Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daytona Beach, Fla., already had a tradition of speed when a onetime Washington, D.C., garage mechanic named William Henry Getty France settled there in 1934 and opened a gas station. In 1903, Alexander Winton whistled across the hard sandy beach in a Bullet at 68.198 m.p.h. to set Daytona's first land speed record-and started a sequence that culminated in Sir Malcolm Campbell's 276.816-m.p.h. run in his Bluebird...
...Grand Prix race for half a dozen years. But in Florida last week a trio of long-tailed Porsche 907 prototypes put on a performance that suggested this year may be Deutschland über Alles once again. They finished one-two-three in the 24 Hours of Daytona, the longest sports-car endurance race in the U.S. and a major tune-up for Le Mans...
...factory Fords or Ferraris were entered at Daytona, but there were several privately owned Ferraris and two Ford GT40 "sports cars"-production copies of the old 4.2-liter prototype that ran at Le Mans in 1964. Although they were not technically in competition for prototype-class honors, the Fords were still the cars to beat...
...fans still talk about his father, Lee Petty, who in 13 years on the stock-car circuit won 54 Grand National races-a record that few experts ever expected to see beaten. Papa Petty is now 53; he walks with a permanent limp, the souvenir of a day at Daytona, Fla., when his car hurtled through a guardrail at 155 m.p.h., soared 150 ft. through the air, landed upside down in a parking lot. Lee retired from racing in 1962, but he is still a familiar figure around the track. Last May he was in Darling ton, S.C., to watch...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Prince Philip wields a mallet in the Queen's Cup polo match from London; plus the Firecracker "400" automobile race from Daytona Beach...