Word: mph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brock Yates article in Sports Illustrated or in Car and Driver, or perhaps had read the Yates book, "Sunday Driver," all of which mentioned the Yates-Gurney time from New York to Columbus--six hours. Yates said most of the cruising had been at about 80 to 90 mph, with a brief stretch on a western highway at 170 mph. The average speed, including gas stops and speeding delays, was about 80 mph. One incredible thing, though, made this race more than a case of boring elitism, Grand Prix pilot Gurney winning a hoked up race through Howard Johnson land...
...special clinic in time, and for medical reasons, couldn't fly. It worked. Other entrants dressed in priestly garb, and there were other methods as well. (I knew of one fellow, who although he never heard of this race, went across the country in an ambulance at 110 mph. At one point he got a police escort to the nearest hospital, and managed to lose the car at an interchange...
Nonetheless my friend and I decide to walk the 3.4 miles of glistening asphalt--where the Formula One cars will race at speeds of up to 180 mph--to get a better idea of the difficulties of the race to come. It is cool and quiet on the track as it winds through the hills and gullies, copses and boulders. By the time we are back at our tent it is 4:30 a.m. In the distance, across the track, the bog still smokes...
...Formula One's start to practice. Running through their gears, these cars wail like air-raid sirens going at full blast. They will average over 120 mph on this course with its 11 curves and two long straights. Watching these cars run their laps is like seeing five out of every 100 frames of a motion picture; a series of loud flashes with little continuity and a great deal of suspense between glimpses. I won't know the overall story of the race until I read it in the next day's paper...
...Tsitsos apparently is not always so passive. Reports circulate that he's a legend, a wild man. Tsitsos stories abound. He epitomizes the bohemian lifestyle, they say. One recounts the time he was stopped on the Mass Pike going 120 mph. Whether the stories are true seems unimportant. What matters is that they so very easily could be true...