Word: checkpoints
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...cars from such widely divergent starting points as Lisbon, Palermo, Oslo, Glasgow, Munich and Athens, the contestants ran through natural and national barriers with little difficulty. The race, as always, was to the most precise rather than the swiftest, and contestants were penalized for breakdowns, delays, missing an obligatory checkpoint or being caught exceeding the 65-kilometer (40 m.p.h.) speed limit...
...news of the race, as it filtered back by radio to the Brescia crowd, was of records being smashed again & again at every checkpoint. Ferrari Driver Gianni Marzotto, the 1950 winner, reached Verona at an average clip of 106 m.p.h. Minutes later, Verona clocked Argentina's Juan Fangio, in an Alfa Romeo, at 106.6. Former World Champion Nino Farina, of Turin, also in a Ferrari, raised it to 109.7. The crowd gasped when it heard about Italy's Consalvo Sanesi and his Alfa Romeo. His speed: 112.8 m.p.h...
...They also passed a stalled Allard driven by Allard's wife Eleanor, in the race with her two sisters. Shouted Allard: "Are you all right?" Shouted Mrs. Allard: "No!" This bit of information prompted Allard to step on the gas, since he was late for the next checkpoint...
Last week, at the Helmstedt checkpoint on the Autobahn to Berlin, 300 West German trucks were jammed up for six miles. The Russians were making token inspections which required 15 minutes for each truck, whether or not they actually examined the cargo...
...dress lies on the grass in the warm sun. A man, whose dirt-streaked face is stubbled with beard, squats on a knapsack near her, staring out before him. A youth on crutches hobbles out on the broad concrete highway and hails a truck which has just left the checkpoint. As it stops, all scramble to their feet and crowd around the driver. They are the potato seekers, hitchhiking their way out to the flat farm country, where they will try to trade their few belongings for food...