Word: volpini
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...their cars up to within a few m.p.h. of Grand Prix racers themselves on some tracks. At Salerno, Italy last month, a 27-year-old Belgian businessman, George Saveniers, ran off a curve in a Cooper, killed himself and a spectator and injured 19 others. Italy's Gianpaolo Volpini, builder of one of the hottest Formula Junior cars, says bluntly that drivers are courting suicide when they push the car beyond its theoretical limit of no m.p.h. And the Federation Franfaise des Sports had some words of misgiving: "Formula Junior cars were meant to be something between glorified...
...Duke walked slowly down to the patch of graves. He looked at the letters the soldiers were chiseling: Volpini, a friend. The Duke took off his hat and bowed his head...
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