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$200,000 Invitational At Pocono
The U.S. Auto Club has announced it has agreed to sanction a $200,000 “World Series of Auto Racing” at Pennsylvania’s Pocono Int’l Raceway.
A dozen of the club’s best drivers will be invited to participate.
The two-part event will be produced by Richard C. Conole’s newly-formed World Series of Auto Racing Corp.
The series will be divided into two segments, the first for midgets and sprint cars and the final for stock cars and Indianapolis type championship cars.
The opening round of events is scheduled on Pocono’s flat three-quarter-mile oval Oct. 19-20 this year. It will be for midgets and sprint cars. The stocks and Indy cars will run their races April 12-13, 1975 on Pocono’s banked triangular 2.5-mile track.
Drivers to be chosen tor the events will include the winner and runner up in each of USAC’s three championship car 500s this year: the 1973 national champion and runner-up with the remaining drivers to be chosen based on current achievement.
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