In the late 1960s and early '70s there was no better measure of a race driver than how he performed in USAC's sprint division and nobody performed better than Larry Dickson. "Lightning Larry" scored 45 victories and three championships in a seven-year span that was highlighted by his rivalry with Gary Bettenhausen. USAC became the Larry & Gary Show as they swapped the title four times in four years from 1969-72 and packed the house from Terre Haute to Reading to Winchester. It also became known as the Thunder (Bettenhausen) and Lightning (Dickson) division. Dickson made eight starts in the Indianapolis 500 but only finished once (ninth in 1969) as he was plagued by mechanical...
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