Word: speedways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...next year the city sponsored its first stock-car race. It was a financial flop. But one of the drivers was Bill France; after finishing fifth, he decided to concentrate on promoting races. By last week, France had made Daytona the capital of stock-car racing, his Daytona International Speedway was the sport's No. 1 emporium and he himself was indisputably king of the stocks...
...hundred thousand fans to an estimated 12 million, and instead of gasoline money, drivers now compete for $3,500,000 in prizes. New tracks have sprung up all over the country-Charlotte, N.C., Atlanta, Riverside, Calif. But the showplace is still Bill France's own Daytona International Speedway...
...Built in 1958, the $3,500,000 Speedway is really two tracks: a two-mile road course for sports cars and the stock-car "trioval"-a roughly triangular, 2½-mile circuit with two high-speed turns banked at 31° and a third turn banked at 18°. The banking, the perfectly smooth asphalt paving, plus the track's unusual width -three cars can race abreast-make it the fastest race track in the world. In qualifying trials for last week's tenth annual Daytona 500, the top 13 qualifiers ran the course at more than...
...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...