IN THIS ISSUE OF C ALSO THE MOON? FAST BRICKYARD RUN Arfons says he'll try for the sound barrier now that he's conquered land speed record. .Page 1

Jim McElreath shattered Indianapolis Speedway straightaway record at 199.93 mph! .Page 3

UP FRONT., IT COUNTS USAC CAR OWNERS BALK General Motors is reportedly testing a front-wheel drive car on its track in Detroit area. .Page 6

USAC goes to 3 liters, but it looks like car owners won't, CP survey shows. .Page 1

GLEANED FROM GLEN PEDRO SWEEPS MOSPORT CP covers the U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen in complete stories and pictures. .Pages 1-10-11

Pedro makes it two in a row at Canadian GP, driving 4-liter, V-12 Ferrari. .Page 1

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Hill, Surtees, ' Siflert at Glen Clark rea s Record, Two Cars Pedro: Home to Mosport To Win econd Straight USAC Builders Nix 3 Liters By Leon Mandel

USAC may have voted to go to three liters, but they're not going to go very far if owners and build­ers Ed Kuzma and Rolla Vol15tedt , and engineman Lou Meyer are any indication.

In conversation with CP at press time, Vol15tedt, making it clear that his motives were selfish, said he saw no point in the reduction in engine size though he allowed he was "not conversant enough with the intricacies of the USAC gov·· erning body to know if the decis­ion could be rescinded."

Meyer, who made it plain that all he did was build engines and hope to meet a payroll in the pro­cess, answered the question with a question: "W 0 u 1 d you invest $200,000 in research and develop­ment on a whole new engine with­out k now i n g what's going to happen?"

And Kuzma, whose roads ters are competitive with the Watson

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By Gord and Rich Clee MOSPORT PARK,Ont.-The new

overseas stars chalked up the rec­ords but it was old faithful Ferrari that carried popular Pedro Rodri­guez to his 2nd straight win in the

~ Canadian Grand Prix here Sept. 26.

Leading a NART sweep of three of the first four places, Rodriguez lapped the entire surviving field in the 100-lap, 250 mile race at a record average speed of 94.36 mph to bring his 4-litre, V12 330-P Ferrari home on top.

Other leaders during the race included Bruce McLaren in the competition debut of his new Mc­Laren-Olds mobile who finished 3r d behind Ludovico Scarfiotti's 330-P Ferrari, while Walt Hans­gen after a costly first-lap pit stop, fought his 275-P NART Fer­rari up through the field to a creditable final 4th.

With the racing lap record stand­ing at 1:31.5 (Dan Gurney, Lotus 19, 1962) Friday practice prom­ised great things as Jim Hall in the automatic Chaparral claimed the pole on a 1:29.5 time followed quickly by McLar en at 1:30.6.

Almost unknown here, George Wintersteen raised eyebrows fill­

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By Wally Huskonen WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.-Graham

Hill, driving a BRM, moved closer to his 2nd world championship by winning the U.S. Grand Prix at Wat­kins Glen Oct. 4.

He averaged 111.10 mph for 110 laps, a new record. It was half a mile per hour faster than his race-winning average at the 2.3 mile circuit last year.

John Surtees, V-8 Ferr ari, was 2nd, some 30 sec. behind.

As a result of the race, the world championship point stand­ings now are Hill, 39; Surtees, 34; and Jim Clark, 30.

Clark lost his chance to move into closer contention when hewas forced to drop out.

Most of the drama for the esti­mated 65,000 spectators occurred in the first half of the race, with four drivers battling for the lead. As in so many previous GP events this year, the front runners were Hill, Surtees, Clark in a Lotus, and Dan Gurney in a Brabham.

Clark was the first off the grid, but Surtees pass ed him as they headed up the hill and into the left-hand bend at the top. Surtees was leading at the end of the first lap with Mike Spence, Lotus, Hill and Clark hard on his tail. Gurney was quite some distance back the first time around by he had moved into 5th by the 2nd lap.

On the 5th lap, Gurney estab­lished a new lap record of 1:14.23, breaking the record of1:14.5 setby Clark last year. Two laps later, he broke it again, this time with 1: 14 flat, as he moved by Spence into 4th.

Jim Clark got off first from the pole pOSition at the U.S. Gr and Prix. Surtees is s hown in middle of photo ' 7hile _ ace winner Gr aham Hill is at far r' ght . (Dennis Cipnic hoto)

LATE NEWS • Latest computations reveal that payments to drivers selected for the SCCA American Road Race of Champions at Riverside Nov. 14-15 will amount to about 4.5~ per mile, one way. • The new Offy is a Ford-or so the rumor goes. Meyer-Drakeisto be?ome distrib~tor for the Ford four-cam engine. Lou Meyer will only bUIld a three lIter engine if the USAC owners want one which at this point is doubtful. · ' • Is Genie's Joe Huffaker all through with Indianapolis? We'll, maybe - but the recent acquisition of a DOHC Ford Indy engine seems to in­dicate to the contrary since unlike another engine in recent memory the 4.2 doesn't quite make it pumping water. • Art Arfon's new record will be recognized by the FIA as the official world's lan<1 speed record according to word frOm Tom Binford in Indianapolis. In so dOing, the FIA is recognizing an international un­limited pure jet class, requiring only that cars must have four wheels and must be steered through the front two.

