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i THE NEWS WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1986 PAGE 34 i ti 1 (A fed The News Photo, Jim Young a rare moment together near Gasoline Alley at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Alec and Sue Greaves share belonged to the Sports Car Club of America and Wanda hauled Sue along to the races. Sue soon was timing cars at Indianapolis Raceway Park and then began attending races out of town. Alec learned his racing in Europe with the Brabham and McLaren teams. He worked for Dan Gurney and was Peter Rev-son's chief mechanic at Indianapolis in 1973.

The two came together in an unusual way. Sue went with her sister to the Road America track in Elkhart Lake. for a Can-Am race in the late 1960s. She was 19 and engaged to be married in five weeks. Wanda arranged an evening at a restaurant and invited Alec to be Sue's dinner date.

Sue had so much fun that she called off Sue Greaves times for the Hemelgarn team. said Sue, who attended Indiana University for 2 lh years. But their talk never gets down to the specifics of problems their own teams have encountered. "Once they (Cotter team) were having a CV (constant-velocity joint) problem." she recalled. "'I ask him what the problem was and he said, 'I can't tell you." Alec says the great thing about having a wife in the same business is that she understands the long hours he must put in.

"Up to this race, the last time I had a day off was six weeks ago." said Alec before the Phoenix race last month. "The house Is falling down around us." "We get along better because I understand the inside of racing," confirmed Sue. When Alec and Sue do have time together away from the track, they enjoy roller skating, dogs and cross-country skiing. He has built a quarter-midget race car for their son. Alec says someday they w6uld enjoy working for the same if it doesn't happen it won't upset either of them.

"She's her own boss and so am he said. YOUR BATHTUB cdMPumr YOUR C3 unuc I MiilMtiM tunt I UtitaM MtMtr mbto nvmt MAGIC TUB 906 N. Bosart 359-6679 SUMMER CLEARANCE 50 -75 OFF mzgw '0 Alec Greaves is tire man for the Cotter team. May finds them home in Carmel, but busy at track By DICK MITTMAN The Indianapolis News When Alec and Sue Greaves of Carmel leave for work, they're unlike most other couples. 1 During the auto racing season, she flies to such faraway spots as Phoenix.

Long Beach. Miami. Montreal and the Mead-owlands in New Jersey. Alec takes another commercial plane to the same places. For the racing weekend she lives in one hotel, he in another.

They don't even have dinner together. They kiss hello in the pits in the morning, goodby at night. Alec works as a fabricator and tire man for Cotter Racing, while Sue is secretary and team scorer for Hemelgarn Racing. Fortunately, both teams are based in Indianapolis, so Alec and Sue do get to share the family abode during May. But not team secrets.

That's a definite no-no. Both admit their non-racing friends think they live a crazy life. "She's been in racing all her life," explained Alec, a native of England. "I have, too. Nobody can believe what goes on.

It's the way our marriage is." Sue, a 1968 Lawrence Central High School graduate, laughs at the curious comments of acquaintances. "People think we are strange." she said. "We've been married 14 years, so it seems to be working. "We have this mutual love for racing. He was the first to tell jne to find a job with another team." When she was 14, Sue was introduced to racing by her sister Wanda.

Her brother-in-law Popular I Everything was going along too smoothly for tonight's Last Row Party at the Indianapolis JPress Club, a standing room only Jevent for several years. Gerry LaFollette and David Mannweiler both shook their Jieads about last-minute changes in the lineup for Sunday's 500-Mile Race. Mario Andretti will fctart the race in 33rd position in his backup car after crashing the vehicle he qualified for the Second row. When Mannweiler, LaFollette and Art Harris, staff members at jThe News and founders of the fvent, visited the Indianapolis Motor Speedway last Sunday, the last row consisted of Johnny farsons. Gary Bettenhausen and George Snider.

I "I just knew everything was" going too smoothly." Mannweiler said of party plans. With Andretti's change of cars, qualified drivers behind moved up one notch each and the 1969 winner took the iast spot in the last row making it his third time to start the "race from the 11th row. Bettenhausen also is in the tlast row for the third time. Sandwiches named for the new Last Row Society inductees twill be served at 7 p.m. "Miller" Jime is scheduled at 8 when Robin Miller, assistant sports editor at The Star, takes over as elected master of ceremonies for life.

Gray sport jackets with Last Row patches, gifts from American Fletcher National Bank, will be presented to the three drivers Iby Walter Kirkwood. an AFNB president, along with checks for 31. 32 and 33 cents. -I T-shirts with their caricatures will be given to the drivers. -Shirts remaining after the party 'will be available at, the club, in Their son Peter, now 12.

was born across the sea. While Sue: was in the latter stages of preg-nacy. Alec was in California at -the Ontario 500 handling the tools on Revson's McLaren. "Daddy thought for years that we named Peter after Revson." said Sue. "Actually, he was named after him." The son stays with Sue's mother or sister when they head out on the racing road.

