Word: monza
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...active competitor, to one degree or another, in the world's biggest participant sport. Nearly everyone who drives a car thinks, at one time or another, about beating the "hot shoe" in the next lane. Auto companies do their best to enhance the illusion: naming cars "Le Mans," "Monza," "G.T.O.," "Grand Prix"; equipping them with bucket seats, tachometers, four-speed transmissions, and speedometers thoughtfully calibrated up to 160 m.p.h.-85 m.p.h. above the highest legal speed limit...
Nothing, though, could have prepared him for what happened at Monza midway through the 1961 season, when the Ferrari of Germany's flamboyant Wolfgang von Trips swerved suddenly, with Jimmy's Lotus directly behind. For one horrible instant, the two cars touched at 150 m.p.h. The Ferrari hurtled up an embankment, ricocheted off a steel guardrail, sheared through a wire fence, and spun end over end, back onto the track. Clark leaped out of his crumpled Lotus and pushed Trips's car off the road. There was nothing he could do for Trips-or for 17 spectators...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Yachts and autos-the America's Cup races off Newport, R.I., and the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, Italy...
...Britain's John Surtees, 30: The Italian Grand Prix at Monza, piloting his red Italian Ferrari around the banked, 278-mile course at a record average speed of 129.1 m.p.h. It was the second victory in a month for aging (66) Automaker Enzo Ferrari, gave him a shot at the Grand Prix manufacturers' championship that he once monopolized but has not won since 1961. It also gave ex-Motorcyclist Surtees 9 points toward the drivers' championship, moved him into third place behind Britain's Graham Hill and Scotland's defending champion Jimmy Clark, both...
...Shrine. Having been burned so badly with the ill-fated Edsel, whose styling it unaccountably failed to market research before its introduction, Ford this time conducted 14 studies on the Mustang, ranging from interviews with Monza owners to name and pricing studies. Its staff of 20, the industry's largest, found, among other things, that the car's outside appearance ranks first with the under-25 crowd and that four seaters are preferred 16-to-l among sports-car owners...