USAC National Championship 1968 standings

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USAC National Championship 1968 standings

Championship points standings for the USAC National Championship 1968

Position	Driver	Team	Car	Points
1.	Bobby Unser	Leader Card	Watson (Offenhauser) Coyote (Ford) Eagle 68 (Ford) Eagle 68 (Offenhauser)	4330
2.	Mario Andretti	Brawner-Andretti Racing Team, Leader Card	Kuzma (Offenhauser) Brawner (Offenhauser) Brawner (Ford) Watson (Offenhauser)	4319
3.	Al Unser	Retzloff Chemical	Dunlop (Offenhauser) Lola T150 (Ford)	2895
4.	Lloyd Ruby	Gene White Racing	Mongoose (Offenhauser) Mongoose (Ford)	2799
5.	Bill Vukovich II	Agajanian	Brabham (Offenhauser TC) Watson (Offenhauser) Brabham (Ford) Shrike (Offenhauser TC) Mongoose (Offenhauser TC) Mongoose (Ford)	2410
6.	A. J. Foyt	Ansted Racing	Meskowski (Offenhauser) Coyote (Ford TC)	1860
7.	Dan Gurney	All American Racers	Eagle 68 (Weslake-Ford)	1800
8.	Gary Bettenhausen	Don Gerhardt Racing, Joe Hunt Magneto	Gerhardt (Ford) Gerhardt (Offenhauser) Ward (Offenhauser) Lesovsky D (Offenhauser)	1595
9.	Mel Kenyon	Don Gerhardt Racing	Gerhardt (Offenhauser)	1355
10.	Jim Malloy	Jim Robbins	Vollstedt (Ford) Vollstedt (Offenhauser) King (Ford)	1265
11.	Sammy (Allen Dale) Sessions	Vatis Enterprises, Quaker State	Finley (Offenhauser) Gerhardt (Offenhauser)	1260
12.	Gordon Johncock	Johncock Racing	Gerhardt (Offenhauser TC) Gerhardt (Ford) Eagle (Ford) Eagle (Offenhauser TC)	1257
13.	Roger McCluskey	Foyt & Greer	Eagle (Ford) Eagle (Offenhauser TC) Kuzma (Offenhauser)	1228
14.	Ronnie Bucknum	Weinberger Homes	Eagle 68 (Offenhauser) Eagle 68 (Ford)	1200
15.	Bud Tingelstad	Federal Engineering, Leader Card	Meskowski (Offenhauser) Gerhardt (Ford) Gerhardt (Offenhauser TC) Watson (Ford)	1016
16.	Wally Dallenbach	Vatis Enterprises	Huffaker (Ford) Vollstedt (Offenhauser) Finley (Offenhauser TC) Huffaker (Offenhauser TC) Finley RE (Offenhauser TC)	960
17.	George Snider	Leader Card, Vel's Parnelli Jones, Don Gerhardt Racing	Watson (Ford) Mongoose (Ford) Gerhardt (Offenhauser TC) Watson (Offenhauser)	919
18.	Larry Dickson	Dayton Steel Wheel, Andretti Racing Team, Two Jacks, Weinberger Homes, Vollstedt Racing	Vollstedt (Ford TC) Blum (Offenhauser) Lola (Ford) Brawner (Ford) Gerhardt (Ford)	890
19.	Johnny Rutherford	E.R.E. Enterprises, Alan Green, Michner Petroleum, Don Gerhardt Racing	Eagle Offenhauser) Eagle (Ford) Eisert (Chevrolet) Gerhardt (Offenhauser)	890
20.	Mike Mosley	Leader Card	Watson (Offenhauser TC) Watson (Ford)	860
21.	Joe Leonard	Vel's Parnelli Jones, STP Oil Treatment	Morris (Ford) Mongoose (Ford) Lotus (Pratt & Whittney)	850
22.	Jim McElreath	James Greer, Two Jacks	Coyote (Ford) Lola (Ford) Brawner (Ford) Brawner (Offenhauser TC) Lola (Offenhauser TC)	741
