Late Model Stock Car Races

On the Historic Half-mile Racetrack at the

Kansas State Fairgrounds

 Hutchinson, Kansas

Sunday – September 15, 1957

 

 

Sanctioned by – International Motor Contest Association (I.M.C.A.)

Promotional company – Auto Racing Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota

Race promoter – Frank R. Winkley of Minneapolis, Minnesota

Scorekeeper – Verna Winkley of Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Attendance – “an overflow crowd”

 

 

 

First Heat Race – 10 Laps

 

 

  

Second Heat Race – 10 Laps

Place	Driver	From	Time
1	Newt Bartholomew	Carlisle, Iowa	5:39.05
2	Bob Burdick	Omaha, Nebraska
3	Darrell Dake**	Cedar Rapids, Iowa
4	Dick Jepsen	Hoxie, Kansas
5	Dick Pellow	Minneapolis, Minnesota
6	Ernie Derr	Keokuk, Iowa
7	Clarence “Lead Foot” Bolton	Hutchinson, Kansas
8	Jerry Draper	Moline, Illinois

 

 

  

Consolation Race – 8 Laps 

Place	Driver	From	Time
1	Bob Hardy	Beaumont, Texas	4:16.55
2	Ernie Derr	Keokuk, Iowa
3	Don White	Keokuk, Iowa
4	Jerry Draper	Moline, Illinois
5	Dick Pellow	Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

 

 

Trophy Dash – 5 Laps 

Place	Driver	From	Time
1	Johnny Beauchamp*	Harlan, Iowa	2:36.25
2	Bob Burdick	Omaha, Nebraska
3	Don White	Keokuk, Iowa
4	Leonard “Lenny”  Funk	Otis, Kansas

 

 

 

Novelty Race – 4 Laps

Place	Driver	From
1	Dick Johnson	St. Paul, Minnesota
2	Bill Nash	Enid, Oklahoma
3	Dick Pellow	Minneapolis, Minnesota
4	Dick Jepsen	Hoxie, Kansas

                Drivers completed one lap, got out and circled their car; got back in and completed a second lap, got out and ate a piece of pie; got back in and completed a third lap, got out and drank a bottle of pop; got back in and completed a fourth lap.

                Johnson was not the fastest driver but was able to make up time eating the pie and drinking the pop.

 

 

 

Feature Race – 25 Laps

Place	Driver	From	Time
1	Bob Burdick	Omaha, Nebraska	13:04.65
2	Darrell Dake**	Cedar Rapids, Iowa
3	Leonard “Lenny” Funk	Otis, Kansas
4	Russ Gross	Quincy, Illinois
5	Don White	Keokuk, Iowa
6	Ernie Derr	Keokuk, Iowa
7	Jerry Draper	Moline, Illinois
8	Bob Hardy	Beaumont, Texas
9	Al Warrender	Keokuk, Iowa
10	Dick Pellow	Minneapolis, Minnesota
	Johnny Beauchamp*	Harlan, Iowa	DNF

            Beauchamp completed only a couple of laps before his engine “konked out”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Johnny Beauchamp (1923-1981) went on to compete in the Daytona “500” in 1959.

 

** Darrell Dake went on to compete in the Daytona “500” twice.

 

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