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...record-breaking clip by Lee Wallard in his black and gold Belanger Special for the first 100 miles (130.625 m.p.h.), the souped-up speedsters soon began to fall by the wayside. One of the first to make a repair stop (after only five laps) was favored Duke Nalon in his eight-cylinder, front-drive, supercharged Novi, the sleek white car that set a new qualifying record of 136.498 m.p.h. Nalon's trouble: fouled-up fuel injection nozzles, used instead of the standard downdraft carburetor...
...Indianapolis, there is always more excited talk about the man who might have won the famed "500 Mile" auto race than the man who actually wins. Last week the most prominent loser was carefree Duke Nalon, an old hand at jockeying high-powered racing cars at blurring speed...
...pulled his Novi Special into the pits for a scheduled fuel stop. As compressed nitrogen blew fuel from a drum into his tank, the precious seconds ticked away. Before his tank was full, Duke roared back into the race. About 86 laps later, while battling for the lead, Duke Nalon was caught by the nightmare that has haunted motorists since the day of the linen duster...
...Duke Nalon, Chicago midget-auto driver: a five-mile race that inaugurated the Philadelphia Municipal Stadium as a midget track, drew the biggest crowd for a professional sport event in Philadelphia since the Dempsey-Tunney fight...
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