Word: lapse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the twelve-car, ten-lap first heat, Rathman stuck with the pace for four laps, then gunned and jockeyed his big car into the lead, won by two lengths. In the first semifinal (15 laps) he had a little more trouble. No matter what he did, he was unable...
Rose took the lead back at the 33rd lap, but Johnnie Parsons figured that his little four-cylinder engine was hot and solid enough now to take all he could give it. Two laps later he had the lead again. By this time, hitting a roaring 165 m.p.h. in the...
Rain & Records. At the end of 105 laps (of a scheduled 200) Parsons drew up to his pit, got refueled and had two right tires changed in 90 seconds, and was off again. It cost him the lead, first to Rose, then to 1949 Indianapolis Winner Bill Holland in his...
"Everything was shaping up," he said. I was leading, I had lots of gas, the car was running swell." When the rain came at the 345-mark it bucketed down for only a minute, but that was enough to make the track glass-slick and end the race. The winner...
In the same conference it happened again. Acting Chairman Sumner Pike said that the successful development of the hydrogen bomb "is right in the laps of the gods . . . The answer to the question about progress will probably be given when one goes bang or doesn't." A few minutes...