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This year's practice and qualifications have been dominated by Al Unser, the youngest brother of the 1968 winner. Unser broke his leg in a motorcycle accident last spring, and missed Indy, and many of the following races on the USAC championship trail. He won several races late in the season, and finally finished second to 500 winner Mario Andretti in the National Championship. His car, owned by the 1963 500 winner Parnelli Jones, has been the fastest car at the track all this month. His four-lap, pole winning average of 170.221 was not quite fast enough to eclipse...
...Bobby Unser won at Indianapolis in 1968 after Joe Leonard's turbine failed with about twenty miles to go. He won the national championship that year. Last year he was third in the 500, and in the championship. He doesn't have the look if a winner this year, but a high finish is quite likely...
...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...