23.	Art Pollard	Don Gerhardt Racing, STP Oil Treatment, Two Jacks, Vollstedt Racing, Retzloff Chemical	Gerhardt (Offenhauser) Gerhardt (Ford) Lotus (Pratt & Whittney) Lola (Ford) Vollstedt (Ford) Vollstedt (Offenhauser)	696
24.	Denny Hulme	All American Racers	Eagle 68 (Ford)	600
25.	Sonny Ates	Boyce Holt Racing, Federal Engineering, California Speed/Sport	Halibrand (Offenhauser) Turner D (Chevrolet) Gerhardt (Offenhauser TC) Gerhardt (Chevrolet)	520
26.	Rick Muther	Michner Petroleum, George R. Bryant, Boyce Holt Racing, Vatis Enterprises	Lola (Ford) Cheetah (Ford) Gerhardt (Chevrolet) Finley (Ford)	510
27.	John Cannon	George R. Bryant, Vollstedt Racing, Vel's Parnelli Jones	Vollstedt (Ford) Cheetah (Ford) Mongoose (Ford)	505
28.	Ronnie Duman	Hayhoe Racing, Central Excavating	Brabham (Offenhauser) Gerhardt (Offenhauser)	400
29.	Bruce Walkup	Hayhoe Racing, Midwest Manufacturing, Kenny Brenn, Stewart-Warner	Kurtis 4000D (Offenhauser) Gerhardt (Ford) Edmunds (Offenhauser) Brabham (Offenhauser) Vollstedt (Offenhauser) Meskowski D (Offenhauser) Marathon (Ford)	390
30.	Max Dudley	Max Dudley	Gerhardt (Chevrolet)	305
31.	Bill Puterbaugh	Dayton Steel Wheel, Midwest Manufacturing, Kenny Brenn	Kurtis 4000D (Offenhauser) Silnes (Offenhauser) Gerhardt (Ford) Meskowski D (Offenhauser)	265
32.	George Follmer	George R. Bryant	Cheetah (Ford)	240
33.	Arnold Knepper	Central Excavating, S & D, Retzloff Chemical, Vollstedt Racing, MVS	Lola (Ford) Cecil (Ford) Gerhardt (Offenhauser) Meskowski D (Offenhauser) Vollstedt (Offenhauser) Ward D (Offenhauser) Cecil (Offenhauser)	206
34.	Mark Donohue	US Racing	Eagle (Chevrolet)	200
35.	George Benson	Conze, Maxson, Speedy's Broasted Chicken	Watson FE (Offenhauser) Meskowski (Offenhauser) Huffaker (Chevrolet)	170
36.	Carl Williams	Ansted Racing, Vargo Excavating, Federal Engineering, Retzloff Chemical	Coyote (Ford) Meskowski (Offenhauser) Gerhardt (Offenhauser) Lola (Ford)	150
37.	Bobby Grim	Gene White Racing	Mongoose (Offenhauser)	150
38.	Jerry Daniels	Weinberger Homes, S & D	Blum (Offenhauser) Meskowski (Chevrolet)	120
39.	Wib Spalding	California Speed/Sport	Halibrand (Offenhauser)	100
40.	Bob Veith	Don Gerhardt Racing	Gerhardt (Offenhauser)	100
41.	Peter Revson	E.R.E. Enterprises	Eisert (Chevrolet)	90
42.	Chuck Booth	Boyce Holt Racing	Turner D (Chevrolet)	85
43.	Tom Bigelow	Midwest Mfg	Kurtis4000D (Offenhauser)	80
44.	Lothar Motschenbacher	Leader Card	Watson (Offenhauser)	80
45.	Keith Rachwitz	Lynch	Halibrand (Offenhauser)	80
46.	Rollie Beale	Kenny Brenn	Meskowski D (Offenhauser)	80
47.	Chuck Hulse	Quaker State Oil	Gerhardt (Offenhauser)	75
48.	Leon Duray Sirois	Cavanaugh V8, Central Excavating	Kurtis FE (Chevrolet) Gerhardt (Offenhauser TC)	75
