This feat earned him the SCCA President's Cup. ![]() It was the first time in Runoffs history that a driver won three classes at the Runoffs in the same year. In 1971 Hansen won the SCCA National Championship Runoffs in Formula A, A Sports Racer and A Production. After a mediocre 1970 racing season, Hansen won several championships in 1971. He beat many series regulars such as Bobby Unser, Mark Donohue and Billy Vukovich. A double header, with two 45 lap races on the same day, Hansen finished in the top ten twice. Hansen had a better run at Pacific Raceways. He failed to finish due to a broken valve in his debut race at his hometrack, Brainerd International Raceway. ĭuring the season he also made four appearances in the pinnacle of American autosport, the USAC National Championship. After scoring a heat win, he finished the main race in second place, behind Hogan Racings David Hobbs. After not racing in the national Formula 5000 series, Hansen returned in the class for 1971. After starting the Lola T190 in eighth place, For the final race at Sebring Hansen was signed by Carl Haas Racing Team. But technical retirements hampered strong results. In 1969 Hansen was on the entry list for most of the races. At the 1968 SCCA National Championship Runoffs Hansen finished second in the Formula A class, 5,5 seconds behind Ron Grable. Starting the race from pole position, Hansen beat his competition in the combined Formula A, Formula B and Formula C field. In the 1968 SCCA Grand Prix Championship Hansen won the Badger 200 at Road America. Stepping up to Formula 5000, Hansen was a longtime competitor in the class. Racing at Riverside Raceway the driver finished fourth, behind William Duckworth, Roger Barr and winner Lewis Kerr. Hansen made his SCCA National Championship Runoffs debut in the Formula Vee class. The car flipped multiple times, was on fire and knocked over a tree. At the Carousel corner the Scarab skidded of the track and hit the guardrail. In his first race at Road America, Hansen had a fearsome crash. In 1965 Hansen traded his Echidna for a Scarab Mk.II. Minneapolis stockbroker and real estate investor Jerry Hansen started his racing career in 1961 in an Echidna Racing Special in the SCCA C Modified class. Jacklin Andrews is a family counsellor from Saskatchewan.A Scarab Mk.II similar to which Hansen raced. You will know that your life has been successful if you carry on, despite whatever health and aging problems you meet along the way, and you will find rewards not in what you have done, but in what you propose to do. Retirement means that you might start walking a different highway. Retiring does not mean that you stop setting goals, that you stop trying to achieve. Just because you are retiring does not mean that you quit living. You can look at your pension plan and wonder if you have been successful, or you can look at your pension plan and know that it does not stop there. ![]() To be successful means that you have to look not at what you have lost, but at the times when those people or things you lost brought significant meaning into your life. How can anyone get over the death of a child or a spouse, a loving parent, a faithful puppy or that special grandparent? Some of life’s tragedies are difficult to overcome.
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