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TliL INDIAN OLI ST Ail TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1' over I'-nyy I umts Sports Editor L'ELLOW AMERICANS. irS TIME we rekindled the I Spirit of '76 And this should give us plenty of time L- in organize because it might be at least 1976 before v. pet our race back. r.uphly the length of time it may take to decide 16 Race. Somebody already has comnarH I 1 fr tt to an airmail chess tournament.

It mav be vears before 0" rbodv km who won. out unhurt, and later said he ipped in the oil rdt turbo-charged retaining woll with his right rear tire. The machine then ground into the concrete on its right side and sheared off the two right tide wheels. Boyd climbed dropped by Jm Hurtubise's Gerha JOHNNY LOSES IT Johnny Boyd, driving the Pres-tone reor engine Ford, lost control in the southwest turn ot the Speedway yesterday right offer the start and crashed into the wall. Boyd slid high and hit the Offy.

(Star Photos by Loyd Masmg) Clark's Owner Demands Proof at the Chapman Charges Extra Lap Awarded To Hill Drivers At 500 Finish Unhappy, Bewildered i i wauling By PAUL DEAN Lotus breeder Colin Chapman said last night he is ready to protest the me tell you, things like that do nothing for a driver's frame of mind. By MARIO ANDRETTI IMS USAC DRIVING CHAMPION Some days the only place the world. So many litfleJ things can happen. I never, never like to talk optimistic. A fellow who does in this decision that saw his team snubbed in Victory Lane But they lined us up single to stay is in bed with the and booted into second file for the restart, with me just watch for lights, pit signals and flags." From a front row center seat in the STP pit it was obvious the Chapman-Granatelli team thought they had the race all buttoned up.

The 173d lap positioning of Britishers Stewart, Clark and Hill running 1-2-3, had Chapman laughing at a team pun that next year there would be a prize for the first American citizen to finish in the 500. covers up over your head. place at the 500-Mile business is just setting himself up for a disappointment. Something always goes bad in front. And I have to admit Graham Hill won almost Race.

enough money to finance the I was thinking that things were looking beautiful for me. when you least expect it. And Chapman, along with queen in the 500-Mile Race Sure, I feel bad. But I'll get yesterday. I cer After all, I had been running faster than anyone all month over it in iuu years or so.

Since 1911, there have been more than a few crashes at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. But, yesterday, they were shooting for an exciting first a collision in Victory Lane For a while It looked like there were going to be more cars in the winner's circle than were left running on the track. Twice the previous 49 sears of the 500-Mi'e Race co-winners shared the glory of victory. But never before have the co-winners been driving separate cars. But relax.

Americans. All is not lost at least we have them fighting among themselves. l.ng'.ishman Graham Hill, a splendid race driver, look the checkered flag and headed for the spot where the fellow who wm is supposed to drink milk (for profit), kiss a pretty rl and dream about money. Right behind him came Scotsman Jimmy Clark, the defending champion. Clark, who had Just negotiated 80S turns the extra two he threw in, himself, in the middle of the race track was heading for the same spot.

But there weren't that many kisses to go around. Thus, we have what our Allies with the David Niven accents would call a sticky-wicket. Hill thinks he won. Colin Chapman, the designer who revolutionized the 500-Mile Race, is positive Clark won his second straight championship. Actually, both Hill and Clark should have been conducting their harsh words at 50 paces over who finished third.

Lloyd Ruby, a Texan (and that certainly seems to fit into this mess), had a lock on it until he won some sort of prize for being the first leader to get black flagged off the track. Then Jackie Stewart, another member of the fast-moving "blimey" set, took charge and was racing toward a small lortune until his car lost its oil pressure just 25 miles from home. Along about here you should be getting the notioa that the 50th 500-Mile Race hardly was what could be called a real sanitary operation. Congratulations. It was a fouled up deal from start to finish.

A wild, frightening crash took 11 can from the field before the leaders reached the second turn. Nobody was injured. So at least we can be thankful for something. Perhaps we can use the old rationale that it was nobody's fault just the fault of the situation. In that case, we should take a long, careful look at the situation.

