magazine called "Sports Car Graphic", and thought some of you might enjoy
the first part of the article on the 1966 Indy 500.
The same issue covers the 1966 Monaco GP, and mentions that only four cars
finished that year.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- USAC's ANSWER TO THE FOREIGN AID PROGRAM. BY JACK BRADY WHEN ROGER McCLUSKEY AMBLED UP TO THE MICROPHONE TO ACCEPT PRIZE MONEY and A few minutes later, that master raconteur, Graham Hill, chief recipient of Not more than two steps behind him was Jim Clark, with his modest Over a quarter of a million dollars was to be divided among the three. All The point, simply, is this -- the universal race car, applicable to oval If further evidence is necessary, the same quad-cam Ford that powered winner The Eagle project draws its support from some of the giants in the
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remuneration for his 13th-place finish in the 50th Anniversary running of
the Indianapolis 500-Mile Classic, his predecessors had thanked their
mechanics, owners, sponsors, wives, and even their mothers for allowing them
to be a part of racing's premier event.' McCluskey simply turned to Speedway
owner Anton Hulman and quietly thanked him "for holding this annual Foreign
Aid banquet," took his $13,123, and sat down.
this, year's quota of USAC's Foreign Aid, and one of the more ribald public
speakers of our time, came to the podium. Hill left a great many of the
$10-a-plate banqueters feeling as if one of the last bastions of Midwest
solidarity had been breached. Not only had his humor left them wondering if
they had heard what they thought they heard, but he was leaving that green
and rolling country with $156,297 worth of something they held in some
regard; money!
second-place $76,992. Just a wee bit further down the placings another
adroit Scot, Jackie Stewart, stuffing the remains of his $25,767 sixthplace
reward in a large Royal Stuart tartan sporan.
had led the race and, even though Stewart destroyed an engine in the 192nd
lap while leading, and Clark had a beastly fight with an illhandling machine
for the entire race, they still left with the lion's share (British Lion, th
at is) of the boodle.
tracks and road circuits is here! It wasn't legislated into existence by
associations or personal interests; it is the natural product of tough
competition. The universal nature of the thing isn't even open to discussion
anymore. The entire front row of qualifying machines and the first three
finishers in the race were designed or produced in England, with engines by
Ford in the United States, and with drivers from such unlikely places as
Trieste and Arlington, Texas.
Graham Hill's Lola is now under intensive redevelopment in the shops of
Bruce McLaren for inclusion in his 1966 Formula I entry. You might even draw
the conclusion that designer Eric Broadley is using the Indianapolis
machines as prototypes for Formula 1. All American Racers has done this with
the Terry-designed Eagle. Made from the same patterns, but of lighter
material, the Gurney Formula I Eagle is truly the universal race car. Rest
assured that refinements picked up during the month of May will find their
way to the Formula I machine.
automotive industry who, we have been told, are even big enough to absorb
the kind of punishment that dealt out better than a third of the field
during the first lap of the 500-miler this year.