Word: maury
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throttle best. For the first time since 1936, when stock car racing began at Daytona, last week's speed trials seemed like the high old times of the early '20s, when every auto factory sponsored a racing stable. Here once more were big names of auto racing-Mauri...
...dealers' showrooms. Officials worked over time, tearing down winning cars in every time trial, probing and prying, measuring and checking to see that they had not been doctored in violation of the rules. In the "Flying Mile"* for passenger cars, for instance, officials had to disqualify four of Mauri Rose's fastest Chevvies because their fan belts just happened to break loose, a quadruple coincidence that allowed the cars to make their runs without wasting the fraction of power used to turn radiator fans and generators...
...Country. In 1936, Nuvolari went to America and casually won the Vanderbilt Cup race, beating the U.S.'s Wilbur Shaw and Mauri Rose, later three-time Indianapolis champions. But time, which Tazio had always flouted, was catching up with him. After World War II, which he spent in Mantua laid low by tuberculosis, he attempted a comeback. Trying for his third Mille Miglia victory in 1948. he was a lonely, ill man. He kept the lead, despite the progressive loss of his Ferrari's bumpers, hood, mudguards and seat cushions. With little more left than its wheels...
Magneto & Crankshaft. On the 87th lap, Defending Champion Johnny Parsons dropped out with magneto trouble. A broken crankshaft put third-place Walt Faulkner out at 300 miles. Moments later, Mauri Rose, three-time winner, fishtailed into the infield with a collapsed wheel. The car turned turtle, but Mauri crawled out unhurt in the only serious accident...
...right; the heat should seal it tight for the rest of the race. Johnnie Parsons felt that he could not afford to nurse his car along for all of those 50 miles. On the ninth lap, he rammed the foot throttle down and skittered into the lead, past Veteran Mauri Rose, three-time winner of the race, who pounded along doggedly in Johnnie's exhaust trail-a nauseous compound of burned benzol, alcohol and 100-octane aircraft gasoline. Said Parsons later: "I saw my chance and I wanted some of that lap money"-$100 for the leader of each...