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Originally Posted by smith19
boy they stepped on their johnson buy saying the pat patrick that owned indy cars was the same pat patrick that raced at florence speedway. cecil, i think our neighbor won a lot more races than that indy guy.
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Yeah, smith19, Bruce Merz was a stock driver around here. The "Pat Patrick" at Indy was Oil multi-millionaire U.E. Pat Patrick. He owned the 1989 Indy 500 winner of Emerson Fittipaldi and the 1982 winner of Gordon Johncock. I also think he may have owned the 1973 winner of Gordon Johncock, as well. I believe the "Pat Patrick" the caller was talking about was our fellow "Sayler Parkian" (suburb of Cincinnati) Pat Patrick. That Pat was a legend in Late Models in this area for many, many years. Other than that little faux pas, it was a great show for area sprint car fans, driver and owners!!