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...sports-car entrants-among them, Mercedes, Jaguar, Ferrari, Frazer-Nash, Maserati, Cunningham-began the 24-hour run. Right after getaway they whipped past the grandstand into the sharp Tertre Rouge turn, roared on down the straightaway on a four-mile dash toward the Mulsanne hairpin, and on around the 8.38 mile circuit past the White House...
...Cure. Ripping down the brief straightaways at full throttle, shifting down and braking for the turns, shifting up to speed again, spinning and sliding through S-curve and hairpin, drivers lost no time making work for their mechs. And even the best of them ran into the kind of trouble no grease monkey can cure. Sweeping into a wide, unbanked turn, Texan Bob Said squinted over the hood of his three-liter Ferrari and saw danger. In the middle of the track, a tiny Renault had cartwheeled onto its back. Said drifted wide to miss it. Suddenly, he was bearing...
However they started, every one of the 21 teams from seven nations dropped down the same 1,750-yd. slide last week. They whisked through the same series of neck-snapping, bowl-banked curves, navigated the hairpin turn called Sunny Corner, swooped through the Horseshoe, rolled into "Shamrock" and "Devil's Dyke," slithered and bounced past the checkpoint called Tree, turned right to swing beneath a railway bridge and shot toward the finish line at better than 70 miles an hour. However their techniques varied, every team at St. Moritz had one thing more in common: they all rode...
Hungry Winner. The delay cost the Cramers 60 points and put them out of contention for the grand, million-franc (about $2,860) prize for performance.* The judges finally cut the field down to the 100 with the lowest penalty scores, sent them off on the hairpin-course speed run that is the Rally's final test...
...speed that was built into his Ferrari. Over the final 222.5 miles he set his third straight lap record-138.4 m.p.h.-one of the fastest sustained road-race averages ever recorded. But it was not enough to overcome the leads that the Lancias had built up back in the hairpin-turn country. At the finish, the Lancias were 1-2-3, with first place going to Argentina's famed Juan Manuel Fangio, whose average for the 1,912 miles was 105.1 m.p.h...