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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record-breaking clip by Lee Wallard in his black and gold Belanger Special for the first 100 miles (130.625 m.p.h.), the souped-up speedsters soon began to fall by the wayside. One of the first to make a repair stop (after only five laps) was favored Duke Nalon in his eight-cylinder, front-drive, supercharged Novi, the sleek white car that set a new qualifying record of 136.498 m.p.h. Nalon's trouble: fouled-up fuel injection nozzles, used instead of the standard downdraft carburetor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Memorial Day Winner | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

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