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MONDAY, MAY 15, 1972- TIIE INDIANAPOLIS STAR- PAGE 33 unmllifiynimg Tabic HE BUT iVffT OiV TltACK Bobby And His Eagle oar riusT now GARY BETTENHAUSEN No. 7 Sunoco McLAHIH TU.BOOFPY-O BOBBY UNSER No. I Olsonite AOLt TURBOOFFY-0 MARIO ANDRETTI No. Viceroy PARNILLI TURBO OFYF i at the tach, By ROBIN MILLER quick knew glance it was much to comprehend. It was truly one of the classic mo TIME SPEED TIME SPEED pretty good." SPEED pp it mi no Bobby Unser only made one slip yesterday and it ments (3 minutes and 3 seconds to be exact) in the history of racing or any other Ida nia TIME :47.68 :47.84 48.17 48.19 wasn't on the race track.

:47.S0 189.474 AIM 189.076 :47.68 188.758 :47.82 188.206 1 188.758 188.127 186.83S 186.761 45.76 196.678 t' :4S.8 196.1H -K. sport. Bobby, who had remained nearly emotionless throughout Unser got a wheel, or leg, off the speaking podium in "Peter Revson still has to qualify but if he doesn't break it I think it will stand up 'til next year," he said. THEN GURNEY was asked if he had used one of the two-way radios to talk with Bobby during the ride. "No, we didn't have time to put one in," answered Gurney.

And it's just as well, because Bobby probably wouldn't have believed what Dan was telling him anyway. the month despite being the the press room during an interview and almost got up TOTALS TOTALS 3:03.73 195.940 1 TOTALS 3:10.60 188.877 ilaS 8:1188 187.617 side down. "But maybe there could be just a little more," grinned the eldest of the famous brother duo from Albuquerque, N.M. "I DID make some mistakes though, "he said with a serious face. "I couldn't get four perfect, turns on any lap.

Three was the most and the car is set up for no mistakes." That's when the car owner Gurney had to tell Bobby not to be apologizing about it. Unser said his speed didn't really surprise him that much. "I thought on a perfect day, with no wind, kind of cool and on a clean track, I could go 196. I couldn't tell exactly how fast I was running but after a But he made a nice recov ery, sat back up and then GURNEY SAID he figures Bobby has run 30 laps over 190 this month and 15 of those went over 192. "Bobby has a great deal to do with the great speed he turned in," said Gurney, the former golden boy of auto racing.

"Our engine department played an important role as did Goodyear. It was really a pretty fair team effort I'd say. "Outside of one of us, I don't think we have any supermen on our team," chuckled Gurney. Unser, the 1968 Indianapolis winner, said he didn't think his record would stand very long. quickest of the quick, actually had a little look of "did I do that?" on his face when he 1 a out of his Olsonite Special.

And when asked for the time this May if he'd SDent the next 10 minutes ex SECOND HOW SAM POSEY No. 34 Norris EAGLE TURBO-OFFY plaining the unexplainable. JOE LEONARD No. 1 Samsonite PARNELLI TURBO-OFFV JOHN RUTHERFORD No. 18 Patrick BRABHAM TURBO-OFFY TIME SPEED ff i WHAT UNSER attempted to do was tell how he went 196 miles per hour, ho he in all TIME SPEED SPEED really let her all hang out, Bobby drawled, "Well I guess you could say I was running probability won the pole posi VflO'rT' Janitor Supplies Industrial Paper Towels and Toilet Tissue ROGER POPP, INC.

Ill N. NEW JERSEY ST. :48.71 184.767 184.578 on tne ragged edge Decause tion for the Indianapolis "500" more convincingly than anyone TIME 48.76 48.64 :48.79 49.06 :48.40 185.950 :48.43 185.835 there wasn't a whole lot left 183.449 183.374 182.815 183.299 49.06 :49.08 :49.23 :49.10 185.033 184.464 183.449 before him with at our-lap av out there. eraee of 195.940 and how he 48.82 184.351 totally demolished the track 1 record. TOTALS He did it with Dan Gurney's TOTALS 3:14.36 185.223 TOTALS 3.15.25 184.379 3:16.47 183.234 LI Eagle and one, extremely heavy right foot.

