Word: manse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The loudspeaker droned out the final seconds, ". . . trois ... deux ... un .. ." The flag dropped, and 60 helmeted drivers dashed across the road to their glistening cars. With a sputter, a roar, a clash of gears, they were off, tearing down the road in one of auto racing's top events...
Under the Le Mans rules, each car must carry its own spare parts, tools, tires. Pit stops for fuel, oil. water and brake fluid are allowed no oftener than every 28 laps. Under those stringent limitations, the three Italian Alfa Romeo entries were forced out within the first twelve hours...
But the race went on. The winning car: a British Jaguar driven by Tony Rolt and C. Duncan Hamilton, which set a Le Mans distance record of 2,535 miles. The Jaguar's average speed: 106 m.p.h., cracking the old record of 96.7 set last year by a German...
Fine Tolerances. As soon as Daimler-Benz was making money again, it went out to recapture its old racing honors. In 1952, it sent the powerful, speedy 300 SL to Brescia for Italy's famed Mille Miglia (1,000-mile race). Along went a famed prewar Mercedes figure, vat...
Charles Moran, executive secretary of the S.C.C.A. and a veteran of France's famed Le Mans 24-hour race, spoke up for the disgruntled drivers. "It's the European view," said Moran, "that these accidents will happen occasionally. But at Le Mans, the spectators never trespass in a...