49.	Jack Eiteljorg	Debbie Drake	Eisert (Chevrolet) Eisert RE (Chevrolet)	70
50.	Bob Harkey	Bulldog Stables	Gerhardt (Offenhauser TC) Gerhardt (Chevrolet)	60
51.	Bud Morley	Earl Smith, Stewart-Warner	Gerhardt (Offenhauser) Marathon (Ford)	50
52.	Dennis Zimmerman	Bulldog Stables	Gerhardt (Chevrolet) Gerhardt (Offenhauser)	50
53.	Bob Hurt	Central Excavating	Gerhardt (Offenhauser)	45
54.	Ralph Liguori	Joe Hunt Magneto	Lesovsky D (Offenhauser)	40
55.	Roger West	Tim Delrose Enterprises	Lesovsky (Offenhauser)	30
56.	Bruce Jacobi	Earl Smith, Avanti II, Windmill Truckers Center, Travelon Trailer	Gerhardt (Offenhauser) Gerhardt (Chevrolet) Marathon (Ford) Silnes (Offenhauser)	30
57.	Dempsey Wilson	Greenman	Halibrand (Chevrolet)	30
58.	Al Smith	Al Smith	Chenoweth FE (Chevrolet)	25
59.	Ted Foltz	Godwin Bevers	X (Chevrolet)	24
60.	Wes Vandervoort	Rocky Mountain Paving	Chevrolet	21
61.	George Fejer	Chinook	Chinook MkVII (Ford)	20
62.	Paul Kleinschmidt	Coors Cadillac	X (Cadillac)	15
63.	Malcolm Brazier	Gruenerwald-Kearny	X (Buick)	12
64.	Lou Sell	Smother Brothers Racing	Eagle (Ford)	10
65.	Bob Herring	Campo Construction	Chevrolet	9
66.	Grier Manning	Agajanian	Offenhauser	8
67.	Ralph Chandler Bruning Sr	Bruning Construction	(Ford)	6
68.	Charlie Lowderman	Bill Wynne	X (Chevrolet)	5
	Chuck Arnold	California Speed/Sport	Halibrand (Offenhauser)	0
	Gene Bergin	Bulldog Stables	Gerhardt (Chevrolet)	0
	Jack Brabham	Brabham Racing Organisation	Brabham (Repco)	0
	Norm Brown	Michner Petroleum	Lola (Ford)	0
	Bob Daly		Lincoln	0
	Bay (Wilbur) Darnell	Curtis Auto Center	Curtis (Chevrolet)	0
	Jerry Grant	Friedkin	Eagle (Ford)	0
	Graham Hill	STP Oil Treatment	Lotus (Pratt & Whittney)	0
	Jim Hurtubise	Jim Hurtubise	Mallard FE (Offenhauser)	0
	Ernie Koch	B & K	Kuzma (Offenhauser)	0
	Bruce McLaren	Botany 500	Shelby (GE Turbine)	0
	Don Meacham	Travelon Trailer	Shilala (Offenhauser)	0
	Al (Albert) Miller (Krulock)		Gerhardt (Ford)	0
	Orville Nance	Burt's Auto Supply	Chevrolet	0
	Thurel Novotny	Auto Hospital	GMC	0
	Danny Ongais	Mickey Thompson	Thompson (Chevrolet)	0
	Henry Pens	Vollstedt Racing	Vollstedt (Offenhauser)	0
	Jochen Rindt	Brabham Racing Organisation	Brabham (Repco)	0
	Skip Scott	Retzloff Chemical	Lola (Ford)	0
	Mickey Shaw	Boyce Holt Racing	Gerhardt (Chevrolet)	0
	Bill Simpson	Bill Simpson	Cheetah (Ford)	0
	Mike Spence	STP Oil Treatment	Lotus 4WD (Pratt & Whitney Turbine)	0
	Leonard Stephens	Halibrand Engineering	Halibrand (Offenhauser)	0
	Don Thomas	S & D	Meskowski D (Offenhauser)	0
	Jerry Titus	Andretti Racing Team	Brawner (Ford)	0
	Greg Weld	Smith Speed Shop, Joe Hunt Magneto	Ward (Offenhauser) Ward D (Chevrolet) Lesovsky D (Offenhauser)	0
	Lee Roy Yarbrough			0

