America 1960-1969: Sports Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 85 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1960-1969.

America 1960-1969: Sports Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 85 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1960-1969.
This section contains 447 words
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Fireball Roberts and Fred Lorenzen were rivals, even when they raced Fords together on the Moody team beginning with the 1963 season. Before that, they were dangerous when they got close to one another on the racetrack, as they often did, Roberts in his gold Pontiac and Lorenzen in a black Ford. In 1962 at Martinsville, Virginia, the two drivers crashed. Here are two versions of what happened. Lorenzen: "I was running good, but I wasn't thinking. Sometimes I'd lose my head and Moody couldn't get to me that day. I was still a little cocky, I suppose, and I felt that I was running so much faster than Fireball that, Move, boy. I'm coming through. Because I couldn't go around. It was too hard at Martinsville. But He wouldn't move, so I rapped him in the bumper a little bit." Ford Factory representative...

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