Steve raced USAC sprints for a short while in the 1970s, about 1977. He won 11 World of Outlaw features in 1978, including his first at Eldora in May or June. If memory serves me correctly, Steve ran at Bloomington one night under an assumed name and caught a three-race suspension from USAC. A photographer who knew both Steve and the driver he was impersonating shot photos and sent them to a racing paper, where they were published. (NO IT WASN'T ME.)
It was about that time Dick Gaines got hurt and, as they say, the rest is history. While working in Princeton, Ind., in 1979 and the early '80s, I saw Steve race on several occasions at Haubstadt on Sunday nights without a wing. He also ran USAC in the early 1980s, without a wing.

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