	Driver	Number
Most race wins	Al Unser	5
	Bobby Unser	5
Most pole positions	Mario Andretti	8
Most podium positions	Mario Andretti	16
Most podium positions without a win	George Snider	3
	Jim Malloy	3

Nationality of participating drivers

%	Country	Drivers	Number
90.5%	U.S.A.	Al Unser, Mario Andretti, Gordon Johncock, Johnny Rutherford, Bobby Unser, Bob Veith, Charlie Lowderman, Paul Kleinschmidt, Dempsey Wilson, A. J. Foyt, Wally Dallenbach, Bill Vukovich II, Tom Bigelow, Jim McElreath, Mike Mosley, George Snider, Larry Dickson, Rick Muther, Roger McCluskey, Bob Harkey, Ted Foltz, Malcolm Brazier, George Follmer, Mel Kenyon, Ronnie Duman, Sammy (Allen Dale) Sessions, Lloyd Ruby, Dan Gurney, Gary Bettenhausen, Jim Malloy, Ronnie Bucknum, Bud Tingelstad, Joe Leonard, Art Pollard, Sonny Ates, Bruce Walkup, Max Dudley, Bill Puterbaugh, Arnold Knepper, Mark Donohue, George Benson, Carl Williams, Bobby Grim, Jerry Daniels, Wib Spalding, Peter Revson, Chuck Booth, Keith Rachwitz, Rollie Beale, Leon Duray Sirois, Jack Eiteljorg, Bud Morley, Dennis Zimmerman, Bob Hurt, Ralph Liguori, Roger West, Bruce Jacobi, Al Smith, Wes Vandervoort, Lou Sell, Bob Herring, Grier Manning, Ralph Chandler Bruning Sr, Skip Scott, Thurel Novotny, Greg Weld, Bob Daly, Jerry Titus, Orville Nance, Mickey Shaw, Al (Albert) Miller (Krulock), Danny Ongais, Ernie Koch, Lee Roy Yarbrough, Chuck Hulse, Henry Pens, Norm Brown, Gene Bergin, Bay (Wilbur) Darnell, Jim Hurtubise, Don Meacham, Jerry Grant, Chuck Arnold, Leonard Stephens, Bill Simpson, Don Thomas	86
2.1%	New Zealand	Denny Hulme, Bruce McLaren	2
2.1%	Canada	John Cannon, George Fejer	2
2.1%	Great Britain	Graham Hill, Mike Spence	2
1.1%	Germany	Lothar Motschenbacher	1
1.1%	Australia	Jack Brabham	1
1.1%	Austria	Jochen Rindt	1

