Word: speedways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indianapolis 500 was still two weeks away. But a good round 150,000 fans were on hand to watch in disbelief as a little-known rookie named Mario Andretti rolled out for his first qualification spin in a rear-engined Brawner-Ford and blasted around the Speedway at a fantastic 159.4 m.p.h. That demolished the lap record set last year by Scotland's Jimmy Clark. So Clark squeezed into his own Lotus-Ford and got his record back with a clocking of 160.9 m.p.h. He held it only as long as it took A. J. Foyt to warm...
...modern design for the La Canada, Calif., speedway you pictured [April 9] will allow: 1) little children to cross over or under the main traffic artery in safety rather than walk among the cars; 2) local traffic to do likewise; 3) the ever-growing mainstream to flow unimpeded; and, 4) through access control, protect the public's investment by preventing private encroachment. Some people oppose these things...
...CANADA, CALIF. In this luxuriant valley eleven miles north of downtown Los Angeles, residents are making a last-ditch stand against a proposed eight-lane speedway that would cut their community in half. Running east-west alongside the town's main thoroughfare, it would link up other northern suburbs but do nothing for the town itself, seems to La Canadans little more than a ruse to collect $60 million in federal grants. The highway department claims that the projected-population figures for La Canada by 1980 necessitate the freeway. Planning Consultant Lyle Stewart retorts: "This area is built...
...Texan who designed the Ford-powered Cobra, a solid contender in production-class races last year. Shelby spent 1,000 hours preparing for the race, figuring gear and axle ratios, tuning engines, using computers to help adjust the suspension to the track conditions at Florida's Daytona International Speedway. In the time trials, Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez won the pole position by clocking 113.7 m.p.h. in his V12 Ferrari prototype, and Shelby decided he needed a little strategy too. His plan: turn California's Dan Gurney loose in a Lotus-Ford sprint car as a "rabbit...
...Last year Ford laid out $5,000 per car souping up its racing engines, only to lose the "stock car" championship to Chrysler, which installed custom-built, $12,000 "hemispherical-head" engines in its Plymouths. That was too heady for Bill France, owner of Florida's Daytona International Speedway and president of NASCAR, who has the funny idea that somebody besides a factory ought to be able to compete in the contest. He banned the "hemi-head"-which put Chrysler in such a huff that it refused to race at all at this year's Daytona Speed Weeks...