He did it in front of 150,000 disbelieving fans. 40 disbelieving drivers and one very proud mother. THIRD KOW LLOYD RUBY No. 5 Wynn's ATLANTA TURBO-FORD SWEDE SAVAGE No. 42 Michner Industries It wouldn't have been such ART POLLARD No.

40 STP Oil Treatment LOLA TURBO-FORD TIME SPEED a shock if he'd just have gone The latest craze on Muscle Beach is to show off your puffing strength with the new tasteless cigarettes. Now everybody will be showing off their strength by puffing the new tasteless cigarettes EAGLK TURBO-OFFY out between the rain and wind TIME SPEED and qualified at 190 or 191, BUT THREE laps at 196 and one circuit at 194 are just too SPEED 181.745 182.149 181.818 181.196 TIME 49.52 :49.41 :49.50 :49.67 49.85 :49.26 :49.19 :49.91 180.542 182.704 182.964 180.325 :49.80 49.56 :49.55 :49.52 180.723 181.561 181.635 181.745 TOTALS 18.21 181.626 TOTALS 3:18.44 181.415 TOTALS 3:18.10 181.726 Fast Sam Does A Lot Of Talking Sam Posey spent a good FOURTH ROW JOHN MARTIN No. 89 Unsponsored BRABHAM TURBO-OFFY JIM HURTUBISE No. 56 Miller High Life COYOTE TURBO-FORD WALLY DALLENBACH No. 10 Gilmore Racing EAOLI TURBO-OFFY 0 deal of time on the telephone vesterdav receiving some "well dones" from friends, TIME SPEED TIME SPEED spreading some of his exhuber- 179.497 17Q 78J ence to his motner ana gin friend and just doing what he SPEED 178.891 178.042 178.288 178.465 TIME :50.31 50.55 :50.48 50.43 50.14 50.06 50.16 :50.07 likes talking.

179.426 1 179.748 Posey had good reason to be 49.82 180.650 49.57 181.561 180.905 49.70 181.087 TOTALS 3.18.84 181.050 rosey because ne naa jusi completed phase one of nis See, vji, 4f TOTALS Indianapolis Motor Speedway TOTALS 3:21.77 178.421 3.20.43 179.614 goals. POSEY qualified for his first 500 yesterday at 184.379. It put OF SPEEIt him in the middle of the second row for the immediate future and also made him the fastest rookie for the time being. Since there are still five Simple Design Proof Unser 's Car Is Best drivers who were in the origi rT kw hfJ ffit nal "pole line" on Saturday, Posey's final position won't be established until next weekend. But one thing was estab lished Posey showed a lot of people be was a pretty darned complicated design, because you can't make minor By GEORGE MOORE There is an adage in rac things they are supposed to do, the Eagle and McLaren cars have tended to mind their manners when work was good racer after all.

changes without getting into a situation where you make mg, "The best design is the simplest design." And there is no better way to prove it done on them. a whole series of changes." "At this point 1 must say I do feel rather happy about the A complicated car is some Small changes could be made to correct specific conditions than by running laps like 196.678 miles an hour at the whole thing," said the loquacious 28-year-old from Capis- thing like a row of dominoes When one falls, they all fall Speedway. trano, Calif. which might have bee troubling the driver. everybody.

And then you nave to go down the whole row to try "I'm a little tired but I feel much better than I did Sat A racing chassis is a touchy Bobby Unser set the speed fraternity on its respective ear yesterday by going faster than and find what is wrong. thing at best, and it doesn' urday." take too much jacking around anyone in the history of the Unlike some teams which to lose the combination. track. It was a fitting climax On the opening day of time trials, Sam spun his new Nor have been struggling all month to a practice period in which An 111 -handling car will to make their new and rather either push the front end out he was by far and away the man to catch or beat if you ris Eagle in the first turn. But yesterday was a new story and Sam continues the complex machines do the telling.

can. Bobby, with his No. 6 Ol wards due to the rear end getting a better bite. Or the front end will "stick" and the rear end break away to give the machine that dirt track I really couldn't let down completely or couldn't keep sonite Eagle Offy unquestionably is a driver of tremendous effect. built up to qualify because of the constant on and off of the Virtually everybody now is ram.

working with the semi-mo noco- I've got a good machine, a que configuration in which the tub (body) stops behind the good crew and we're in pretty good shape," said the man driver, and struts which anchor who got his start in sports to the engine and transmission cars. constitute the rear segment of the car. POSEY hasn't had as much The Eagle and McLaren success at Indy as he has in cars take these basics and in his various road course ven corporate some straightup sus tures. Qualifying List For Saturday QUALIFYING ORDER 15 Steve Krisiloff 23 Mel Kenyon 66 Mark Donohue 58 Jerry Karl 12 Peter Revson SECOND-DAY QUALIFIERS 2-A. J.

