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...torrid, jungle-edge Mexican town of Tuxtla Gutierrez, 100 miles from the Guatemalan border, was abustle last week. Sleek sport cars, ranging from burly Mercédès-Benzes and lean Italian Ferraris down to the tiny French Gordini (a Simca-developed racing car), were tuning up for the third annual Pan American border-to-border road race. In addition to the 37 sport-car drivers entered, 64 more were ready to try their luck in a separate division for modified U.S. stock cars. Ahead of the racers lay 1,946 miles of torturous mountain roads and sun-baked...
...sentimental favorites were the Italians, who finished one-two in Ferraris last year. They had sent a strong team, including World Champion Driver Alberto Ascari and Giovanni Bracco, winner of this year's famed Mille Miglia. But the betting favorites were the Germans and their hotshot Mercédès-Benz racers, which finished one-two in last summer's Le Mans 24-hour race. Headed by Engineer Alfred Neubauer, the Germans arrived weeks early with 24 mechanics and a truckload of spare parts, then drilled like a football team. Daily driving sessions were followed by nightly...
...Gordini smashed up on a tight curve and plummeted into a deep ditch. Behra was dragged out of the wreck with compound fractures of nine ribs and severe facial injuries. Bracco's Ferrari took over a slender three-minute lead, but breathing down his neck were the three Mercédès-Benzes, now bunched, paced by Kling. German Coach Neubauer, sending platoons of mechanics up to the next stopover, was exultant: "We are out of the mountains now. When we hit the flat, the race will be all ours...
Mild Cheers. The winners, greeted with polite applause but no marked enthusiasm: German Drivers Hermann Lang and Fritz Riess in a Mercédès-Benz. Another Mercédès, also with German drivers, was second. Third went to a British-driven Nash-Healey. And fourth, of the 17 cars that managed to finish, was fagged-out Cunningham, who, after 19½ hours of driving, had turned the wheel over to Spear. Winning, and record, distance set by the Mercédès-Benz: 2,320 miles, at an average speed of 96.67 m.p.h...
...shoal of new words to the language. Most of them, as might be expected, end in "matic" (e.g., Hydra-Matic, Gyro-Matic, Ultramatic). Last week the Ford Motor Co. announced a new automatic transmission of its own, developed with Borg-Warner Corp. for the 1951 Mercurys. Its name: "Merc-O-Matic." In a few months the company will bring out a new transmission, optional on all 1951 Fords. The name, to nobody's great surprise: "Ford-O-Matic...