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1960 USAC Championship Car season

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Races
  
12

End date
  
November 20

Indianapolis 500 winner
  
Jim Rathmann

Start date
  
April 10

National champion
  
A. J. Foyt

The 1960 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 12 races, beginning in Trenton, New Jersey on April 10 and concluding in Phoenix, Arizona on November 20. There were also two non-championship events at Langhorne, Pennsylvania, and Pikes Peak, Colorado. This was the final year that the Indianapolis 500 was a part of the Formula One World Championship. The USAC National Champion was A. J. Foyt and the Indianapolis 500 winner was Jim Rathmann. Jimmy Bryan, who won the 1958 Indianapolis 500 and the National Championship three times (1954, 1956, 1957), was killed in an accident during the Langhorne 100 at Langhorne Speedway; he was 34 years old.

Schedule and results

^A Indianapolis 500 was USAC-sanctioned and counted towards the FIA F1 World Drivers' Championship title. ^B No pole is awarded for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, in this schedule on the pole is the driver who started first. No lap led was awarded for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, however, a lap was awarded to the drivers that completed the climb.

References

1960 USAC Championship Car season Wikipedia