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...Richard Petty, 28: the $112,000 Daytona 500 stock-car race; at Florida's 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway. Driving a 1966 Plymouth with a special 550-h.p. "hemi-head" engine, Petty overtook Cale Yarborough's Ford on the 113th lap, led the rest of the way at an average 160.6 m.p.h...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The World Ski Jumping championship from Oslo, Norway; the Daytona 500 Stock Car championship from Daytona...
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...
Maybe it wasn't Le Mans. And maybe, as some Ferrari fans insisted, old Enzo had only sent his "second team" to Daytona. But for the first time ever, a U.S. car had won a 24-hour endurance race. Even Luigi Chinetti, the Ferrari team manager and a naturalized American, felt a certain glow. "I am happy for my country," he said...