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...couple of years in the mid sixties, the race was dominated by European teams, who had had a great deal of experience with the rear-engine configuration just coming into use at the Speedway. Most of the Grand Prix circus showed up for the race, and Jimmy Clark and Graham Hill won in consecutive years. This year Jack Brabham, who started it all in 1961, is the only foreign driver in the race. Bruce McLaren, another Grand Prix builder/driver, has cars entered, but they are being driven by Americans...
...track all this month. His four-lap, pole winning average of 170.221 was not quite fast enough to eclipse the track record, set two years ago by his current teammate. Joe Leonard, in one of the now-banned turbine cars. With the turbines effectively banished from the Speedway by air inlet restrictions, some of the technical interest has gone out of the race. All of this year's qualifiers are in rear engined, two wheel drive vehicles, powered by turbocharged versions of eight cylinder Fords or four cylinder offys. But even though the cars are all basically similar...
This leaves only one man to be considered, three time race winner, A. J. Foyt. He has raced at the Speedway every year since 1957. He reminds everyone that he has won every three years starting in 1961, and that it's that time again. More convincing is the fact that Foyt's crew, headed up by his father, had everything so well in hand that they were able to qualify four cars for the race, including one on the very last day, for fellow Texan Jim McElreath, whose original car had been bumped from the field by a faster...
Except for a few small details, the scene could have been "The Brickyard" at Indianapolis or Florida's famed Daytona Speedway. In the stands, thousands of fans cheered their favorites as big-league factory teams fought for that extra profit a racing victory always brings. Around and around the four-mile course, the world's best drivers gunned their big machines, each one perfectly tuned and tended by pit crews capable of performing mechanical marvels with spectacular ease. The speeds were startling, the promise of disaster ever present...
...front-end design. Two weeks ago, 50 members of the Edsel Owners Club of America rolled into Reno, under a banner reading "The Edsels Are Here," for the club's first Western regional meeting. Last weekend, the 600-member club held its first national convention at the Indianapolis Speedway, while 50 members of the Midwest Area Edsel Club, not connected with the national group, were gathering for a rally at Toledo...