![]() ![]() ![]() He held the lead with an 11 th place finish behind Ken Schrader at the Indiana State Fairgrounds but lost it as he again finished 11 th at Indianapolis Raceway Park in the Budweiser “Night Before the 500” classic, won by Steve Lotshaw. Gennetten then finished third behind Kevin Olson at Santa Fe as Vogler pursued other racing endeavors, and Gene moved to the top of the standings. He held it as Alan Brown won an indoor race at Springfield, then Gene Gennetten took the outdoor opener at Little Springfield in the same city. Three-time USAC Midget champ Rich Vogler opened the series with back-to-back victories at the Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Ind. He wound up with a 52-point cushion over six-time series titlist Mel Kenyon, who, despite skipping a month of racing in June, still wound up as the series runner-up and even posed a challenge to Bigelow in the final races. on June 22 gave him the lead in the standings and he never relinquished it. Tom Bigelow, who, at the time, was the winningest driver in USAC Sprint Car history, concentrated his 1984 efforts on the USAC-Jolly Rancher National Midget Series and came away with the championship after a hard-fought campaign in which he scored four feature wins in the Sandy Racing Starcraft VW.īigelow trailed the early point leaders until the opening race of a five-race USAC/ARDC/NEMA swing in the East, but his victory at Five Mile Point Speedway in Binghamton, N.Y. ![]() ![]() BIGELOW’S MIDGET FOCUS NETS HIM 1984 USAC MIDGET TITLE ![]()
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