Word: monza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monster at Cremona. The new 300-h.p., 2.5-liter car develops 30 h.p. more than its smaller stablemate, ought to grind out an extra 6 m.p.h. on the fast tracks at Rheims and Monza. It is something of a throwback to the days when old Alfieri startled the road-racing fancy with his Sedici Cilindri a 16-cylinder job that set a 152.9 m.p.h. record at Cremona in 1929. But the Sedici Cilindri was a bastard car, with a power plant made of a pair of eight-cylinder engines, the two crankshafts coupled in a single gear...
...luck was too good to last. At Monte Carlo last week, Ascari catapulted through a bale of hay and landed in the Mediterranean. This time he was badly cut around the head. Only four days later, though, he was back at the wheel, testing a car on the Monza track. He was a national hero; he seemed to feel Italy expected such perseverance. In a borrowed 3,000-liter Ferrari, Ciccio Ascari, 36, spun into a crash for the last time. He was dead before the ambulance reached the hospital...
...sound, smell and danger of high-speed engines. Before he was five, he learned how to handle the wheel from his racing-driver father. Perched on papa's knee, little Alberto navigated the back roads of Milan, Italy, and the graceful curves of the old race track at Monza. By the time Alberto was seven, the elder Ascari was dead, killed in a crash at Montlhéry in the French Grand Prix. But the youngster was already determined to devote his life to racing autos...
...that, there was no holding Alberto Ascari. Every year, in his Ferraris, he scored more Grand Prix points, and every year he sped closer to death. In The Netherlands Grand Prix in 1949, he lost a wheel while doing 120 m.p.h. Somehow, he survived the wreck. In 1953, at Monza, after winning the Grand Prix championship for the second year in a row, he spun off the track, tangled with two other cars and walked away once more...
Died. Alberto Ascari, 36, internationally famed Italian driver of racing cars; in a crash during a test run at the Monza Autodrome (see SPORT...