Word: grifo
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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Race conditions could hardly have been worse. The temperature was 94°, and clouds hung low overhead. Dashing across the track for the Le Mans start, two drivers leaped into their Ford-Cobras, punched the starter buttons-and sat there feeling silly when nothing happened. An Italian Grifo sports car ran off the track, injuring two spectators, and a French Abarth-Simca piled head-on into a palm tree. But Hall's only problem was Dan Gurney, the "rabbit" of the Ford team, whose job was to battle the Texan for the early lead, try to make him burn...