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The 68th running of the Indianapolis 500.
It's the world's biggest annual one-day sports event.
It's the first in 400,000 people and more.
But why? What makes it so special?
Is it the luxury cars and luxury people
streaming in from all over the world?
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the snake pit as it's called?
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who come to see the great drivers
and the concrete walls of their old beloved Indy.
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but flinch when they drive close to those walls.
The crowd comes to cheer old favorites,
old champions, and to see which new ones can pass the test.
They come to see spectacular spins,
but they want the man to win in the end
over the dark forces that could destroy him out there.
India's memories of the very first race
and Ray Haroon inventing the rear-view mirror to win the day.
India's special because of the speed and the immense crowd
and what it means to a driver to win this most famous of all races.
And it's special because here more than in any other race,
the crowd senses the danger and identifies with the driver.
Hello, I'm Peter Werrett.
Welcome to Channel 9's Wide World of Sports telecast
of the 1984 Indianapolis 500.
The Memorial Day race meeting goes back now to 1909,
establishing a tradition which is as long as almost all
of the Grand Prix circuits of the world.
The track at Indianapolis is affectionately known as the brickyard,
and it is so because it was originally constructed
of some 3 million bricks when those bricks began to break up
as track speeds got higher, so over the top was laid
various coats of hot mixed bitumen.
Until today, there's just one strip, one yard wide,
of those bricks left remaining on the start-finish line.
This year, drivers will be competing for a total purse
of somewhere around $2.8 million.
And as usual, over 500,000 people will be in attendance.
So now we cross to Indianapolis where Jim Neighbors,
logically enough, is singing Back Home in Indiana.
Back home again in Indiana And it seems that I can see
The gleaming candlelight Still burning bright
Through the sycamores for me Undo one day
Since all its fragrance Through the fields I used to roam
When I dream about the moonlight on the world's end
Now I long for my Indiana home
Yes, at this moment, tradition hangs heavy in the air here at Indy,
giving it the sense of security, of something that through all the years
of increasing speeds and technical advances,
still stays the same in many ways,
like the traditional words about to be spoken by Mrs. Mary Holman,
the widow of the man who made the Speedway what it is today.
Gentlemen, start your engines.
Now the roar from the throats of literally hundreds of thousands of people
because the moment is nearing as the engines start.
Looks like everybody has gotten their engines underway.
A.J. Foyt looking for his fifth win in the Indianapolis 500.
Nobody else has ever won for the familiar car number 14.
Number six, Rick Mears. He won this race in 1979.
There's Johnny Rutherford way back in the 10th row.
Three time winner of the race, Lone Star Jr. is on his helmet.
Now the wide scene as they are almost ready to move out.
There goes Mario Andretti on the outside of the second row, remember,
seeking his second win 15 years after he won in 1969.
Everyone apparently safely started.
Pit crews scrambling, getting out of the way.
The race course belongs to the drivers now and to the pace car,
which will lead them until it's time to go.
As the crowd looks on now, let's meet the drivers in the first two rows.
On the pole is a sometime golfer and the defending champion, Tom Sneadar,
a former public school teacher, now the fastest qualifier in the history of Indy,
more than 210 miles an hour.
In the middle of row one, Howdy Holm, Sneadar's teammate,
owner of an advertising and marketing company, but most at home behind the wheel.
And now for the first time with the kind of equipment that could win the race for him.
On the outside of row one, former champion Rick Mears,
trained in the bumpy world of off-road racing.
Now as smooth a driver as you'll find, looking for his second win here.
Mears.
Row two, Michael Andretti, the 21-year-old pride of a racing family,
a babe among masters in his exalted starting position today in his first 500.
Andretti, the younger.
At age 47, Gordon Johncock's hair is grayer,
but the driving talent of this two-time Indianapolis champion still shines brightly.
He's in the middle of row two. Johncock.
And Mario Andretti looks more like a Roman centurion as the years go by.
