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...than a score were injured and seven more drivers were dead. But by the time they wound up the bloodiest Pan-American yet, the racers had also managed to hang up a few less gloomy marks. In the unlimited sports car division, Italy's Umberto Maglioli, driving a Ferrari, set a new race record of 17 hrs. 40 min. 26 sec. In the small sports car division, Germany's Hans Hermann, driving a Porsche, finished in a record 19.32:33. In the U.S. small stock car division, Texan Tommy Drisdale, driving a Dodge, ran the route...
Privilege & Presence. South Viet Nam, by contrast, which remains within the French Union, is demoralized and divided. Bao Dai, the porcine Chief of State, lives in France with his mistresses, his Ferrari and his Jaguar XK 120. Bao Dai's Premier in Saigon is Ngo Dinh Diem, 53, a high-minded patriot but an ineffective leader, who is more or less locked up inside his palace by Vietnamese generals who want to grab power for themselves. In many of the villages that the Viet Minh infiltrators do not control,* local sects and gangsters rule with private armies...
...twisting for 101.2 miles around a rain-slicked course, Connecticut's Phil Walters in his Cunningham Special cut corners and roared wide open down the straightaways to average 83.3 m.p.h. and win his second International Grand Prix. In second place: Chicago's Jim Kimberley in a Ferrari...
Just two weeks later, on a rain-soaked course at Silverstone, England, things were different. There were no long, straight stretches on which Fangio's Mercedes could wind up to top speed, and Gonzalez took his cat-quick Ferrari across the finish line in front. This week, at Niirburgring. Germany, Fangio faced much the same problem. On the tight, twisting course where he and his competitors would have to shift gears some 10,000 times as they swung through 3.828 curves (174 per lap), the straightaways were too short for the Silver Arrow to show its full power...
...laps at Nürburgring, Gonzalez hung on grimly; then he gave up. Fangio and the Silver Arrow were too good. Averaging nearly 83 m.p.h. on the tricky course, Fangio finished first in 3:45:45.8. In second place, in Gonzalez Ferrari: England's Mike Hawthorn. Said Gonzalez with eloquent Latin dejection: "The Mercedes went by me like it was jet-propelled. Poof, poof, poof...