Art Eclipses Walt, 434 Beats Brother

Art Arfons, whose Green Monster went like stink at the Bonneville Salt Flats~ strikes a pose with four year old Beegie Groff, the lady go-kart dn ver .

BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, utah - ·When I woke up this morn­ing I had no idea that in a few hours I would break the land speed record. Now that I've done it I'd like tp go faster."

Tfie above words came from Art Arfons, 38-year-old native of

Riverside Has 'Em All; And Laguna?

SAN FRANCISCO - The River­side Grand Prix and LagunaSeca's Monterey Grand Prix end the U.S. racing season for the professionals on successiv'e weekends as the tour moves west with more money, more cars, and more spectators in prospect then ever before.

Team Lotus , with the new 30s, Graham Hill and Jimmy Clark up, SMART by Stirling Moss out of Lotus, the new 330P Ferrari, Mc­Laren and the McLaren-Olds fresh from Mosport challenge the Amer­ican teams of Chaparral, Shelby and Mecom who have dominated money racing in the U. S. this year.

Riverside, which guarantees ap­pearance money, has an entry of 80 cars and the finest drivers in the world r unning four races, three of which are qualifying events. Payoff at Riverside in the big r ace is on an overall basis in the 77-lap, 200.2-mile final regardless of class.

Laguna Seca, in the mids t of the "grand exper iment" of no appear­ance money, found things touch and go for awhile with an early entry of just 19 cars with Innes Ireland as the only over seas name con ­firmed .

But late Laguna information in­cludes entries confirmed for a formidable list of American dri­vers that might well produce a near 311-U. S. battle in the two­heat main to rival the Riverside i1"ter11.ational product! n.

Akron, OhiO, and newly crowned world speed king Oct. 5.

He was the first drag driver to break the 150 mph mark atKansas City, Mo., back in 1956, and in 1961 he became the first drag racer to break the 200 mph bar­rier by running 209 mph in a jet dragster at Fort Worth, Tex.

Arfons guided his 17,000 horse­power "Green Monster" jet drag­ster down these ancient salt flats at a blistering two-way average of 434.02 miles per hour, and a new world land speed record.

Ironically, the old record of 413.20 mph which was set here only last Friday, was held by his brother Walt's "Wingfoot Express" with Tom Green at the wheel.

-I honestly had no intention of attempting the record this morn­ing," Art said. "I was just gOing out the first time and try for the 375 mark. The car felt so good that I nudged it up a little more and hit 401." At this point Arfons had to make the return run in one hour the oppOSite way to break the rec­ord.

Joe Petrali, USAC offiCial timer (Continued on page 11)

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TR4s finished 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th in the Manufacturers Class, Berkshire National Rally organized by New Eng­land Region of SCCA, winning the T ea m P r i z e against teams fr om Chrysler and Ford.

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Driver Killed at Hilltop Final (vent By Dennis J. Cipnic car to overturn. He was pinned

BOSSIER CITY, La. - The finish. between the roll bar and the pave­of the Gulf divisional racing sea- ment· death carne while he was in son was marred by the death of an a~bulance enroute to the hos­veteran driver AlOberlander when pita!. his car flipped in the Saturday pre- Col. George Koehne got his new lims at Hilltop raceway here Sept. Genie in time for the Sunday fea-26, fatally injuring him with mul- ture and though both Hilltop and tiple skull fractures. the' car were new for him, he

Oberlander "Was leading the E nevertheless managed to win, but production calss in his race when by force of circumstances rather on the third lap his left front wheel than skill (he's got some of that, slipped into a narrow drainage too). culvert just alongside the pavement Harry Washburn had his Super while he was rounding a turn. Cooper all sorted out for this one,

A c cor din g to eye witnesses, and, in fact, won the modified pre­Oberlander tried to turn the wheel lim after a considerable tussle with back onto the track, causing the Koehne. He likewise seemed about

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USAC Owners (Continued from page 1) cars, thought the idea was «prob­ably good from asafety standpoint" but he was nonetheless very luke­warm about the project.

All agreed that even ifIndyown­ers and builders were to accept the engine, racing on the road with the new cars was the farthest thing from their minds.

Kuzma allowed that a dual pur­pose car was feasible but not practical, and that the result of trying to build a car to run in both oval and road racing would be a "mediocre automobile." Vollstedt concurred, saying it could be done only if you wanted a car that was "not competitive."