Individual driver statistics for the 1968 USAC National Championship

Driver	Age	Races	Wins	Podiums	Poles	Fastest laps
Andretti, Mario	28 y/o	27	4	16	8
Arnold, Chuck	42 y/o	1	0	0	0
Ates, Sonny	33 y/o	9	0	0	0
Beale, Rollie	38 y/o	3	0	0	0
Benson, George	34 y/o	5	0	0	0
Bergin, Gene	36 y/o	1	0	0	0
Bettenhausen, Gary	26 y/o	25	1	3	0
Bigelow, Tom	28 y/o	2	0	0	0
Booth, Chuck	38 y/o	6	0	0	0
Brabham, Jack	42 y/o	1	0	0	0
Brazier, Malcolm	39 y/o	1	0	0	0
Brown, Norm	31 y/o	1	0	0	0
Bruning Sr, Ralph Chandler	23 y/o	1	0	0	0
Bucknum, Ronnie	32 y/o	12	1	3	1
Cannon, John	35 y/o	6	0	1	0
Dallenbach, Wally	31 y/o	19	0	2	0
Daly, Bob	34 y/o	1	0	0	0
Daniels, Jerry	29 y/o	3	0	0	0
Darnell, Bay (Wilbur)	37 y/o	2	0	0	0
Dickson, Larry	29 y/o	12	0	1	0
Donohue, Mark	31 y/o	3	0	0	0
Dudley, Max	31 y/o	13	0	0	0
Duman, Ronnie	39 y/o	2	0	0	0
Eiteljorg, Jack	29 y/o	3	0	0	0
Fejer, George	n/a	4	0	0	0
Follmer, George	34 y/o	6	0	0	0
Foltz, Ted	35 y/o	1	0	1	0
Foyt, A. J.	33 y/o	20	4	6	0
Grant, Jerry	33 y/o	3	0	0	0
Grim, Bobby	43 y/o	1	0	0	0
Gurney, Dan	37 y/o	5	3	4	4
Harkey, Bob	38 y/o	7	0	0	0
Herring, Bob	n/a	1	0	0	0
Hill, Graham	39 y/o	1	0	0	0
Hulme, Denny	32 y/o	1	0	0	0
Hulse, Chuck	40 y/o	2	0	0	0
Hurt, Bob	28 y/o	1	0	0	0
Hurtubise, Jim	35 y/o	1	0	0	0
Jacobi, Bruce	33 y/o	11	0	0	0
Johncock, Gordon	31 y/o	17	2	2	2
Kenyon, Mel	35 y/o	8	0	2	0
Kleinschmidt, Paul	n/a	1	0	0	0
Knepper, Arnold	37 y/o	15	0	0	0
Koch, Ernie	44 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Leonard, Joe	35 y/o	13	0	1	2
Liguori, Ralph	41 y/o	5	0	0	0
Lowderman, Charlie	n/a	1	0	0	0
Malloy, Jim	36 y/o	24	0	3	0
Manning, Grier	39 y/o	1	0	0	0
McCluskey, Roger	37 y/o	23	1	3	1
McElreath, Jim	40 y/o	13	0	0	0
McLaren, Bruce	30 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Meacham, Don	31 y/o	1	0	0	0
Miller (Krulock), Al (Albert)	46 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Morley, Bud	37 y/o	2	0	0	0
Mosley, Mike	21 y/o	13	0	1	0
Motschenbacher, Lothar	29 y/o	2	0	0	0
Muther, Rick	32 y/o	4	0	0	0
Nance, Orville	40 y/o	1	0	0	0
Novotny, Thurel	34 y/o	1	0	0	0
Ongais, Danny	26 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Pens, Henry	28 y/o	1	0	0	0
Pollard, Art	41 y/o	20	0	0	1
Puterbaugh, Bill	32 y/o	7	0	0	0
Rachwitz, Keith	43 y/o	3	0	0	0
Revson, Peter	29 y/o	1	0	0	0
Rindt, Jochen	26 y/o	1	0	0	0
Ruby, Lloyd	40 y/o	23	2	7	0
Rutherford, Johnny	30 y/o	17	0	0	0
Scott, Skip	26 y/o	1	0	0	0
Sell, Lou	n/a	5	0	0	0
Sessions, Sammy (Allen Dale)	32 y/o	14	0	0	0
Shaw, Mickey	35 y/o	1	0	0	0
Simpson, Bill	28 y/o	1	0	0	0
Sirois, Leon Duray	33 y/o	4	0	0	0
Smith, Al	39 y/o	1	0	0	0
Snider, George	27 y/o	12	0	3	0
Spalding, Wib	34 y/o	1	0	0	0
Spence, Mike	31 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Stephens, Leonard	42 y/o	3	0	0	0
Thomas, Don	36 y/o	1	0	0	0
Tingelstad, Bud	40 y/o	18	0	2	0
Titus, Jerry	39 y/o	1	0	0	0
Unser, Al	29 y/o	28	5	9	5
Unser, Bobby	34 y/o	25	5	11	3
Vandervoort, Wes	42 y/o	1	0	0	0
Veith, Bob	43 y/o	1	0	0	0
Vukovich II, Bill	24 y/o	25	0	2	1
Walkup, Bruce	23 y/o	12	0	0	0
Weld, Greg	24 y/o	4	0	0	0
West, Roger	27 y/o	2	0	0	0	0
Williams, Carl	37 y/o	8	0	0	0
Wilson, Dempsey	41 y/o	2	0	0	0
Yarbrough, Lee Roy	29 y/o	0	0	0	0	0
Zimmerman, Dennis	27 y/o	2	0	0	0

#	Date	Circuit	Winner	Second	Third	Pole	FL