Word: unser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...running the whole USAC championship circuit. He was one of the fastest drivers in practice early this month, but a severe crash prior to qualifying forced his team to spend several sleepless nights fitting salvaged parts to a spare hull. Andretti qualified on the first day, next to Bobby Unser in the third row. By now most of the bugs should be out of the car. If so, he is a solid threat to repeat. But the car is really somewhat of an unknown quantity, at least to outside observers. Andretti has the uncanny ability to drive...
...Gurney has run at Indy every year since 1962. Starting in 1966 he began building his own cars. In 1968 Bobby Unser won the race in one of Gurney's Eagles, and Dan placed second, the first time that he had actually finished the race. He finished second again last year. Gurney gave up Grand Prix racing last year so that he could focus all of his energy on his domestic racing efforts. This year he has entered a team of Plymouth 'Cudas in the SCCA Trans Am series. If he wins at Indy, he would like to go back...
...Leonard still holds the Indianapolis qualifying records. He set them back in 1968. This year he is the teammate of pole sitter, Al Unser. But he only managed to qualify in the slowest half of the field, in a car that was identical to Unser's. Then in carburation tests, Leonard came out of nowhere to run speeds two miles per hour faster with full tanks than he had managed ten days be with the car set up for qualifying. ?? just explained that the crew had go ?? some of the kinks out in the interver?? time. He was second fastest...
...many times rebuilt sion of one Dan Gurney's original Eagles, couldn't even make qualify ?? speeds. Then his crew started ma?? ?? chassis adjustments, and everyday ?? started to come together. He wou?? ?? in the middle of the first row, and st?? ??ticians figured that if he and pole ?? Al Unser had raced together, at the of the ten mile trial, Unser would ?? won by only two and a half feet. Rut??ford looked pretty happy for a man ?? had just lost $20,000 by two and a ???? was an impressive effort, and ?? one seems to be very pleased for ?? Still...
...Unser won the first race of the year ?? the Championship Trail, finished ?? in the second one, and led the ?? one until mechanical difficulties ?? him down. This month he's been ??astest man in practice, qualification and carburation tests, and always ?? wide margin. So far this has been ?? nser's year. There is no doubt that ??ser's machine holds up, he will win race. Many people pick him to win race, and Unser is confident about ?? chances. But Mario Andretti domied practice in much the same way in ?? and 1967, only to fall out early in race. The fact...