Word: prix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conclusion that Italy's Maserati was the car most likely to sweep the grand prizes, foresaw more loving cups for World Champion Driver Juan Manuel Fangio and the rest of the Maserati team. The conclusion was borne out at last week's Sebring, Fla. Grand Prix test, as Winner Fangio was quick to note. See SPORT, Fireworks for Fangio...
Florida's International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance was less than four hours old when Chicago's Bob Gold-ich, 33, took a tricky S turn just a touch too fast. His little (1.9 liters) Arnolt-Bristol sports car skidded across a taxiway at Sebring's abandoned airfield and rolled into a sideways somersault. A graduate of the dangerous melees of midget-auto racing and the father of two children, Goldich was dead of a broken neck before he reached the hospital...
...fine swimmer, a superb polo player, a leading gentleman jockey, an Olympic bobsled star, and is one of the best sports-car racers in the world. When he rolls his sleek, shovel-nosed 3.5-liter Ferrari up to the starting line for the Florida International twelve-hour Grand Prix of Endurance at Sebring this week, he will be one of three or four favorites in a field of many champions...
...Faith. His passion for sports, Portago says, made him "a dismal failure" at schools in England, France, Spain and Hollywood. No game or adventure proved capable of holding his interest steadily until he discovered car-racing three years ago. Once he climbed into the cramped cockpit of a Grand Prix racer he knew exactly where he was heading...
...will stop a driver just as quickly as a major breakdown," says he. A stark example of how "a silly thing"-gear failure-can suddenly alter the picture: Portage's own teammate, Eugenio Castellotti of Italy, who was one of his closest competitors for third place in Grand Prix standings, was killed last week while testing a Ferrari at Modena (see MILESTONES...