Word: racer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wheel drive, Chance plans to add a lighter boom partly made of a new space-age material called carbon-fiber. HERITAGE is the first 12-meter designed, constructed, sponsored and skippered by one man. He is Charles Morgan Jr., a Florida yacht-builder and an experienced ocean racer. Though his do-it-yourself venture extends to cutting his own sails, he likes to call his 62-ft. 6-in. sloop the "people's boat," a reference to the many Floridians, including Boy Scouts and housewives, who have contributed money for her construction. She is, by Morgan's description...
...Pontiac Firebird, sister to the Camaro, is being run by Jerry Titus, a former auto magazine editor and amateur racer, whih turned professional in his early forties. Titus is a very quick driver, and a talented team manager, but his effort has not had the same degree of factory backing that some of the other teams have...
...there in the Indiana rain with Rodger Ward, in front of a television camera, and a million or so people in TV land watched them. Roger Ward had won the Indianapolis 500 twice, and then, with a tearful speech, retired in 1966. Now he was back as the resident racer on ABC's Wide World of Sports, interviewing Ruby following the first day of qualifications for this year's edition of the race...
...fastest drivers in the world, despite his partial retirement. The only driving he still does is the NASCAR road race at Riverside in January, and the Trans Am series for Bud Moore's Ford Mustang team. He is very fast in the school bus yellow racer, and has won the first two Trans Am races this year. Not that Jones won without opposition. Donohue ran on his tail at the series opener at Laguna Seca, and Jones' Mustang, Donohue's Javelin, and Leslie's Camaro ran together like a string of boxcars at the May 9th Lime Rock race...
Mark Donohue was the rookie of the year at Indianapolis last year. He was the fourth fastest qualifier and the pick of the motorsports writers to win the race. Quite a feat for a driver with no previous experience there. Like Revson, Donohue is primarily a road racer. In fact, they are teammates on Roger Penske's Javelin team in SCCA Trans Am racing. Donohue, who holds an engineering degree from Brown, was the fifth fastest qualifier this year. The Penske team is McLaren's only competitor when it comes to preparation. But Donohue is hard on cars. Last year...