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...peering into the TV camera. "I know that it's a big disappointment for you, Lloyd, not being able to get a shot at the pole position." There are two weekends of qualifications for the 500. The pole position, on the inside of the first row, goes to the fastest qualifier on the first Saturday of qualifications. In pre-qualifying practice sessions Ruby's had been among the fastest cars, and he was a favorite for the $20,000 that accompanies the pole. The order that cars go out to qualify is decided by lot, and Ruby had drawn...
...over $800,000 in prize money, more than three times that of the second richest race. And it monopolizes an entire month. No other race uses more than two weeks including practice, and most only three or four days. Indianapolis is really two races; qualifications, where the thirty-three fastest cars are selected from the seventy-five or eighty that are entered, and then the 500 mile race itself. For qualifications, the cars are set up to run around a two-and-a-half mile rectangular track as fast as they possibly can. Chassis are set up for optimum handling...
...spring, and missed Indy, and many of the following races on the USAC championship trail. He won several races late in the season, and finally finished second to 500 winner Mario Andretti in the National Championship. His car, owned by the 1963 500 winner Parnelli Jones, has been the fastest car at the track all this month. His four-lap, pole winning average of 170.221 was not quite fast enough to eclipse the track record, set two years ago by his current teammate. Joe Leonard, in one of the now-banned turbine cars. With the turbines effectively banished from...
Lloyd Ruby finally qualified at 168.895 miles per hour, the sixth fastest time for the whole month. But he's starting way back in the field. He has a lot of cars to pass before he can catch the other fast runners. That's asking a lot from an engine, and Ruby's hardly been averaging a hundred miles per engine. He could win, and may very well lead a portion of the race, but he's got to be rated a long shot...
...sense of history, Fuller is an old man in a hurry. No idea interests him for more than a historical instant. He begins-and stays-far aloft, in a jet's-eye view of a world where the fastest vehicle appears to crawl. From this vantage point he views the phenomenon of U.S. industrialization. He divides industrial growth into three "telescoping" periods: 1850 to 1890, 1890 to 1920, 1920 to 1940. Each, he notes, was shorter than its precedent; each contained part of its successor. Yet from the beginning "people thought of changes as normal adjuncts to an agricultural...