Ray Young at Illiana Motor Speedway - 1975
Chicago, Ill. (November 13, 1975) – Ray Young copped the second Chicagoland Driving Championship title by finishing in the top-three in 37 of 56 features he entered at Grundy County Speedway (Morris), Illiana Motor Speedway (Schererville, Ind.), and Waukegan Speedway in 1975.
Young, a 43-year-old truck driver and a veteran of Chicago area short tracks, replaced Bob Roper as champion.Roper won 13 features in 1974, however, failed to win a feature in 1975 after 24 starts. Young won 10 features in gaining the title.
Meanwhile, a driver half of Young’s age, Tom Musgrave, 21, won the CDC percentage award in 1975. Musgrave, a second-generation racer, won nine straight features at the Grundy paved oval on the way to his second consecutive title.
The top-six feature finishers at the three participating tracks scored CDC points over the season with 51 drivers receiving points. A total of 68 feature races were run, but due to eight conflicting dates, the most races any one driver could have started was 60.
The scoring system went as follows –
1. 9 points
2. 6 points
3. 4 points
4. 3 points
5. 2 points
6. 1 point
The percentage award was calculated by dividing the total CDC points won by the maximum possible according to the number of features started.
Tom Jones ranked second in the final point standings, mainly on the strength of his championship drive at Waukegan, where he won a record-tying 19 features. Jones added another victory at Grundy to score the most CDC wins in 1975.
CDC final standings –
1. Ray Young – 260
2. Tom Jones – 246
3. Larry Schuler – 187
4. Carl Major – 138
5. Tom Musgrave – 127
6. Ed Hoffman – 100
7. Bob Dotter – 94
8. Lee Schuler – 89
9. Jerry Kemperman – 64
10.Bob Roper – 57
11.George Dukas – 43
12.Dave Weltmeyer – 32
13.Ted Richter – 28
14.Rich Sundling – 26
15.Vern Brown - 25
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