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...Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, Calif. Montana, 25 has been behind the wheel of a Toyota Celica, running practice laps at California's Riverside International Raceway. Among the varied competitors scheduled for the 21.3-mile race are: Actor Robert Hays, Rock Star Ted Nugent, Race Drivers Parnelli Jones and Bobby Unser and fellow 49er Linebacker Jack ("Hacksaw") Reynolds. Racing on the same track as pros like Unser and Jones, says Reynolds nervously, "is like putting a college freshman out on the field against...
...telephone service road. The pitted road seems almost smooth at this speed. Evans knows the route well. After six "pre-runs," he is ready for the angle of every curve. With $60,000 invested in a single-seat Blazer and the two-seat truck, Evans and his partner, Parnelli Jones, onetime Indianapolis 500 winner, cannot afford mistakes. "A race is like a razor in a barbershop," shouts Evans above the wind. "It'll cut your throat in a minute, but you always keep honing...
Other winged beauties include an Eric Broadley-designed Lola, which has its engine-cooling air vents mounted like hollow eyes in front of the driver's cockpit; the Maurice Phillippe-designed Parnelli, which had two of its multiple wings clipped after some experimentation; and the McLaren, which got almost everybody wing-conscious when it appeared last year with a striking rear-mounted foil...
...Boston for Monday's Bryar Trans-Am race. Bryar Motorsports Park, located just east of Concord, N. H., about 90 minutes from here, plays host to the Sponts Car Club of America's sedan racers. Javelin drivers Donohue and Revson will have as their chief competitors '63 Indy winner Parnelli Jones and Peter H. Gregg '61 in last year's championship-winning Bud Moore Mustangs...
...themselves. Second behind Smothers and his partner Bobby Unser came Astronaut Pete Conrad and Mario Andretti. Despite a sprained ankle, Paul Newman leadfooted it out of the pits so furiously that he tore up his car's transmission. But the whole race was so casual that for once Parnelli Jones, Newman's co-driver, did not seem to mind losing...