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GENTLEMEN: START YOUR ENGINES (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). History of the Indianapolis 500-mile Speedway Race. Color...
...biggest crowd of the year to attend a U.S. sporting event. At Indianapolis' Motor Speedway last week, 250,000 spectators jammed into the stands to watch the world's fastest racing cars blast around the 21-mile oval. Who won the race? There was no race. The Indianapolis 500 isn't until this week, and these were merely the qualification trials. But they pitted a new breed of rear-engined racers against the reigning kings of the Brickyard, the burly front-engined Offenhausers that have won every 500 for the past 17 years. No auto buff within...
There he was, at Florida's Daytona International Speedway-in a sports car, of all things...
...Crumpets. Yet the Offy never wants for challengers. Last week a new one showed up-as out of place at Indy as a diamond cutter in a coal mine. Great tea and crumpets, the English! Sitting in the Speedway pits, Colin Chapman's tiny green Lotuses looked like go-karts next to the burly Offies. They weighed only 1,130 Ibs. compared with nearly 1,400 Ibs. for the lightest Offy. Their power plants were Ford Fairlane V-8s-souped up to 376 h.p., but with carburetors, yet-and they got their nourishment from the good old Esso pump...
...qualifying trials! Jimmy Clark blazed around the 2½-mile Indy oval at 149.7 m.p.h., announced "I'll take it," and scooted back to Europe for some real racing. Trying to crack 150 m.p.h., Dan Gurney plowed into the Speedway wall and demolished his Lotus. Climbing out unhurt, he borrowed a spare and clocked 149 m.p.h. That was enough for Britain's race driver turned reporter, Stirling Moss: he picked the Lotuses to win, began taking bets around the pit area...