Today, he starts in the same row as his son, still seeking that elusive second Indy win.
His only triumph came 15 long years ago.
Let's consider the third row now.
As they're on the track, on the inside, a road racer from Columbia on the right of your screen.
We've got his experience in England, Roberto Guerrero.
Next to him, Jeff Brabham, the son of the former multiple world champion, Jack Brabham.
And on the outside, Herm Johnson, who finished ninth two years ago but passed up the race last year.
Now to row four, which contains more years of Indy experience than any other row in the starting field.
Al Unser, Sr. could become only the second four-time winner of Indy,
joining A.J. Foite in a most exclusive club.
This is his 19th appearance at Indianapolis.
Al Sr. Next to him, Danny Ungayas is 40-pound slimmer, very fit for another try.
Twice in the past three years, Ungayas has survived crashes in this race.
Danny Ungayas.
The thoroughbreds of horse owner A.J. Foite race at Churchill Downs, less than 100 miles from here.
But A.J., less than a year away from his 50th birthday, still races at Indy,
aiming for a fifth win in his 27th appearance.
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Sunday's the day.
With the Sunday Times.
Well there it is, one of the great sights in American sport.
The car's still on the parade lap before this immense crowd
anticipating the start of the Indianapolis 500.
I'm in our ABC commentary booth with my colleague Sam Posey,
the man who has driven at Indianapolis and LeMond for that matter,
most of the important racing circuits of the world.
Sam, it seems to me that not only is this the fastest Indy field in history,
but also there's more quality of drivers and cars going all the way back through the road.
That's it. I mean you can talk about the favorites in the front rows,
but deep in the pack there are people that might bear watching.
Let me give you an example.
Danny Sullivan, a man about whom a great deal has been written lately.
He's a jet setter with what is said to be an insatiable fondness for women.
He has a secret plan that he hopes will win him this race.
There's Kevin Kogan who's driving the only all-American car in this race.
Most of the cars are English.
Fittingly, it's a Dan Gurney creation.
That could be something very special.
And lastly, a guy, you know, I don't like to make predictions,
but the man I'm about to mention I think is going to be four.
I'm going to go out on that much of a limb.
Al Holbrook. He was the winner of LeMond last year,
and he has practiced for more laps here than anyone else in this month.
He's done 1,600 miles of practice.
He is going to be fourth.
Well, you've said it a couple of times.
And there are still others. Let's take a look at some of them.
Ah, a touch of the continent here.
Teo Fabi, last year's pole sitter, sometimes seen on the ski slopes of Europe.
Well, he was once a member of the Italian national ski team.
You know, last year he seemed to have a message about this place that no one else had.
He started on the pole, but this year the magic seems to be gone.
Look at Al Unser Jr. The kid still looks like a teenager.
With his wife Shelly there.
Last year Al drove brilliantly, but that brilliance was obscured
by the controversial blocking incident in the latter part of the race.
But a great young driver. There's one of your guys, Bobby Rahal.
I'm surprised he doesn't have a briefcase with him here.
He has a button-down mind.
He knows the engineering behind the car, how the sponsorships are organized, a big future.
And way back in the 10th row, lone star Jr.
And you know, Jim, I think, and I hate to say this, despite his three wins,
and of course the four wins of his car owner, A.J. Boyd,
I don't think Johnny's got much of a chance this year.
So far he has made fewer than 20 laps of practice in this car.
Count him out.
Now let's pick up the remaining rows.
You see, last year's pole sitter, Teo Fabi, in the middle of that fifth row.
Young Al Unser on the outside.
Row six there featuring two road racers, Al Holbert and Bobby Rahal,
and Tony Bettenhaus in the namesake of his famous father.
In row seven, a racing writer turned driver Pat Bedard,
the oldest driver in the race, 50-year-old Dick Simon, and the veteran Pancho Carter.
Lots of talent in row eight with Chip Ganassi,
former World Formula One champion Emerson Filippaldi,
and the popular young Mexican Jose La Garza.
