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Before five hours had passed, PanAmerican Winner Umberto Maglioli and his bloodred, three-liter Ferrari were on the sidelines with a ruined clutch. Another Ferrari, its gas tank leaking, caught fire. Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa slipped off the track in his two-liter Ferrari, clipped a spectator's car, and promptly substituted caution for professional skill. On the way to the pits for repairs, he was rammed from behind and knocked out of the race...
...spectators, that more than a score were injured and seven more drivers were dead. But by the time they wound up the bloodiest Pan-American yet, the racers had also managed to hang up a few less gloomy marks. In the unlimited sports car division, Italy's Umberto Maglioli, driving a Ferrari, set a new race record of 17 hrs. 40 min. 26 sec. In the small sports car division, Germany's Hans Hermann, driving a Porsche, finished in a record 19.32:33. In the U.S. small stock car division, Texan Tommy Drisdale, driving a Dodge...
...leading on total elapsed time, puffed a cigarette and jauntily observed: "I'll be driving in this race until I die." He died two hours later with a broken neck, when his Lancia skidded into a lamppost in the narrow-laned town of Silao. Italy's Humberto Maglioli, in a Ferrari, roared past Bonetto's body (still strapped to the driver's seat) to take the lap in a record 115.4 m.p.h. On the next lap, the course levels out and straightens, and from Durango to the Rio Grande, through Parral and Chihuahua, Driver Maglioli demonstrated...
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