Word: laps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sheets of Flame. Last week, the favorite won. The 33-car field was the fastest in 500 history. Driving a rear-engined Lotus-Ford, Scotland's Jimmy Clark roared through the first lap at 149.7 m.p.h., and other drivers strained to match his pace. One was too bold. On the second lap, drifting off Indy's No. 4 turn, Californian Dave MacDonald lost control of his Thompson-All-State Ford, spun crazily and smacked into the inside wall. In one horrible instant that none of the 300,000 spectators will ever forget, a sheet of flaming gas spread...
First out of the pits was Clark, his exhaust winding up in a high, thin scream. For four laps, he howled around the track, and dockers stared openmouthed at the time: an average 158.8 m.p.h. per lap, an astonishing 7.7 m.p.h. faster than the track record set by Jones last year. Then came Bobby Marshman, 27, an Indy veteran and an ex-Offy man now driving for Lotus-Ford. In practice, he had roared around the track at an incredible 160.1 m.p.h. He settled for an average 157.8 m.p.h. during the qualification trials. Next was Roger Ward, still another...
...Britain's Graham Hill, 35: the Grand Prix of Monaco, first race counting toward the world driving championship. Urging his B.R.M. into the lead on the 53rd lap, the mustachioed Hill zipped through Monte Carlo's narrow streets at a record average of 72.6 m.p.h. to beat the U.S.'s Richie Ginther by one lap and win the 195-mile race for the second straight year. Scotland's Jimmy Clark, the 1963 champion, was forced to abandon his Lotus when it lost oil pressure six miles from the finish...
...filmed version of his appeal has already made more than 50 "decisions for Christ." And the $3,500,000 Vatican Pavilion houses, among other treasures, the fair's most honored guest-Michelangelo's famed Pietà, his white marble statue of the dead Christ in the lap of his mother...
...balloon relay, swimmers had to blow up balloons until they burst, and then dive into the pool for one freestyle lap. East House racers ballooned as fast as they Beatled, and won this...