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...sport that is obsessed with speed and dogged by death, the Grand Prix de Monaco is a cheerful interlude. Only once, in 1952, was a driver killed in the race, and even the most daring racers-piloting cars capable of 180 m.p.h.-can average only about 70 m.p.h. around the twisty, 1.95-mi. Monte Carlo circuit...
Last week more than 50,000 racing fans, including Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, were on hand to see the fun in the 20th Monaco Grand Prix. Everybody got his money's worth. No sooner had the 16 cars roared away from the start than there was a grand pileup. Barreling into the first 180° "Gas Works" hairpin, the U.S.'s Richie Ginther found the accelerator of his British-built B.R.M. stuck tightly to the floor. Helpless, Ginther plowed into the Lotus of France's Maurice Trintignant, slamming it sideways, directly into the path of three...
...Drivers get nine points for finishing first, six for second, four for third, three for fourth, and so on down to sixth place. If there are ten Grand Prix races in 1962 (as tentatively scheduled), only a driver's six best finishes will count toward the world championship...
Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5:30-8:30 p.m.). Three hours of auto racing in the Grand Prix de Monaco...
...sympathique." His head rolled restlessly. "É molto difficile per un corridore-molto difficile It's very hard for a racer-very hard]." Suddenly he was lucid again, instantly transported to the scene of his own near-fatal crash in the Goodwood International Grand Prix fortnight ago. 'It's bad, this crash," he said. "One hundred and twenty miles an hour. It's very bad. It was going so beautifully...