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...their cars to hand-test road surfaces. Leaving little to chance, the Germans saturated the entry lists with 23 Porsches, precision-built little speedsters made up largely of Volkswagen components. Britons, noting the Germans at work, did not even bother to make trial runs. Said one Jaguar driver: "It's a sporting event, not a scientific test. Where's the sport if you remove the unexpected...
Death & Records. News of another kind was solemnly expected, and it was not long in coming. Two hours after the race began, Frenchman Lucien Descollanges careened off the highway in his Jaguar and his co-driver, Pierre Gilbert Ugnon, was killed. A Fiat hit an Italian youngster, who wandered on to the road, and killed him instantly. Twelve others were injured. Bloody as it was, Mille Miglia hardly compared with when a car plowed into a crowd and killed...
...eyes of Texas-some 35,000 pairs of them-were on sprawling Bergstrom Air Force Base at Austin this week. The biggest crowd in Texas sports-car history turned up for a chance at the gate prizes-a Jaguar, an MG and a Studebaker-and the promised thrills and spills of four races, jointly sponsored by the Sports Car Club of America and General Curtis LeMay's Strategic Air Command...
...start of the main 200-mile race, the roar of the Bergstrom crowd was quickly drowned by the louder roar of the 19 entries-Allards, Ferraris, Jaguars, etc. The president of the Sports Car Club, Driver Fred Wacker Jr. of Chicago went out early with engine trouble. After the first few laps over the tortuous 4.48-mile course (including turns of 110° and 135°) the race settled down to a neck & neck duel between Chicago Manufacturer Jim Kimberly, 45, in a Ferrari, and California's Phill Hill, driving a Jaguar C. The Jag was quicker...
...least of all Chancellor Butler, imagined for a moment that Britain was secure. "You stop buying Jaguar sports cars," a Butler aide said last month in Washington, "and we stop buying breakfasts." But after years of austere pessimism Britons had devised their own modest standards of what constitutes "recovery." When egg rationing was abolished last week, no music was sweeter to British housewives than a London grocer's complaint: "Eggs, don't talk to me about eggs. They're a drug on the market...