Word: mantz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farther south the going grew tougher. After flashing across the baking desert flats, the racers began fading like dead comets in the 10,000-ft. mountain passes around Mexico City. Sterling burned out his brakes, Mantz blew all his tires and developed engine trouble...
Competing for the 300,000-peso ($34,000) top prizes were 132 two-man teams including such hot drivers as Indianapolis Speedway veteran Johnny Mantz, Italy's Piero Taruffi, winner of the 1948 Grand Prix de Berne auto race, and President Miguel Aleman's chauffeur, whose handsome new Cadillac, fresh from the palace garage, bore the name Coche México. There was a Los Angeles war veteran driving a 13-year-old Cord, a red-haired torch singer from Mexico City, a Texas grandmother sponsored by a brassiere manufacturer, and a 70-year-old Arizona widow with...