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AUTOWEEK

JUNE 12, 1976

Monte Carlo
Continued From Preceding Page spun across the road in the tight swerves around the Piscine; he got going again but failed to notice Mass coming alongside and turned into him. With a clang both Ligier and McLaren lost chunks of their rear wheel rims. Joqhen's continued to hold air and he continued on to the finish line, following his fellow German Hans. But Jacques' tire had deflated and when he reached the next corner he found out about it with another clang into the guardrail! That was two laps from the checkered flag. The flag came down none too soon, for had Lauda taken but another 8.03 seconds to complete his l ast easy lap the race would have gone over the two hour limit prescribed in F -1 regulations. Scheckter was a not bad ll-plus seconds behind, while Depailler did well to keep his car with its leaning ba ck wheel on the road only a little over a minute behind Lauda. A lap back were Stuck, Mass and Fittipaldi. Just out of the points was Tom Pryce in seventh, but the way he got there was interesting. Earlier hi s teammate Jean Pierre J arier had his better handling Shadow comfortably ahead, but then about ten laps from the end there was just a brief, very light shower of rain. It hardly made visible spots on the road, but most of the drivers slacked off for a lap or two. In that couple of minutes Pryce flew up the line, taking both Carlos Pace's oilspewing Brabham AHa and J arier. Afterward as the two Shadowmen debriefed aboard someone's yacht, Jean Pierre turned to Tom and exclaimed, "My goodness, Tom, you are certainly quick in the wet!" Pryce's eyebrows came together for a second, and then he said, "Wet? Uh, you mean it rained today?" Last on the road was poor Chris Amon, who was still suffering the Amon Luck he'd suffered two weeks before when a wheel came off. He'd performed brilliantly well with the rebuilt Ensign in practice, actually being sixth at the end of the first day, and but for a set of mismatched rear tires at theendofthe second day which made the car veer off to one side he might have stayed somewhere near that on the grid. But he started the race knowing full well that his right hand, sprained and still swollen from the Zolder crash, was going to give out. After about half the distance he simply had to give up', and just soldiered on driving as best he could with one hand only-taking two bites at the wheel at the Station Hairpininto unlucky 13th place. He was actually twelfth on the road, last running driver, but Laffite before he crashed had done more laps. The greatest thing mechanical to come out of the Monaco GP was the confirmation of the competitiveness of the six-wheeled Tyrrells. The greatest thing personally speaking was the return to form of Ronnie Peterson; suddenly we can start calling him Superswede again. Good news, both items, as we turn to Sweden next where the old 007 Tyrrells

Monaco is-the Mediterranean, high-rise hotels, beautiful people, and, once a year, one heck of a motor race. Heretwo-time World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi boots his revised Copersucar up the hill towards Casino Square, with a view of part of the little principality's capital city in the background. Chris Mullen

Contingency Money For Volvo Racers...

PORTLAND, Ore.-In a move aimed at stimulating interest in racing Volvos, Import Distributing Co. (IPD) has announced that it will offer contingency monies for SCCA, IMSA and ICSCC racing. In SCCA National racing, IPD is offering $150 for a first place finish, $100 for second and $50 for third; in Regional racing the sums are $75 for a first, $50 for a second and $25 for third. In SCCA Pro Rally events the sums are $150 for first, $75 for second and $50 for third. IMSA contingency monies are limited to Racing Stock sedans, where a first place finish will pay $200, a second will pay $150 and a third will pay $100. International Conference of Sports Car Clubs events will pay $50 and $25.In order for a car to be elegible for IPD contingency monies it must be a Volvo, it must display an IPD sticker either on the windshield or on each side, and it must be equipped with some parts purchased from IPD or from an IPD dealer or distributor Competitors desiring further details should write to Contingency Program, IPD, 2762 NE. Broadway, Portland, Oregon, 97232.

Gunnar Nilsson trails Welshman Tom Pryce past the Hotel de Paris and into Casino Square. Pryce's position stayed static until a light rain fell, and then Tom started picking off those in front of him.

and last year's 751 March were both very quick. Anderstorp is one of the few tracks where on the other hand Ferraris weren't especially outstanding last year. Maybe, just maybe, Niki will have to do some actual sporting driving in Sweden!

New Steering Gives Improved Control

A rotary-valve steering gear is one of the latest twists at Ford Motor Company. According to Robert B. Alexander, Ford vice president-Car Engineering Group, "how a vehicle steers and responds to intended maneuvers contributes importantly to the confidence the typical driver enjoys with his car. "Our development work at Ford aims at providing steering that not only is more reliable, but also gives the driver better control and is more responsive without sacrifiCing feel of the road." The company's latest steering innovation is a rotary-valve s teering gear, built at Ford' s Indianapolis Chassis Parts Plant and standard on the Torino, Montego, Elite, Cougar, Ford, Mercury, Thunderbird, Lincoln and Mark IV. The rotary valve, according to Alexander, replaces a linear-spool valve and is designed to provide a "lighter, smoother and more responsive feel. " Effort required to turn the steeringwheel rim of models equipped with the rotary-valve gear is reduced approximately 200/0 from the effort required on earlier models wi th the spoolvalve gear.

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Road America Tire, the Seattle-based Western U.S . distributor for Dunlop race and rally tires, is offering a $1000 contingency av,'ard to the first Formula Ford driver to win a Sports Car Club of America National points race on the West Coast or Pro Formula Ford race at Sears Point International Raceway using Dunlop tires. The award will be just for the first driver to win one of the events, and the tires must be purchased from Road America Tire at full retail cost. The award is effective June 26th. concurrent with the June Sprints SCCA National at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California. "Our tires are of a different construction than the type currently being used by most Formula Ford racers", commented Pete Mills of Road America Tires. "It will take some minor suspension adjustments to change over to our new Dunlops.

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