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...race driver himself, Designer Moore picked his two drivers carefully: he knew that one slip on race day would twist a Moore car into junk. His choices: 1) rabbit-faced, mustached Mauri Rose, a speedway veteran; 2) Bill Holland, a dirt-track expert who had never driven in Indianapolis' famed...
...Moore said:"Give him two more." A black pit-board with Holland's name on it was held up the next time he roared past the pits. Seeing the chalked message -" + 2"-Holland stepped up his speed by two miles an hour. After 50 miles, the other driver, Mauri Rose, bobbed his hand as he whirled past to show he understood his "O.K." message from the pit; his speed was just right. Moore's high-speed cars were in second and third place...
...autos and drop out when the race was all but won? Time after time, on the chalk board he ordered "EZY" as Holland passed the pit. On the 193rd lap, with auto racing's biggest honor his for the taking, Rookie Holland obeyed the "EZY" sign-and Oldtimer Mauri Rose (who had cracked up on the 40th lap last year) went into the lead. When a mechanic got set to signal Rose that he was ahead-by writing "P1" (Position one) on the pit-board-Moore cautioned him: "Don't let Holland...
After 200 laps, and a couple more to be safe, smudge-faced Mauri Rose drove the winning car into the wire-enclosed victory cage. The seat of his pants had worn out from the bouncing he had taken. He had won the race and 35% of the $31,450 prize money the car had earned...
...front now was indomitable Mauri Rose, who had replaced Floyd Davis at the wheel of the Noc-Out Special, also owned by Lou Moore. Replacing Davis at 177 miles, Rose had pushed the American-made Noc-Out from the ruck to the front of the parade, was a full lap ahead at the finish line. Time: 4 hr., 20 min., 36.24 sec.-for an average speed of 115.117 m.p.h. Of 31 starters, twelve finished...