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All those thousands of spectators who were already on their way home by the time last week's Indy 500 reached the 492-mile mark could hardly be blamed, of course. One by one, they had seen most of their favorites fall by the wayside: Graham Hill, the 1966...
Still smarting from last year, when an oil leak forced him out of the race on the 27th lap, Andretti watched Gurney break his record, cracked: "It's nice to have something to shoot at"-and tramped on the throttle of his 500-h.p. Dean Van Lines Hawk-Ford...
The tracks share the blame. Some old tracks have been modified for today's cars. But the Indianapolis Speedway has turns that are banked 9°-just as they were 56 years ago, when the first Memorial Day 500 was won at 74 m.p.h. It is no surprise that...
Jim Baker and Doug Hardin set a hard pace in the two mile but were overtaken in the last two laps by John Lawlor of Navy and Jim Warner of Army. Baker and Hardin recorded superb times of 8:56 and 9:02. Lawlor's 8:53 broke the Heptagonal...
Harvard's final surge began with nine points in the two-mile. Scrappy Doug Hardin led the Crimson sweep and broke the back of Yale's Frank Shorter with a strong move into the wind with two laps to go. One lap remaining, Harvard's Jim Baker began to move...