Word: downshifting
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...climb into a cockpit, strap in and start the car. You shift upward, first, second, third, fourth and then down. Gas. Clutch. Shift. Now gas, clutch, gas again. Downshift. You are learning how to double-clutch. You are learning to control a car. You cease to hear the swallows. Your universe becomes an asphalt strip. It will be afternoon before Couture regards you as competent to corner in a Formula Ford...
Northeastern and Rutgers, both undergoing rebuilding years, replace Holy Cross and Boston University as the non-Ivy teams on the schedule, and the downshift in quality should make the Crimson's initiation period a little less hectic. The game with Columbia at New York will be a nice test-one which Harvard should win, but not as easily as it did last year...
...Downshift Slip. Naturally, everyone else worried about the Fords-and why not? There were 13 of them in the race...
...Ford dealer from Vancouver, B.C., was gearing down for the hairpin when his Canadian-owned Ford GT 40 careened into a phone pole and burst into flames. McLean died in the fire, but worse was to come. On the 200th lap, Pennsylvania's Mario Andretti tried to downshift his non-factory Ferrari from fourth to third, slammed the lever into first instead. The Ferrari spun, slewed into a speeding Porsche, and drove it off the track into a group of spectators-killing four of them...
...their tiny British-built Lotuses. Now Foyt was out to return the favor-by beating the sports-car boys at their own silly game. "Sports cars are easy to drive," he sneered. "You get more time to think. Sure, you have to study the course, and you have to downshift, and you have to learn how to brake. But I've always liked shifting gears." The 37-car field included everything from Falcons and Corvettes to a pair of hot new Porsches. But from the moment the time trials started, it was strictly a two-car race. Clark...