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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...
Hoses & Cam Covers. Suddenly a great roar went up from the crowd. Clark's Lotus was spewing oil. A 10? connecting hose had given way. Now it was Gurney out front, gracefully threading through traffic like a patrolling turnpike cop. After 131 miles, only one other car was on the same lap: the white Offy of Texas' Veteran A. J. Foyt, 28, winner of the Indy 500 in 1961, two-time U.S.A.C. champion. At one point, Foyt closed to within 7 sec. But Gurney was boxed in. He broke clear and within ten laps the lead grew...
...147th lap, a huge puff of smoke belched from Gurney's Lotus. A camshaft cover had burst and oil was seeping into his engine block. That was it. With the last Lotus limping into the pits, the race belonged to the dogged Foyt. At the checkered flag, he had averaged 101 m.p.h. for 200 laps around the tiny Trenton track...