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Granatelli is the well-known owner of the world's largest and most-publicized racing team-a crew that won this year'sIndy 500 with Mario Andretti in the lead...
...cash to racers who pasted STP decals conspicuously on their cars. Motorists now buy 2,000,000 cans a week, usually paying more than a dollar a can. Buyers hope to get what STP publicists call the "Racer's Edge," something that is supposed to have helped Mario Andretti roar to the winner's circle on May 30 at Indianapolis. Sales last year rose almost 50%, to $44 million, and profits reached $6 million. For every dollar of sales, the company spends 450 on promotion; that is 180 more than it spends on the can and its contents...
Born. To Mario Andretti, 29, the diminutive auto-racing ace, record-breaking (156.867-m.p.h. average) winner of this year's Indianapolis 500, and Dee Ann Andretti, 27, his wife of seven years; their third child, first daughter; in Bethlehem...
...their time, and wait for misfortune to hit the Mark IVs. The gamble almost paid off. One Mark IV went off the course, got stuck in sand and never got out; another lost its rear hood, had to pit for repairs and dropped far behind. Then there was Mario Andretti. Running second in the No. 3 Mark IV, Andretti barreled into a turn at 150 m.p.h., only to lose control of the car when his right front brake grabbed. The Mark IV caromed off one wall, then another, bounced back and finally spun to a stop in mid-track - directly...
...week's Indy 500 reached the 492-mile mark could hardly be blamed, of course. One by one, they had seen most of their favorites fall by the wayside: Graham Hill, the 1966 winner, out on the 24th lap with a sick piston in his Lotus-Ford; Mario Andretti, the speediest qualifier at 168.9 m.p.h., out on the 59th lap when his Brawner-Ford threw a wheel on the No. 3 turn; Dan Gurney, the second fastest qualifier (at 167.2 m.p.h.), black-flagged on the 161st lap with a blown cylinder in his American Eagle. And they had watched...