California 500
Ontario Motor Speedway
2.5 Mile Paved Oval
200 Laps/500 Miles
September 5, 1976

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

Points
1 10 Bobby Unser 3 Cobre Tire Eagle Offy TC 200 3:29:25.76 143.246 1,000
2 7 Johnny Rutherford 2 Hy-Gain McLaren Offy TC 200 3:29:28.30 143.217 800
3 6 Gordon Johncock 20 Goodyear/Patrick Wildcat 2 DGS 200 Finished 700
4 5 Wally Dallenbach 40 Goodyear-Patrick Wildcat 2 DGS 198 Flagged 600
5 12 Tom Bigelow 24 Leader Card Eagle Offy TC 196 Flagged 500
6 23 Jan Opperman 18 Spirit of Truth Eagle Offy TC 194 Flagged 400
7 26 Bill Puterbaugh 83 McNamara Eagle Offy TC 193 Flagged 300
8 20 Rick Mears 38 Do-It Wax System Eagle Offy TC 192 Flagged 250
9 27 Bobby Olivero 78 Alex Foods Eagle Offy TC 192 Flagged 200
10 15 Jerry Grant 73 California-Oklahoma Eagle AMC 191 Flagged 150
11 33 Todd Gibson 8 Routh Meat Eagle Offy TC 191 Flagged 100
12 21 Sheldon Kinser 97 Dave McIntire King Offy TC 190 Flagged 50
13 30 Spike Gehlhausen 19 Spirit of Indiana McLaren Offy TC 189 Flagged
14 14 Bill Simpson 6 Nikon McLaren Offy TC 187 Flagged
15 9 Mike Mosley 12 Sugaripe Prune Eagle Offy TC 185 Broken oil tank
16 13 Steve Krisiloff 45 Thermo King Eagle Offy TC 181 Flagged
17 28 Roger Rager 44 Robyn CB Eagle Foyt TC 161 Lost oil pressure
18 24 John Martin 98 Genesee Beer King Offy TC 147 Broken rear end
19 29 Mike Hiss 23 Hodgdon GMC Eagle Offy TC 134 Ignition
20 19 Lee Kunzman 65 Expo AD Eagle Offy TC 133 Burned piston
21 2 Roger McCluskey 7 1st National Travel Check Hopkins Offy TC 119 Broken valve spring
22 17 Salt Walther 77 Dayton-Walther McLaren Offy TC 95 Engine
23 1 A. J. Foyt 14 Gilmore Racing Coyote Foyt TC 77 Lost oil pressure
24 16 Billy Vukovich, Jr. 5 Alex Foods Eagle Offy TC 75 Wrecked turn 1
25 25 John Mahler 76 Webster Racing Webster Offy TC 63 Wrecked turn 1
26 3 Tom Sneva 68 Norton Spirit McLaren Offy TC 60 Ignition
27 22 Gary Bettenhausen 99 Joe Hunt Magneto Eagle Offy TC 56 Engine
28 11 Danny Ongais 25 Interscope Racing Parnelli Cosworth TC 54 Wrecked backstretch
29 4 Pancho Carter 48 Jorgensen Steel Eagle Offy TC 54 Wrecked backstretch
30 18 Dick Simon 17 Payne Air Conditioning Vollstedt Offy TC 32 Burned piston
31 32 Eldon Rasmussen 58 Shellar-Globe Rascar Foyt TC 20 Engine
32 8 Al Unser 21 American Racing Wheels Parnelli Cosworth TC 13 Engine
33 31 Mel Kenyon 61 Hopkins Coyote Foyt TC 8 Burned piston
-- -- Bob Harkey 63 Shurfine Foods Rascar Offy TC -- DNS, too slow
-- -- Jerry Karl 36 Shurfine Foods McLaren Offy TC -- DNS, too slow
-- -- Al Loquasto 86 Frostie Root Beer McLaren Offy TC -- DNS, too slow
-- -- Jim McElreath 28 Spirit of Public Enterprise Eagle Offy TC -- DNS, too slow
-- -- Janet Guthrie 27 Payne Air Conditioning Vollstedt Offy TC -- Did not qualify
-- -- Billy Scott 28 Spirit of Public Enterprise Eagle Offy TC -- Did not qualify
-- -- Ed Crombie 67 Crombie Brothers Vollstedt Ford TC -- Did not qualify
-- -- Larry Dickson 80 R P Racing McLaren Offy TC -- Did not qualify
-- -- Johnny Parsons 93 1st National Travel Check Eagle Offy TC -- Did not qualify

Lap Leaders Total Laps
Gordon Johncock 69 82-102, 117-139, 145-149, 158-177
Bobby Unser 53 38-56, 103-104, 116, 140-144, 155-157, 178-200
Wally Dallenbach 36 16-35, 105-115, 150-154
Johnny Rutherford 24 58-81
A. J. Foyt 14 1-13, 57
Tom Sneva 2 14-15
Bill Simpson 2 36-37