Larry "Butch" Hartman (May 11, 1940 – December 21, 1994) was an American stock car racing national champion in the United States Automobile Club (USAC) from Zanesville, Ohio.
[1] Hartman had the fourth highest number of USAC Stock car wins in the series' history.
[1][3] Hartman worked full-time at his father's company, building his own engines and towing his cars to the track each weekend.
75 Dodge car with yellow and black colors, sponsored by his father's company "Hartman White and Autocar Truck Sales and Service".
[4] In 1964, Hartman started competing in up to five stock cars races in a weekend, driving with his father and uncle.
When we didn't, one of us would stand on the running board of our old Buick and fuel our pickup truck with a five-gallon can of gas while we were tearing down the road.
[1] He competed in five Grand National events that year, with 10th-place finishes at Atlanta Motor Speedway and Rockingham.
[1] The race featured Wally Dallenbach Sr., A. J. Foyt, Roger McCluskey, Al Unser, Bobby Unser, NASCAR drivers Jim Paschal and LeeRoy Yarbrough, AMA racer Gene Romero, modified racers Geoff Bodine and Toby Tobias, road racer Brian Redman, and USAC stock car regulars Jack Bowsher, Don White, and Norm Nelson.
[1] He got a Junie Donlavey ride after USAC regular Ramo Stott has a second-place finish at Talladega Superspeedway earlier that season.
[1] Hartman was trailing Norm Nelson by 40 points going into the final race of the 1974 USAC season.
Hartman battled Ramo Stott for the 1975 championship, but a blown motor at the Governor's Cup 250 at the Milwaukee Mile ended his title hopes causing him to finish second in the season points.
[1] He was inducted in the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame in 2004 for his USAC Stock Car championships and scoring "hundreds of feature wins and track titles in long career.