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...Arlington Heights, Ill. Owned by Raymond Guest, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, the three-year-old colt, win ner of the Preakness Stakes, led most of the way to score his ninth victory in twelve starts this year. Tom Rolfe's next stop: France, and the $150,000-added Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe...
...Houston averaged 26.7 minutes during peak hours in 1960, now takes just 17.7 minutes. Los Angeles has a last laugh too: in 1957 a survey showed that peak-hour speeds on all freeways and streets averaged 24 m.p.h.; last year the average was up to 31 m.p.h.-not grand prix, but better than most mass transit...
...Clark had won 18 Grand Prix races and the Indianapolis 500, but one great event had always defied him. It was the German Grand Prix, a murderous gearbox-busting nightmare of 14.2 miles and 174 curves around the Nürburgring, 30 miles southwest of Bonn. In four consecutive years, Clark tried and failed there. This year he wanted to take the German Grand Prix more than ever. He had already won five Grand Prix races this season, and a victory at Nurburgring would make him the first driver in history to win the world championship so early...
Hill climbing hit the big time in 1957, when a Maserati took the title. The next year, Germany's famed Wolfgang von Trips (who died in a Ferrari in the 1961 Italian Grand Prix) won the championship in a Porsche. A Ferrari took the prize in 1962, but in the past two years, the rear-engined, bug-low German Porsches dominated the races...
...Mario Andretti, 25: the 150-mile Hoosier Grand Prix, his first major victory, though he was named Rookie of the Year at the Indianapolis 500 for placing third; at Indianapolis...