Word: novy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lightest and lowest cars in the race. George Salih, the California engineer who designed the car, was a conformist only in his choice of engine. (He used the same four-cylinder Meyer-Drake Offenhauser that powered every car in the race except the two V-8 Novi Specials.) Under the Belond's yellow skin, the time-tested Offy engine was laid on its side. In its unusual mount, the Offy not only ran cooler, it gave the car a sleek, slanted profile that rose only 22 inches off the track at the snout. It looked strange...
...race with disaster, and this year was no exception. With only 50 miles behind him, Veteran Paul Russo, pushing the only V-8 engine in the pack (a supercharged Winfield that can turn up to 8,000 r.p.m.), pushed a little too hard. The wicked acceleration of his Novi Vespa Special spun a tire loose on its rim, the valve stem tore, and the resulting blowout sent the racer careening into the south wall. The Novi exploded in a great, greasy ball of flame, but Russo walked away. Behind him, four cars (out of 33 entered) swirled into a slow...
...iterum aestuat! Musae quidem Plautinae alto de caelo Cantabrigiam descenderunt; Risus Ludus Iocusque ubique vigescunt. Tempestas nobis arridet. O ver Plautinum! O collegium Harvardianum, nuper modestum morum bonorum praesidium, nunc vividum alacris motus gymnasium! Cavete igitur vos decani decanulique--"non intret Cato theatrum meum"--nec non vos, o septum novi homines qui ad spinosam Lapparum tutelam elevati estis. Quae enim saga Radcliffiensis, quis magus Harvardianus pollenti pectore nunc praesentire potest quam mira et magna Plautus et Bacchus et fervidus ille puer et solutis Gratiae zonis in campo et area nostria iamiam effecturi sint? Nam hac in fabula Plautina est quidam...
...racing-car drivers; at the Indianapolis Speedway. Good enough to hold the track's one-lap speed record (139.6 m.p.h.), Veteran Miller never won the annual 500-mile speedway classic, decided that this year's attempt would be his last. He climbed into his V-8 Novi Special for a fast practice spin, lost control, crashed into the barrier, became the speedway's 43rd victim...
...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...