Foyt 14 Roger McCluskey 33 Bud Tingelstad 99 Bob Harkey 4 AI Unser 19 Larry Dickson 43 AI Loquesto 84 No Driver 44 Dick Simon 52 Sam Sessions 24 Gordon Johncock 72 Mike Hiss 95-Carl Williams 21 Cale Yarborough 38 Rick Muther 11 Jimmy Caruthcrs 31 John Mahler pension system concepts. The In 1969 he came to Indian wings are up in the air where thev can do some work. And apolis and was requested to get more experience. In '70 he spun out while trying to qualify and last May he was given an engine which will put out the power, the machines just plain fly. talent.

His speed act is an excellent illustration of what can be done when given the tools with which to work. It is the consensus of the garage area that there are two makes of racing cars which have an edge over the rest of the field. One is the Eagle bulit by Dan Gurney's AIl-American Racers. The other Is the English-built McLaren, the product of McLaren Cars, Ltd. They git one-two in the starting arrangement, with Gary Bettenhausen being behind Bobby with a 188.877 mph speed with the No.

7 Sunoco McLaren-Offy. These cars are "king of the hill" due to several factors, but an important one is a thing called simplicity. The Eagle is a relatively fundamental car. It utilizes a minimum of gimmicks, and its design concept is not really new from the sense of creating an entirely different machine. "It's a matter of an evolutionary sort of approach." Gurney said yesterday.

We want to keep away from a bumped from the field. The simplicity even is car "Sometimes circumstances ried out to the four-speed trans. prevent you from showing mission on Bobby's car. Man what yon can do, "reflected ufactured by Pete Weismann Posey. "Let's face It, I came here the first few times with it weighs but 115 pounds by virtue of not using a lot of un bad rides and humiliated necessary components.

I aMarfy. UiiiiMP t- "The way yon make a light "They talk about drivers' weight, strong gearbox," ability and all that but when Weismann said, "is to make it comes right down to it there isn that much difference be it big In section and thin. This gives you strength by area." Collrgc Bast-bull FIRST filMi tween us. It's the equipment. In the Weismann transmis And don't get me wrong.

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McCana, Burton (s) an ollln. Brook! carding heavy roller bearings and replacing them with light 111. MR Ban stafa, Rofcir SECOND GAMC but strong needle bearings. In turn in awfully brilliant performances like Bobby did. I never considered myself a rookie when I came here be Ball Slala 137 4 1 it 1 Indiana Slat 120 000 1 4 4 addition, high tensile strength i P' unrsirm an BiacMltr.

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start. BiocMttf, Barry. All these facets are inte Unerowded field SCHOOLS OF LOCKSMITHING INC. Mtn, Womtnl Day md Evenlns Classti 432-3979 W3t PROSPECT "Now I hope some peo- grated in making a basic type Soccer Results of racing machine. will realize that I am bocrn-ing more accomplished." Roger Penske's McLaren, of Indianatolll 0, Katrint.

Onit, 0. Sam is the first one to admit that he still has plenty to I learn. REMODELING course, follows the same concept. The silhouette is low and flat comparable to an Eagle, and all the component design features are extenuations of past design approaches. I don't think I'll win this race this year, predicts the friendly young man, "but some The simpler thev are the day better they are," Penske said.

ROOM ADDITIONS INTERIOR REMODELING REPAIR WORK ANY KIND ROOF GUTTERS TERMS And it will be a great inter When you build a new car, view when he does. ROBIN there are just so many things MILLER you must do." If yesterday's activities are ALC0 BUILDERS 2305 I. 251 Michigan 5835 Fine sports equipment is any indication, whatever Gurney and Penske are doing ob listed daily in I a I I d. 70 mg. nicotine av.

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