Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have imagined that men would want to drive automobiles as fast as possible around a course when he tinkered with horseless carriages before the turn of the century. When Daimler and Benz, those great German mechanics, put together their first cars in the 1880s, they certainly didn't have motor racing in mind. Yet since the early days of automobiles, there have been the ordinary passenger cars and, in a class by themselves--the cars designed for racing. Perhaps it is a manifestation of human curiosity and a love of danger, or maybe just an obsession with speed...
...highly touted diverse student body, has within its current population two men bitten by the racing bug and actively pursuing careers in the sport. Gordon Medenica '73, a first-year student at the Business School, and David Aronson '79 are manager and assistant manager, respectively, of the Gordon Medenica Motor Racing team. Last season, the Medenica team, piloted by driver Herne, won the New England regional Formula Ford road racing championship...
Logically enough, each member of the Medenica team got involved in motor racing through a childhood fascination with automobiles. "I was just always into cars," Medenica says. "At 12, I was into slot cars. When I got my license, I drove fast...it's a long continuum that just kept building." "It's basically the same for me as for Gordon, although I never thought of racing until my brother took me to a race at Watkins Glen, when I figured it was something I wanted to do," Herne says...
...motor racing. "It's one thing to be into S&M here, but motor racing is something entirely beyond their ken," Aronson says. "Part of that is due to their misconceptions about racing--they think it's just going round and round a track." As Herne jokes, "Harvard students automatically put racers on the greaser level...
Britain's biggest automaker is still deep in trouble, but a new boss and a turn toward moderation by its fractious workers are strengthening its chances to stay in business. When the Labor government reluctantly agreed to take over nearly bankrupt British Leyland Motor Corp. in 1975, it publicly warned the maker of Jaguar, Morris, Triumph and Rover cars that it would not throw good money after bad. The price of government cash for new-car development and badly overdue plant modernization was to be an end to the constant bickering that has pitted unions against management and against...