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Bill Vukovich's formula for winning the 500-mile Indianapolis Speedway race last week: "I'll take the lead and stay there." Driver Vukovich did pretty well with those tactics last year, until a steering pin broke, less than eight laps from the finish, and Vukovich watched the...
At the start of the main 200-mile race, the roar of the Bergstrom crowd was quickly drowned by the louder roar of the 19 entries-Allards, Ferraris, Jaguars, etc. The president of the Sports Car Club, Driver Fred Wacker Jr. of Chicago went out early with engine trouble. After...
On a griddle-flat stretch of Florida coast just south of Daytona Beach one day last week, the air was split by the thunder of 111 motorcycles revving up at once. A white flag waved, and four ranks of cyclists in crash helmets and goggles blasted off along the rock...
In such races as the 200-mile National riders rely on themselves for only a rough third of their success, count for the rest on their cycles and their luck. Some of this year's hotshots were out of the running early. The No. 1 favorite, wispy Bobby Hill...
"Bismarck? Bismarck?" The interrogator shouted with excitement, and rushed to a phone to tell his superiors what a fancy bird had dropped into their laps. From that moment von Einsiedel got the best of care-Russian style. In the next two days he was beaten up only once (with a...