Word: racer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without doubt must be considered the Eroteric Sport champion of Harvard University. In a world where football, baseball, and basketball dominate spectator interest and the sport pages. Hart has plugged steadily along and is now firmly established as the finest single scaller, cross-country skier, and Wellesley bike racer in the University...
...Steered." Bettenhausen got off to a bad start this year at Indianapolis, where he finished ninth. But when Indianapolis Winner Lee Wallard was cracked up in a race-track smash, Tony took over the winning car, a big, blue-and-gold racer owned by Murrell Belanger, a Crown Point, Ind. car dealer. Tony, who has an auto agency of his own in Blue Island, ILL., gives due credit to Owner Belanger: "You've got to have a man with money, a good car the money's being spent on." Tony knows that a winning driver also needs...
...markers before Jenkins could straighten out. As the car began to heat up and smoke, because of a punctured radiator hose line, Jenkins braked to a stop and jumped to safety. He had chalked up 24 new records, including 196.69 m.p.h. for 25 miles. Looking sadly at his smoking racer, Ab announced that he was through with fast driving. "At 68, I've outworn...
Tires & Pistons. Wallard's victory, like most, was won before the race began. Owner Murrell Belanger, a wealthy Crown Point, Ind. auto dealer (Chrysler-Plymouth) and ex-racer who dabbles in the sport for the fun of it, knew that the new "beefed up" (i.e., fatter) tires would produce more speed, particularly on the turns. Belanger also figured that a light, rear-drive car, though it gives a rougher ride, would require fewer fuel stops, that a simple, four-cylinder power plant would require fewer pit stops. As a result, Belanger's aluminum-shelled special turned...
...gamble on simplicity (about $30,000 to build and race his car) paid off. Getting better than six miles a gallon out of the special fuel (40% alcohol, 40% gasoline, 20% benzol), Belanger's racer had to make only one pit stop (for a cracked exhaust pipe, fuel and two tires). Oil-smeared Driver Lee Wallard, grinning happily from ear to ear, had a modest explanation for his part of the winning gamble: "I just tried to keep moving and stay out of trouble...