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He won five USAC Stock car national titles in the 1970s. [1] Hartman had the fourth highest number of USAC Stock car wins in the series' history. [2] Hartman raced in twenty NASCAR stock car races; his highest finish was a fifth-place run at National 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway (now Lowe's Motor Speedway ).
Mar 4, 2022 · In 1964, racing for his dad he raced stock cars up to five times in a weekend. “When we had time, we’d stop and sleep for a couple hours in a ditch alongside the road.” Hartman was quoted as saying. In 1966, Butch and his dad went ARCA racing. On May 1 at Toledo, Butch drove his 1965 Dodge #75 to a fourth-place finish.
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Nov 29, 2016 · Jack Bowsher (21) leads Butch Hartman (75) during the 1972 Du Quoin 100-miler. Bowsher piloted his Ford Torino to a 36.41 second clocking for a new USAC dirt track record of 98.874 miles per hour to claim the pole.
Updated: July 2, 2007. Butch Hartman passed away from a heart attack in December of 1994. Unfortunately, so did a part of stock car history. Hartman was a straight talking, hard driving racecar driver from Zanesville, Ohio who began warming up cars at the age of seven at his father?s garage.
Butch Hartman, of Zanesville, Ohio, won five USAC Stock car championships in the 1970s and, in 1968, became the first rookie driver ever to lead the Daytona 500. The 1966 USAC Stock car Rookie of the Year and 1967 Most Improved Driver, then won the first 500-mile stock car race held at Pocono, Pa Raceway in 1971.
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Aug 11, 2020 · Butch Hartman (on the outside) tries to stay with defending USAC Stock Car Champion Don White at Milwaukee. During the course of the next few years, Hartman purchased Nichels-built cars that White was discarding as White obtained new cars from Nichels Engineering.
Sep 9, 2020 · Hartman became the first driver to win three straight United States Auto Club stock car division championships when he pushed his 1973 Dodge Charger to a lopsided victory in the 250-mile Governor’s Cup race at State Fair Park Sunday.
