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...times the city's main thoroughfares looked like the site of a weird Grand Prix, a kind of motorcade to nowhere. Climbing aboard bicycles, pedicabs, Hondas, mini-Jeeps, taxis, small trucks-anything that would move -Saigonese sped up and down broad boulevards lined by huge tamarind trees. The hot dry air turned blue with exhaust smoke as the procession wheeled endlessly past the sidewalk cafés where red-bereted French paratroopers and homesick G.I.s once sat, watching the lissome Vietnamese girls stroll...
...cruising had been at about 80 to 90 mph, with a brief stretch on a western highway at 170 mph. The average speed, including gas stops and speeding delays, was about 80 mph. One incredible thing, though, made this race more than a case of boring elitism, Grand Prix pilot Gurney winning a hoked up race through Howard Johnson land. The Ferrari was pressed by a Cadillac driven by two Cambridge based lawyers, it finished only 10 or so minutes behind, and it was a Drive Away deal. The owner said he didn't want the car driven after dark...
Some say this race will be like the infamous Grand Prix of Gibraltar, in which no one finished. That mythical race was a comedy record by Peter Ustinov, but the Cannonball Baker is going to happen. The entrants have alternate routes, Citizens Band radios (Parker noted that over 6 million Americans have CB radios, a trend, he says, which marks a healthy sign of American individualsm and revolt against the speed laws) and new tactics, still secret, ready for this race, which was postponed from the regular November date because they didn't want to be sitting ducks...
...income, keeps his partner running at a frantic pace. "Angel loves to ride," says Matos. "He'll travel anywhere." On Sundays Cordero often flies to California to race, returning to ride on Monday in New York. In 1973 he commuted to Paris one Sunday to ride in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. The way he has been racing this year, they should bring...
...York Times I will read that one stolen Greyhound bus and 11 cars, four of which were stolen, were burnt. I will read that Emerson Fittapaldi, who placed 4th in the race, won his 3rd Grand Prix Driving Championship, the cumulative point total of all the races run this year, and makes over $1,000,000 a year. I will read about the crashes and laptimes, mechanical failures and prize money. But the people of that instant city of 105,000 have now disappeared, their lives unrecorded, back into the bowels of America. And the drivers will continue defining their...