But Joe Huffaker, Genie and MG liquid Suspension Special bUilder, disagreed.

"A dual purpose chassis is fea­sible," said Huffaker. "All that's needed really is either two sets of pickups for the A frames, or two sets of A frames."

Would he be interested in build­ing a car for both Indy and the suggested USRRC open wheel cir­cuit?

ready to wrap up the big one when . his radiator decided to add to the gener.al moisture on the track.

The entire meet, the inaugural for the "new" Hilltop, was cursed with threats of rain, and the show­ers carne on in great damp waves during the. feature, making one and all very careful.

Even so, Harry's cooling hose worked itself into a state of rup­ture, and he had to retire. On the last lap yet. Koehne was horne free.

Other class winners in this one

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were Martin Grantham, Fm Mer­lyn, and Lynn Kysar, Merlyn Gm.

The Four Seasons racing team carne up with a new addition to its houseful of Lotuses for this mee!: an Elan, with ex-23B, ex-27 pilot Horner Rader at the wheel. He handily won the A-D production races, despite huge noised behing him from asundrycropofBristols, Sting Rays and XK type Jaguars. Them big cars don't do too well (or fast) on Hilltop.

His cohorts likewise ran of with the Formula Jr. prize, Joe Hutch­ison doing the honors in the team Lotus 20. But he didn't win t~e open wheel car race. The 'overall victory belonged to Mason.O'Kei'ff in his Lotus 27. Did that phase Four Seasons? You betcha not. The third team carne onto the track with a Lotus 7 and wiped up the F production field.

It looks as though the Gulf and Western division will be lSending Washburn, Koehne and Fuller out for C modified, Rader, Hutchison, and a few other FourSeasons types with cars for almost every other class, O'Keiff and Washburn in Formula Libre, and Martin Gran­tham leading the Merlyn

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Arfons' Blistering Pace (Continued from page 1) here, informed ArfonS 'that he had to go at least 438 mph on his re­turn for a record.

"I felt this was as good a time as any," Art said. "I turned it loose and went, but I didn't use all the power. In fact I didn't turn on the afterburner. Everything went by so fast that it was over almost before I got started good."

It was on this return run that Arfons turned a fantastic 479.62 mph to enable him to break the week old record. "I had plenty of power left when I hit 479. The car performed near perfect," Arfons smiled shortly after his run.

Firestone racing engineers who were asSisting Arfons in the runs, estimated that he used about 10,000 hp. on the 479 mph run.

cI'd like to try for more," Arfons said, cbut we've got lots of check­ing out to do. It handles very well but I would still like to make a few ad jus t rn en t s before taking another crack at it."

The 21-foot streamliner has an

automatic wing on the front of the car which keeps it from lifting. The J-79 jet engine in this car is the most powerful that has ever attempted to break the land speed record.

When asked how fast he thought it was possible to run on this ground he replied, cof co u r s e you've got to have the power. I believe that we could break the sound barrier with this engine if we redesigned the body. That's a future possibility howe~er."

EYENTS~ SOUTH~

Oct. 17-18 SCCA driver school, Walter-boro, S.C.

Oct. 17-18 SCCA divl. rally, Tenn. Oct. 18 SCCA hillclimb, Tenn, Oct. 18 NASCAR 400 mi., Charlotte , N.C. Oct. 23-25 SCCA regl. and "pre-Riverside

cram course," L ake Charles , La. Oct. 25 Targa Florida rally , Miami Oct. 24-25 SCCA regl., Courtland, Ala. Oct. 25 SCCA regl., Stuttgart , ~r_k_. _ _

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"Certainly, if someone comes up with an engine, right now, after all these years, the Meyer Drake is still about $10,450 and a new three liter would probably be about $15,000 and that's too much." For­mula Libre permanently in this country would be more practical, continued Huffaker, with the "easy availability of our big V8s.»

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Junior and Libre builder Nade Bourgeault agrees with Huffaker on the subject of the feasibility of the dual purpose chassis.

According to Bourgeault, the road and oval chassis could be practically identical, especially Since, with the decrease in size to 3 liters, Indy cars will use gear­boxes.

«The only condition on the con­struction of a dual purpose car," said Bourgeault," is whether ac­cording to weight minimums it would be possible to build it strong enough."

Meanwhile, on the subject of the source of engines, Lou Meyer re­vealed that the rumored three liter he had in process is really a 255 'with a shortened stroke, that it is not too far along, is purely for the purpose of testing and does not represent any projection for a serious three liter from Meyer­Drake.

Vollstedt told CP that in his dis­cussions with both Ford and Chrys­ler neither had given any intention of building . an engine to the new formula becuase of its «lack of appl~cation" and Lou Meyer, nowa representative for the DOHC Ford engine, "could not imagine that Detroit could possibly be inter­ested."

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