Word: gurney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second place that day was Clark in the rear-engined Lotus-Ford. In August Clark got a measure of revenge when he whipped 22 Offies in the Milwaukee 200. Now, having already sewed up the Grand Prix championship, Jimmy Clark and his Lotus teammate, California's Dan Gurney, were at Trenton for the rubber match and $42,000 in prize money...
...Class of 1938's sophomore year drew to a close, History of Science was added to the University's 25 fields of concentration. Another event in the academic world: its foremost Shakespearean scholar, George Lyman Kittredge '82, resigned from the University's faculty after several decades as Gurney Professor of English Literature. Alfred North While head, distinguished philosopher and teacher, followed Kittredge into retirement at the end of the term...
...California garbage man ("Call me a used-food collector"). Driven by Parnelli Jones, 29, the Agajanian Willard Battery Special screamed around the 2½-mile oval at 151.1 m.p.h.-a record, and more than enough to win him the coveted pole position at the start. Obviously, Clark and Gurney could not hope to match Jones for pure speed. But they hoped to keep within striking distance by boring through the turns at 140 m.p.h., pick up precious seconds by making only one pit stop for gas and tires. Jones's heavier Offy, they figured, would burn fuel and rubber...
...pits, picked up three new tires (the left front tire was still unworn) and a tank of methanol-all in 25.1 sec. But whish! whish!, there went the Lotuses. Short as it was, Jones's pit stop had cost him the lead. After 75 laps, Clark and Gurney were one-two; Parnelli Jones was third, 18 sec. behind. Now, all the Lotuses had to do was hold on. Could they...
With the leaders so tightly bunched, a break could win the race, any mistake would surely lose it. On the 93rd lap, Gurney pulled into the Lotus pit for a routine tire change-and lost all chance of victory. A nervous mechanic misplaced his hammer; Colin Chapman finally found it and kicked it over to him. The delay cost Gurney an insurmountable 42.2 sec. Clark fared only slightly better: his one pit stop, on the 95th lap, took 32.3 sec.-and Jones shot back into the lead. Blocked by heavy traffic, Clark was unable to capitalize on Jones...