Their black Labrador retriever named Chassis naturally goes to a kennel. Alec had the day off May 11. so he and Peter watched track action from the Cotter suite, while Sue spent Mother's Day on the job. Sue has worked for the Cotter team and last year was a member of the Arciero team. When "It was unveiled like a painting.

AH flags were flying," commented the host. The celebrated vehicle, a replica of a 1936 540K Mercedes Benz that George and B.J. Maley had built, resembles one Schaler saw in 1950 as a boy in New York. "I looked up at the lady who owned the car and she gave me about a five-block ride," Schaler said. "About a year ago, I visited -a baroness in Switzerland who still owns that automobile Spring Carpet she applied to Hemelgarn team manager Lee Kunzman for a tinv ing job last winter, she wound up as weekend timer and weekday secretary.

The Hemelgarn drivers are Scott Brayton and Jacques Ville-neuve. Alec moved to the Cotter team, which includes driver Roberto Guerrero, two years ago. Car owner Dan Cotter is president of True Value Hardware. "You couldn't be with a nicer guy." said Alec. "As long as the driver isn't hurt, whatever happens doesn't matter.

He feels you can rebuild race cars." Of course, when they see each other during May. the Greaves discuss things that have happened at the track. "We share rumors at night." which the Maleys had tried for years to purchase. "Tired of waiting, my friends had the replica built." he said. Schaler's guests were escorted through the seven-level house by Robert C.

Braun, first president of the Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana. "It's the house that Persian nut sundaes built." said Schaler. noting the Craigs operated Craig Candy 4 E. Washington St. "That sundae was always the first thing servicemen wanted when they returned home." Cleaning Sale! party honors drivers in last row the wedding when she got back home.

"My father said it was okay," she said with a twinkling smile. "Mother was not so happy. The invitations were addressed, but hadn't been mailed." When Sue and Alec eventually became engaged, he gave her a saddle for her horse as a present. They were married after the 1972 Can-Am season. "She told me after we were married that she had broken her engagement." said Alec.

"We went together on and off about five years. I was here and in England. We decided to get married and honeymooned in Detroit." The actual wedding date was Nov. 11, 1972. One month later the Greaves left for England, where they lived 2 Vi years.

Honored guest will be Parnelli Jones, driver-turned-businessman who sat on the front row in 1962 and 1963 and won in 63. Paul Page. "Voice of the 500." will be master of ceremonies. For dessert, pastry chef Jose Mula has prepared a sugar replica of the Borg-Warner trophy that will be the centerpiece of a detailed race track cake. Back home again Florence Henderson, a native of Dale, will be back home again in Indiana this weekend for 500-Mile Race activities.

She will appear Friday with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra at the Queen's Ball in the Convention Center. Ned Bat-tista, Houston, will be guest conductor. The singerentertainer will perform when the orchestra plays for dancing after the 9 p.m. ceremony presenting Queen Wendy Diane Barth, her court, princesses and their escorts. The ball for 500 Festival Associates and corporate sponsors will begin with a 6:30 reception.

Rick Russell is festival officer In charge. Cascading roses will highlight the setting underscored by black and white checkered carpeting. A shimmering replica of the queen's crown will float over the throne on the stage. Bob Frist is ball chairman, with George Schatzlein as vice chairman. Party for car Any 2 Rooms Now Only Lightly Speaking Kathleen Van Nuys the Indiana State Teachers Association Building, for $7 each.

Tom Binford, IMS chief stew- ard, will be among guests. Others will include Wilbur "Bill" Shaw Warrenton, son of former IMS president and three-time race winner Wilbur Shaw, and his mother. Boots Shaw Sage, who moved back to Indianapolis last month. Two Denver residents Paula Carr Wampler. who aired her WIBC "Breakfast with Paula" show from the Claypool Hotel, and her daughter LeeAnn are visiting Mrs.

Sage and the Cortland Sheas. Mrs. Wampler is planning a men's golf tourney at French Lick next year as a memorial to her late husband Fred, a Hoosier native and golf pro who died of leukemia last year. And the front row Jonathon's invitational Front Row Party will be Thursday at the restaurant, 96th Street and Keystone Avenue. Honored for the fast 10-mile runs that qualified them for the front row in the 500-Mile Race will be pole sitter Rick Mears: 1985 winner Danny Sullivan, and Michael Andretti.

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