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...someone standing a few feet away, the sound of the thud was enough. Teran was dead. But the reflex thought was the irony of betrayal, not the horror of racing. Who would think to look both ways before stepping out into the alltime one-way street? George Bignotti, the famed engine builder, picked up Armando Teran's shoes. After the rest of the debris was picked up, the race resumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Marred Day | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...qualifiers are using. When he was first awarded the franchise last fall a lot of jokes were going around about how the next Memorial Day would see 32 engine failures at Indianapolis. They may not tell those jokes around Al Unser's pit anymore. but I'm sure George Bignotti, the chief mechanic isn't too worried about Unser's Ford self-destructing. Still, you can be quite sure that there are no stronger Fords in the field than Foyt's. Since 1967, the year that he won the last of his record five national championships, Foyt has sharply curtailed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Racer's Weekend: ???ndianapolis 1970 | 5/29/1970 | See Source »

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