By Jeff Hutchinaon

In wmmenting upon the termination of the co-sanctioning agreement, Argetabger expressed his regret that it became iapwsible to achieve the 1978 goal of a oDmmon engins formulr in W t i o u he :Sued. "The series will continue next obirand I hope we will m u 1 1 have puticiw o n by USAC drivers." Tsn dates for the lefl Formula Sa)0 Championship s e r i a have been a p proved, and a m on the FIA cajendar of .sents with Full IrIte~tiOnelh u n g . Argotsinger added that the w r h ache: d u b of dates and venues would be an-

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DAYTONA BEACH Fla -Daytona Internat~onalSpeedway has announced the schedule of events forthe Inlernatrona1 Motor Sports Assn's Thanksglvlng weekend c h a m p l o n s h ~ proad raclng flnale. The three-day program Includes two qualrfylng heat races on Saturday. November 17th and a double header showdown on Sunday. Nov 28th to determrne the lMSA Radlal and Camel GT Challenge championships. The Thanksgiving weekend of IMSA racing will begin Friday. Nov. 26 with registration and practice. On Saturday, a new d l m e n s ~ o nhas been added to the IMSA championship finale a s two 10-lap heat races will be held to determine the starting positions for the IMSA Radial 150 to be run the following day at Noon. More than 70 of the sub-comoact c a r s competlngon the IMSA Hadlal Challenge crrcurt wrll be dlvlded Into two p o u p s fur the twln 10-lap sprlnts w h ~ c h prorntse ur be fender-banging dashes. Also scheduled for Saturdny is the

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Holbert racing to the wire. with Holbcrt' Monza eventually taking the w l e . .

Stock Title At Odds

COLLEGE STATION. Texas-The National Stock Car Championship of the Unitedstates Auto Club will he decided at Texas World Speedway the weekend of October 30th and 31st. A season-long battle which started on the "world's fastest speedway" in College Station back on June 6 comes down to fending Champion k. I o w a by a mere h a s a total of 1850 World Speedway

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PHOENIX. Ariz.-The date for th Bobby Ball 150-mile U.S. Auto Clu Indianapolis car race at Phoenix Irterna tional Raceway has been changed tt Sunday. Nov. 7. : = : . p s . Originally scheduled for change was prompted W ~ Z @ ' & ? - T ~ official notified PIR that the event woui, be taped for nation-wide television view ing instead of the earlier planned liv, telecast on ABC-TV's "Wlde World o sports:. "This i s what we were hoplug would happen." said PIR vice president Bill Hardy."Westill get the nationalexposure we wanted for Arizom, plus it allows many people to come (a ihe w e whr might not have had due t work committments." ~A:, Speaking of the data change and th tightest battle for the national drivinl championship i n recent years. Hard: said "we're more optimistic than ever wf can achieve our goal of hav' $100.00 gat.'f* autO r

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Speedway officials Humpy Wheeler and Bruton Smith had arranged rides for the USAC and road racers knowing full well none of them would be able to run with the top NASCAR teams. It made for good pre-race copy, but none of the four "outsiders" made it into the latter stages. Holbert. in fact. was the first car out after just seven laps. Johncock followed him Into the garage areaafter41 laps, and Poyt was the third driver to fall out. making 59 circuits. Rutherford tasted 208 laps before losing an engine. The "Stop Pearson Movement." in fact. was one of several side-stories that made the National 500 a bonanza of intrigue. There was the accusation that the Wood brothers. for whom Pearson drives. have bsen Using some super-secret petrochemical that boosts horsepower by 35 or

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HARRISBURG. N.C.-After 17 years of being the "National Something" (it was the '4M)' for its first six years. lhen a 500miler). the 1977 fall race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway was the NAPA National 500 this year. The National Automotive Parts Association (NAPA) joined with CMS to announce the new sponsorship on theeve of this year's National 500 on Oct. 10. Making the announcement were Paul Rollins, vice president and general manager of NAPA; and Bruton Smith. chairman of the board of the Charlotte Motor Speedway. "This 1s NAPA's first step in a longterm commitment to automobile racing." Rollins said at a Thursday luncheon on the speedway grounds. "Racing people are our kind of people at NAPA-they are car enthusiasts whodomuch of theirown work. They make up the cross-section of Americans that we're hoping to reach." While neither Rollins or Smith would place a dollar amount on NAPA's sponsorship of the NAPA National 500. both men agreed that themoney was"suhstantial." "This weekend we're offering $18,000 in NAPA Charger Awards to the leaders of specific lap segments.'' Rollins added. "We'd like the NAPA National 500 to he equal to the Indy 500 in the eyes of the public. This i s the kind of challenge NAPA likes-going head-on against college and pro football and ihe baseball years, including the 1977. 1878 and 1879 races. Rollins said a more formal announcement regarding NAPA's sponsorship 01 a 4W)-kilometer race at Riverside. Repeated questions about NAPA's role in the National500 brought thisresponse from both Smith and Rollins: "As such. NAPA i s not paying the purse for the race. It is not paying a percentage of the purse. either. NAPA will help us promo1 the race through its 5200 stores in all : states, stores which generate $800.000.WO in business in 1975. NAP. has no plans right now to sponsor team." Smith said that NAPA's involvemer with the National 500 would allow Chu lotte Motor Speedway to put the fall rer on a par with the May World 600.NAP. will help us make the National 500 onec the three or four most important races i the country." he said. "Their participr tion i s one of the most important boos1 our sport has had in years. Their la1 leader awards program is the mor progressive innovation in the format c major motor races since thecomingof t h superspeedways." Rollins pointed out that ademographi survey across the country indical 82% of the racing fans surveyed f, the top consumer age bracket of 1- .-. years. Of these. two-thirds are marriel almost 6090 own their own homeand80' drive a car that i s at least four years oh Over 60% of them drive 15.000 or mo1 miles a year. Stock car racing's spectator app8.L helped lure NAPA to the CharlotteMotot Speedway. Latest figures showed fhqt 1.234.053 fans attended the 32 NASCAR pointed out. was 300.000 more fans than went to 68 major drag racing eventsover the same period of time. The 1977 NAPA National 5

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