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Each asphalt-covered brick at Indianapolis' Motor Speedway is a tombstone for a dream-the kind of dream that makes men recite the words on the Statue of Liberty and sing paeans to the New York Mets. For the Brickyard is the place where the underdog never wins...
Daytona International Speedway, fastest track...
After a six-year eclipse, Flygirl Jacqueline Cochran, fiftyish, reclaimed the title of the world's fastest female. Piloting a T-38 twin-jet trainer at 842.6 m.p.h. over a speedway at California's Edwards Air Force Base, the high-level cosmetician (Jacqueline Cochran, Inc.) surpassed the 1955 record of France's Jacqueline Auriol by 127 m.p.h...
Died. Tony Bettenhausen, 44, stocky, crew-cut auto racer, two-time U.S. big-car champion (1951 and 1958), a scarred survivor of 28 crackups; in a flaming crash on the Indianapolis Speedway when the Steady Special he was testing for a friend on the eve of time trials for the Memorial Day race lost a 1? cotter pin, careened into a wall at nearly 145 m.p.h...
...mile Indianapolis auto race started taking its toll early. Defending Champion Jimmy Bryan quit after only two laps, when his Belond Special, hastily rebuilt after a disastrous engine freeze-up only one week before, developed clutch trouble. Mike Magill went to the hospital with neck injuries after hitting the Speedway wall on the 47th lap. Ray Crawford hit a wall on the 121st lap, suffered broken ribs. But through the pile-ups nothing bothered 38-year-old Veteran Rodger Ward of Los Angeles, a onetime fighter pilot who had never finished higher than eighth in eight previous "500" races...