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...fighting cocks-the sport is hairy enough as it is. But this was a real grudge match. Ever since World War II, U.S. big-car racing has worn a "members only" sign, dominated by a tight knot of drivers piloting burly 400-h.p. Offenhauser roadsters. But this year the "sports-car crowd"-the road racers and gear shifters-was trying to muscle in with dinky, British-built Lotuses using 375-h.p. Ford V-8 engines...
Died. Count Wolfgang Berghe von Trips, 33, last heir to a German title who forsook his Rhineland castle for the perils of sports-car racing; in a Grand Prix crack-up that killed 15 spectators, hospitalized another two dozen; in Monza, Italy (see SPORT...
Super Chevrolet. A "Super Sport'' version of the six-passenger Impala model is being introduced by Chevrolet. It has such sports-car features as heavy-duty springs and shock absorbers, a tachometer, four-speed racing transmission, and a bar for the front-seat passenger to hang on to during high-speed turns. There is a choice of 305-, 340-or 350-h.p. engines, or about 70 to 115 h.p. greater than present Chevy engines. Price: about $700 more than regular Impala models...
...Car Club of America still shuns the upstart go kart as unsafe and undignified. But many a driver of 150-m.p.h. racers keeps a go kart in his backyard, insists that the wide-tread width (two-thirds of the wheelbase) makes the kart safer than most bigger machines. Top sports-car men who get a kick out of go karts include John Fitch, Jay Chamberlain and Dan Gurney, despite the fact that one knocked him down last year in the Bahamas and broke his ankle. And in Britain, Stirling Moss, the finest driver of them all, is a partner...
...some 35,000 spectators lined the closed-course route. They craned at one of the three killing right-angle turns, or hurried down to the bridge where the cars jumped to a four-wheel takeoff. Some were attracted by the morbid sudden-death aspect of the sport, but mostly they were dedicated sports-car fans...
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