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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Jim McKay and Phil Hill comment on the 24-hour Le Mans Grand Prix...
...Grand Prix...
...real antique among race tracks is the 38-year-old Monaco Grand Prix course. It is really not a track at all-merely a hair-raising path through the city streets of Monte Carlo, barely wide enough to allow one car to pass another, and replete with such hazards as a curving tunnel in the middle of a 120-m.p.h. straightaway and two hairpins. It is hard enough to steer a Corvair around a 180° turn, let alone a 400-h.p. Formula I racing car. In the past 15 years, the winner's speed has climbed from...
...Caracciola suffered the leg injury that left him a cripple for life; that Luigi Fagioli crashed and died. Last week 16 cars and drivers took the starter's flag, and only six finished the race. Among those who did not: Scotland's Jimmy Clark, the 1965 Grand Prix champion, who smashed into a retaining wall and walked away...
Driving to Riches. You name it, Mario drives it: Indianapolis cars, stock cars, sports cars, sprint cars. He did have to say no to Enzo Ferrari, who begged Mario to drive for him on the Grand Prix circuit; the Grand Prix races conflicted with Andretti's previous engagements, and besides, Ferrari doesn't pay enough. "Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool," says Andretti...