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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Year's Car...
From a technical point of view, last year's Ken Wallis-built car was far more revolutionary than this year's Lotus turbines. It employed a totally new chassis configuration, with the driver and engine positioned next to one another in the center of the vehicle. Chapman borrowed the four-wheel drive train from last year's car, but reverted to a conventional rear engine chassis layout...
...Leonard did what he could to improve the driver to car ratio by stuffing last year's car into the first-turn wall during a test run. As a reward Granatelli hired him to drive number 60, which had originally been assigned to Mike Spence. It wasn't a bad move. When the first day of qualifying ended, Leonard held the pole position...
Right next to him sat Graham Hill in another turbine, and in the fourth row was Art Pollard in the last STP car. Pollard had never even been in the car prior to his qualifying run. No piston-powered car came within two miles per hour of Leonard's record-breaking...
...Cars are further slowed by full fuel loads. The turbines are vulnerable to this to the same degree that piston cars are, but since they run on kerosene in racing and qualifying, they suffer no speed loss due to fuel changes. Leonard and Pollard can turn laps at over 169 mph with full tanks, while a piston-powered car would be lucky to run within five mph of that...