Word: arnolt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Florida's International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance was less than four hours old when Chicago's Bob Gold-ich, 33, took a tricky S turn just a touch too fast. His little (1.9 liters) Arnolt-Bristol sports car skidded across a taxiway at Sebring's abandoned airfield and rolled into a sideways somersault. A graduate of the dangerous melees of midget-auto racing and the father of two children, Goldich was dead of a broken neck before he reached the hospital...
...race roared on. With two hours to go, overanxious pitmen poured too much oil into Associated Press the Jag. Its plugs fouled, it fumed and sputtered while Phil Hill's white Ferrari nibbled at the lead. Carefully coached by Oldtimer René Dreyfus (TIME, March 14), the Arnolt-Bristol team nursed their little (1,971 cc.) roadsters along, willing to settle for high honors in their own class. Manhattan Clothes Designer John Weitz, one of the few who had driven his car all the way from New York to Sebring, was pushing the Bristols hard with his chunky...
...from the track. Drivers are forever dropping by for advice, old friends come to reminisce about the races in which he made his reputation: Le Mans, the Grand Prix of Monaco, Indianapolis, Targa Florio in Sicily, the "Million-Franc Race" at Montlhery. When Chicago Industrialist S. H. ("Wacky") Arnolt decided to enter three of his Arnolt-Bristol sports cars in this year's Grand Prix at Sebring, it was not surprising that he turned to René Dreyfus when he needed a team captain. And it was not surprising that René needed little convincing...
...Speed Demon. The sleek little (96¼-in. wheelbase) Arnolt-Bristol is no roaring speed demon; its 1,971-cc., six-cylinder engine kicks it along at a conservative 115 m.p.h. maximum. But in a race such as this, René argues, the driver means almost as much as the car. "Any taxi driver can win on a straightaway like Daytona Beach," says he. "At Sebring, the drivers who nurse their cars carefully through the long grind stand a chance of scoring simply because they have finished." With Wacky Arnolt himself, John Panks, general manager of Rootes Motors...
...covered the most laps will take the grand prize. Each class will have its own winners, and there will be a performance award for which each car will get a handicap based on its engine displacement. If his luck holds out, Oldtimer René Dreyfus figures that his Arnolt-Bristols will be up among the victors...
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