Like, for example: 1 The tradition of lining up the cars in 11 rows, three abreast is downright dangerous. Two nasty crashes In three years should give somebody the idea that, perhaps, there ain't enough room on the race track for today'i high powered cars to charge into that first turn in rows of three. A line two abreast or even single file such as the way they lined up when the race was restarted would be much safer. It could be just as exciting. And, what the heck, nobody yet has won the race on the first lap, although a few determined numbskulls keep trying.

It should be mandatory that a man with 500-Mile Race "experience drive the pace car. Benson Ford, vice-president of the Ford Motor Company, wis neither better nor worse than tome of his predecessors. However, he has a common bond with all of them. They should be given a nice introduction and a good seat for the race. The men who are risking their lives In the chase around the track need to be paced not led.

Words cannot describe the tension that must pulse through them as they move toward the green flag. Til agree to anybody Sam Hanks, a former winner who is the director of racing or any old pro just as long as he has been on the race track before. The start should be fast enough to give everybody a fight- ing chance. The theory that a nice, slow start makes for a clean opening has been demolished in the last three years. Biggest complaint from the drivers after yesterday's travesty was that the pace laps were too slow.

Those cars are built for speed. Andy Granatelli, president of Lotus sponsors, the STP Division of Studebaker Corporation announced they will be and the car had been working perfectly. I was a cinch to lead into the first turn and after that I certainly was But I also hurt for a lot of other drivers, like Lloyd Ruby, -who looked like he was on the way to the jackpot until tainly hope he can find it in his heart to donate a little plasma. For me I'm sitting here Chapman was clocking each in the office of Chief Steward Harlan Fengler at 8 a.m. today to ask for official lap scores and times of this year's race.

willing to take my chances. quietly bleeding trouble hit, and all the guys who didn't even make it into the first turn after a month of preparation. lap with two stop watches, but relying on signals from his own clock watcher, Cyril Aubrey. Aubrey, a bespectacled British timekeeper officially certified by the Federation In to death. tt i ahen.

However, as a columnist, I lijtely no con- ternationale Automobile (gov solation, but, if Ail FINALLY, they dropped the green flag and I pushed down on the throttle. It was just like putting my foot into a tub of Jello. Jimmy Clark went past me like I was standing still. You talk about surprises. I felt like General Custer standing there counting Indians.

can be proud ot one tning. Please remember I wrote that guys like Graham and Jackie misery loves company, I should have no erning body of international motor racing) has timed Chapman races around the world. trouble finding a crowd. There LONG WAIT Jimmy Clark, 1965 race winner end yesterday's runnerup, relaxes in the pits while workers cleor the track after the big first lap pileup. Clark's face is partially-covered for protection.

(Star Photo) According to Aubrey's are a lot of unhappy and bewildered drivers here after watches, on the 175th lap, Stewart was running 62 sec The rear end of the car one of the most scary and un onds ahead of Clark with Hill was smoking like a brick fac predictable 500-mile races 58 seconds behind Clark. By ever run. lap 189, a mishandling racer tory. So I made a quick stop to change plugs. We were praying that it was a small "If they won't let us see them, then we'll protest the result," said Chapman.

"We feel the official timekeeper has given Graham (winner Hill) an extra lap. There is no way Hill could have got ahead of us." THE FIERCELY disputed decision apparently occured around the 180th lap, with 50 miles and some 15-minutes to travel. At that time the scoring tower had car 43 (Stewart) in first piace with car 19 (Jimmy Clark) second, and car 24 (Graham Hill) filling third spot Stewart went out with zero oil pressure. The next signal on the tower had Hill leading with Clark second. And that's the way it stayed, with Hill taking the checkered flag.

My day started lousy and "I saw those light changes," i had shaved Clark's edge on never improved a bit A heli Hill to 35 seconds. copter was supposed to pick With ten laps remaining, Stewart deadsticked into the said Chapman. "Suddenly Hill had come up from third to first as he would have done had the officials given him an extra lap." problem. But as I got back out, I knew for sure it was a valve. From that moment, there was no way Andretti me up at the airport and fly me to the Speedway.

