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Pagt 18 Grand Prix Stars Have Trouble Making 500 Andretti, of course, stole the ended. Johnny Boyd failed to 1 speed show for the secona mane uic jmcuy iU1 iun i A a in 19 vAarc pnH in a Kte deserve all the credit They did all the work." Across his crowded garage area he pointed to the six It wasn't Both Grant and Rindt one of the five rookies in the field, did make the lineup in second cars, however. vear in a row wnen uc aci mc new one-and four-lap records streak which had been the on opening day. His white longest of the active drivers. Dean Van Lines Special toured Jim Hurtubise, who was quali- the 214-mile track at an aver- fied only to be bumped from age speed of 169.779 mph and the field, was also on the made the 10-mile run in sidelines.

driving technique," Hill said. "Andy was a great help to me. The one word I remember he said that stuck was 'smoothness'." Hill and Stewart were just two fo the drivers who suffered through the last Sunday's frantic pace which saw five cars bumped from the field. In all, 10 cars lost their places when faster cars qualified. The number tied the record set in 1954.

ANDRETTI SETS NEW MARKS This year's field averaged 164.173 mph almost 4 mph faster than last year's 160.251. The speeds ranged from Mario Andretti's pole winnning 982. In all, 76 cars of the record 90 which started the month, left the starting line in attempts to qualify. Officially, 63 took the green flag. The tire war went to Firestone by its same slim margin of last year, 17-16.

Mario gave the perennial champs advertising room, but Goodyear, in its fourth year, had the next four spots with By LVLE MANNWEILER The fastest field in 500-Mile Race didn't come easy. In fact, for some it was Just plain difficult The frustrations of last year's winner, Graham Hill, are history now. He bounced back in a basically untested car to qualify after suffering through an agony-filled month. But six names, most of which are unfamiliar to 500-Mile Race fans, perhaps tell the most dramatic story of this year's 33-car starting field. don't deserve the credit," Jackie Stewart, last year's 500 rookie of the year, remarked after bouncing back on the final day of time trials to win a starting spot, "those guys most important men in his big day.

No. 1 was George Bignotti, chief mechanic on the white No. 1 Bowes Seal Fast Special Stewart drove at an average speed of 164.099 miles per hour to rank as the fastest of the five foreign drivers in this year's field. But Bignotti, who has been the man behind three previous 500 winners, including Hill's ride last year, had help in this story. Jim Chapman, DePrato, John Brunner, Steve Spencer and Mario Gladi all helped write the script CREW CHANGED ENGINE IN 4 HOURS 168.982 to Larry Dickson Twenty-five qualified the first Jerry Grant who along with- 1B2 543.

Georee nin0.Hav Dan Gurney, Gordon John- slow' teammate Jochen Rmdt were Too aay, selling a iw n(dio fmnt ur i zinnia hqu marie is A.J. royt ana joe Cameraman, Snider's v. "---o Goodyear's 16 aver bumped, best summed it up when he said, "We just settled 97 in -fit on the tmra aay. lcuhmu. speed of 162.521 of last year have been 34th this would aged 164.375 and Firestone's 17.

164.066. we felt for a speed which Many old favorites were missing when the time trials would be safe." year. Tony Hulman, owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, tries his hand at taking movies during a qualification session. The NEWS Photo. Leroy Patton.

afternoon, on his way to Europe for some Grand Prix tests, when he handed Bignotti a roll of bills and quipped, "Here, give this to the boys, they deserve it" Hill's story is almost as spine-tingling. All month long he'd been striving to break the 160-mph mark. His week before the final qualification days was his longest, he admitted. "I got to feeling it was not the car, but me," Hill said after qualifying at 163.317. "It was a most depressing feeling." His mount was also a new one.

He'd gone through three engines before he and Lotus team captain Colin Chapman! decided to try the backup car which had been designed to take the BRM engine which never showed. The new car proved much better, and after 20 practice laps, he was ready. GRANATELLI OFFERS ADVICE "We've never been around for the second weekend of qualifications before," Chap-man said, "so I didn't know what to do." Chapman's No. 1 driver, Jimmy Clark, has always qualified on the first day. "I went to Andy Granatelli (whose STP firm sponsors the Lotus team) and asked him what the procedure was." Granatelli could also take credit for getting Hill into the race.

Andy, whose STP It was Stewart's story. He was bumped from tne uneup on the last Saturday. He returned late In the afternoon in his backup car, only to be flagged off by his crew after rnvn ill ftnnA llTlfll Indiana Girls go three laps which averaged out to about 162.543. Cany your aiab uup lttlu "UH f.in "I think you did the right in for guys AFNB Charge Card is the only VhU area with Double- thing," Stewart told Bignotti later. Your one in But most fans doubted Protection against loss or theft.

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correct, Stewart's Ford V-8 racing engine "blew." Four hours later the young Scotsman was back onto the track. This time he qualified well enough to end all worries. In those 4 hours, Bignotti Turbine with Parnelli Jones had already qualified, took Hill aside Sunday and told him how to drive the 2 -mile track. and his boys had replaced the engine with a new one, an almost unheard of feat. Most crews predict it takes at least a day, and often times two, to change the Ford powerplant.

"I completely changed my "We knew it was physically possible," Stewart said. "We were worriea wnat me irac conditions would be by the time we were ready." He showed his appreciation as he rushed out the door that 500 LAST MAJOR SPORT TV HOLDOUT The 500-Mile Race re- 1 mains the largest and last sports holdout against live coverage by commercial television. Why keep a good thing like But that doesn't mean the cameras won't be present on Memorial day. All four local TV stations will have filmed and taped highlights of the race1 tomorrow night. And for the fourth year, MCA-TV will cover the race live in a 4-hour closed-circuit Lee-raeST Leens and Lee-PReST Leesuies theater TV program offered everywhere in the country except within a 200-mile radius of Indianapolis.

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Ir (Plans to send the show to F.urope via Early Bird were dropped this year.) On Indianapolis TV, the four stations have staggered their race recap shows so that fanatic could watch the ice in the vicinity. For on the botUeyJV m- Kessler can only claim Jf I "Smooth as But in the M'iMa glass it can prove it. Xl -4 fmsmmf filmed highlights for 2l2 hours following the race. The schedule is: p.m., WTTV black-and-white, with Chuck Marlowe. 9- 10 p.m., WFBM-TV black and white, with Tom Carnegie and Dave Piontek.

10- 10:30 p.m., WLW-I color with Charlie Brockman. p.m. WISH-TV color with Jim Wilson and Rodger Ward. The 500-Mile Race has been covered live on commercial TV only twice in its history 1949 and 1950. That was before the coaxial cable, and almost before TV in this area.

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