Dutch Hoag

Dutch Hoag won the Langhorne National Open five times when it was the most prestigious event for Modified and Sportsman racers. He was the only driver to win that race both when Langhorne Speedway's surface was dirt (1956, 1960, 1963) and when it was asphalt (1967, 1968). He won an estimated 400 feature events, and won numerous track championships. Hoag was selected for the Northeast Dirt Modified Hall of Fame (one of thirteen charter members), the New York State Stock Car Association Hall of Fame, and the FOAR Score Hall of Fame.
Hoag first raced in 1949. A new racetrack was opened in Naples, New York, and Hoag wanted to try racing. He bought a car from Bob Ratcliffe for $175 and towed it to the track on a chain. Later that year, Hoag won his first feature, at the Civic Stadium in Corning, New York.
Dutch Hoag first won the National Open in 1956, in a car he did not normally drive. This was Hal Kempeny's 1937 Ford coupe, which had been driven for its previous owner by Pete Corey. It had a Ford overhead-valve V-8 engine. Hoag won the 1960 and 1963 Langhorne races with another team that wasn't his regular ride. These were with car owner Dave McCredy, as a teammate to Bill Wimble, two-time NASCAR national Sportsman champion. In 1967, Hoag won the National Open driving for the Turner Brothers, his car owners in weekly racing at several tracks in New York State, along with traveling to special events elsewhere. Hoag and the Turners won one hundred features together. Dutch Hoag's last Langhorne victory was in 1968, driving his car. His team was sponsored by the road-construction company of Gene DeWitt, who later was nationally noted as car owner for Richie Evans' team when Evans won nine NASCAR national Modified championships. Hoag won the 1968 National Open by a full lap.
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