Word: hairpins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Fraser, 74 miles across the Rockies. The President's car buzzed along at 50 m.p.h., and out on the end of the whip, press cars speeded up to 65 and 70 to catch up after the hairpin turns...
...test of cool driving skill and hot sports cars, Italy's Mille Miglia ranks with the world's toughest races. The 950-mile course-from Brescia to Rome and back -runs over the hairpin turns of four rugged mountain passes (one so grim that it inspired some of Dante's Inferno), through scores of towns and villages, and along straight ribbons of road where the racers hit it up as high as 150 m.p.h...
...Hairpin Code. He first worked as a spy during World War II, when he slipped word of German transport movements to the Communist Party. Soon, with his brother Martin and others, he was dealing in Swedish military secrets and conspiring directly with agents working out of the Soviet embassy in Stockholm. Through switches in Soviet contact men and changes in his own jobs Enbom kept the secrets flowing to Moscow. There were elaborate cloak & dagger arrangements -code messages that looked like simple shopping lists, a rusty tin can hidden in an isolated spot as a "letterbox," hairpins hung...