USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road racing championship last month it was coming off its most successful season yet, with 11 races producing nine different winners, but the schedule for 1960 would feature only five races, down considerably from the previous year. Two were at Riverside, both newspaper-sponsored, as was the new date at Laguna Seca. The other two races were new events at Continental Divide…

Ken Miles emerged as USAC’s 1961 road racing champion driving this Estes-Zipper Porsche 718 RS 61 despite claiming only one victory.
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