---event 1----------------------------
Sunday May 4, 100 laps (two segments)
2nd segment checkered after 15 laps
after Troy Ruttman Jr's fatal crash. 
(65 total laps)

finish:
1. Jim Shampine 8ball  $1,000
2. Leroy Felty (car?)     750
3. Red Barnhart 66        500
4. Andy Brown   00
5. Billy Hughes(sprintcar)300 
6. Lou Palker
7. Nolan Swift
8. Steve Lehnert
9. Butch Hoffman
10.Ed? Spencer
11.Ken Bartholmew
12.Troy Ruttman Jr
13.Norm Mackereth
14.Jack Greedy
15.Wayne Landon
16.Neal Tooley
17.John Conely
18.Deiter Mundwiler
19.Lou Johnson
20.Mark Letcher
21.Larry Rice
22.Bentley Warren
23.Hal Browning
24.Tom York
25.Jim Gresley (Roberts Steel roadster)

Shampine and Barnhart led after 50 laps
Jack Greedy pitted after 40 laps.
Gresley, Letcher and Bentley crashes 
all in first 50 lap segment.

Don Bartlett says...
there were two 50 lap races that day,
Shampine won one and Andrews the other.
Don was there and did a video, indeed,it 
has been stated elsewhere that Andrews won
on opening day. In fact, the only race Kenny
won at Pocono in 1969 was on June 1st. 
That was the "opening day" event 
rescheduled from late in 1968.

The video is linked on the main page and
May 18th begins at around 6:39.

notes:
Bentley may have been the first ever driver 
to traverse the new 2 and a half mile
tri-oval at speed (it was still dirt). 
He borrowed a brand new Chrysler New Yorker 
one evening and took laps at 
well over 100 mph! (without permission)