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Roper Wins Lomax<br />
USAC-ARCA Race At State Fairground s<br />
Springfield . Ill . - Defending USAC Stock cham .<br />
pion Dean Roper overtook ARCA driver Bobby Jocks<br />
and went on to win the co-sanctioned ARCA-USAC<br />
Texaco-Lomax Piggyback American 100 Sunday afternoon<br />
at Illinois State Fairgrounds .<br />
Jacks finished second on the one-mile dirt oval<br />
ahead of Rick O'Brien and Terry Pearson, all completing<br />
100 laps . Jerry Churchill was fifth, one lap off<br />
the pace .<br />
Roper, who has competed in selected NASCAR<br />
Winston Cup and ARCA superspeedwoy events thus<br />
for this season, is in search of his third consecutive<br />
USAC Stock Car championship . The 43-year-old Fair<br />
Grove, Missouri driver is part of the Pontiac stable<br />
owned and maintained by Jerry and Tom Mueller of<br />
Random Lake . Wisconsin .<br />
Jacks set fast time with a speed of 101 .272 mph<br />
and showed his strength on the dirt over the first half<br />
of the event behind the wheel of 4he Combined Racing<br />
Cutlass .<br />
Rick Hampton finished sixth with 1980 ARCA<br />
champion Bob Dotter seventh . Butch Garner, Duane<br />
Pierson and Tracy Read rounded out the top 10 .<br />
A number of the top qualifiers were eliminated<br />
early in the race by accidents, including Bill Venturini,<br />
Bay Darnell and Joe Wallace .<br />
The Summary<br />
The finish showing driver . car, laps completed and<br />
money won : I . Dean Roper, Grand Prix, 100 lops, $3,050 ; 2 .<br />
Bobby Jocks, cutlass . 100. $2,000 : 3. Rick O'Brien, Grand<br />
Prix . 100 . $1,500 : 4 . Terry Pearson, Cutlass, 100, $1,100 : 5 .<br />
Jerry Churchill, Regal, 99, $800 : 6. Rich Hampton . Ford . 98 .<br />
$700: 7 . Bob Dotter, Regal . 97, $600 : 8. Butch Garner . Regal .<br />
91, $550; 9. Duane Pearson, Regal . 90, $500 : 10 . Tracy Reod,<br />
Ibgal, 80 . $450; 11 . Tom Meinberg, Malibu . 80, $400 : 12 . Lee<br />
Raymond, Regal, 80 . $355: 13. Bill Venturini, Pontiac 66,<br />
$320, 14 . Bay Darnell . LeMans . 42. $290 : 15 . Mary Smith,<br />
Regal . 29, $260 ; 16 . Larry Nau . Grand Prix . 26 . $240 : 17 . Joe<br />
Wallace, Regal 25, $230 ; 18 . Rick Roland, Ventura . 25 . $210 :<br />
19 . Jiggs Lindhorst, Grand Prix, 21, $205 : 20 . Herman Huff .<br />
man. Thunderbird, 21, $200 : 21 . Don Mormor . LeMans . 9,<br />
$200 : 22. Scott Stovall, Venture . 7, $200 : 23 . Gordon Bloken .<br />
ship. Mirada, 6, $200 ; 24. Dick Taylor, Granada. 2, M .<br />
Mixed Rag -Top stock car driven of both USAC and ARCA joined forces for a co-sanctioned run at the Illinois State<br />
Fair mile dirt track <strong>In</strong> Springfield . The show went well, with USAC titleholder Dean Roper coming home first . (Den<br />
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