Row nine, Gellhausen, Brayton, Kogan.
Row ten there, Danny Sullivan, Derek Daly,
and a three-time Indy champion, Johnny Rutherford.
And in the last row, Snyder, Firestone, and Heifel,
who just got in the race the other day when Jacques Villeneuve's car was withdrawn.
Now let's meet our other commentators, starting with three-time world champion Jackie Stewart,
whose views you'll be hearing a number of times during our telecast. Jackie?
Memorial weekend is not celebrated in Scotland, so as 1966,
this great day has only meant for me the Indy 500.
It's more apple pie and ice cream than anything else that I see in America,
but this year it's more special than ever before because of what I believe
are the excessively high speeds around this track.
The drivers, on the other hand, are extremely exciting.
A new generation almost to have come to this 500.
But if I sit here right now and look out, I only think of one thing.
I hope and I pray that it'll be a safe race.
I'm Bill Fleming.
One of the more interesting statistics we're going to be following today
is how much time does a driver spend off the track?
That doesn't mean just in the pits,
but how speedy is he getting into the pits and getting out of the pits?
The man who was most efficient at that last year was Tom Sneave,
and as you know, he won the race.
This fuel calibration gauge on all of the tanks here on Pitt Road
helped the crews keep abreast of how much of the 285 gallons they've allocated
for the race remains.
I'm Jack O'Rourke on Pitt Road,
and when fuel consumption becomes a question, we'll be here to cover it.
I'm Larry Neuber at the entrance to Gasoline Alley.
On any other day, this is the view from the cockpit that the drivers would like to have
going back to that historic area.
Today, unfortunately, if you exit this way off the racetrack back to the garage area,
what that means is that you have lost the race.
32 drivers will leave the speedway through this path.
Only one will leave the way everybody wants to leave,
and that is out through victory lane.
I'm Ray Gandolf, and for the past couple of weeks,
I've been doing some off-the-track stories related to the race.
They're distant relatives, second cousins maybe,
but they're good stories. I think you'll like them.
And now there is a look at the field from the front.
Coming right at you past the start-finish line,
the pace car, Pontiac Fiero, well out in front of the field.
There's that first row of Tom Sneave, Howdy Holmes, and Rick Mears.
You've been in a car at this time, Sam.
Try to remember it for us.
Jim, I think what's worse about it is you can't bring the car up to speed.
There's no way you can get, you know, it's not like baseball.
Perhaps we could go out and throw the ball or swing the bat or golf,
or you could hit a few balls.
Here you go into this thing cold.
These speeds are nowhere nearly high enough to get any feel
for how the car will be when the race begins.
That makes it very, very hard.
Isn't it remarkable in a sport of 200 mile an hour speeds
how much patience it takes?
Well, and we may see that become the fulcrum of the race today, Jim,
because fuel consumption is an issue here.
If you were to run the entire race flat out,
it's possible that you might run out of gas.
There are rules that can, or fuel, there are rules that limit
how much fuel you may use during the race.
So, yes, patience will be a very big factor.
Tom Sneever right there, car number one.
Next to him, Howdy Holmes, the blue and white 41, his teammate.
And in the golden car, Rick Mears, number six.
And you know, Jim, that front row, Howdy Holmes,
they're the least experienced of all the drivers in this leading group.
And there's some concern.
He's a very, very fine driver,
but he's never raced at the front at Indianapolis before.
And so the more experienced drivers like Andretti and Mears are afraid
they might get trapped behind him and let Sneever get loose
and establish a big lead.
Look at that, more seats here than ever before.
There are now seats, seats for 260,000 people.
With the crowd in the infield, waiting for the green now.
Looks like they're going to get it.
Just a few seconds away.
And the flag man, Dwayne Sweeney, he had the green flag in his hand.
Cars will come into view in a moment here.
And the green flag is out there racing at Indianapolis.
Rick Mears in the golden car, going for the lead.
