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Granatelli's new bombs are designed by Britain's Colin Chapman, builder of the famed Lotus Grand Prix cars and the Lotus-Fords that have taken a first and two seconds at the 500 in the past five years. Their specifications are a carefully kept secret mainly because Andy is currently suing the U.S. Auto Club, which last summer passed new rules aimed at limiting the power of turbine racing cars. The few details that have leaked out seem to indicate that the U.S.A.C.'s aim was bad; reduced engine power or no, Granatelli's turbines...
...drive his cars, Granatelli has probably the most impressive team of racing drivers ever assembled: four men who among them have won three 500s and three Grand Prix championships. The four are the U.S.'s Parnelli Jones, 34, the 1963 Indy winner; England's mustachioed Graham Hill, 39, the 1966 winner and Grand Prix champion in 1962; Scotland's flashy young Jackie Stewart, 28; and Scotland's 32-year-old Jim Clark (TIME cover, July 9, 1965), who won the 500 in 1965 and has more Grand Prix victories (25) to his credit than any other...
Oldtime fans still talk with awe about the thundering Auto Unions that dominated the Grand Prix circuit in the late 1930s, and the howling "Silver Arrows" of Mercedes-Benz that Juan Manuel Fangio drove to victory after victory in the mid-1950s. But for a nation that once ruled the road, Germany has taken few top honors recently. Its last triumph in the 24 Hours of Le Mans came way back in 1952, and no German car has won a Grand Prix race for half a dozen years. But in Florida last week a trio of long-tailed Porsche...
...years ago, he saw in his statistics that Goodyear tires were losing popularity among the young sports-car set. His answer was to get the company back into racing after a 40-year lapse; in 1967 Goodyear tires were on winning cars at the Indianapolis, Le Mans and Grand Prix championship races, all of which cost a cool $5,000,000. DeYoung thinks it was worth it. "The younger generation likes it," says he, "and we get an opportunity to test ourselves against competitors. And hell, I like fast cars...
...winner (in a Ford-powered special), says: "I wouldn't be caught dead in it; and if I ever did get in it, I probably would be." Britain's Graham Hill, who drove another Lotus 49 to second place in the 204-mi. South African Grand Prix, says: "You have to keep tabs on the car. You can't let it get away from...