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...fine, dry and made for speed. On the dot of 4 p.m. the 60 sports-car entrants-among them, Mercedes, Jaguar, Ferrari, Frazer-Nash, Maserati, Cunningham-began the 24-hour run. Right after getaway they whipped past the grandstand into the sharp Tertre Rouge turn, roared on down the straightaway on a four-mile dash toward the Mulsanne hairpin, and on around the 8.38 mile circuit past the White House...
...proves impossible to use the hospital-lined Charles for meets, Crimson racers will probably use Lake Quinsigamond, just outside Worcester. Under APBA rules the course may vary from 2 1/2 to 5 miles in length, with boats traveling around from one to six buoys at either end of the straightaway...
...Young's New York Central and Patrick McGinmY New York, New Haven & Hartford each ordered a five-car "Train X," Young's oft-touted dream, from Pullman. Only u ft. high (v. the Pennsy's n ft. 9 in.). Train X will be capable of straightaway speeds up to 120 m.p.h., will take turns at up to 70 m.p.h., v. 30 or 40 m.p.h. with present equipment. Price: about $1,000,000. Delivery: second quarter...
...Arnolt-Bristol is no roaring speed demon; its 1,971-cc., six-cylinder engine kicks it along at a conservative 115 m.p.h. maximum. But in a race such as this, René argues, the driver means almost as much as the car. "Any taxi driver can win on a straightaway like Daytona Beach," says he. "At Sebring, the drivers who nurse their cars carefully through the long grind stand a chance of scoring simply because they have finished." With Wacky Arnolt himself, John Panks, general manager of Rootes Motors, Inc., and Bob Grier, president of the Motor Sports Club...
...Maseratis-here and there a Mercedes and a Gordini; much elegant metal and, no doubt, to fanciers of horsepower, a sight prettier than slow old Europe. The racing scenes, in fact, are among the most frantic ever filmed. As the little red devils scream the curves and hellbat the straightaway, nose to rump of the car ahead, hot and light on the track as grits in a frying pan, the customer sits spang on the front axle-and sweats. Once in a while Kirk Douglas climbs out of his Ferrari and into bed with Bella Darvi. Kirk's problem...