Mears has the lead behind him.
Sneever and Michael Andretti from the inside of the second row.
Already, Jim, we have a new record.
Mears is now leading his sixth consecutive Indy 500.
No man has ever done that.
It may be a day of records.
I have a feeling about it.
The bomb's going off.
Once again, remember, that's no accident on the race course
or anything.
It's just a ceremonial bomb indicating to the surrounding
countryside that the Indianapolis 500 is again underway.
200 laps lie ahead of them.
Oh!
A little puff of smoke there from Sneever.
Absolutely.
Well, that's untoward, of course, at this early stage.
Quick word about the track.
It rained very heavily the night before last year.
The track was literally scoured clean almost by that.
So they'll be trying to feel their way on a track
that feels unfamiliar to their car.
Quite remarkable how far ahead of the pack those two cars are
already.
Yeah, that's right.
Now I'm speculating.
Let's try to figure out what might be wrong with Sneever.
We didn't see that puff of smoke again, Jim.
It might have been something just a little bit overfilled.
You know what I mean?
An oil tank or something.
He seems to be fine.
And he is in Mears' draft right now.
Rick Mears, who won in 1979.
Tom Sneever, the defending champion.
Coming into the pitch, Michael Andretti.
Oh, no.
By far the most.
This is Jeff Grabham.
Correcting on that.
It is Jeff Grabham.
The colors of the car are similar.
This is number 18, Jeff Grabham.
Spotting one point right on that.
In fact, Michael Andretti is running third.
He's third in your picture right here.
And he is in good shape.
In fact, how long has it been, Jim, since a rookie ran the race
that Michael Andretti is running right this minute?
Well ahead of his dad, I might say.
At age 21.
OK, and Jim, we have a new absolute lap record here.
The leader is going.
Mears is going over 200 miles an hour at this point.
The previous high was Sneever at this time last year, 197.
So Rick Mears, you see him there in the yellow car,
over 200 miles an hour.
And mind you, the car is full of fuel right now.
Jeff Grabham in the pit right there.
Car number 18.
Some of the famous Formula One racing driver.
So we have had the first competitive 200 mile an hour lap
in Indianapolis history.
Incredible.
And this is a very good race.
Now, whatever was wrong with Sneever at the outset
does not seem to be wrong now.
Remember some personal rivalries here.
Rick Mears is the man that took over the slot
on the Roger Penske team.
The man following him right now, Tom Sneever, was fired from.
So there are personal rivalries as well as those among the car
owners.
Mears still out in front.
Both these men.
Sneever.
Michael Andretti and his father right behind him.
I know it.
Isn't that magnificent?
Can you imagine, Jim, the experience of seeing your son
ahead of you in the early part of the Indy 500.
The third and fourth cars, the blue and gold car
and the red car.
Michael Andretti and his father, Mario Andretti, behind him.
A lot of drama lies ahead of us here at Indianapolis.
I imagine.
It's hard for me, even though I am a father, to imagine, Jim,
the emotions that must be running through Mario now
because as obviously occupied as he is with the job of driving,
the fact that his son is right ahead of him on the road
is probably judging his performance.
And I imagine a little part of him is hoping nothing could
go wrong.
No way I could imagine being in that position.
It just isn't.
So there are the four leaders in the early laps of the Indianapolis
500, Mears and Sneever and Andretti, father and son.
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Back at Indy and there is Michael Andretti in the blue
and gold car passing Tom Sneva for second place.
A duel's been going on for that second spot and now
Michael Andretti, the 21 year old,
youngest driver in the race remember,
has taken over second place.
An amazing pass.
You know Jim, you described him at the top of the show as a
babe among masters.
I wonder if maybe we shouldn't be revising that estimate
right now.
The way he's driving we certainly should.
Rick Mears of course still leading the race in the
Roger Penske prepared number six car.
Some of the crowd looking on.
There's Jeff Brabham in the pits.
