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...Germany's Porsche-piloting Gerhard Mitter, 29, this season's leading driver: "It's not like a flat race, where you have time to warm up. You have to drive explosively from the start." Agrees second-ranking Hans Herrmann, 37, who drives for the Italian automaker Abarth: "It is the difference between a miler and a sprinter...
...clouds hung low overhead. Dashing across the track for the Le Mans start, two drivers leaped into their Ford-Cobras, punched the starter buttons-and sat there feeling silly when nothing happened. An Italian Grifo sports car ran off the track, injuring two spectators, and a French Abarth-Simca piled head-on into a palm tree. But Hall's only problem was Dan Gurney, the "rabbit" of the Ford team, whose job was to battle the Texan for the early lead, try to make him burn out his engine. Hall gave better than he got: gunning his Chaparral round...
Peter L. V. Hutchinson '63, driving an Austin-Healey Sprite, managed a very close win over a Fiat Abarth 750 by the slim margin of eight hundredths of a second. Safely winning the next class by a solid four seconds was HMSC President Peter G. Sachs '61, in his Porsche Coupe. J. Grey Jones '61 took third in the same event with...
Traffic Problem. The terrifying traffic problem alone would have sent a big-city Sunday driver screaming for the nearest parking lot. Snarling little (747 cc.) Abarth-Fiats fought for the right of way with the chesty Class "D" (up to three liters) giants-the Ferraris, Jags and Aston-Martins. In the swirling confusion, a Ferrari rode right up the rear end of a Jaguar, and both cars spun off the track. A little Stanguellini somersaulted off course and somehow landed right side up. The only serious accident saw General Motors Executive Chester Flynn spin his Ferrari out of an Sturn...
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