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To: Mr. Mojo
Back when the cars were driven by Americans.

Jim Clark won the '65 Indy. Bobby Unser finished 19th. Jackie Stewart led most of the '66 race, and Clark finished 2nd. Graham Hill won it. So the mid-60s weren't exactly the American era at Indy.

16 posted on 05/03/2021 11:21:50 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35
Jim Clark won the '65 Indy. Bobby Unser finished 19th. Jackie Stewart led most of the '66 race, and Clark finished 2nd. Graham Hill won it. So the mid-60s weren't exactly the American era at Indy.

That was back when most race cars that ran at Indy were front-engined using the four-cylinder Offenhauser engine. The success of the rear-engined race cars from England forced Indy racer designers to go to rear-engined cars by the late 1960's.

58 posted on 05/05/2021 8:23:33 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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