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The contestants spent most of each day riding in a good-natured cluster, taking turns sheltering each other from the wind, saving their strength for a late-afternoon sprint. The tour was broken into 21 laps, with overnight and one-day stops between (the cyclist with least total elapsed time...
After 200 laps, and a couple more to be safe, smudge-faced Mauri Rose drove the winning car into the wire-enclosed victory cage. The seat of his pants had worn out from the bouncing he had taken. He had won the race and 35% of the $31,450 prize...
Teammate Holland, still thinking he had won, shut off his motor, then heard the incredible news: he had finished second. Puzzled and angry, he demanded: "Why did you keep flagging me down . . .? I pulled over and waved at Rose when he went by. ... I figured I was still laps in...
Indianapolis Speedway Auto Race (Fri. 4 p.m., Mutual). Final laps of the annual 500-mile thriller.
But the hundreds of athletes who have enjoyed the benefit of associating with Jaakko both on and off the track, like to think of him as the man who greeted them that first day with some unaffected remark like "All right now, you go 15 laps, nice, easy, medium speed...