California 500
Ontario Motor Speedway
2.5 Mile Paved Oval
200 Laps/500 Miles
March 10, 1974

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

Points
1 3 Bobby Unser 48 Olsonite Eagle Offy TC 200 3:11:03.71 157.017 1,000
2 8 Al Unser 15 Viceroy Eagle Offy TC 200 Finished 800
3 17 Jerry Grant 55 Cobre Firestone Eagle Offy TC 199 Flagged 700
4 4 Jimmy Caruthers 21 Cobre Firestone Eagle Offy TC 198 Flagged 600
5 6 Lloyd Ruby 9 Unlimited Racing Eagle Offy TC 197 Flagged 500
6 10 Wally Dallenbach 2 Patrick Racing Eagle Offy TC 196 Flagged 400
7 20 Mike Mosley 98 Lodestar Eagle Offy TC 195 Flagged 300
8 9 Roger McCluskey 1 Hopkins Buick McLaren Offy TC 193 Flagged 250
9 21 John Martin 89 Unsponsored McLaren Offy TC 193 Flagged 200
10 22 Tom Bigelow 27 Bryant Heating & Air Conditioning Vollstedt Offy TC 192 Flagged 150
11 23 George Snider 82 Greer Coyote Foyt TC 192 Flagged 100
12 25 Tom Sneva 24 Grant King Racing King Offy TC 192 Flagged 50
13 24 Bentley Warren 94 Vatis Finley Offy TC 187 Flagged
14 26 Bill Simpson 92 Apple Annie Brabham Offy TC 180 Flagged
15 7 Jim McElreath 45 Thermo King Eagle Offy TC 173 Broken water hose
16 28 John Cannon 53 Minnesota Serendipity Atlanta Foyt 173 Flagged
17 30 Bob Harkey 93 Cicada Racing Cicada Offy TC 154 Gearbox
18 31 Al Loquasto 86 Martin Guitar McLaren Chevy 152 Broken timing gear
19 19 Joe Leonard 16 Vel's Parnelli Ford Eagle Offy TC 146 Wrecked turn 1
20 16 Gary Bettenhausen 8 Penske Products McLaren Offy TC 146 Flagged
21 15 Billy Vukovich, Jr. 4 Sugaripe Prune Eagle Offy TC 141 Broken piston
22 13 Salt Walther 77 Dayton-Walther McLaren Offy TC 128 Blown engine
23 27 Rick Muther 76 Webster Racing Eagle Offy TC 121 Blown engine
24 5 Steve Krisiloff 18 American Kids Racer Eagle Offy TC 93 Pit fire
25 14 Mario Andretti 5 Viceroy Parnelli Offy TC 91 Blown engine
26 18 Gordon Johncock 7 Patrick Racing Eagle Offy TC 71 Wrecked turn 2
27 2 Johnny Rutherford 3 McLaren Cars McLaren Offy TC 49 Broken valve
28 12 Dick Simon 44 TraveLodge Eagle Foyt TC 38 Piston
29 11 Jerry Karl 42 Hopkins Racing Eagle Offy TC 32 Wrecked turn 2
30 1 A. J. Foyt 14 Gilmore Racing Coyote Foyt TC 21 Broken oil line
31 33 Mike Hiss 28 Eisenhour Eagle Offy TC 17 Wrecked turn 2
32 29 Skip Barber 23 Crower Eagle Offy TC 8 Overheated
33 32 Johnny Parsons 97 Lodestar Eagle Offy TC 0 Broken gearbox
-- -- Lee Brayton 28 Eisenhour Eagle Offy TC -- Driver ill, driven by M. Hiss
-- -- Steve Durst 45 Thermo King Eagle Offy TC -- Entry declined, not enough experience  
-- -- Dan Murphy 93 Cicada Racing Cicada Offy TC -- Did not qualify
-- -- Jim Hurtubise 56 Miller High Life McLaren Offy TC -- Withdrew
-- -- Bill Simpson 99 Joe Hunt Magneto Eagle Offy TC -- Withdrew
-- -- Johnny Parsons 53 Minnesota Serendipity Atlanta Foyt -- Driven by J. Cannon
-- -- Jigger Sirois 53 Minnesota Serendipity Atlanta Foyt -- Driven by J. Cannon
-- -- Bud Tingelstad 53 Minnesota Serendipity Atlanta Foyt -- Driven by J. Cannon
-- -- Denny Zimmerman 53 Minnesota Serendipity Atlanta Foyt -- Driven by J. Cannon

Lap Leaders Total Laps
Al Unser 106 36, 38-72, 75-77, 88, 97-115, 121-139, 145-171, 177
Bobby Unser 64 1, 23-33, 78-87, 93-96, 116-120, 140-144, 172-176, 178-200
A. J. Foyt 21 2-22
Steve Krisiloff 6 73-74, 89-92
Jim McElreath 2 34-35
Dick Simon 1 37