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...opportunity to display their talents. They have to struggle with a plot as full of gimmicks as a garage. Race Driver Frank Capua (Newman) meets aging Avis girl (Woodward). She tries harder; he marries her. Alas, Capua suffers from autoeroticism. Night after night' he stays at the speedway, revving up his car instead of his wife. One morning he comes home to find her in the arms of another driver (Robert Wagner...
...pick 'em up in their Toronado halfway through the Johnny Carson show. They couldn't have done that when the bikies ran the "Q," but there haven't been any busted lips or broken chairs for a couple of years since the town started shooting speed away from the Speedway.) Gayle was nice, she was going to be editor of the school yearbook. Unlike the Steak 'n' Shake crowd, she wasn't dying the slow death known as hanging around. In many ways she was patently nice, she was a girl back home. But I never thought of her that...
Lotus's Colin Chapman built the new cars, which have been termed revolutionary but actually are not. Turbines have been kicking around the Speedway since 1961. The only thing revolutionary about the new Lotus turbines is their ability to go fast...
Then on May 7, only hours after he had turned in the second fastest lap in Speedway history. Mike Spence was killed in a freak accident while testing teammate Greg Weld's turbine. The next day Weld, who had been slow all month, was released by STP, and Granatelli was left with 1966 winner Graham Hill, and four turbine cars...
...race day, 94,800 fans-the biggest sports crowd in Florida history-jammed into the Speedway, and what they saw left them limp. The yellow caution light went on for accidents eleven times. The lead changed hands no fewer than 22 times-until, just ten miles from the end, South Carolina's Cale Yarborough, 28, edged into the lead in his 1968 Mercury. He crossed the finish line with an average speed of 143.251 m.p.h. And there was Bill France, handing Yarborough the trophy that went with his winner's check...