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DUnkirk 1-3611 I OFFICIALS 100-LAP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP MIDGET RACE BONELLI STADIUM - SAUGUS, CALIFORNIA SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1956 Sanction No. 56-M-2 OFFICIALS PRESENTED BY LUJIE LESOVSKY _______ _____________ USAC Representative and Chief Steward J. C. AGAJANIAN EARL HASKELL ------------------------------------------------ Steward SAM HANKS ---------------------------------------------------- Referee DON BASILE__ Racing Director JIMMY JACKSON -------------------------- --------- --------- Starter AL Franken Publicity JOHN NEGLEY ------------------------------ ------------ Pit Steward LEONARD CUMMINGS Radio - TV Publicity RUSSELL NEWTON ------------------------------------ Chief Timer DR. SIDNEY SENTER - Medical Diredor GEORGE INGIS ---------------------- -- -- ----- --------- Chief Scorer TOM HANLON Announcer BABE STAPP --- ----------------------------- Technical Committee JOHN KINS'LEY -------------------------- Technical Committee JACK CURNOW Announcer BOB KINSLEY ------------------------------ Technical Committee ERNIE Lovingood Photographer SNYDER AMBULANCE & OXYGEN Service 5 Convenient Locations Throughout The Valley 14122 OXNARD STREET VAN NUYS, .CALIF. Slate 5-3133 sunset 1-1233 THornwall 2-4833 from Los Angeles Call - Stanley 7-2433 EVERYTHING FOR THE sick ROOM - SALES - RENTALS WE ALSO CAR'RY A COMPLETE LINE OF PARTY EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES official AMBULANCE FOR THE RACING RATERNITY FLAG SIGNALS GREEN FLAG - Start WHITE FLAG - One More Lap RED FLAG - Stop CHECKERED FLAG - Finish YELLOW FLAG - Caution, Reduce Speed RED AND YELLOW FLAG - No Start. Restart Race. BLACK FLAG - Come Into Pits YELLOW FLAG, BLUE CENTER-Move Over, Car Passing ,,,,,.••• .,,.,.,. 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DEAN CLINT BRAWNER JIM BRYAN * 1954 National AAA Champions * MEtcalf 3-1152 NEvada 6-9221 Motor Vans A-C-R-O-S-S The Nation M O B I L O I L A L W A Y S I N T H E W I N N E R ' S C I R L E · • • ....................... THE "LITTLE DYNAMO" Today Walt has learned you have to drive with your head as well as your foot to make a championship race T1here' s one record the car driver. "There's no substitute for experience any way Little Dynamo" from you look at it," he points out. "You have to know how to Long Be a W a It react to any kind of a situation that might arise. Faulkner, holds that no "And how can you learn what to do if you haven't one else wishes to experienced it on the race course." challenge. Faulkner admits he probably "got religion" during the Walt wound up on '47 campaign. 1Early in the year he was involved in one his head" 14 different of the most spectacular and terrifying crashes in Gilmore times during fhe 1946 Stadium annals, locking wheels at the start of the back­ racing season. Accord­ stretch and flipping seven times as his car went end ing to Walt and Racing over end all the way down the backstretch, fianlly stop­ Impresario J. C. Aga­ ping in the next turn. janian, that mark is On that occasion, he wasn't so lucky. For days following likely to stand for a the accident Walt hovered between life and death, 1and long time. The miracle some of the medical reports had h'im "near death." "In all of it all is that Faulkner only a couple of racing the long months of slow recovery, fhere was too much dates because of the 14 flips. time to think," states Walt. "Fina'lly, I decided I would Now a more mature and experience race driver, Walt have to 'back off' once in a while." ranks as one of the greats of his chosen sport. He currently has his sights set on winning top money in "Aggie's" Faulkner, a 5 ft. 4 in., 135-pound jocky, feels, at 37 initial presentation of the season, a 100-lap USAC National years of age, he still has time to win the biggest race of Championship midget auto event at Bonelli Stadium in all - the "500". He has come close on several occasions. Saugus, Sunday afternoon (Jan. 29). Little Walt set the Indianapolis qualifying record while Walt, who finis1hed fiffh in fhe 1955 Indianapolis 500- driving for Agajanian in 1950 and repeated again with a miler, will be up against many of fhe same drivers whom new mark in 1951. In the latter race "we had it won" he battled on the Indiana brickpath,