My best rememberance of Jerry was about 1980 or 81 at PIR.

Jerry was in a stock-block Chevy. He qualified towards the back, but was moving up pretty quick during the race. He finally caught up to Mario (in one of the Penske cars), and the battle they waged was without a doubt one of the greatest races I've ever seen until Jerry's Chevy finally let go.

They threw a yellow to clean up all of the oil, and when they finally towed Jerry's car around to the pits, everyone in the grandstands (and I mean EVERYONE) gave him one of the loudest ovations I've ever heard.

What a racer.