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MILLER: Dispirit of competition
Page 1 of 2 When the dirt car brigade got its first glimpse of Bill Vukovich and Jim Travers' roadster in 1952, they may not have winced, but they should have. When Colin Chapman and Jimmy Clark rolled out their Lotus in 1963, all the guys driving roadsters lit up another cigarette and said a prayer. When Parnelli Jones whooshed down the straightaway in Andy Granatelli's turbine (BELOW) in 1967, all the air went out of Gasoline Alley. When Bobby Unser annihilated the track record in 1972 by 17mph in Dan Gurney's Eagle, aerodynamics replaced old-school mechanics. In 1979, Jim Hall's ground-effects Chaparral with Al Unser even sent A.J. Foyt running back to the drawing board. And when Roger...
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