The steering wheel you know is removable for safety purposes
and for quickness getting in and out of the car even in the pit area.
There's the look down the straightaway.
Let's have another look at that pass.
Look at Michael.
Well that was the absolutely perfect pass.
He was faster through the turn than Sneva was.
Drafted him for a moment coming down the early part of the front
straight here and made an absolute copybook pass.
I wonder who he learned that from.
I can't imagine.
Every year we have many people watch I think who are not died
in the wool motor racing fans.
Drafting of course means getting in the slipstream of the car
and you get an actual boost in horsepower right and speed.
Yes because the car.
Here comes Gordon Johncock into the pits.
This is unexpected Jim.
It's way too early in the race.
We would expect a car to go about 24, 25 laps before a stop.
Johncock remember a two time winner of this race started in
the middle of the second row.
One of the favorites here and one of the fastest two in practice.
He did run a lap of two oh nine or I think two ten just barely
the other day.
So this is very discouraging.
This is a man that could have won the race.
George Snyder going by that number for he's back in the back
of it up front though it is Rick Mears and Michael and
moving in on Mears.
This kid is really moving.
Yeah.
And this is the acid test too because it is in heavy traffic
running alone on the track.
That is something Michael has been able to do all month during
practice.
He has never had an occasion to run under in a pressure
situation like this.
Now is George Snyder there holding up Mears a little bit
allowing Michael to move in.
I don't think he's doing that intentionally.
I mean he's slower.
Yeah.
Well now this is critical of course because Mears got clear
and then Ready is stuck behind.
This could make him vulnerable to Steve who's right behind
Mears because when you're held up in a turn right behind
and ready I'm sorry and ready if you're held up in a turn as
Michael was you see there goes Steve.
Yep.
Like my number one movie right alongside and now pass Michael
and ready to really driving intelligently not just going
flat out saying he's not going to get by me when it's
inevitable.
He goes.
Yes.
And I don't think he was in the homes.
Yep.
Team made up Tom Steve has started in the middle of the
first row into the pits.
It looks reasonably.
They raised it up.
The dramatic jacks.
We got a problem.
Well that's a disappointment.
Howdy.
First doing so well.
No.
Did we.
I don't believe that Michael and ready to pass that it was a
mistake on his part.
There are times when you just get in a situation and the
driver behind you sets you up perfectly.
And that's exactly what Steve did.
My point and Michael accepted it when the guy beat you let him
beat you then go after him again later.
Exactly.
It's not the last lap yet.
Far from it.
There's Steve in the white car.
Remember he's in second place.
Mears is still 200 yards up in front of him.
There he flashed by there.
Steve there goes Michael and ready.
Jim you know the leading three cars are all these marks cars.
They're all made in England.
They're all the same kind of car.
And they have virtually the same engine same horsepower about
seven hundred and fifty.
So when you see differences out here it's differences in the
driver differences in the way the cars are set up at this
particular moment in the race.
Well let's see I believe that the 33 cars 30 of them are
marching these cars are talking about made in England.
Yeah.
Isn't that amazing.
Look at home.
They've now got the bonnet off the car and it's going to take
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He must be detected because this has got to be has had to have
been the best opportunity that he might have ever had to win
this race driving for the mayor.
The team that has prepared his car and Tom Steve is so
brilliantly all during the month.
The mayor team was here with great success a few years ago
with Johnny Rutherford winning the race for them.
They've been out of it for a few years and come back this year
with great power and their usual organization.
The 400000 still look on.
We're at Indy.
This is what they call the spark.
The ignition system in Gordon John Cox car.
This is why he came in.
He was getting an intermittent kind of thing with his ignition.
Of course the engine was cutting in and out.
As you can see it's a quick disconnect.
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This part goes to the distributor itself.
They were able to get out of the car but another replacement
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So this was the culprit.
OK Bill Fleming with that report from the pits on Gordon
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The 68th edition of the Indianapolis 500 continues.
Look at the racing on the course here at Indianapolis.
