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...marvelously hand-crafted sports cars each year, the cheapest of which sells for $8,800. And when he puts them on the track, the customers are properly impressed. Last year, a Ferrari won the twelve-hour Grand Prix of Endurance at Sebring, Fla. A Ferrari won Sicily's Targa Florio. A Ferrari won Germany's 1,000 Kilometers of Nurburgring, and a Ferrari won France's Twenty-four Hours of Le Mans. It was a clean sweep of the world's four top sports-car races,* and, for Enzo Ferrari, his eighth manufacturer's world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Another for the Monster | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

Even in his restaurant, René has never been far from the track. Drivers are forever dropping by for advice, old friends come to reminisce about the races in which he made his reputation: Le Mans, the Grand Prix of Monaco, Indianapolis, Targa Florio in Sicily, the "Million-Franc Race" at Montlhery. When Chicago Industrialist S. H. ("Wacky") Arnolt decided to enter three of his Arnolt-Bristol sports cars in this year's Grand Prix at Sebring, it was not surprising that he turned to René Dreyfus when he needed a team captain. And it was not surprising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Oldtimer | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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