Veteran Car Owner Seeking Another Hoosier Hundred Win At Indiana State Fairgrounds

*​**Indy Native/USAC Car Owner Nolen After 4th Indy Mile Win*

By Jay Hardin
Track Enterprises Staff

May 16, 2018-Indianapolis, IN-Growing up in Indianapolis in the 1950’s,
USAC Silver Crown car owner Gene Nolen had plenty of opportunity to be
infected with the racing bug.  The Indianapolis 500, the Hoosier Hundred at
the Indiana State Fairgrounds and midget action at the old West 16th Street
Speedway all served to give the 1961 Indianapolis Tech graduate a taste of
the racing life.

Nine years after forming his own plastic injection molding company Nolen
bought a midget race car and placed Wisconsin driver Paul Huntington behind
the wheel.  For the last 29 seasons Nolen has fielded one or more cars in
the top tier USAC Silver Crown Series.  The Whiteland, Indiana based team
has won numerous events including the Little 500 at Anderson and employed a
hall of fame stable of drivers including Tony Stewart, Johnny Parsons Jr.,
Jim Keeker and Tony Elliot.

Nolen nearly retired after the 2014 season, decided to return to the series
and at times put three cars on track in USAC’s top division.  This season
the Hoosier son returns armed with two USAC national champions in his
stable and a chance to capture his fourth win as a car owner in the Hoosier
Hundred on the Indy Mile.

Gene’s first entry appeared in the first night time Hoosier Hundred at the
fairgrounds in 1989 with Rocky Hodges at the wheel qualifying 17th and
finishing in the same spot.  It would take another ten years before a Nolen
entry found victory lane on the Indy mile.  Ironically, the late Tony
Elliot would lead the last 20 miles in Gene’s familiar number 20 on the way
to victory.  Elliot repeated again in 2001 in similar fashion leading the
last 17 miles.  The third Hoosier Hundred win for a Nolen owned entry came
with fellow Indianapolis native and second generation driver Shane
Hollingsworth who captured a very emotional win on the home track.

Should Nolen win a fourth race he will probably break one of his own
streaks.  Each Hoosier Hundred win for the Indiana car owner has come with
an Indiana driver at the wheel.  This year Nolen has 2008 USAC Silver Crown
champ Jerry Coons Jr. of Arizona behind the wheel of the yellow 20, Coons
is also a two-time Hoosier Hundred winner.  The other member of the Nolen
stable is 2016 USAC Silver Crown champ Chris Windom who broke through and
gained his first mile dirt track win at DuQuoin in 2016.

The Hoosier Hundred is the second of three events in USAC’s “Week of Indy�??
featuring the Hulman Classic at Terre Haute Wednesday May 23, the Hoosier
Hundred at the fairgrounds May 24, and the Carb Day Classic at Raceway Park
on May 25.

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