Word: ferraris
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...m.p.h. "I broke into a number of slides that made my hair stand up," he later admitted. But his 3,200-lb. Tempest with wide-track wheels was a great deal easier to control than the lighter (by 400 Ibs.) Sting Rays-or even a pair of Italian Ferrari GTOs. Two Sting Rays pulled into the pits flooded with 4 in. of water on their floor boards from leaky vents; the others were sliding all over the track. At race's end, Goldsmith and his Tempest were two laps-or five miles-ahead of the nearest rival...
...Karts & 10? Parts. Offered the wheel of a blood-red factory Ferrari in 1958, Gurney came within an ace of victory at Le Mans and again at Rheims; both times his co-drivers wrecked the cars. At the Dutch Grand Prix in 1960, the brakes failed on his British-built BRM; the car hurtled off the track killing a spectator and breaking Gurney's left arm. Nowhere has Gurney's luck been worse than at his home-town Riverside International Raceway, a course he knows blindfolded. Last March, he won a $13,250 stock car race...
...that divides her school from his house, and introduces herself. She needs a man, she world-wearily explains to him. "from time to time." He needs a change of sheets to help him sleep better-he has nightmares about an accident in which he killed a man with his Ferrari. When his mistress finds out what's on his mind, she urges him to grab the girl and "get it over with." He does. Whereupon the girl goes briskly back to school, the man goes briskly back to his mistress...
...eyed British wife Toni, renamed after their marriage Muna al Hussein (Desired of Hussein), and blue-eyed, eleven-month-old Crown Prince Abdullah, he relishes domestic life in a modern, eight-room villa called Daret Alkair (House of Happiness) outside Amman. He loves speed, races his Aston Martin and Ferrari autos at 100 m.p.h., recently landed a Boeing 720 jet at Amman Airport. He Go-Karts so often with Muna that one diplomat became expert at the sport just to keep in touch with them...
...Prix, where he drove a Lotus to sixth place. "That wasn't very difficult," he says. "Only six cars finished." In 1960, he went over to British Racing Motors, but B.R.M. hardly seemed the spot for an aspiring champion. Conceived as an answer to German (Mercedes) and Italian (Ferrari, Maserati) dominance of Grand Prix racing, the company built fast cars that blew up or broke down with embarrassing regularity...