Word: racers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passion for sports, Portago says, made him "a dismal failure" at schools in England, France, Spain and Hollywood. No game or adventure proved capable of holding his interest steadily until he discovered car-racing three years ago. Once he climbed into the cramped cockpit of a Grand Prix racer he knew exactly where he was heading...
...Club of America. Paying no mind to young Reventlow's third-place victory in an amateur sports-car race in Florida a year ago, the club, which permits no minors to race under its aegis, suspended Lance upon learning that he had fibbed about his age. Said Racer Reventlow: "Now that my secret is out. I can only apologize...
...continually critical as old Alfieri himself, Maserati's present owner, Adolfo Orsi, refuses to be satisfied, even with success. He got off to a fast start with one of last season's six-cylinder Grand Prix racers, which World Champion Juan Fangio drove to victory in the Argentine Grand Prix at Buenos Aires last month, setting a track record in the bargain. And Motorman Orsi is already tooling up a new twelve-cylinder racer...
Taste & Talent. A tour of duty tinkering with the great, slow-churning marine turbines of such ships as the Rex and the Conte di Savoia gave Alfieri a taste for hefty engines. At Maserati he is forever trying to balance his desire for a lot of cylinders with the racer's need for resistance to wear and tear. It took Giulio more than two years of arguing, pleading, cajoling, storming to convince Maserati's high brass that a twelve-cylinder engine was the logical evolution from their successful six-cylinder, 2.5-liter racer...
...secret of a downhill racer," says Toni, "is really the ability to .think ahead. A good skier looks as far ahead as possible. In my mind's eye, I'm looking even farther ahead than with my eyes. When I'm doing the Streif, I'm already thinking of the steep drop while my skis are still in the 'Mousetrap.' When I'm on the Lärchen-hand, my eyes are on the Oberhausberg, and my mind is on the final schuss...