Dick Lang Racing History: Mid-Ohio

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10/4/07

1962 Mid-Ohio

Mid-Ohio's first SCCA race August 18, 1962.

lst- Bob Johnson
2nd- Don Yenko
3rd- Dick Lang
View the program cover HERE.

9/4/07

1963 Mid-Ohio (July)

July 27, 28; Mid-Ohio Raceway

1^st	Roger Donovan	Elva Mk VII	20	92.698	1^st	GM
2^nd	Peter Helferich	Lotus Eleven			2^nd	GM
3^rd	Dick Lang	Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray			1^st	AP

1963 Mid-Ohio (Aug)

August 17-18 1963. Regional race at Mid-Ohio Raceway

1963 Mid-Ohio

SCCA US Road Racing Championship GT race
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, OH
September 22, 1963
70 laps on 2.4 mile road course; 168 miles

Fin	St	Driver	#	Owner	Car	Laps	Money	Status	Laps Led
1	1	Bob Holbert	99	Vic Damone	Cobra CSX2137	70	1,000	running	69
2	2	Ken Miles	98	Temple Buell	Shelby Cobra CSX2139	67	500	running	0
3	5	Dick Lang	85	Lang Chevrolet	Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray	67	300	running	0
4		Tony Denman			Chevrolet Corvette	65	200	running	0
5		Bob Bienerth	5	Bob Bienerth	Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray	62	150	running	0
6		Jack Moore			Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray	57	100	running	0
7		Al Rogers	1	Scuderia Left Turn	Morgan SS	47		running	0
8	4	Mike Gammino	23	Michael Gammino	Ferrari 250 GTO 3387GT	46		running	0
9	3	Bob Johnson	33	Bob Johnson	Shelby Cobra CSX2026	2		timing chain	1

8/4/07

1964 Mid-Ohio (June)

June 14, 1964 @ Mid-Ohio.
SCCA National Races at Mid-Ohio : AP Class
First: Dick Lang, Corvette Sting Ray
(Click on photos to view larger image)

Bob Johnson in the #33 Cobra

Taking the checkered flag

1964 Mid-Ohio (July)

July 12, 1964. Divisional Race at Mid-Ohio

Top 4

Bob Johnson (Cobra)
Dan Gerber (Cobra)
Tom Swindell (Stingray)
Dick Lang (Stingray)

1964 Mid-Ohio (August)

SCCA US Road Racing Championship GT race
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, OH
August 30, 1964
42 laps on 2.4 mile road course; 100.8 miles

Fin	Driver	#	Owner	Car	Laps	Status
1	Bob Johnson	99	Shelby American	Shelby Cobra Ford CSX2494	42	running
2	Ken Miles	98	Shelby American	Shelby Cobra Ford CSX2431	42	running
3	Tom Payne	13		Shelby Cobra CSX2430	42	running
4	Pete Harrison	87		Cobra Ford CSX2128		running
5	Bill Wuesthoff	17	Robert Bosch	Porsche 904 GTS 066		running
6	Lew Draper	33		Cobra Ford CSX2189		running
7	Bruce Jennings			Porsche 356 Carrera		running
8	Chuck Stoddard			Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ		running
9	Pete Lovely	15	Alan Mann	Ford Cortina Lotus		running
10	James Spencer		Alan Mann	Ford Cortina Lotus		running
11	Larry Wehr			Jaguar XKE		running
12	Max Nerriere			Lotus Elite		running
13	Red Crim			Austin-Healey 3000		running
14	Dick Lang	85		Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray		did not finish

7/4/07

Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio, USA
Date: 16/6/1968
Chevrolet Camaro Dick Lang, USA V8 DNF (Suspension)

SCCA Trans Am race
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, OH
June 16, 1968
102 laps on 2.4 mile road course; 244.8 miles

