Word: straightaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile run which came right after the hurdle. Jon Ensco and John Quirk finished 1-2. Tom Spengler, fourth for most of the race, caught his Army opponent on the straightaway and nipped him at the line. Ensco's time was 4:16.7 while Quirk's was 4:17.3. Spengler was timed...
...which followed immediately after. Harvard again demonstrated the strength it showed throughout the meet. Harvard's Rick Melvoin took the lead in the race with about 300 yards to go. He held it until the last straightaway when Elliott passed him. With a time of 1:13,4, he nipped Melvoin by 0.2 seconds...
Last week Porsche returned to Le Mans revved up for revenge. This time they had the new Porsche 917, a low-slung speedster with a 4.9-liter engine and 660 h.p. that can hit speeds of up to 200 m.p.h. on the straightaway. As was the case last year, the West German cars had already clinched the world championship, having won endurance races in the U.S., England, Italy, Belgium and Germany. Nonetheless, as the most prestigious race on the international circuit, the 24 Hours of Le Mans was one trophy the Porsche team dearly wanted to win -a feat they...
...they lead the race at some point. The past decade at Indy bears this out. 1966 was the only race in which the winner wasn't in the first or second row. Graham Hill led home a field that was decimated by a big crash on the main straightaway as the green flag dropped. Hill won from the middle of the field, after all of the hotshots dropped out. Still, there are people back in the pack who have to be considered possibilities to win, on the basis of their qualifying times, and the speed they posted in Wednesday...
When she first streaked across the plains 21 years ago, the California Zephyr was a gleaming wonder-on-wheels. The first luxury Vista-Dome streamliner to run between Chicago and San Francisco, the stainless-steel train topped 90 m.p.h. on the straightaway, dazzling onlookers at every wayside crossing. Last week the Cal Zephyr, rattling from disrepair and more than 6,000,000 miles of wear, made its through-run for the last time. Latest victim of rising costs, declining patronage and the reluctance of railroads to promote passenger service, the train was, as one member of the Interstate Commerce Commission...