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...fantastic 159.4 m.p.h. That demolished the lap record set last year by Scotland's Jimmy Clark. So Clark squeezed into his own Lotus-Ford and got his record back with a clocking of 160.9 m.p.h. He held it only as long as it took A. J. Foyt to warm his engine up. A two-time winner of the Memorial
...Texan Foyt climbed into another Lotus-Ford and ripped off a lap at 161.9 m.p.h., won the pole position-and practically ensured that this year's race will be the fastest in the history of Indy's famed Brickyard...
Pole Winner Foyt narrowly escaped injury when the rear suspension of his Lotus-Ford broke and the left rear wheel snapped off. Veteran Parnelli Jones, who won the 500 in 1963, was badly shaken up in a similar accident: he was drifting through the northwest turn at 150 m.p.h. when the suspension of his Lotus collapsed. "All of a sudden the back end started steering the front," Parnelli shuddered later. The car slammed into the wall, slid 570 ft., spun, slid again, and finally came to rest 110 ft. onto the infield grass...
...Great Tire War. Since 1923 every 500 winner has used Firestone tires, a fact that nettles Firestone's competitors no end-especially The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. This year, Goodyear persuaded nine drivers to use its tires, including two of the three fastest qualifiers: A. J. Foyt and California's Dan Gurney, who won a spot in the first row by clocking 159 m.p.h. in yet another Lotus-Ford. Last week the company discovered to its horror that its specially made tires were "chunking"-spewing out quarter-size pieces of rubber. Goodyear officials blamed...
...first two major races in the Bahamas Speed Weeks, at Nassau's twisting, 4.5-mi. Oakes Field race course. Driving a Corvette Grand Sport, Penske averaged 95.5 m.p.h. to win the Tourist Trophy race for sports cars, switched to a Chevrolet-powered Chaparral to beat A. J. Foyt for the Governor's Cup, averaging a record 100.1 m.p.h. for the 112.5-mi. race...