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...late millionaire racing driver Cliff Durant) and had a son. But he could not bear the thought of going into bankruptcy. He resolved to pay off the huge debt (he eventually did-"It made me feel right"). Then he raised $700,000 more, and bought the Indianapolis Speedway...
Seven miles of State Route 15, from the Connecticut line to the junction with Route 20, are being converted into a four-lane speedway. The project is now in the grading stage, according to Lester H. L. Olson, assistant engineer. He expects completion some time next fall...
...Culver City to Indianapolis. Gripping the steering wheel with a fearful, downward thrust as though trying to keep the car on the ground, he never drives a dull race. He always wins, crashes, hurtles the wall, or narrowly misses burning to death. The movie falls short of the 1932 speedway saga called The Crowd Roars. But obstreperous acting, grease-textured photography, and endless clips from newsreel racing shots give it a sort of juvenile vigor...
...Indianapolis speedway 18 years ago, husky, young William Richards drove his racing car over the side of the track, smashed up, and was carried away with a broken pelvis. "When you're hurt and broke," Richards later related, "you naturally come home." Back he went to his native New England, looking for something less dangerous. Said Richards: "I stumbled into farming...
...famous motor race track at Le Mans, France, sleek-bonneted speedsters screeched around the turns and thundered down the straightways in the most grueling sport-car endurance race on the speedway calendar. Plugging along at 70 m.p.h. -and letting other models slip past at better speeds-was a 1948 British Aston-Martin coupe. Its two-man crew, a couple of middle-aged English amateurs, were there just to prove that "any British family man who drives with care . . . can give these continental chaps a run for their money...