"Jerry Grant", was a driver in the United States Automobile Club/USAC Championship Car series. Born in Seattle, he began racing sports cars in Northern California in the early 1960s. He raced in the 1965-1977 seasons, with 54 career starts, including the Indianapolis 500 in 1965-1968, 1970 and 1972-1976. He finished in the top ten 13 times, with his best finish in 3rd position in 1974 at Ontario.

Grant is best remembered for his bad luck at the 1972 Indianapolis 500 that cost him first victory and then second place. He was leading the race comfortably over Mark Donohue when a punctured tire forced him to pit with 12 laps to go. As Donohue went past into the lead, Grant overshot his pit and stopped at his teammate Bobby Unser's. His mechanics changed the tire in Unser's pit, and also refueled the car - from Unser's pit tank. Grant returned to the track and finished second to Donohue. Al Unser's team filed a protest, saying that Grant had used fuel from another driver's supply. The protest was upheld and Grant's final 12 laps were not counted, dropping him from 2nd to 12th.

Grant was the first USAC driver to break . He accomplished the feat in qualifying at the Ontario Motor Speedway on September 3, 1972, completing a lap in 44.7 seconds. however on raceday Grant's Eagle failed to complete a lap.

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All I will say is it's better to win ugly than to lose pretty. It's the mark of a good team that we can adapt and do what we needed to do to win.

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We came out and set the tone defensively. We wanted to make sure they didn't get a win. We played a great game defensively.

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We came out a little bit flat and a little rusty after not having played in a week. By the start of the second quarter we got back into a better flow, especially defensively. It was a matter of us getting back into a rhythm.

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I told them (at halftime) that it wasn't us in the first half. We made so many silly mistakes and so many dumb things that we haven't done all year.

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We're used to it being called one way for two games and then we have it called another way. We didn't adjust like we should have.

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Angela Christian came off the bench and got all over people. We were able to spread the ball around tonight.

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