The heli pits. "Where's scream copter was strictly no show. could win this race. Stewart had the stuff to win this race. Young Jackie looked like he was home free until the doggoned machine went to pieces on his 191st lap.

Man, how can I talk about my problems when another fellow has that kind of luck, HILL, ALTHOUGH rela- tively unknown here, has been one of the world's race drivers for years. He'jl make a great champion. And, come to think of it, it was a bad day for us Amer-! icans. At one time late in the race, Scotsman Stewart.J Englishman Hill and Scots- man Clark, the defending! champion, were running That Clark has to be some- thing else. He spun twice but' kept that car on the track; and finished second.

Chapman, Granatelli and So Jim McGee, my assistant chief mechanic, raced through ed Granatelli. "We're leading, I was out of the show and we're leading!" it barely had begun. We prob the STP team were so convinced of a win that they the heavy traffic to pick me The burly oil executive hugged chief Lotus mechanic up on a Honda motorcycle, sprinted along the track apron ably could have got it running a while longer but racing is risky enough without a guy to greet Clark In victory lane. We went back through the traffic like Laurel and Hardy. Dave Lazenby and danced But before he couid puu in, jig around the pit area.

Chap taking foolish chances. Then there was that wild Hill was already there. He mixup on the first lap 11 was out of his car, broadcast RACING HAS to be the most unpredictable sport in cars out in one big thud. Let man leaped on top of his pit desk, waving a battered felt cap around his head shouting, "We've won, we've won, lads!" ing to the crowd, receiving the Borg-Warner trophy and his victory kiss and laurel wreath from the 500 Festival Lotus pit signals had Clark in Queen. oW1 STANDINGS Chapman jogtrotted back to 23 seconds up on Hill by lap 196, 21 seconds on lap 197, and 19 seconds on the 198th lap.

the timing tower and found Fengler. "I'm sorry, Mr. Chapman. Chapman was dumbfounded when the track announcer said Fengler, "you can only see PACIFIC COAST UACUI ASTERN DIVISION began heralding Hill's win. the tapes or write an official protest in my office at 8 a.m.

Pet. St. But last night, the verdict TvlMI stood. Hill and the Mecom tomorrow. This is part of the INDIANAPOLIS SS3 2inl Loan SAVES YOU MONEY Mnil It rules." team were toasting each other 4 1 7 Sa Dteee ln a Gasoline Alley press Ml with champagne and martinis.

mr 1 OHIanama City conference immediately follow- Chapman and Granatelli were WfSTERN DIVISION d. es. scowling empty-handed in the 500. Chapman said he saw the race this way: Sean i Garage No. 50.

rrlooa II .5:4 "On Clark's first pit stop "Maybe both the official Hawaii I' 1) .4" 1 times and ours will add laakana .441 I Taxema Si Vaacavver It 4 (for fuel) he was a lap ahead of Hill," he said. "We reentered still ahead of Hill then Vfe. Mt up," said Chapman. "In which case we're second. If there's been a slip up, then we're first.

NATIONAL LEAOUI Pel. I San Froncisca 14 44 made a second pit stop (to check tire damage following a Ln Anaeles II .51 Frankly I wouldn't blame the spin) and went out still 20 officials with all that goes on P.rt6t 14 It 4 HwmlM KM SS4 4 Philaetlptea JU 4 Cincinnati If .4.7 1 iney cant snnt gears like the road racers. A couple of slow laps can turn fuel mixtures and carburetion into a nice, thick, unworkable soup. There is reason to believe that the unavoidably slow restart cost national driving champion Mario Andretti the race. But you can go back, year by year, and find other examples of cars that were all the way out of it after creepy pace laps.

You can argue that such problems are the fault of the crews for filling the tanks with those exotic fuel mixtures. But they pour in that Junk to make the cars go fast. And It Is the promise of speed that draws the crowd. If the Speedway wants to slow It down, then I say bring back Ray Harroun. We can give the crowds a real museum show.

