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...display never before seen at Indianapolis. He led for all but ten of the 200 laps, broke some sort of record practically every time he tooled around the 21-mile course, lapped the entire field twice, averaged 150.68 m.p.h. (the old record: 147.35 m.p.h.), and left the Brickyard littered with the carcasses of cars that broke down straining to keep...
...Texan Foyt climbed into another Lotus-Ford and ripped off a lap at 161.9 m.p.h., won the pole position-and practically ensured that this year's race will be the fastest in the history of Indy's famed Brickyard...
...fastest racing cars blast around the 21-mile oval. Who won the race? There was no race. The Indianapolis 500 isn't until this week, and these were merely the qualification trials. But they pitted a new breed of rear-engined racers against the reigning kings of the Brickyard, the burly front-engined Offenhausers that have won every 500 for the past 17 years. No auto buff within driving distance wanted to miss...
Each asphalt-covered brick at Indianapolis' Motor Speedway is a tombstone for a dream-the kind of dream that makes men recite the words on the Statue of Liberty and sing paeans to the New York Mets. For the Brickyard is the place where the underdog never wins...
...Fairlane V-8s-souped up to 376 h.p., but with carburetors, yet-and they got their nourishment from the good old Esso pump. Their drivers: Scotland's Jimmy Clark, 27, and the U.S.'s Dan Gurney, 32, veterans of the European Grand Prix circuit, greenhorns at the Brickyard. Their chances? "It's nice to see them in the race," said two-time winner Rodger Ward nearsightedly...