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The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • Page 16

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SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1971 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR PAGE 16 SEC. 1 Lane Al Has Happy Rclui To Vidorj riw car was starting to heat up, Cumludcd From Page 1 I.J ftv itju' 1 AV MOB GREETS ALUNSER AS HE fKv I PULLS INTO VICTORY LANE fcv 1 and I'd probably have cooked the engine Hut when I came in for fuel, they chocked and took a piece of paper off the radiator." I'nser was very satisfied with the performance of the radio. "It worked fine all the way," he said. "It was a lot better for me to be able to ask i question than trying to communicate with hand signals. If I couldn't make out what they put on the pit board.

I could let them know and have them repeat It. If something happened on the track, I could let them know. "I found I had trouble talking in the turns. broke my concentration and I could make a little mistake. I wound up doing most of my talking on the straightaways.

"I REALLY didn't say much the last few laps. I was afraid to." Unser was pleased with the race he drove. "I don't think I made any mistakes all day," he said. "That's what you try to do. Usually, if you make a mistake here, it's a bad one." The next logical question was what he thought his chances are of becoming the Speedway's first three-in-a-row winner.

"I really don't know," said Unser. "I know the odds are awfully long on winning two straight. It's just hard to expect to get so much luck going your way two years in a row." But what the heck, how many guys can have the race run on their eral. Mark Donolme in particular) and hoping they would break." I'nser admitted that he and his crew were concerned with the McLarens and Donohue. "Sure they had us concerned," he said.

"There isn't one of us happy running behind somebqdy all month." But run behind Donohue, he and everybody else had to do before Mark's transmission gave out on the 67th lap. Unser said his tightest pinch came when Rick Muther and David Hobbs crashed on the front stretch on the 118th lap. "I thought I had had it then," said Unser. "I didn't know which way to go. I finally accelerated and came off the brakes and went down along the Inside wall.

If one of them had come off the other wall and across the track, I'd have been history. "There was smoke and stuff flying all over the place. In fact, I got hit on the helmet by a piece of metal. It rang on the inside for a while." JUST AFTER THAT accident, the one-way radio, which enabled Al to talk to his pit, paid its biggest dividend of the day. "I thought I'd picked up a piece of paper in my radiator," said Unser.

"So I called in before I stopped and told them I thought I'd picked up something. from it, helJ it up and smiled and then passed it around to his crew members. Lou Palmer from W1RC stuck the microphone in finally for the interview. Fy the time it finished Mrs. Mary (Mom) I'nser arrived, And mother bussed her son affectionately.

THEN AFTER the victor's tour of the track, he reported to the press room for the winner's interview to be greeted by a spirited, if not-particularly-harmon-1c rendition of "Happy Birthday" from the gathered voices of the press. Al Unser is a popular winner. He tries to answer questions as best he can. He says words that fall easily into quotation marks. But then he's had some experience of winner's interviews.

The logical first question was, "How does this compare with your first victory?" "Both are satisfying," said Unser. "I really don't know what to say. It's' such a thrill to win this race. The first time you lose all conception of where you are. "I just can't say one was better than the other.

They're both great. "This was definitely a tougher race. I didn't have the margin that I had last year. Then we thought we had a safety gap to work with. This time we didn't.

"I WAS RUNNING just as hard as I could all day and hoping to keep the pressure on them (the McLarens in gen Victory For Ecology Salem, Ore. (ITD-A last-ditch effort to stall a bill banning throwaway bottles and cans in Oregon was rejected Friday bv the State Senate. The Senate voted 18-12 to stand by its earlier vote in favor of the measure, which would ban non-returnable containers in the state starting Oct. 1, 1972. The bill was returned to the House, which passed it earlier in a slightly different form.

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