Word: speedways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rolla asked me to watch her in a race at Ontario speedway in California last year," said Simon. The verdict Simon returned with: "You'd be stupid if you didn't sign...
...accustomed to the stock cars of Darlington and Daytona, might expect. While Medenica's Lola T-340 will never turn world champion Niki Lauda green with envy, it is still a far cry from the souped-up stock cars made famous by the "good ol' boys" of the NASCAR speedway circuit...
...Indy 500 month in Indianapolis. With drivers revving up to shoot for record 200-m.p.h. laps in trials last week and the Speedway crowd already filling downtown hotels, it was a marvel that any other sport made the local papers, let alone the front page. But there, smack on page one of the Indianapolis News-for five consecutive days-was a series on basketball. The subject: Indiana Pacer Forward George McGinnis, known to the 17,000 fans who have been packing Pacer games recently as "Big Mac," "Baby Bull," or just plain "McGinnis the Magnificent...
After the war, he helped manufacture an automobile that bore his name, the Rickenbacker; but the company failed in 1927, leaving him $250,000 in debt. He paid his bills and bought the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which he continued to run until 1945. His press parties at Indianapolis on the eve of each Memorial Day 500 were notorious; liquor flowed until dawn, and Captain Eddie-as he liked to be known -customarily called for order by hammering the table with a baseball...
...third and final attempt to run the race was as tragic as it was tawdry.By Wednesday the Speedway grounds were a littered, swampy mess. The race itself seemed almost anticlimactic. Then, on the 58th lap, Driver Swede Savage's car skidded out of control at 170 m.p.h., ricocheted off two walls and burst into flames. Jumping out of one of the pits to see what had happened, Mechanic Armondo Teran, 22, was struck by a rescue truck speeding the wrong way up the pit road. Savage was listed in critical condition with splintered legs and extensive burns. Teran died...