Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mille Miglia and Britain's Grand Prix at Silverstone), no course is tougher on cars than the 5.2-mile tangle of flat-turn runways and taxiways at Sebring's abandoned airfield. Drivers have to hit the brakes and shift down at least 19 times for each lap (there is one tight hairpin without sign of bank and a wicked assortment of other unbanked turns). Clutches, gearboxes and brakes take a frightful beating...
Rolling wide into the turns, he would sweep to the inner edge of the track, then drift wide again as he blasted out into the brief straightaways. Each lap he picked up precious seconds. At 8 in the evening, Hawthorn's Jag coasted into the pits. "Brakes!" said the disgusted driver; the sleek grey car was through...
...official investigator or prosecutor trying to clean up U.S. purchasing agencies in Europe. I'm a businessman first, last and always; and to get business, I sometimes have to pay off." But the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, which had the PX payoff problem dumped in its lap last year, has not asked him for new evidence. Though the PX thinks bribe-taking is about cleaned up, C.I.D. finds there is null evidence of payoffs around. The big barrier to taking the cases to court is the Swiss banking system. Swiss law forbids disclosure of bank records; thus...
Finally, not all races finish at the end of the pool. Standard pools are 25 yards long. This means that for the 220 and 440, strings must be lowered across the water for the last abbreviated lap...
...Well on the way toward matching his own world's mile record (3:58), Australia's John Landy sprinted toward the last lap of a race at Melbourne's Olympic Park Arena, saw competitor Ron Clarke trip and sprawl in front of him, hurdled the fallen runner and tore a tendon as he pulled up short to help him from the track. "Get going, John," urged Clarke. Reassured, Landy tore after the leaders and won in the remarkable time...