Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miles and Co-Driver Lloyd Ruby to cover each lap in exactly 2 min. 4 sec., averaging 110 m.p.h., while the other Fords maintained a slightly slower pace. At that rate, Shelby figured, each of the Mark Us would need new front disc brakes during the race. So his pit crews practiced until they could change both brake units and four tires, fill the sump, pump in 42 gal. of gas and clean the windshield...
...putting was uncanny: twelve times in 18 holes he got down with one putt. Rattling off seven straight birdies-just one shy of the P.G.A. record-he shot a nine-under 62, opened up a seven-stroke gap on the field. "What's Arnie trying to do-lap the rest of us?" demanded Paul Harney, who had won the tournament the last two years...
Baker took the lead early, as he usually does. But Norris stayed surprisingly close. Then the Eagles' captain, who runs with his arms flailing and legs wobbling, took over. He zipped ahead of Baker on the next-to-last lap and sped home for a new Cage record...
...mile run, sophomore Tim McLoone shot away on the gun lap and whipped teammate Doug Hardin in an upset...
...last 20 yds. to win by 3 ft. in 3 min. 54.1 sec.-tying the listed world record held by New Zealand's own Peter Snell. Twice was too much for Keino. "I am going back to Kenya and learn how to sprint the last lap," he said. "Just wait-I am going to get that record." Snell, who was a spectator at the contest, thought otherwise. One day, he predicted, East Germany's May is going to run a 3-min. 50-sec. mile...