Inaugural Sam Nunis Trophy Sweepstakes
Reading Fairgrounds Speedway
.5 Mile Dirt Oval
25 Laps/12.5 Miles
May 26, 1946

Finish Start Driver Car # Sponsor/Name Chassis Engine Laps Status

Points

1 4 Walt Ader 4 Ted Horn Engineering White Offy 25 0:12:00.83 62.428 25
2 3 Ted Horn X Ted Horn Engineering Horn Offy 25 Finished 20
3 2 Bill Holland X Malamud Malamud Offy 25 Finished 15
4 6 Tommy Hinnershitz X Ted Horn Engineering Blauvelt X 25 Finished 10
5 10 Ed Terry X Matera Ulesky HAL 25 Finished 5
6 7 Walt Walker X X X X 25 Finished 2
X 1 Joie Chitwood X Peters Cunningham Offy 12 Punctured tire
X 5 Earl Johns X Scheid X Riley X Did not finish
X 8 Larry Smith X X X X X Did not finish
X 9 Henry Steiger X X X X X Did not finish
-- -- Al Fleming X Fleming X HAL -- Did not transfer from heats
-- -- Dutch Culp X Culp X Cragar -- Did not transfer from heats
-- -- Bob Cooney X W. C. Brown X McDowell -- Did not transfer from heats
-- -- Tommy Mattson X X X Riley -- Did not transfer from heats
-- -- Lou Volk X X X X -- Did not transfer from heats
-- -- Hank Rogers X Rogers Light Dreyer -- Did not transfer from heats
-- -- Jimmy Gibbons X Donleavy X HAL -- Did not transfer from heats
-- -- Danny Goss X Goss Teter Miller -- Did not transfer from heats
-- -- Bumpy Bumpus X Bumpus Bagley HAL DO -- Did not transfer from heats
-- -- George Ruddy X X X McDowell -- Did not transfer from heats
-- -- Cliff Helman X X X X -- Did not transfer from heats
-- -- Warren Bates X X X Cragar -- Did not qualify for heats, too slow
-- -- Mike Bailey X X X McDowell -- Did not qualify for heats, too slow
-- -- Ottis Stine X X X McDowell -- Did not qualify for heats, too slow
-- -- Jim Boas X Reeser X Cragar -- Did not qualify for heats, too slow
-- -- Joe Verebly X X X McDowell -- Did not qualify for heats, too slow
-- -- Bob Chronister X Snavely X Cragar -- Did not qualify for heats, too slow
-- -- Stan Jones X X X Cragar -- Did not qualify for heats, too slow
-- -- Eddie Zimmerman X Zimmerman X Riley -- Did not qualify for heats, too slow
-- -- James Fearick X X X X -- Did not qualify for heats, too slow
-- -- Hank Gritzbach X Gritzbach X HAL DO -- Did not qualify for heats, too slow
-- -- Bill Hoffman X X X X -- Did not qualify for heats, too slow
-- -- Len Koenig X X X X -- Did not qualify for heats, too slow
-- -- Lucky Lux X Sarasta X HAL -- Did not qualify for heats, too slow
-- -- Mike Magill X Magill X X -- Did not qualify for heats, too slow
-- -- Pete McKeone X X X X -- Did not qualify for heats, too slow
-- -- Charlie Breslin X Breslin X Cragar -- Did not qualify
-- -- Buster Warke X X X McDowell -- Did not qualify
-- -- Sam Grecco X Grecco X Cragar -- Did not qualify
-- -- Al Baker X X X HAL -- Did not qualify
-- -- Ducky Pehlman X Pehlman X HAL -- Did not qualify
-- -- Shorty Dotter X X X Cragar -- Did not qualify
-- -- Ben Smerto X Lyons X Riley -- Did not qualify
-- -- Lee Wallard X Light Dreyer Dreyer -- Did not appear

Heat 1 Results:
 

Finish Start Driver Car # Sponsor/Name Chassis Engine Laps Status Points
1 6 Joie Chitwood X Peters Cunningham Offy 10 0:04:54.21 61.181 10
2 3 Tommy Hinnershitz X Ted Horn Engineering Blauvelt X 10 Finished 8
3 5 Walt Ader 4 Ted Horn Engineering White Offy 10 Finished 6
4 2 Al Fleming X Fleming X HAL 10 Finished 4
5 1 Dutch Culp X Culp X Cragar 10 Finished  
6 4 Danny Goss X Goss Teter Miller X Did not finish  

Heat 2 Results:
 

Finish Start Driver Car # Sponsor/Name Chassis Engine Laps Status Points
1 6 Bill Holland X Malamud Malamud Offy 5 0:02:42.49 55.388 5
2 2 Walt Walker X X X X 5 Finished 4
3 4 Earl Johns X Scheid X Riley 5 Finished 3
4 1 Bob Cooney X W. C. Brown X McDowell 5 Finished  
5 3 Tommy Mattson X X X Riley 5 Finished  
6 5 Hank Rogers X Rogers Light Dreyer 5 Finished  

Heat 3 Results:
 

Finish Start Driver Car # Sponsor/Name Chassis Engine Laps Status Points
1 6 Ted Horn X Ted Horn Engineering Horn Offy 10 0:04:52.52 61.534 10
2 1 Henry Steiger X X X X 10 Finished 8
3 2 Larry Smith X X X X 10 Finished 6
4 5 Lou Volk X X X X 10 Finished 4
X 3 Jimmy Gibbons X Donleavy X HAL X Did not finish  
X 4 Bumpy Bumpus X Bumpus Bagley HAL DO X Engine  

Consolation Results:
 

Finish Start Driver Car # Sponsor/Name Chassis Engine Laps Status Points
1 1 Ed Terry X Matera Ulesky HAL 14 0:06:56.61 60.488 14
2 10 Hank Rogers X Rogers Light Dreyer 14 Finished 11
3 4 Bob Cooney X W. C. Brown X McDowell 14 Finished 8
4 7 Jimmy Gibbons X Donleavy X HAL 14 Finished 5.5
5 9 Lou Volk X X X X 14 Finished  
6 3 George Ruddy X X X McDowell 14 Finished  
7 6 Al Fleming X Fleming X HAL 14 Finished  
8 5 Dutch Culp X Culp X Cragar 14 Finished  
X 2 Cliff Helman X X X X X Did not finish  
X 8 Tommy Mattson X X X Riley X Did not finish  

 

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