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Event: United States Road Racing Championship Mid-Ohio			Date: 18.8.1968
Track: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (United States), 3.862 kms		Organiser: unknown
USRRC Mid-Ohio
United States Road Racing Championship (round 9)

(Race Results)

Pos.	No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant	Laps	Distance	Km/h
1^st	6	Mark Donohue	McLaren M6A Chevrolet	Roger Penske	75	289.6819 kms	146.0802
2^nd	11	Lothar Motschenbacher	McLaren M6B Ford	Motschenbacher Racing	74
3^rd	26	Skip Scott	Lola T70 Mk.3 Chevrolet	C. A. Haas Racing	72
4^th	1	Sam Posey	Caldwell D7B Chevrolet	Autodynamics	71
5^th	57	John Cordts	McLaren Elva Mark III Chevrolet	Performance Eng, Ltd.	70
6^th	39	Ludwig Heimrath	McLaren Elva Mark III Chevrolet		69
7^th	61	Fred Pipin	Lola T70 Mk.3 Chevrolet	Jack Douglas Chevrolet	68
8^th	43	Richard Galloway	Lola T70 Mk.3 Chevrolet	R. B. Galloway	68
9^th	77	Leonard Janke	McLaren Elva Mark III Chevrolet	Janke Auto Co.	68
10^th	69	Mike Hall	Porsche 906	E. L. Hall	67
11^th	28	Dick Brown	McLaren M6B Chevrolet	Ecurie-Greene, Inc.	66
12^th	37	Horst Kroll	Kelly Special Porsche	Horst Kroll	65
13^th	22	Dick Jacobs	Elva - BMW	William Owens	63
14^th	67	Art Kijek	Special Ford	Kay-Tee Cars	59
15^th	30	F. P. Wedge Rafferty	McLaren Elva Mark III		55
16^th	42	Candido DaMota	McLaren Elva Mark III Chevrolet	Land & Cattle, Inc.	55
17^th	8	Ron Courtney	McLaren Elva Mark III Chevrolet	Ronald K. Courtney	53
18^th	32	Pete Ledwith	McLaren Elva Mark III Chevrolet	Ralph Trieschmann	51
19^th	76	George Drolsom	Lola T70 Mk.3 Chevrolet	Burmester-Drolsom	50

Did not finish:

No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant	Laps	Distance	Km/h	Reason
33	Nat Adams	Chinook - Chevrolet	Nat Adams	47			DNF
12	Phil Seitz	Elva Mk VIII BMW		47			DNF
44	Peter Dawson	PMD Chrysler Special	Pete Dawson	33			Overheating
47	Jerry Crawford	McLaren Elva Mark II	Jerry Crawford	32			Ring & pinion
25	Charlie Hayes	McKee Mk.10 Oldsmobile	Ralph Salyer	29			Wheel bearing
3	Tom Swindell	McLaren Elva Mark III		29			Water pump
24	Bob Nagel	McKee Mk.7 Ford	Robert J. Nagel	28			Accident
10	Chuck Parsons	Lola T160 Chevrolet	C. A. Haas Racing	24			Oil leak
13	James Place	Lotus 23 Porsche	James F. Place	22			Gearbox
17	Merv Rosen	Porsche 906	Dr. Merwin Rosen	21			Oil leak
78	George Eaton	McLaren Elva Mark III Ford	George Eaton Racing	15			Gearbox

Did not qualify:

No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant	Reason
91	William N. Engels	Elva - BMW	John E. Hulen
7	Bill Howell	McLaren Elva Mark II	Bill Howell
5	Dave Wolin
2	Ed Cicotte

Entered cars that did not arrive:

No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant	Reason
19	Gary Wilson	McLaren Elva Mark II Chevrolet	Gary M. Wilson
31	George Ralph	Lola T70 Mk.2B Chevrolet	George L. Ralph, Jr.
34	Max Beimler	Chinook Mk II Chevrolet	Max Beimler
36		Lola	C. A. Haas Racing
49	Richard Dagiel	Lotus 30 Ford	Dagiel Engineering
68	Steven Payne-Herbert	Bobsy	R. S. Payne-Herbert
72	Cliff Phillips	Porsche 906	C. L. Phillips
74	Chuck Sarle	Piranna - Oldsmobile	Charles R. Sarle
96	Jean-Paul Ostiguy	McLaren Elva Mark II Chevrolet	Jeanpaul Ostiguy
98	Dave Wolin	Lola T70	Wolin Racing
99	Max Beimler	McLaren

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