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...racer's edge. Several days before the Monza race, a truck carrying his newest Lotus-Ford Formula 1 racer blew a tire and threw the car into a pepper patch and out of the race. Mechanics managed to patch up a leaking gas tank in Fittipaldi's back-up car scant minutes before the race began...
...Austrian Grand Prix last month, Fittipaldi, the No. 1 contract driver for the Lotus-Ford team, passed up the group's top car (which had been having steering and transmission problems) for the older back-up model. Though his choice had a balky engine, Fittipaldi won the 198-mile race by 1.18 seconds over Former World Champion Denis Hulme of New Zealand. The Italian triumph was Fittipaldi's fifth Formula 1 Grand Prix victory in ten races this season-a remarkable record for a driver only in his second full Grand Prix season. At that torrid pace...
...Ekama returns as linkman along with rapidly improving Bahman Mossavar Rahmani, who had an excellent week of practice and looked sharp in the 31 scrimmage win over the Lord Jeffs. Behind these two, however, there is not much midfield depth, and Munro has been working to find some suitable back...
...accumulated aht the AEC's position is not as secure as it sounds. The commission held extensive hearings at Bethesda, Md., to allow nuclear critics, who represented a coalition of 60 citizen groups, to dispute the effectiveness of a safety device called teh "emergency core cooling system." This back-up complex of pipes and valves is designed to bathe the hot reactor core with cooling water if the main cooling system fails. Since the system has not ever actually been tested, not even in scale models, scientists have had to depend on mathematical models to decide whether it would...
...Chevelle as having ten advantages that keep the car from "becoming old before its time." As proof, G.M. told the FTC that the Chevelle comes in a "full line of models" and has such features as body by Fisher, two front head restraints (which are required by law) and back-up lights. The FTC study notes: "No explanation was given on how these features constituted advantages" over other cars...