Word: lotuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through Monte Carlo's narrow streets at a record average of 72.6 m.p.h. to beat the U.S.'s Richie Ginther by one lap and win the 195-mile race for the second straight year. Scotland's Jimmy Clark, the 1963 champion, was forced to abandon his Lotus when it lost oil pressure six miles from the finish...
...mile course was part road, part track; in the infield, it snaked through a series of sharp hairpin turns; then it swept onto Daytona's ultrafast, banked stock-car oval. In the lighter, more maneuverable Lotus, Gurney picked up valuable seconds on the turns; Foyt got the seconds back by blasting around the oval flat-out at nearly 185 m.p.h. By the 20th lap, both had lapped the entire field. But neither one could shake the other. Sixteen times in the first 38 laps the lead changed hands, while both drivers nursed their cars carefully, hoping for a break...
More Time to Think. Foyt, however, had a little score to settle. Last year a couple of sports-car types named Jimmy Clark and Dan Gurney invaded Indianapolis, gave big-car racers a driving lesson by running circles around the Offies in their tiny British-built Lotuses. Now Foyt was out to return the favor-by beating the sports-car boys at their own silly game. "Sports cars are easy to drive," he sneered. "You get more time to think. Sure, you have to study the course, and you have to downshift, and you have to learn how to brake...
...Scotland's Jimmy Clark, 27: the South African Grand Prix, by 67 sec. over Dan Gurney. World Champion Clark averaged 95.1 m.p.h. in his Lotus-Climax, led all the way for his seventh win in ten races-a new record...
...shock wave of horror raced through Saigon last week. In a small park inside Saigon's main traffic circle, a young Buddhist priest at noon squatted cross-legged in the traditional lotus position, pulled a plastic container of gasoline out of his cloth bag and soaked his lap. Then he struck a match to his brown robes. Flames burst over him. Grimacing but uttering no sound, the monk shriveled into a charred skeleton. After three minutes, his arms stiffened before him, and he pitched over. It was the sixth suicide by fire in the Buddhist struggle against President...