(Foyt) and I have lost so many friends in the business.”Ĭhase Elliott's return highlights NASCAR Cup racers' stop at Sonoma road course “I don’t know what the rest of the guys thought, but I thought, ‘Let’s just get this damn thing over, you know, this has not been good,’” Rutherford recalled. And roughly a dozen spectators were burned when Salt Walther’s fuel tanks ruptured as his spinning car destroyed part of the catch fence. In the chaos after Savage’s wreck, pit-sign board holder Armando Teran was fatally struck by a safety truck. David Savage died from injuries sustained in a terrifying race-day crash.
Rutherford won the pole with a record-breaking, four-lap average speed of 198.413 mph and Johncock wound up with the first of his two Indy wins, but it was a grim across the rest of Gasoline Alley.Īrt Pollard was killed in a pole day crash. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Johnny Rutherford and Gordon Johncock delivered spectacular results at the 1973 Indianapolis 500 that were overshadowed by perhaps the worst month in the history of the storied race.
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