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Tomorrow in Indianapolis thirty-three cars will take the starter's flag for the fifty-second running of the Memorial Day 500. But it's really only a race for three Lotus turbine STP Oil Treatment Specials owned by Andy Granatelli...
...Granatelli thought the USAC was unfair and went to court in an effort to have the restrictions lifted. He lost the suit, but arrived at Indianapolis in May with new turbine cars fast enough to give him a victory on the track despite the power restrictions...
...Granatelli towed five cars through the gates when practice started May 1. Within a week the STP cars were well established as the fastest cars at the track...
...Granatelli's new bombs are designed by Britain's Colin Chapman, builder of the famed Lotus Grand Prix cars and the Lotus-Fords that have taken a first and two seconds at the 500 in the past five years. Their specifications are a carefully kept secret mainly because Andy is currently suing the U.S. Auto Club, which last summer passed new rules aimed at limiting the power of turbine racing cars. The few details that have leaked out seem to indicate that the U.S.A.C.'s aim was bad; reduced engine power or no, Granatelli's turbines...
...drive his cars, Granatelli has probably the most impressive team of racing drivers ever assembled: four men who among them have won three 500s and three Grand Prix championships. The four are the U.S.'s Parnelli Jones, 34, the 1963 Indy winner; England's mustachioed Graham Hill, 39, the 1966 winner and Grand Prix champion in 1962; Scotland's flashy young Jackie Stewart, 28; and Scotland's 32-year-old Jim Clark (TIME cover, July 9, 1965), who won the 500 in 1965 and has more Grand Prix victories (25) to his credit than any other...