USAC National Midget Series 1971 standings

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USAC National Midget Series 1971 standings

Championship points standings for the USAC National Midget Series 1971

Position	Driver	Team
1.	Eldon Caruthers	Doug Caruthers
2.	Jimmy Caruthers	Doug Caruthers
3.	Dave Strickland	Gamester, Stan Lee
19.	Roger West
20.	Mel Kenyon	Gamester
	John Anderson	Robert Miller
	Chuck Arnold	Harry Turner
	Tommy Astone Jr	Jack London
	Sonny Ates	Bob Willey
	Roger Bailey	Fahey
	John Batts	Batts Racing
	Harry Beck
	Gary Bettenhausen	Harry Turner
	Merle Bettenhausen	Stan Lee, Howard Lehmann
	Tom Bigelow	Carl Gehlhausen
	Dave Bowling
	Roger Branson
	Danny Brown
	Jackie Burke
	Hank Butcher
	Larry Cannon
	Steve Cannon
	Don Carmichael
	Pancho Carter
	Frank Childress
	Duke Cook
	Tommy Copp
	Mel Cornett
	Johnny Coy	Kenny Brenn
	Dennis Cullick
	Dickie Deis
	Duke DeRosa
	Dennis DeVea
	Jim Devitt
	Larry Dickson	Bettenhausen Racing
	Dennis Dorsey
	Len Duncan
	Leigh Earnshaw
	Ron Eden
	Ray Elliott
	Billy Engelhart	Vance Moore
	Bob Evans	Agajanian Faas Racers
	Burt Foland	Oliver Johnson
	Gene Force
	Jim Gates
	Rick Goudy	D K Cumberworth
	Butch Haisman
	Bob Hare	Hare Racing
	Dee Hileman
	John Hubbard
	Billy Hughes
	Billy Humphreys
	Gary Irvin	Irvin Racing
	Sam Isenhower
	Eddie Jackson
	Gary Johnson
	Bubby Jones
	Jerry Karl
	Walt Kennedy	Kennedy Racing
	Jim Kirk	Kenny Brenn
	Larry Kirkpatrick	Ned Kirkpatrick
	George Kladis
	Arnold Knepper	Knepper Racing
	Bill Koepfer
	Lee Kunzman
	Wally Lambert	Cooper
	Lee Leonard
	Ralph Liguori
	Bob Lithgow
	Jim Maguire
	Tommy McAndrew
	Jim McClean	Bob Lockard
	Jerry McClung	David Birmingham
	Ernie McCoy
	Danny McKnight
	Bob McLean
	Don Meacham
	Bill Mehner
	Bobby Morrow
	Danny O'Neill
	Johnny Parsons	Gene Hamilton
	Duke Pavlick
	Henry Pens	Howard Lehmann
	Dick Pole
	Gary Ponzini
	Bill Renshaw	Renshaw Racing
	Larry Rice	Gene Willman
	Bob Richards
	Hank Rogers Jr
	Johnny Rutherford
	Joe Saldana
	Sam Sauer
	Sonny Saunders
	Ed Schaefer
	Les (William L) Scott	Scott Racing
	Sammy Sessions	Don Vogler
	Billy Shuman
	Leon Sirois	Bud Doty
	Mitch Smith
	George Snider	Agajanian Faas Racers
	George Stefanech
	Tom Steiner
	Jerry Stover
	Chuck Taylor
	John Tenney
	Bob Thomas
	Lou Timolot
	Dick Tobias
	John Toth
	Leroy van Conett
	Donald Vogler
	Rich Vogler
	Bill Vukovich II
	Bruce Walkup
	Fredrick T Walsh
	Rick Walsh
	Ron Wanless
	Kenneth Eugene Weld
	Bob Wente	Walter Knepper
	Chuck Weyant	George Hopkins
	Newt White
	Dick Zimmerman

	Driver	Number
Most race wins	Eldon Caruthers	12
Most podium positions	Eldon Caruthers	17
Most podium positions without a win	Bill Renshaw	3

