Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twice bitten, thrice cautious. "We're in better shape than we've ever been" was all that Shelby would say last week on the eve of the new season's first big sports-car race-the 24-hour Daytona Continental. Gone were the six Ford GTs that competed at Le Mans last year, replaced by five $100,000 Mark II prototypes, each only 40 in. high but with 475 honest horses under its hood. The cars had undergone seven months of testing: each engine had been run for 48 hours on a dynamometer, computers had been...
Practice was one thing; the race was another. At Daytona as at Le Mans, the accent was on endurance as much as speed, and the Daytona International Speedway's 3.81-mile course qualified admirably as a car killer. Cars had to decelerate violently to as low as 25 m.p.h. for the hairpins-"Miserable, slippery little curves," said No. 1 Ford Driver Ken Miles-then accelerate, if they could, to 195 m.p.h. on the long straights and high-banked (up to 31°) curves. Slower cars were cautioned to stay low on the banks...
...battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court, finally forced NBC to sell one of its two chains of radio stations (the Blue Network, now ABC), thus ending what he called CBS's and NBC's "duopoly" of the industry; of stomach cancer; in Daytona Beach...
...other people, disarmingly described by Helmsley as "friends who go into these investments with us." The pals have included Wall Streeters John L. Loeb and Clifford W. Michel, and the syndicated holdings range from Manhattan's Plaza Hotel to properties in Los Angeles, Detroit, Buffalo, Dayton and Daytona Beach...
...SPORTS IN ACTION (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Highlights of the Henley Regatta from England and the 1965 International Grand Prix motor race from Daytona Beach...