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...Arnaz tools around Hollywood. Behind these wheels was an international Who's Who of racing: Scotland's Innes Ireland, Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez, the U.S.'s Roger Penske, Britain's John Surtees had a 340-h.p. roadster and mustachioed Graham Hill, the 1962 Grand Prix champion, was to drive a prototype Ferrari that boasted a separate carburetor for each of its twelve cylinders. "Our only enemies," boasted Luigi Chinetti Sr., manager of Ferrari's North American Racing Team, "are ourselves...
...Maranello." At his plant near Modena, he turns out some 750 marvelously hand-crafted sports cars each year, the cheapest of which sells for $8,800. And when he puts them on the track, the customers are properly impressed. Last year, a Ferrari won the twelve-hour Grand Prix of Endurance at Sebring, Fla. A Ferrari won Sicily's Targa Florio. A Ferrari won Germany's 1,000 Kilometers of Nurburgring, and a Ferrari won France's Twenty-four Hours of Le Mans. It was a clean sweep of the world's four top sports...
Most auto racers stick to one well-practiced groove-either sports cars, Grand Prix machines, souped-up Detroit stock cars or big Indianapolis racers. Dan Gurney, 31, a lean, blond professional from California, drives anything with wheels-and does it so skillfully that Argentina's retired Juan Miguel Fangio recently went so far as to call him "one of the greatest race drivers in the world." But after eight years on the circuits, Gurney may sometimes wonder if selling insurance would not be better. Few top drivers have suffered through worse luck...
...Karts & 10? Parts. Offered the wheel of a blood-red factory Ferrari in 1958, Gurney came within an ace of victory at Le Mans and again at Rheims; both times his co-drivers wrecked the cars. At the Dutch Grand Prix in 1960, the brakes failed on his British-built BRM; the car hurtled off the track killing a spectator and breaking Gurney's left arm. Nowhere has Gurney's luck been worse than at his home-town Riverside International Raceway, a course he knows blindfolded. Last March, he won a $13,250 stock car race...
...Britain's Graham Hill: the South African Grand Prix, and with it the 1962 world driving championship. Hill, 33, is a mustachioed daredevil who switched from motorcycles to cars, got his first driver's license only ten years ago, and was-until this week- known as "the other Hill" to distinguish him from the U.S.'s Phil Hill, the 1961 Grand Prix champion. In South Africa, Hill whipped his spanking new British-built B.R.M. around the windswept East London track at speeds up to 145 m.p.h., won the 196.8-mile race by 1 min. Scotland...