Tony Hulman and the United States Auto Club have worked hard to make he "500" as safe as any race possibly can be. And I am sure that some good men are groping, right now, for new answers. We all are the same. We like to duck bad news. So now is the time to do some thinking.

Next year it could be worse. seconds ahead of Hill. From at this track." that moment, on the road, we MARIO IN TROUBLE Mario Andretti, pole position record holder in yesterday's 500-Mile Race and national driving champion, throws up his hands in despair. Andretti was forced out after 27 laps by engine trouble. (AP Photo) St.

Letts It 74 AMente 14 4 were still running faster." NM Ytr li II .417 fl Oca II JSl 11 BUT THAT WASNT the AMERICAN LEAGUE PCL Linescores Denver 000 000 OOO-l 4 Spokont 000 000 000-0 4 CI Pet. view of George Bignotti, chief mechanic for Hill and the Mecom Racing Team which CtoMlaM 17 14 altiman 17 -US 1 Ollem ana Henry; Singer and Voile. DctrWI 17 CIHwW 't also provided British-built W-OHem (4-0). L-Singer (4-1). San Diego 000 000 111- 7 Tocoma 300 OM 00- I MmWHH .54 41 Lola-Fords for Jackie Stewart ChieoM It .417 7 Booier, Wilson (1), Rldiik.

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Artendonce-1 MS. Seattle 000 1 103-11 15 Tulsa 000 000 002- 2 5 Cootes end Camponis; Carlton, Aust (5), Cosman (I), GHson l), ono Kick- arts. W-Coatei (S-3). L-Cortton (4-2) Any Make 'AGGIE lT7.ZI,i:i ParnelWs Fuel Nozzle Clogged Homo funa-Saom. Oatoy (2), Tor "Yes, Hill won decidedly." said Bignotti "Clark was behind Jackie (Stewart) but he never lapped Graham Hill.

"Jackie made a pit stop to get new goggles and Hill passed him. Then Jackie went back out, made up the time, passed Hill, passed Clark and then lapped him, but never Hill. "IF STEWART HAD lapped Hill then I'd think there could possibly have been an error," the former A. J. Foyt mechanic added.

Neither driver involved could offer a decision. "As far as I know, I won," said Hill. "I dunno," said Clark. "I res (9). FIRST CAME oortland 000 010 0-1 4 000 000 S-4 Yesterday's Results PACIFIC COAST LEAOUB INDIANAPOLIS PlManlx 4 Okietonta City S.

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PtiiMtftiptoa 7 1, Ntw Yart 51. I ai Anatlat 1. Atlanta 4. San Froncitca Cincinnati 4. SI.

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Battery shavers not included at this price. "The long delay filling both tanks caused the car to boil over while it was sitting there. The engine over heated and we lost a lot of water," Agajanian stated. "Nothing was in the nozzle when we got it, It was checked and put on the hose the day before yesterday and checked again last night "The rag wedged in and we can't get it out We'll have to take the nozzle apart to get it out," Agajanian said. "As far as I'm concerned It's pretty well history now.

There's no protest to make. We can't accuse anyone. We just don't know how it got there," be concluded. The rag clogging the nozzle on one of the fueling hoses for Parnelli Jones' Agajanian REV 500 car yesterday cost the 1963 race winner valuable seconds in the pits when he made his first refueling stop. "I can't say that it was sabotage, but we certainly did not buy that nozzle with a rag in it," a perplexed J.

C. Agajanian stated in his stable's garage after the race. The clogged nozzle meant that both tanks on the car had to be filled from one hose in the one minute nine seconds pit stop, Jones' only scheduled stop of the day. Bearing failure on the left front wheel forced him from the race after S7 laps. Prospector Jack Says SAVE '66 DEMO SALE BIG SELECTION OF Models Styles Options Drive South i Sm With Jack Dm MEW Soorti at Tuna miami.

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