Word: straightaways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North American F-100C Super-Sabre, piloted by Air Force Colonel Horace A. Hanes. ripped over a straightaway course near Palmdale. Calif, to set the world's first supersonic speed record: 823 m.p.h. Although other jets have broken the sound barrier in level flight, their speed has not been checked for the record. For the F-100C trial, the observers had specially designed cameras and clocking equipment on hand...
...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...