Word: gearboxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While the Mark 6A weighed 1,520 Ibs., the new car weighs only 1,450 Ibs.-less than a Volkswagen. The weight-saving was mainly accomplished by completely eliminating the chassis behind the driver's seat; the car's Chevrolet engine (souped up to 650 h.p.) and gearbox carry the rear suspension system and are covered by a simple metal sheath...
...last year's 500 Parnelli Jones came within 2 1/2 laps of victory before his gearbox broke down. The rules makers, dismayed at the ease with which the turbine car ran away from the field, placed certain restrictions on turbine power plants...
...hope. "I thought the turbine would be out of business within 300 laps," he said later. "When the darn thing was still going by then, I figured Parnelli had won." Then came Lap 197. Just eight miles from the finish, a $6 ball bearing failed inside Jones's gearbox. Into the pits went Parnelli, and into the lead went Foyt. Victory was just around the corner. Or disaster. Sweeping through the last turn and into the main straightaway, Foyt was only yards from the checkered flag when the track in front of him was suddenly filled with fishtailing racers...
...eighth hour, a Matra-B.R.M. and a C.D.-Peugeot collided in the tight Tertre-Rouge turn directly in front of Ludovico Scarfiotti's speeding Ferrari P3. Scratch one P3. The second P3 went out with a broken gearbox after only ten hours, and the last of the Ferrari factory prototypes ground to a stop six hours later with a blown head gasket. With Fords running one-two-three and no more challengers in sight, Team Manager Carroll Shelby ordered a slowdown. Then Beebe got an inspiration. To make the inevitable Ford victory all the more impressive, he decided...
...glorious victory for Ford. One by one, the miles and minutes took their toll of Ford's main competitors: the two Chaparrals were both out of the race by the second hour, and the Ferrari 330 P3 retired to the pits on the 172nd lap with a frozen gearbox. Andretti's accident took care of the rest; he was running third behind two Fords at the time of the crash, and the Porsche was in fourth place. The finish was a parade-Ford, Ford, Ford, Ford. The only really disappointed man on the team was Driver Dan Gurney...