobby Unser was a racer’s racer! Indy, Bonneville, Pikes Peak, midgets and didn’t he run USAC stock cars too? An amazing life with an amazing family!
Very sad news. My Prayers and Condolences to their families … RIP
He raced every division that USAC had in the early 1960s which included an outstanding Stock Car & Sprint Car Divisions.Midgets as well.Since back in that time period the ONLY way you were going to get a seat in someone else’s car to even try to make the Indianapolis 500 was you had to win in the Sprint cars.And the only way you were generally going to get a ride in a sprint car was through more often than not the midgets.Then Salem and Winchester Indiana and Dayton Ohio were known as the road to Indy.Car owners insisted on you being able to win at all three tracks before they felt comfortable putting you in a car to run Indianapolis.Salem & Winchester Indiana’s half miles live on but the biggest track of the three, Dayton which was a 5/8 mile disappeared in the late 1980s.