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...best sets is the British-made Scalextric, which costs $49.95 for more than nine feet of track, two variable-speed controllers and two sturdy cars (Grand Prix racers). Strombecker markets models of famous racecourses, has a $29.95 model including a D-Jaguar, a Ferrari Testa Rosa, and a Chicane obstacle strip that permits only one car to pass without risk of a crackup. The A. C. Gilbert Co. sells a figure eight of track with an overpass and two Corvettes for $29.98. Aurora's latest accessories include a lap counter, judge's stand and turnoff, starting gate, grandstand...
...Ferrari experimental model 2,766.454 miles at an average speed of 115.268 m.p.h. during the long day and night's racing over the 8.3-mile circuit 117 miles southwest of Paris. Sharing his seat with Belgian Co-Driver Olivier Gendebein, Hill was in easy command for most of the race, at one point set a new lap record of 126.750 m.p.h. for the course, then settled down to nurse a sick clutch, which meant driving in fourth gear for the last six hours. At the finish. Hill's nearest competitor was five laps and 42 miles behind, giving...
Slipping past a spinning Ferrari, Britain's mustached Graham Hill, in a dark green B.R.M., forged boldly into the lead...
...B.R.M. was clearly the fastest car in the race, and he held a lead of nearly a minute over his closest pursuers: New Zealand's Bruce McLaren, in a Cooper-Climax, and California's Phil Hill, the 1961 world champion, driving a rear-engined, blood-red Ferrari. But it was not Graham Hill's day. His engine suddenly dropped a load of oil and conked out-McLaren spurted ahead. The Ferrari mechanics flashed "Faster!" at Phil Hill, and Phil desperately pushed his accelerator to the floor. Turning his Ferrari furiously around the tight turns, he began...
...official Grand Prix championship. But last year he won 23 of the 48 races he entered, and his fellow drivers concede that Moss sets the standard by which they judge their own skills. Says the U.S.'s Phil Hill, who won the 1961 Grand Prix championship racing for Ferrari: "I'm the champion, but all anyone talks about is Moss." Moss's fan mail runs to 10,000 letters a year and his income to something like $150,000. He drives as if every race were his last-with a raw fury that borders on desperation...