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1971 California 500; Race details; Race 10 of 12 in the 1971 USAC Championship Car season: Date: September 5, 1971: Official name: 1971 California 500: Location: Ontario Motor Speedway, Ontario, California, United States: Course: Permanent racing facility 2.500 mi / 4.023 km: Distance: 200 laps 500.000 mi / 804.672 km: Pole position; Driver ...
The California 500 was a USAC, and later CART, race held at Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California. The event represented a continuous lineage of open wheel oval racing in Southern California that dates back to 1970.
The 1971 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 12 races, beginning in Rafaela, Argentina on February 28 and concluding in Avondale, Arizona on October 23. The USAC National Champion was Joe Leonard and the Indianapolis 500 winner was Al Unser .
Ontario Motor Speedway was a motorsport venue located in Ontario, California.It was the first and only automobile racing facility built to accommodate major races sanctioned by all of the four dominant racing sanctioning bodies: USAC (and now IndyCar Series) for open-wheel oval car races; NASCAR for a 500-mile (800 km) oval stock car races; NHRA for drag races; and FIA for Formula One road ...
California 500 (IndyCar) was a USAC and later CART sanctioned Indy car race held at Ontario Motor Speedway from 1970 to 1980 Auto Club 500 is a NASCAR race held at the California Speedway which was called the "California 500 presented by NAPA" from 1997 to 1999
The first three California 500s had 180,223 spectators in 1970, 168,498 in 1971, 161,240 in 1972. Entering the event, it was unclear if the 1973 crowd would even reach 100,000 spectators. Jim Cook, the executive vice-president of the Hulman-Jones Group said "Our biggest problem was getting people to realize that there was going to be a race."
Kawasaki KRR 150 (Ninja KR 150R/ KR 150SP/ KR 150SE/KR 150SSE, Ninja KRR 150/KRR 150 SE/KRR 150SSR, Victor 150, Serpico 150/KRZ 150, ZSR Cyclone 150, Scorpion 150 (in Argentina) (Production year: 1989–2004 and 1996's–2015 for the Ninja 150R/SS in Indonesia) 2-stroke Engine (Marketed in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and ...
In an era of unrestricted rules, the Kawasaki KR1 125cc twin cylinder was outclassed by the expensive, V4 engines used by the Yamaha racing team and the square four engines used by Suzuki. [2] Without any financial or mechanical support from the Kawasaki factory, Simmonds spent the 1967 and 1968 Grand Prix seasons sorting out the motorcycle's ...