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...home incentive pay, family allowance and a variety of other fringe benefits that boost their average income to between $4 and $7 a day. Their paychecks stretch a long way. Rent seldom comes to more than $40 a month. Potatoes cost 3? a lb., bread 7?, wine 12? a liter...
...cost up to $100,000 to build, and as much again to maintain for a single racing season. Twelve feet long and elegantly slender, they look like bright green, blue, red, purple dragonflies perched on fat black feet. Though the cars weigh a mere 1,100 Ibs., their three-liter engine develops more than 375 h.p., and they can dart down a straightaway at better than 200 m.p.h. At full bore, a Formula One handles so neurotically that in all the world of motor racing only 20 men are fully qualified to drive...
Power was his problem: the two-liter, 245-h.p. Coventry Climax engine in Clark's Lotus was no match for the bigger three-liter engines that his competitors were using this year. He spent most of the year trying to beg, borrow or buy a competitive engine. But for last week's U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, N..Y, the next-to-last race of the J966 season, Jim had a three-liter of his own-a 16-cylinder, 400-h.p. BRM. Then, in practice just a day before the race, his new engine broke down...
Determined to appear at least, Clark persuaded BRM officials to lend him a backup three-liter that belonged to BRM's own racing team of Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart. Mechanics worked all night installing the engine in Jim's Lotus; the job was not completed until ten minutes before race time. With no chance to test the engine, Jim figured that his chances of winning-or even of finishing the 248-mile race-were about 1,000 to one. "It was 30 laps before I tried to put on any pressure to see what would happen...
Brabham's victory in last week's Dutch Grand Prix was his third for 1966. It practically sewed up a third world title for the tall Aussie, and it came at the direct expense of Clark, who has been plagued by chronic mechanical failures in his 2.2-liter Lotus-Climax, has yet to win a race this season. Driving a more powerful (by 55 h.p.) 3-liter Brabham-Repco that he designed and built himself, Jack allowed Clark to take the lead, then forced such a fast pace that the cooling system in Jimmy's overworked Lotus...