Word: prix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soft June afternoon burst to a deep, mechanical snarl, and the gently rolling countryside south of Le Mans, France came alive as 54 low-slung sports cars whirled into the start of "les vingt-quatre heures," auto racing's classic Grand Prix of Endurance. Once more the famous 24-hour race promised spectacular trouble. Last year's exercise in safety had been a dull performance as refueling rules held everyone down to reasonable speeds; there had been only one fatality. Last week the promoters decided to gamble again. Almost as if they had forgotten 1955's monstrous...
...front runner, and his co-driver of last year, Ninian Sanderson, rode in the runner-up. A pair of French drivers took third; two Belgians were fourth. The fifth Jaguar was sixth. Said Flockhart's mustachioed co-driver, Ivor Bueb: "The Italian teams have a little Grand Prix of their own. and between themselves they blow one another up. My first rule always is to stay out of trouble." Running twice around the clock, only 21 of 54 starters finished, but Bueb and Flockhart's dark green car stayed out of trouble, completed the equivalent of five consecutive...
...total of 16 racing cars scrambled into the start of the 105-lap, 205-mile Grand Prix of Monaco. Only four laps later Britain's Stirling Moss, Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn somehow escaped uninjured from a three-car pile-up on a barricade of telephone poles. All afternoon the accidents continued, but no one was hurt. Only five cars finished. Still, World Champion Juan Fangio had to push his Maserati to the limit to cross the line in 3 hr. 10 min. 12.8 sec., a scant half-minute ahead of Briton Tony Brooks's Vanwall...
...born of a morning." Micheyl sings the songs in a lilting, open-throated voice, shaking her tight golden curls. Songs like Ni Toi Ni Moi, which celebrates the fact that love is stronger than anything, have moved Parisian poets and musicians to confer on a Micheyl record the Grand Prix du Bisque, a sort of musical Oscar...
...make sense of the foreign names and the continental accents that color the annual invasion of their sleepy town. They have learned to tell a Maserati from a Ferrari; they know a Mercedes-Benz when they see one. But Goldich's death was Sebring's first Grand Prix fatality. Now, at last, the spectators knew the danger and fear that ride with the high-speed racers...