Word: andrettis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trip award goes to the Fordham Ram, in and out of costume... Wagner has won 19 in a row at home... Fordham lost to Yale in double overtime in New Haven last week... Sore legs award goes to Tom Mannix, who played 45 minutes against Fordham... Mario Andretti Memorial Award goes to trainer Pete Provinzano for driving excellence...
...crash during the first lap of the Italian Formula One Grand Prix at Monza; in Milan. Starting as a "gocart" driver at the age of eight, the shy, cool-nerved Peterson eventually raced in more than 100 Grand Prix events, and this year ranked second behind Mario Andretti in the world championship driver standings. Asked if he ever became scared, Peterson, the veteran of some 30 accidents, replied, "No, not really. If I did I think I would give it up." The fatal wreck stirred fellow drivers to demand either the closing or complete remodeling of the 56-year...
...driver is not Mario Andretti or even Walter Mitty. He is a thrill-seeking visitor at Northridge, outside Los Angeles, one of seven sites in California where anyone with a driver's license and a few dollars can safely savor some of the adrenaline-pumping, gut-clutching fever of Grand Prix racing-on a minitrack, in a scaled-down Formula 1 speedster. Le petit Grand Prix is already one of the hottest pastimes in California, the nation's begetter of vogues, and is spreading east. The two businessmen who laid out the first track in Malibu 29 months...
...nonfamous people like the 42-year-old woman who set a track record-Alltime Slowest-on her first time out. She did the first 800-meter lap in 212 sec.-equivalent to 6½ m.p.h.-thereby qualifying for the Guinness Book of World Records as surely as any Andretti...
...Mario Andretti, the eventual winner in his first Grand Prix victory this year, was critical of Lauda's decision. Said he: "Once the race was on, he should have battled to the finish." Hunt was more understanding: "It was better for me because I was leading. I didn't have the spray problems the others did. I felt very sorry for Niki. It wasn't fair that he should have to race in these conditions. I wanted the race postponed because I didn't think it was safe...