Word: monza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film of the Monza "500" race of 1958 will be shown at the HMSC registration meeting Thursday night at 8 p.m. in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Other motor sports films will be featured at club business meetings...
Meanwhile ... In Monza, Italy, Virginio Bonfanti, arrested as a theft suspect while watching a Western in a movie house, insisted on staying to see the end of the movie, returned to see the film again when released on bail...
...Rathmann drove his Simoniz Special around the steep-banked, 2½-mile track of the new Daytona International Speedway at an average speed of 170.261 m.p.h. to win the 100-mile U.S. Automobile Club championship race, breaking his own closed-course record, which he set by winning the Monza, Italy 500-mile race last year. The speed of the race brought death to Wisconsin's George Amick, 34, No. 2 in last year's Indianapolis race. On the last lap, his Bowes Seal Fast Special went out of control, hit the outer guardrail, killed Amick instantly...
...four times in the next six years, driving for Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Maserati and Mercedes-Benz. Twice he narrowly escaped death. In 1948 his car went off the road in the Grand Prix of South America, killing his partner. In 1952 he broke his neck in a race at Monza, Italy. But Fangio developed the delicate sense of touch that enabled him to tread the fine line between the speed that wins and the speed that kills...
...Driving the same four-cylinder bomb that carried him home third in the Indianapolis 500, Arizona Auto Racer Jimmy Bryan had time to chew up only three cigars while he wheeled around the steeply banked track at Monza, Italy, and won Europe's first Indianapolis-style competition, with an average speed of 160.057 m.p.h. Indianapolis Veterans Troy Ruttman and Johnny Parsons finished second and third. The only non-Indianapolis-type cars to compete were British Jaguars, and three of them, entered by the same Scots team that swept the 24-hour Grand Prix at Le Mans, France, came...