Nationality of participating drivers

%	Country		Drivers	Number
99.2%	U.S.A.		Eldon Caruthers, Mel Kenyon, Jimmy Caruthers, Dave Strickland, Rich Vogler, Wally Lambert, Gary Bettenhausen, Gary Irvin, Henry Pens, Bob Hare, Les (William L) Scott, Bob Wente, Dick Pole, Ray Elliott, John Batts, Larry Rice, Leon Sirois, George Kladis, Larry Cannon, Bubby Jones, Tom Steiner, John Tenney, Burt Foland, Jerry McClung, John Anderson, George Snider, Sam Sauer, Gary Johnson, Dickie Deis, Don Meacham, Tommy Copp, Dave Bowling, Hank Butcher, Gary Ponzini, Danny O'Neill, Bill Vukovich II, Walt Kennedy, Billy Shuman, Johnny Rutherford, Bill Renshaw, Merle Bettenhausen, Duke DeRosa, Bruce Walkup, Rick Goudy, Bob Evans, Dick Zimmerman, Jim Devitt, Pancho Carter, Dee Hileman, Lee Leonard, Danny McKnight, Rick Walsh, Leroy van Conett, Bobby Morrow, Bob Thomas, Lee Kunzman, Chuck Arnold, Jim McClean, Harry Beck, Sam Isenhower, Bill Mehner, Billy Engelhart, Johnny Parsons, Roger Branson, Danny Brown, John Toth, Roger West, Gene Force, Chuck Weyant, Bob Lithgow, Don Carmichael, Chuck Taylor, Leigh Earnshaw, Dennis DeVea, Duke Cook, Joe Saldana, Mel Cornett, Jim Kirk, Tom Bigelow, Ralph Liguori, Arnold Knepper, Larry Dickson, Sammy Sessions, Sonny Ates, Bill Koepfer, Steve Cannon, Dennis Dorsey, Frank Childress, George Stefanech, Jackie Burke, Jim Gates, Butch Haisman, Larry Kirkpatrick, Ron Eden, Newt White, Bob Richards, Bob McLean, Johnny Coy, Len Duncan, Tommy McAndrew, Jim Maguire, Jerry Stover, Jerry Karl, John Hubbard, Ed Schaefer, Mitch Smith, Kenneth Eugene Weld, Dick Tobias, Donald Vogler, Billy Humphreys, Roger Bailey, Hank Rogers Jr, Lou Timolot, Sonny Saunders, Duke Pavlick, Billy Hughes, Ernie McCoy, Dennis Cullick, Fredrick T Walsh, Eddie Jackson, Tommy Astone Jr	121
0.8%	Australia		Ron Wanless	1

