Word: lapse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By noon the next day, the French fans had plenty to cheer about. Veteran French Driver Pierre Levegh, in a British Talbot, was leading the field. Just an hour and a quarter before the end of the race, Levegh's Talbot, leading by three laps, burned out a bearing...
Last week Coppi wound up another comeback try in the Giro d'ltalia, a tough, 2,500-mile course, whose 20 laps, raced in 20 days, run over the steep, curling roads of the Alps and Apennines. On the lap from Rome to Rocca di Papa, all uphill, Coppi...
Almost from the start the race was a spectacular, bitter duel between Troy Ruttman, driving an Agajanian Special, and Bill Vukovich, in a Fuel Injection Engine Special. Ruttman took the lead on the twelfth lap of the 2½-mi. brick and tar speedway. Vukovich, out after the $100-a...
A tire change cost Vukovich the lead, to Ruttman, in the 135th lap; 11 laps later, for the same reason, Ruttman lost it back to Vukovich. And so it went, in a nip & tuck race. With only 50 miles to go, Vukovich, setting new speed records all along the line...
The Ferrari held the lead until the 16th lap, when Wacker, president of the S.C.C.A., gunned the Allard in front. On the 21st lap Spear, 36, driving all out, took the lead. Wacker made one more bid. For a good part of the final lap, the Allard and Ferrari ran...