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Mix It Up. To rival drivers, Petty is known as a "charger," who likes to blast ahead, full-bore, from the start of a race, hoping opponents will overtax their engines trying to catch him. He is also an innovator; he invented the dangerous art of "drafting"-keeping his car...
Today, Kelly is committed to directing The American Male, an irreverent look at the species by European women, and Tom Swift, a satirical treatment of derring-do in the early 1900s. Last week he began flexing his joints for a dancing stint on the Jackie Gleason Show. No barbell and...
Gurney's answer was to go public. Forming the "All American Racers Eagle Club," he peddled memberships at $15 apiece, by this month had raised $13,000-and entered one car at Spa. One was enough. Starting in the middle of the first row, he trailed Jimmy Clark'...
There is one place in France where Americans still have some clout: Le Mans. For a while, after a trio of U.S. Ford Mark 11s finished one-two-three in last year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, officials talked about changing the rules of the race - to require...
The strategy, as it turned out, worked perfectly-but not until Foyt had just about given up hope. "I thought the turbine would be out of business within 300 laps," he said later. "When the darn thing was still going by then, I figured Parnelli had won." Then came Lap...