Fin	St	Driver	#	Owner	Car	Laps	Money	Status	Laps Led
1		Mark Donohue	6	Roger Penske	Chevrolet Camaro	102	1,500	running	93
2	3	Jerry Titus		Carroll Shelby	Ford Mustang	101	1,000	running
3	2	Peter Revson			AMC Javelin	100	750	running
4	4	Bob Johnson			Chevrolet Camaro	98	600	running
5	11	Bert Everett			Porsche 911	96	1,000	running
6	7	Rusty Jowett			Chevrolet Camaro	95	450	running
7	8	Tony Adamowicz	7		Porsche 911	94	650	running
8	12	Floyd Aaskov			Chevrolet Camaro	94	300	running
9	14	Russell Norburn			Porsche 911	93	200	running
10		Dick Hoffman	48		Chevrolet Camaro	89	200	running
11	15	Thomas Blank			Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA 752648	75	300	running
12	1	John Martin			AMC Javelin	93	550	valve
13	13	Jim Corwin			Chevrolet Camaro	68	100	wheel bearing
14	10	Monty Winkler			Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA	67	250	engine
15	6	Dick Lang	85		Chevrolet Camaro	48	50	suspension
16		Jim Brown			AMC Rambler	37	50	engine
17	16	Herb Swan	99		BMW 2002TI	25	200	did not finish
18	9	Joe Grimaldi			Porsche 911	6	150	did not finish
19	5	Horst Kwech			Ford Mustang	0	50	engine

Notes: Originally scheduled for June 9.
Postponed one week on June 6 by track officials when Lyndon Johnson declared June 9 a national day of mourning after the assassination of Robert Kennedy.
Race Purse: $ 8,350
Attendance: 15,400

1968 Mid-Ohio

Mid-Ohio, September 8, 1968

A-B Production Final Standings:
1. Al Barker (Sting Ray)
2. Dick Lang (Camaro) (lst in A Sedan)
3. Tony DeLorenzo (Owens-Corning Sting Ray)

6/4/07

1969 Mid-Ohio

SCCA Trans Am race
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, OH
June 8, 1969
100 laps on 2.4 mile road course; 240 miles
DNF
Chevrolet Camaro ‘68 Dick Lang, USA Engine fire

Fin	St	Driver	#	Owner	Car	Laps	Money	Status
1	8	Ronnie Bucknum	9	Roger Penske	1969 Chevrolet Camaro	100	2,500	running
2	2	Parnelli Jones	15	Bud Moore	1969 Ford Mustang	100	1,900	running
3	5	George Follmer	16	Bud Moore	1969 Ford Mustang	100	1,300	running
4	4	Peter Revson	1	Carroll Shelby	1969 Ford Mustang	99	1,000	running
5	11	Ron Grable	3	Ronnie Kaplan	1969 AMC Javelin	99	700	running
6	12	Rusty Jowett	92		1968 Chevrolet Camaro	99	500	running
7	1	Mark Donohue	6	Roger Penske	1969 Chevrolet Camaro	97	900	running
8	17	Larry Harley	73		1968 Pontiac Firebird	97	300	running
9	18	Ted Roberts	55		1968 AMC Javelin	95	200	running
10	7	Horst Kwech	2	Carroll Shelby	1969 Ford Mustang	94	150	running
11	30	Peter Gregg	59		1968 Porsche 911	94	1,300	running
12	25	Fred Baker	29		1968 Porsche 911	94	750	running
13	31	Pete Harrison	86		1967 Porsche 911	92	500	running
14	23	Russell Norburn	17		1967 Porsche 911	92	400	running
15	13	Milt Minter	37		1968 Pontiac Firebird	91	100	running
16	34	Bruce Jennings	71		1967 Porsche 911	90	350	running
17	33	Wilbur Pickett	36		1966 Porsche 911	89	300	running
18	29	Bert Everett	14		1967 Porsche 911	88	250	running
19	3	Jerry Titus	27		1968 Pontiac Firebird	85	100	running
20	16	Ron Hunter	10		1968 AMC Javelin	85	100	running
21	24	Jim Corwin	26		1968 Chevrolet Camaro	84	75	running
22	32	Jerry Peterson	83		1968 Chevrolet Camaro	73	75	running
23	9	Dick Lang	85		1968 Chevrolet Camaro	95	50	engine fire
24	20	Jim Harrell	23		1969 Ford Mustang	90	50	suspension
25	19	Vic Provenzano	97		1966 Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA	74	400	valve
26	22	Jim Locke Bob Bailey	52		1968 Porsche 911	74	250	halfshaft
27	27	Nick Engles	19		1968 Chevrolet Camaro	73	50	engine
28	14	Brad Dunn	72		1968 Pontiac Firebird	72	50	disqualified
29	26	Gary Wright	41		1966 Porsche 911	69	100	engine
30	10	Don Yenko	47		1968 Chevrolet Camaro	67	50	suspension
31	21	Robert Barg	50		1967 Chevrolet Camaro	46		axle
32	35	Levester Lewis	49		1967 Chevrolet Camaro	41		engine
33	6	John Martin	4	Ronnie Kaplan	1969 AMC Javelin	39		steering
34	15	Larry Bock	11		1968 Chevrolet Camaro	30		engine
35	28	John Moore	22		1967 Porsche 911	27	50	oil pressure

