Roger McCluskey in Life Magazine

[Mitch G.]

This is from a full page spread in Life Magazine, you can see where I tried to piece this together in Photoshop, and the fold of the magazine pages where my dad taped it together years ago. The actual spread is like 20 inches by 13 inches. I think David Knox was the photographer of this sequence, taken at the Reading PA. fairgrounds 1/2 mile dirt track, March 29, 1964 second race of the season. Roger McCluskey in Wally Meskowski's sprinter were the defending USAC national sprint champs. This broke Roger's arm and took him out of most of the season. In 1965 Johnny Rutherford would replace McCluskey as driver, and win the USAC sprint title in the same car.
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[indybigjohn]

And then JR broke both arms in the same car early the following season.

[CTtoPA]

I thought McCluskey won with Bruce Homeyer in 1963? JR broke his arms in a Meskowski car built in the winter between 65/66. Not the same car as this flip.

[Ted Richard]

This is from a full page spread in Life Magazine, you can see where I tried to piece this together in Photoshop, and the fold of the magazine pages where my dad taped it together years ago. The actual spread is like 20 inches by 13 inches. I think David Knox was the photographer of this sequence, taken at the Reading PA. fairgrounds 1/2 mile dirt track, March 29, 1964 second race of the season. Roger McCluskey in Wally Meskowski's sprinter were the defending USAC national sprint champs. This broke Roger's arm and took him out of most of the season. In 1965 Johnny Rutherford would replace McCluskey as driver, and win the USAC sprint title in the same car.
http://www.autoracingmemories.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=24&pictureid=2046


Interesting piece of trivia in my personal history here, I witnessed that flip from the shoulder of the 5th street highway outside of turns 1 and two where my dad and I had parked to watch for awhile on our way to the Reading hospital to visit my mom. McCluskey (and Don Branson, who was injured in another crash later that day) ended up in that same hospital. Roger broke both arms in that crash, which ocurred after the checkers of his qualifying attempt. If I remember correctly he had fast time when he pitched it going into turn one he hit the ruts that were almost always present there the first couple races of the season. I can remember several other spectacular flips in the same location in later years involving modifieds as well.