UMCA SPRINT CARS

Bud Manning Benefit Race

Sportsman Park – Oakley, Kansas

Monday Night – August 4, 1952

 

Dave Carter, alias Johnny Thompson, in the Hanestad HAL4 – Don Radbruch collection

 

 

TIME TRIALS – 1 Lap

New Track Record: 26.16

PLACE

DRIVER

DRIVER FROM

CAR OWNER

OWNER FROM

ENGINE

1

Dave Carter1

Stockton, CA

Hank Hanestad2

Alameda, CA

HAL4

 

 

 

 

 

 

TROPHY DASH

PLACE

DRIVER

DRIVER FROM

CAR OWNER

OWNER FROM

ENGINE

1

Mickey McCormick3

Wichita, KS

Harold Shaw 

Grainfield, KS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FEATURE

PLACE

DRIVER

DRIVER FROM

CAR OWNER

OWNRE FROM

ENGINE

1

Dave Carter1

Stockton, CA

Hank Hanestad2

Alameda, CA

HAL4

2

David Linn5

Denver, CO

George Syler

Denver, CO

HAL

 

 

This was a benefit race with all proceeds being donated to the Bud Manning Fund to help with his medical expenses, after he broke his neck in a race accident at the Oakley track, on the night of July 19, 1952.  Only eight cars entered.  Total proceeds from the race that were donated to the fund came to $613.00.

 

This sprint car; owned by Harold Shaw of Grainfield, Kansas; sponsored by the Shaw Motor Company of Grainfield; and driven by Mickey McCormick of Wichita, Kansas won the trophy dash on this date – Swart collection

 

T. E. Russell of Denver, Colorado a.k.a. David Linn is shown here standing at left with a sprint car he drove for car owner George Syler (center) – Joe Taylor photo published in the book Valley County THUNDER, The History of Racing at Ord, Nebraska by V. Ray Valasek and Bob Mays

 

 

1 It is not known why Dave Carter (1928-1955) of Stockton, California used the alias “Johnny Thompson” when he drove the Hanestad Offy #63 at Oakley, Kansas.  Also see footnote #4 below.

 

2 Henry Walter “Hank” Hanestad (1917-1975) was from Alameda, California.

 

3 Willard Victor “Mickey” McCormick (1920-1999) was born in El Paso, Texas; died in Indiana; and is buried at Seymour, Indiana.

 

4 Newspaper accounts say the Hanestad engine was an Offenhauser but it appears to have been a HAL instead.

 

5 “David Linn” was an alias used by T. E. Russell of Denver, Colorado when he competed in races that were not sanctioned by the A.A.A. such as these at Oakley.

 

 

 

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