CHUCK GURNEY - USAC HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2017

Chuck Gurney, of Livermore, Calif, was a stellar performer in USAC’s Silver Crown wars, earning 14 victories and the 1989 series championship. He scored a phenomenal seven victories in the “Tony Bettenhausen 100” at Springfield, Ill., three wins in the “Ted Horn 100” at Du Quoin, Ill. and added the 1982 and 1983 “Hoosier Hundreds” in Indianapolis. He scored five USAC Sprint wins and his victories in the Midgets included the 1989 Belleville (Kans.) Midget Nationals, a pair of “Turkey Night” wins in 1988 and 1989 among his nine USAC wins, and he scored three wins in the popular “Copper World Classic” in Phoenix, Ariz. The 1983 NARC Sprint Car king and 1985 winner of USAC’s National Supermodified title, he has been honored five times by the Motorsports Press Association as its open wheel “Driver of the Year.”