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Indy 500 Presents Interesting Clash Between Honda and Chevy
The Indy 500, coming up on Sunday, presents an interesting clash between engine-makers, Honda and Chevy. Honda was scorching-hot-in-heels in qualifying while Chevy wore the sensible shoes and was steady-fast in practice. Eight of the top nine qualifiers were powered by the Honda lump. It would be mighty tempting to jump on the bandwagon of…
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Pink Pig: The Porsche Racing Car that had a Sense of Humor
Even a racing car can have a sense of humor. A Porsche 917 racing car, the “Pink Pig,” proves the point. Porsche made it into a butcher’s diagram. Over the years, since the dawn of sponsorship making cars moving billboards, quite a few race cars have a wild paint jobs or crazy graphics. Some have…
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Remembering James Garner and the Fastest Soap Opera on Wheels, the 1966 Movie “Grand Prix”
My favorite James Garner role was that of Pete Aron, the American Formula One driver in the 1966 movie “Grand Prix.” His was a perfect, understated, cool and confident portrayal befitting a top driver in the deadly world of Formula One in the 1960s. Here is your spoiler alert, as if the same is needed…