BOB & GENE SHANNON - USAC HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2018

Bob and Gene Shannon of Dayton, Ohio earned 45 total USAC National feature victories with a variety of drivers. The Shannon Brothers also won the 1972 USAC National Midget Car Entrant title with driver Larry Rice. Gene Force scored their initial victory at Lansing, Mich. in 1958 and Dane Carter was the final winner at Rossburg, Ohio in 1976. Other winners included Bob McLean, Bob Wente, Sam Sessions, Dave Strickland, Bill Engelhart and Pancho Carter. Sessions won the 1968 Turkey Night Grand Prix at Ascot Park in Gardena, Calif. in a Shannon entry and Pancho won the 1975 “Hut Hundred” in the Shannon car. The brothers were enshrined in the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 1991.