Late Model Stock Car Races

On the Historic Half-mile Racetrack at the

Kansas State Fairgrounds

 Hutchinson, Kansas

Saturday – September 14, 1963

 

 

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

 

Racetrack condition – “a fast, good holding track” 

Attendance – “a large crowd”

 

 

 

Ramo Stott

Midwest Racing Archives website

Dick Hutcherson

Midwest Racing Archives website

Ernie McMahan

I. M. C. A. yearbook

Ralph Wilhelm

I. M. C. A. yearbook

 

 

 

 

First Heat Race – 5 Laps

Place

Driver

From

Time

1

Ramo Stott*

Keokuk, Iowa

2:26.21

2

Leonard “Lenny” Funk

Otis, Kansas

 

3

Johnny Jones

Russell, Minnesota

 

4

Dick Hutcherson**

Keokuk, Iowa

 

5

Jim Washburn

Keokuk, Iowa

 

6

Ernie Derr

Keokuk, Iowa

 

Funk lead most of this race only to be passed by Stott just before the finish line.

 

 

 

Second Heat Race – 10 Laps

Place

Driver

From

Time

1

Jerry Douglas

Wichita Falls, Texas

4:53.97

2

Johnny Beauchamp****

Atlantic, Iowa

 

3

Bob Reynolds

Edmond, Oklahoma

 

4

Ole Brua

Albert Lea, Minnesota

 

5

Ralph Wilhelm

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

 

6

Bill Gibson

Kansas City, Missouri

 

7

Bill Tyler

Kansas City, Missouri

 

8

Clyde Douglas

Wichita Falls, Texas

 

9

Leon Bowman

Wichita, Kansas

 

 

 

 

Third Heat Race – 10 Laps

Place

Driver

From

 

1

Phil Cronin

Houston, Texas

 

2

Eddie Harrow

Corpus Christi, Texas

 

3

Bill Thomas

St. Paul, Minnesota

 

4

Dick Johnson

St. Paul, Minnesota

 

5

Ed Negre***

Monet, Missouri

 

6

Jerry Brown

Springfield, Illinois

 

7

Newt Bartholomew

Carlisle, Iowa

 

8

Luther Poteet

Topeka, Kansas

 

9

Ernie McMahan

Ft. Madison, Iowa

 

 

 

 

Consolation Race – 12 Laps

Place

Driver

From

Time

1

Ernie McMahan

Ft. Madison, Iowa

5:59.88

2

Newt Bartholomew

Carlisle, Iowa

 

3

Jerry Brown

Springfield, Illinois*****

 

4

Bill Tyler

Kansas City, Missouri

 

5

Luther Poteet

Topeka, Kansas

 

6

Leon Bowman

Wichita, Kansas

 

 

 

 

Feature Race – 15 Cars – 25 Laps

Place

Driver

From

Time

  1

Ernie Derr

Keokuk, Iowa

 11:42.65

  2

Dick Hutcherson**

Keokuk, Iowa

 

  3

Leonard “Lenny” Funk

Otis, Kansas

 

  4

Ramo Stott*

Keokuk, Iowa

 

  5

Phil Cronin

Houston, Texas

 

  6

Bob Reynolds

Edmond, Oklahoma

 

  7

Jerry Douglas

Wichita Falls, Texas

 

  8

Johnny Jones

Russell, Minnesota

 

  9

Ole Brua

Albert Lea, Minnesota

 

10

Ed Negre***

Monet, Missouri

 

11

Ernie McMahan

Ft. Madison, Iowa

 

12

Jerry Brown

Springfield, Illinois*****

 

13

Dick Johnson

St. Paul, Minnesota

 

14

Luther Poteet

Topeka, Kansas

 

15

Ralph Wilhelm

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

 

16

Johnny Beauchamp****

Atlantic, Iowa

 

17

Jim Washburn

Keokuk, Iowa

 

18

Eddie Harrow

Corpus Christi, Texas

 

19

Bill Thomas

St. Paul, Minnesota

 

20

Bill Tyler

Kansas City, Missouri

 

21

Newt Bartholomew

Carlisle, Iowa

 

22

Leon Bowman

Wichita, Kansas

 

23

Bill Gibson

Kansas City, Missouri

 

Only the first seven cars were running on the lead lap at the completion of this race.

 

 

 

 

This photo shows one of several spinouts that took place in these races.  This one was during the Feature race – Hutchinson News photo 

 

 

 

 

* Ramo Stott competed in the Daytona “500” eleven times.

 

** Dick Hutcherson (1931-2005) competed in the Daytona “500” three times.

 

*** Ed Negre competed in the Daytona “500” eleven times.

 

**** Johnny Beauchamp (1923-1981) had competed in the Daytona “500” in 1959.

 

***** Another source lists Jerry Brown as being from Springfield, Missouri instead of Springfield, Illinois.

 

 

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