Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total of 16 racing cars scrambled into the start of the 105-lap, 205-mile Grand Prix of Monaco. Only four laps later Britain's Stirling Moss, Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn somehow escaped uninjured from a three-car pile-up on a barricade of telephone poles. All afternoon the accidents continued, but no one was hurt. Only five cars finished. Still, World Champion Juan Fangio had to push his Maserati to the limit to cross the line in 3 hr. 10 min. 12.8 sec., a scant half-minute ahead of Briton Tony Brooks's Vanwall...
...race ground through grey dawn and a fine spring day, Fons blazed along in fine style. Coming into the last lap, less than 25 miles from the finish, he was running third. He could not have known, but the Ferrari team had the race won. His grizzled teammate, Piero Taruffi, 50, had already finished in first place. Far back, Britain's Stirling Moss, driving a Maserati, the Ferrari's only strong competitor, had lost his brakes and almost crashed in a roadside cemetery. The other Maserati competitors had also either folded or faded...
...last 18 years has killed 1,324 bulls, and has survived innumerable gorings. On the day of the corrida, the matador gets up early to wet a finger to the wind. "If the wind lifts your cape," he explains, "you've got the bull in your lap." Then he has breakfast: nothing heavier than consomme and an orange, so that the surgeon, if need be, can operate tidily. Then he pulls on his suit of lights (traje de luces), says a grim goodbye to the wife and kids, puts flowers on his mother's grave, pops into...
...mile, Reider passed pace-setter Phil Williams at the 660 mark, with Zwirner nearly ten yards behind in third place. The three entered the final lap neck and neck, but with 220 yards to go Zwirner began his sprint, which opened ground on Reider with every step. Zwirner finished 20 yards ahead of Reider in 4:16.4, a new meet record...
...hour later Zwirner came back to set another meet record in the two-mile. Reider, who had set the pace for most of the race, held a lead of at least 30 yards as Zwirner went into the last lap. Reider began to kick, but on the back-stretch Zwirner opened up a sprint which carried him past Reider at the beginning of the straightaway to win by ten yards in 9:24.3. Dyke Benjamin took third for the varsity...