Word: maseratis
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...where he drove a Lotus to sixth place. "That wasn't very difficult," he says. "Only six cars finished." In 1960, he went over to British Racing Motors, but B.R.M. hardly seemed the spot for an aspiring champion. Conceived as an answer to German (Mercedes) and Italian (Ferrari, Maserati) dominance of Grand Prix racing, the company built fast cars that blew up or broke down with embarrassing regularity...
Last week Stirling Moss and California's Dan Gurney drove a Maserati to victory in a grueling, 620-mile sports car race in Nurburgring, Germany. This week, as Europe's Grand Prix season opens at Monaco, Stirling Moss is as always the driver to beat. But despite his great success, Moss is a restless, unhappy man-for in his twelve years of professional driving, he has never yet won motor racing's highest honor, the Grand Prix driving championship...
...driver cramps behind the wheel like a frog in a walnut. Then the two dinky, 6-h.p. engines perched behind the seat begin to snarl, and the bedspring contraption becomes a hot, highly engineered racing machine that can hit 85 m.p.h. on the straightaway, drift through corners like a Maserati. Says one driver: "The feeling of speed is fantastic! Even at 30 m.p.h. you feel like you're leading the pack at Le Mans...
...then was killed himself as the car flipped onto its back. For six hours the Porsche team of German Cafe Owner Hans Hermann, 31, and veteran Belgian Driver Olivier Gendebien, 36, patiently waited back in the pack. One by one the Ferraris broke down under the strain as the Maserati bellowed to a six-lap lead. But at 6:10 p.m., just as headlights flickered on, Moss eased his low-slung car off the course with a wrecked differential...
From then on, Sebring was a boat race for the Porsche, a car with an engine half the size of the Maserati's. It mattered not that the winning Porsche's time was only 84.93 m.p.h. At Sebring, the race is to the sure, not the swift...