NORM NELSON - USAC HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2014

Already a winner under the AAA banner, Norm Nelson went on to win 35 events in the USAC Stock Car series, earning the season’s championship in 1960, 1965 and 1966. He was also runner-up four times and third in three other seasons in addition to having already been runner-up under AAA sanction in 1950. Nelson always fielded his own equipment and after switching from Ford to Chrysler in 1963, he typically fielded a second car for such outstanding drivers as Roger McCluskey (won the USAC title in 1969 and 1970), A. J. Foyt (runner-up in 1963), Jim Hurtubise (won NASCAR’s Atlanta 500 in 1966), Paul Goldsmith and Lloyd Ruby. As a car entrant, Nelson won USAC’s seasonal championship six times and was runner-up five times. A longtime USAC Board member, he passed away on November 8, 1988.