Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit, has become the favorite troubleshooter of Chrysler President Lynn Townsend. Under Buckminster, the Chrysler-Plymouth Division is readying a racy new sports car, the Barracuda, for Spring introduction; last week the division raised its prestige with a 1-2-3 upset victory for Plymouth over Ford in the Daytona 500 stock car race. Trained as a financial analyst at Ford under Robert McNamara, Buckminster is a quiet, thorough executive. Before taking over the division in January, he raised Chrysler's share of U.S. auto exports from 16.2% to 22.3%, increased Dodge truck sales from 40,000 units...
...mile course was part road, part track; in the infield, it snaked through a series of sharp hairpin turns; then it swept onto Daytona's ultrafast, banked stock-car oval. In the lighter, more maneuverable Lotus, Gurney picked up valuable seconds on the turns; Foyt got the seconds back by blasting around the oval flat-out at nearly 185 m.p.h. By the 20th lap, both had lapped the entire field. But neither one could shake the other. Sixteen times in the first 38 laps the lead changed hands, while both drivers nursed their cars carefully, hoping for a break...
There he was, at Florida's Daytona International Speedway-in a sports car, of all things...
...sports-car racing, with its twisting courses, its slower speeds, its constant braking and shifting (up to 300 times on one circuit), is not supposed to be his cup of methanol. Going into the 250-mile American Challenge Cup race at Daytona two Saturdays ago, Foyt had driven a sports car only six times in his life...
...presidency of an outboard motor company and accepted the challenge to revive Studebaker. Six inches longer and somewhat sleeker, the cars have abandoned the boxy look of the earlier Lark line. Even the Lark name is being downplayed in favor of model names such as Challenger, Cruiser and Daytona. But the Studebakers will face fierce competition from Ford's sharply redesigned Falcons and the Chevy II, Dodge Dart and Chrysler Valiant...