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...Unser, the youngest brother of the 1968 winner. Unser broke his leg in a motorcycle accident last spring, and missed Indy, and many of the following races on the USAC championship trail. He won several races late in the season, and finally finished second to 500 winner Mario Andretti in the National Championship. His car, owned by the 1963 500 winner Parnelli Jones, has been the fastest car at the track all this month. His four-lap, pole winning average of 170.221 was not quite fast enough to eclipse the track record, set two years ago by his current teammate...
Roger McCluskey has been racing at Indianapolis since the early 1960's. He's never finished the race, though he's often run well. This year he was the fourth fastest qualifier in a turbocharged Ford. Clint Brawner and Jim McGee, mechanics for Andretti's winning STP Oil Treatment Special last year, built and maintain McClusky's Quickick Special this year. The combination sounds good, but the only money McCluskey's made this year has been for laundry detergent commercials on TV with his wife. If the car would last. McCluskey could win, but neither seems very likely...
...Mario Andretti is the compleat race driver. Five foot six inches high, he drives every type of car. He won Indianapolis last year, has been national champion three times, has won the Sebring sports car enduro twice, including this year. He won the Daytona 500, premier event for stock cars in 1967, and qualified for the pole position in the first Grand Prix he ever raced in. This year he is competing in six Grand Prix in an STP-March Ford, as well as running the whole USAC championship circuit. He was one of the fastest drivers in practice early...
...astest man in practice, qualification and carburation tests, and always ?? wide margin. So far this has been ?? nser's year. There is no doubt that ??ser's machine holds up, he will win race. Many people pick him to win race, and Unser is confident about ?? chances. But Mario Andretti domied practice in much the same way in ?? and 1967, only to fall out early in race. The fact is, only seven times ?? the race been won from the pole. ?? last time was 1963, when Unser's ?? owner, the semi-retired Parnelli ??, took the checkered rag. As good ??nser...
After showing "The Racer's Edge." a film about the "continuing love story of the auto in America," Granatelli commented on why he had kissed Andretti after his victory...