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#1 Michael Ferner

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Posted 21 August 2016 - 16:37

Dirt Road to a Silver Crown - The Illustrated History of the USAC Silver Crown Division by Bob Gates, Pat Sullivan, Ed Watson and John Mahoney has a wrong caption (actually, a wrong photo!) that I have been wanting to point out for a long time, but I always thought it was too minor a correction to start a new thread. Now, I found another error in the results section, so here goes:

p298 photograph of Steve Smith actually shows Stevie Smith (his son)

p146 results of Springfield 8/20/83 show Keith Kauffman finishing 8th in the #58 Radio Hospital Special, when the car was actually driven by Mark Alderson (starting position is correct for Alderson). This is confirmed by the year end point standings in the USAC yearbook, showing Alderson with 280 points in 7th and Kauffman with 40 points in 31st, which only works out correctly if Alderson drove at Springfield. The individual results in the Drivers History section for Alderson (p249) and Kauffman (p279) need to be corrected, too.

Edited by Michael Ferner, 21 August 2016 - 16:38.