Individual driver statistics for the 1971 USAC National Midget Series

Driver	Age	Races	Wins	Podiums	Fastest laps
Anderson, John	27 y/o	8	0	2
Arnold, Chuck	45 y/o	11	1	2
Astone Jr, Tommy	21 y/o	3	0	1
Ates, Sonny	36 y/o	2	0	0	0
Bailey, Roger	30 y/o	2	0	0	0
Batts, John	n/a	13	2	2
Beck, Harry	n/a	10	0	0	0
Bettenhausen, Gary	29 y/o	10	2	5
Bettenhausen, Merle	28 y/o	11	1	2
Bigelow, Tom	31 y/o	3	0	0	0
Bowling, Dave	n/a	1	0	0	0
Branson, Roger	n/a	3	0	0	0
Brown, Danny	n/a	2	0	0	0
Burke, Jackie	n/a	2	0	0	0
Butcher, Hank	n/a	5	1	1
Cannon, Larry	34 y/o	3	0	0	0
Cannon, Steve	30 y/o	4	1	1
Carmichael, Don	n/a	4	0	0	0
Carter, Pancho	21 y/o	9	0	0	0
Caruthers, Eldon	n/a	60	12	17
Caruthers, Jimmy	26 y/o	60	8	15
Childress, Frank	n/a	1	0	0	0
Cook, Duke	27 y/o	1	0	0	0
Copp, Tommy	44 y/o	2	0	0	0
Cornett, Mel	35 y/o	3	0	1
Coy, Johnny	n/a	3	0	1
Cullick, Dennis	n/a	1	0	0	0
Deis, Dickie	n/a	2	0	0	0
DeRosa, Duke	n/a	4	0	0	0
DeVea, Dennis	n/a	1	0	0	0
Devitt, Jim	n/a	1	0	0	0
Dickson, Larry	32 y/o	4	1	2
Dorsey, Dennis	n/a	3	0	0	0
Duncan, Len	59 y/o	2	0	0	0
Earnshaw, Leigh	n/a	7	0	0	0
Eden, Ron	n/a	1	0	0	0
Elliott, Ray	n/a	2	0	0	0
Engelhart, Billy	29 y/o	25	4	8
Evans, Bob	n/a	7	0	1
Foland, Burt	n/a	2	1	1
Force, Gene	55 y/o	1	0	0	0
Gates, Jim	n/a	2	0	0	0
Goudy, Rick	n/a	3	0	1
Haisman, Butch	n/a	1	0	0	0
Hare, Bob	n/a	3	1	1
Hileman, Dee	n/a	1	0	0	0
Hubbard, John	29 y/o	4	0	0	0
Hughes, Billy	n/a	1	0	0	0
Humphreys, Billy	n/a	1	0	0	0
Irvin, Gary	27 y/o	5	0	0	0
Isenhower, Sam	n/a	2	0	0	0
Jackson, Eddie	n/a	1	1	1
Johnson, Gary	n/a	1	0	0	0
Jones, Bubby	30 y/o	4	0	0	0
Karl, Jerry	30 y/o	2	0	0	0
Kennedy, Walt	n/a	1	0	0	0
Kenyon, Mel	38 y/o	8	1	3
Kirk, Jim	n/a	6	1	1
Kirkpatrick, Larry	n/a	2	0	0	0
Kladis, George	n/a	1	0	0	0
Knepper, Arnold	40 y/o	7	0	0	0
Koepfer, Bill	n/a	1	0	0	0
Kunzman, Lee	26 y/o	12	3	6
Lambert, Wally	n/a	1	0	1
Leonard, Lee	n/a	1	0	0	0
Liguori, Ralph	44 y/o	2	0	0	0
Lithgow, Bob	n/a	4	0	0	0
Maguire, Jim	n/a	4	0	0	0
McAndrew, Tommy	n/a	1	0	0	0
McClean, Jim	26 y/o	16	1	2
McClung, Jerry	n/a	25	4	11
McCoy, Ernie	50 y/o	1	0	0	0
McKnight, Danny	n/a	1	0	0	0
McLean, Bob	37 y/o	1	0	0	0
Meacham, Don	34 y/o	2	0	0	0
Mehner, Bill	n/a	6	0	0	0
Morrow, Bobby	n/a	1	0	0	0
O'Neill, Danny	n/a	2	0	0	0
Parsons, Johnny	26 y/o	8	2	3
Pavlick, Duke	n/a	1	0	0	0
Pens, Henry	31 y/o	2	0	0	0
Pole, Dick	28 y/o	6	0	1
Ponzini, Gary	26 y/o	15	2	2
Renshaw, Bill	n/a	23	0	3
Rice, Larry	25 y/o	18	1	3
Richards, Bob	n/a	1	0	0	0
Rogers Jr, Hank	n/a	2	0	0	0
Rutherford, Johnny	33 y/o	1	0	0	0
Saldana, Joe	26 y/o	3	0	0	0
Sauer, Sam	n/a	1	0	0	0
Saunders, Sonny	n/a	1	0	0	0
Schaefer, Ed	56 y/o	1	0	0	0
Scott, Les (William L)	44 y/o	21	1	2
Sessions, Sammy	35 y/o	2	0	0	0
Shuman, Billy	23 y/o	12	0	0	0
Sirois, Leon	36 y/o	5	0	0	0
Smith, Mitch	40 y/o	1	0	0	0
Snider, George	30 y/o	6	1	2
Stefanech, George	n/a	1	0	0	0
Steiner, Tom	n/a	3	0	0	0
Stover, Jerry	n/a	3	0	0	0
Strickland, Dave	33 y/o	27	3	4
Taylor, Chuck	n/a	4	0	0	0
Tenney, John	n/a	1	0	0	0
Thomas, Bob	n/a	1	0	0	0
Timolot, Lou	n/a	2	0	0	0
Tobias, Dick	39 y/o	1	0	0	0
Toth, John	n/a	4	0	0	0
van Conett, Leroy	36 y/o	1	0	0	0
Vogler, Donald	46 y/o	1	0	0	0
Vogler, Rich	20 y/o	1	0	0	0
Vukovich II, Bill	27 y/o	9	3	4
Walkup, Bruce	26 y/o	2	0	0	0
Walsh, Fredrick T	n/a	1	0	0	0
Walsh, Rick	n/a	2	0	0	0
Wanless, Ron	n/a	1	0	0	0
Weld, Kenneth Eugene	25 y/o	1	0	0	0
Wente, Bob	38 y/o	17	2	7
West, Roger	30 y/o	12	0	0	0
Weyant, Chuck	48 y/o	4	0	0	0
White, Newt	n/a	1	0	1
Zimmerman, Dick	52 y/o	1	0	0	0

#	Date	Circuit	Winner	Second	Third	Pole	FL