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(RIP) Roger McClusky


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Young Roger with a stock car


Roger with Bobby Allison


Roger with Roger Ward


Roger with # 14


Roger after winning the Miller 200.


Roger at Eldora 1962


Roger in # 12 in 1967


Roger in # 8


Roger in the cockpit


Roger in his car


Roger in # 72


Roger in # 1


Roger in # 8


Roger in # 15


Roger in # 6 in 1971


Roger in # 12


Roger in # 11


Roger in # 1


Roger in a roadster


Roger in # 8 in 1968


Roger in # 3


Roger in # 15


Roger in # 11


Roger in # 17


#51 Roger in the & H H Machine Tool Chevy leads Jud Larson in the #4 A.J. Watson Offy.


# 3 Roger chasing # 1


# 12 with # 1 Don Branson and # 2 A J Foyt


Roger, Parnelli Jones and Johnny Rutherford in a scrunm


Roger chasing Johnny Rutherford 1962


Roger, Carl Williams and Arnie Knepper 1965


Roger outraces the field at Terre Haute


Roger trying to force his way underneath Bobby Unser


Roger with Jim Hurtubise


#11 Roger, #21 Jack Bowser& #8 Sal Tovela


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# 8


# 51


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Roger won 10 CRA victories from January 1956 to June 1959.

From Wikipedia: Roger McCluskey (August 24, 1930 – August 29, 1993) was an American race car driver. He was from Tucson, Arizona.

He won championship titles in three divisions of USAC -Sprints, Stocks, and Champ Cars. He won the USAC Sprint Car title in 1963 and 1966, the USAC Stock Car title in 1969 and 1970. The Champ Car title in 1973. His first USAC Stock Car start resulted in a runner-up finish in Phoenix, Arizona in January 1968, when he drove as a substitute driver for Norm Nelson.

McCluskey earned four USAC Midget Car wins, 23 USAC Sprint Car wins, 23 USAC Stock Car wins and five USAC Championship Car (national championship) wins (including his last start at Milwaukee in 1979, which is a rarety since most drivers don't win their last race in their career). He was the USAC national champion in 1973. He started every Indianapolis 500 race from 1961 to 1979 except 1964, with a best finish of 3rd in 1973.

He also made four NASCAR Grand National (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) starts from 1969 to 1977 with a best finish of second in 1970 at Riverside International Raceway.

He represented the USAC series in the 1974 International Race of Champions.

McCluskey raced for the Holman and Moody team in a Ford GT40 Mk.IIB at the 1967 LeMans 24hrs of Endurance, France. During this event, McCluskey is credited with pulling Mario Andretti to safety-and thus saving his life-after Andretti had seriously crashed his Ford GT40 Mk.IV when a front brake locked.

McCluskey died on August 29, 1993, just five days after his 63rd birthday after a long battle with cancer. In 2004 the local United Sports Arizona Race Park hosted the Roger McCluskey Sprint Car Classic in his honor.

He was inducted in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1993.

He was also inducted into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame in 2002.

He was also inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2011.

Created 10/29/18

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