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Into the Water. It was at Monaco that Italy's world champion, Alberto Ascari, drove straight through a sea wall into the Mediterranean (luckily, he could swim); that Rudy Caracciola suffered the leg injury that left him a cripple for life; that Luigi Fagioli crashed and died. Last week 16 cars and drivers took the starter's flag, and only six finished the race. Among those who did not: Scotland's Jimmy Clark, the 1965 Grand Prix champion, who smashed into a retaining wall and walked away...
Last week, 16 of the best drivers in Europe whizzed across the starting line in tiny bug-shaped cars. Four hours and 45 minutes later, the winner, Italy's Fagioli. crossed the finish line in front of the grandstand where 50,000 people were shouting loud enough to drown the sound of the cars roaring in behind him. His time, in a Mercedes shaped like a blunt crochet-hook with a notch for the driver's seat, averaged 105 kilometres an hour, 70 kilometres slower than his winning speed over the old course last year...
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