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...Three months after V-E Day, Brooke, then a captain waiting to be shipped out of Italy, visited Viareggio, a resort on the Ligurian Sea. On the beach, he struck up a conversation with Remigia Ferrari-Scacco, the fetching daughter of a prosperous Genoese paper merchant. Recalls Remigia: "I see him five times in Italy. He come in my house. He meet my parents. He say he in love with me and he want me to marry." She say no. However, after returning home and joining a couple of Army buddies at Boston University Law School, he began trading...
...rods were power output shafts for the transmissions of six 490-h.p. Mark II racers that Ford had entered in the season's first big sports-car race-with high hopes of retaining the world manufacturers' championship it had wrested away from Italy's Enzo Ferrari last year with victories at Daytona, Sebring and Le Mans. Ford had earmarked $6,000,000 for the campaign. The transmission output shafts accounted for less than $750-but for want of a shaft the first battle, at least, was lost...
What finally cripples Grand Prix, really pushing it over the edge, is that it views the world of racing so much from the outside, it fails to present any realistic or interesting detail about the profession. In a three-hour film about racing, the name Ferrari is the only noun, proper noun, and brand name appearing that has anything to do with cars. Frequently, Frankenheimer fails to establish the location of his characters, or which Grand Prix we happen to be watching. The characters never talk about racing realistically, or speak about it on a technical plane. To them, Arthur...
When Clark finally tramped on the throttle, he got the sweetest shock of the year. "The car ran beautifully." His luck had turned again-and so had his competitors'. Italy's Lorenzo Bandini, the early pacesetter, was forced out when his Ferrari developed engine trouble on the 34th lap. Champion Brabham took over - but a cam follower on his Brabham-Repco snapped on the 55th lap. Gunning his Lotus into the lead; Jimmy Clark stayed there the rest of the way, averaging a record 114.94 m.p.h. to win the 20th Grand Prix of his career and the biggest...
...Ferrari's Berlinetta Speciale, easily the hottest-looking machine on display, has the snub nose and cropped rear of the Le Mans-winning Ford GT and a three-place seat with the driver's spot in the middle for optimum visibility on the race track. Also, it can unwind its 325 h.p. engine to 180 m.p.h...