Golden State 100
California State Fairgrounds
1 Mile Dirt Oval
100 Laps/100 Miles
October 29, 1961

Finish Start Driver Car # Sponsor/Name Chassis Engine Laps Status

Points
1 2 Rodger Ward 2 Leader Card Watson Offy 100 1:07:35.00 88.779 200
2 11 Parnelli Jones 98 Agajanian/Willard Battery Lesovsky Offy 99 Flagged 160
3 13 Bobby Marshman 44 Competition Engineering Meskowski Offy 98 Flagged 140
4 7 Len Sutton 66 Jewett-Cameron Vollstedt Offy 98 Flagged 120
5 18 Cotton Farmer 81 Central Excavating Kuzma Offy 98 Flagged 100
6 4 Elmer George 21 HOW Watson Offy 97 Flagged 80
7 14 Don Branson 5 Autolite Kuzma Offy 97 Flagged 60
8 6 Don Davis 51 Fike Plumbing Kuzma Offy 97 Flagged 50
9 8 Ronnie Duman 72 Wyandotte Tool Meskowski Offy 97 Flagged 40
10 16 Jim McElreath 45 Bardahl Meskowski Offy 96 Flagged 30
11 3 Roger McCluskey 6 Bell Lines Trucking Silnes Offy 82 Flagged 20
12 5 A. J. Foyt 1 Bowes Seal Fast Meskowski Offy 74 Burned piston 10
13 9 Red Riegel 96 Windmill Trucking Silnes Offy 70 Spun, hit T1 fence
14 10 Jim Hurtubise 56 Sterling Plumbing Kuzma Offy 64 Spun out turn 4
15 15 Dempsey Wilson 55 Greenman-Casale Kuzma Offy 57 Black flagged, too slow
16 1 Shorty Templeman 7 Bill Forbes Racing Meskowski Offy 40 Engine
17 17 Ray Wearne 90 Connor's Speed Shop Kurtis 3000 Chrysler 10 Black flagged, too slow
18 12 Al Keller 19 Konstant Hot Philipp Offy 5 Burned piston
-- -- Allen Crowe 42 Stearly Motor Freight Lesovsky Offy -- Flipped qualifying
-- -- Beau Clerke 71 Bo Ju Kuzma Offy -- DNS, too slow
-- -- Ray Crawford 94 Crawford-McCullogh Elder FE Offy -- DNS, too slow
-- -- Bill Hyde 78 Don Collins Kurtis 2000 Offy -- DNS, too slow
-- -- Chuck Hulse 52 John Zink Trackburner Watson Offy -- DNS, too slow
-- -- Don Horvath 65 Bruce Bromme Bromme Offy -- DNS, too slow
-- -- Bruce Jacobi 73 Travelon Trailer Shilala X -- DNS, too slow
-- -- Ralph Liguori 49 Art Koopman Lesovsky Offy -- DNS, too slow
-- -- Russ Long 38 C & T Automotive Kurtis 4000 Offy -- DNS, too slow
-- -- Bob Mathouser 68 Hank Blum Engineering Blum Offy -- DNS, too slow
-- -- Leroy Neumayer 37 Tassi Vatis Kurtis 4000 X -- DNS, too slow
-- -- Al Pombo 15 Gerhardt - Bardahl Gerhardt FE Offy -- DNS, too slow
-- -- Keith Rachwitz 47 Joe Hunt Magneto Lesovsky Offy -- DNS, too slow
-- -- Bud Sterrett 50 Malcolm Miller Kurtis 4000 Offy -- DNS, too slow
-- -- Eddie Sachs 12 Dean Van Lines Kuzma Offy -- Bent valve practice  
-- -- Lloyd Ruby X X X X -- Did not appear
-- -- Bud Tingelstad X X X X -- Did not appear

Lap Leaders Total Laps
A. J. Foyt 51 24-74
Rodger Ward 49 1-23, 75-100