Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tough for us to go all the way to Dartmouth and run and not even have a team score to bring back," Coach Pappy Hunt said. "But I think it was this disappointment which inspired our performance in the GBC's, where everything came together...
...then it was time to return to Dartmouth for a grudge match and the Ivy League Championships. "After the team score refusal by the Dartmouth coach, we had an unspoken commitment to come back and beat them," coach Hunt says. "We were definitely psyched to win that one," Kat Taylor agrees...
...Limit. Lauda and Hunt seesawed through races in Canada and at Watkins Glen, N.Y. Then came Japan and once more the rain. As track attendants tried to whisk water off the course with bamboo brooms, drivers met twice to decide whether or not they would run. The drizzle continued as fog settled on the track; twilight was coming. Finally, a last vote was taken, and the decision to race was made. Hunt, starting in the first row, skidded through the first turn and took the lead. Lauda, one row back, went once around the course in the blinding spray from...
Mario Andretti, the eventual winner in his first Grand Prix victory this year, was critical of Lauda's decision. Said he: "Once the race was on, he should have battled to the finish." Hunt was more understanding: "It was better for me because I was leading. I didn't have the spray problems the others did. I felt very sorry for Niki. It wasn't fair that he should have to race in these conditions. I wanted the race postponed because I didn't think it was safe...
Niki Lauda, who had raced once before when he thought it unsafe and nearly died, would not go to the edge with Hunt this last time. "For me," he said, "it was the limit. For me, there is something more important than the world championship...