Race Purse: $ 14,800
Attendance: 23,000
Thanks to Ultimate Racing History for this information and this photo from the race by Ron Lathop:

1969 Mid-Ohio

Mid-Ohio, July 20, 1969

Sports Racers A Class.

lst- Bob Nagel (Lola Ford)
2nd- Art Seyler (Cooper Ford)
3rd- Dick Lang (Genie)

Columbus Dispatch reported: "Dick Lang of Xenia provided some automotive acrobatics in the sixth race, spinning off into the grass twice then running his outmoded Genie hard and taking third place."

Click on photo to read local newspaper story:

Racing With My Father-in-Law

By Jack Kitchen.

Racing with my Father In-Law:

A few years ago (2003) Dick’s son (Todd) and I coerced him into three days of motor sports in the desert. Todd and I have heard the stories of Dick’s days behind the wheel of corvettes hundred maybe thousands of times. I don’t care how many times I’ve heard them, I always ask to hear them again. The stories of running door-to-door with Yenko, Donahue, and Parnelli Jones were magical to me. Dick had unknowingly passed the dream of becoming a racecar driver onto Todd and I. I ended up volunteering for NASCAR teams in North Carolina and working at a dealership in a parts department for a year just to get closer to that dream. I built road-racing cars on a shoestring budget and was taking driving lessons when I could afford them. Todd has since put a racecar together and is seeing the dream of trading paint come true. [ed. Note: Low, low budget dirt track racing]

Todd and I wanted more than anything to spend a day on the track with Dick. Hesitantly he agreed to go to the Bondurant School of High Performance Driving. It must have been odd for Dick to go to a class that he could have easily taught. He never let on that he had raced Bob Bondurant long before the school was ever started.

We strapped in the cars for three days of instruction. I must have been smiling every second. I mowed over cones while learning trail braking and heal & toe shifting. Dick was given the name “Turbo” after schooling the youngsters on the skid pad. The Grand Finale of the school was a race. The students tested their new skills against each other. Todd dominated the first part of the race and made passes where I would never have attempted. Todd showed a couple of our classmates how to avoid crashing by driving through the desert. Dick steadily moved through the pack. I brought up the rear with a perma-grin! When the yellow flag was thrown, Todd made a devastating rookie mistake by passing the pace car. Victory slipped away from Todd and “Turbo” took the checkered flag and won once again that afternoon.

Dick claims that he is truly retired from racing and he would rather go hiking than race cars again. I got the chance to race with a true racing legend and it was an experience that I’ll never forget. Having a racing story to share with Dick is a priceless gift that I will be able to keep with me forever.

Todd Comments:

I agree completely with Jack. That racing school was the most fun I've probably ever had. Dad was a great sport to go along with it. He didn't enjoy it at all until he won that final race. Then he finally relaxed and smiled. Also, to be fair, I did blow it by passing the pace car, and I was gaining on dad with a few laps to go. But once he got through slower traffic he left me in the dust. I started pushing too hard to catch him and fell further back. Yet another lesson from Dad.

Langs Chevrolet History

Lang's Chevrolet was in business from 1926 until it was sold in 2016. Dick Lang began working for his father, Fred W. Lang, in the 1950s. Dick began running the business in the 1960s.

Here are some old pictures of the business.

Xenia 1926 Grand Opening of the Dealership

Fred Lang delivering a new car to a customer.

Used Car Lot in the 1940s(?)

"New" Fairborn Dealership circa 1953.

"Modern" Service and Parts Department in the 50s.

Dick Lang "promoting" the business at a young age.