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...floor. Bayh got no answer and climbed out the hatch himself. Again, he yelled to Teddy. This time Kennedy answered, managed to reach his hand through the hatch, and Bayh helped him wriggle through the window. Moss and Pilot Zimny-both horribly injured-were trapped in the cockpit, which had been sliced apart as if by a huge can opener...
...Seven did not. In the darkness, Eddie Sachs slammed broadside into the wrecked Ford. Another car piled into the tangle, and ran right up MacDonald's back, Four more cars crunched into the wreckage. By some miracle, five of the drivers survived. Eddie Sachs was trapped in his cockpit; he was dead from the flames by the time rescuers reached him. MacDonald died two hours later in a hospital...
...Came the race, and at 50 laps tense Cobra pitmen watched four Ferrari prototypes scream past the yellow trackside pylons, locked in the lead. But behind them on Sebring's blazing 100° track boomed a blue Cobra coupe followed by two open cockpit Cobra roadsters. Not a single Ferrari Gran Turismo went by among the first ten cars...
...laps went by, hour on hour, and still the clutch of Cobras held together. Down the straight they roared: lead Cobra in the delicate hands of deft Bob Holbert; behind him, the brilliant Dan Gurney; in the open cockpit behind him, the helmeted head of former World Champion Phil Hill...
...like himself. "One of these days," he squalls at them cheerfully, "you guys are gonna drive me nuts! Har! Har! Har!" Oh, that Peck really breaks the boys up, but he puts them all together again with sodium pentothal and sympathy. One after another they go from snakepit to cockpit, secure in the knowledge that Freud is their copilot...