The leader Rick Mears right behind him.
Tom Sneva.
Passing a slower car here.
No, Steve, I got tucked in behind him.
Good boy, Megan.
That's right.
That slower car is driven by Dick Simon, the oldest man in the race, Jim.
50 years old.
There's Sneva though.
He won't take too long to get by him.
However, Sneva is now vulnerable of the same kind.
In other words, he stalled out a little bit.
And here comes Michael Entretti with his dad, Mario.
Mario is now right behind Michael.
You'll see them there.
There's Mario pulling out to pass Michael.
And the father has passed the son and now passes Dick Simon.
Or is about to.
Yes, does pass Dick Simon.
And next we'll have the youngest driver did not quite pass.
No.
And then dropped back behind him.
No.
That's showing off.
Is that Michael, I think, pulling into the pits?
Pulling.
We'll double check it.
That looked like Michael's car coming in.
It's certainly peeling out.
Now, is this too early for the first pit stops is the question.
Yep.
There he is.
Yes.
Jim, unless he's been using fuel at a tremendous rate, something is wrong.
This, and yet it looks routine.
It certainly does so far.
Now, all right.
This shouldn't take more than about 18 seconds.
These early stops, by the way, you see they don't change tires.
The fuel flows in very fast, Jim, because of what they call the head pressure.
There's so much fuel in the tank.
See, 14 seconds.
That's a terrific stop.
And that's why they don't change tires in the first stop.
Because they know that they're going to be able to refuel so fast.
They don't want to waste time changing the tires.
Now, the question is whether the other lead cars are burning fuel at almost the same rate as Michael Andretti.
If so, they'll be coming in for pit stops very shortly.
What a job these pit crews do here, as a matter of fact.
Yes, when you think of what they're able to accomplish in a short time, just five men doing the work.
Sometimes it's as much Mikhail Baryshnikov as Roger Penske, as a matter of fact, as Jackie Stewart tells us.
It might seem that ballet dancing is a long way from the sport of motor racing.
But the grace, the poise, and the elegance, in many ways are related.
If one of the dancers is out of step, the whole performance is affected.
Here you see poise and economy of movement also in a sophisticated form.
Last year, Tom Sneevers' team had no time for error.
The choreography was regimented to perfection.
But as we do know, things can go wrong to spoil the show.
When Lloyd Ruby pitted, his fuel line was not disconnected as it should have been.
This error was to cost him victory. He never did win the 500.
Jerry Grant overshot his pit and stopped at his next door neighbor's.
His mechanics had to run back and forward with wheels and equipment.
He even took on the other fella's fuel.
He was penalized and lost his chance for victory.
When Rick Neer stopped, his fuel fell over the car.
It spilled. It went over his mechanics and the driver.
It ignited and created havoc in the pit lane.
The mechanics waving his arm was on fire.
Also was the driver. There's no flame from an alcohol fire.
Then in his rush to leave the pits in 1982, he missed George Herm Johnson's speed.
And the two cars came in contact with no great effect.
But it could have been a disaster.
The darling of the 500 last year was Teo Fabby.
He could have won. But fuel was everywhere.
A valve had stuck open.
The engine was still running as he stepped out of the car in disgust.
He finally switched it off. It was no win for him.
On the other hand, what this pit stop produced was a victory for Gordon Johncock in 82.
Stage managed to perfection.
Under the ultimate pressure, his performers were never out of step.
No dropped wrenches. Each wheel tightened. No fuel wasted.
And any surplus that was there was quickly washed away by water.
He kept his engine running, engaged first gear at the right moment,
and drove off to receive a standing ovation when, finally, the curtain fell.
So what happens here in the pits is not at all far away from these beautifully synchronized dancers.
Each movement must be strictly orchestrated.
And now those pit stops are continuing.
There's A.J. Foyt, A.J. running back in the pack at the moment in car number 14,
looking, remember, for his fifth Indianapolis 500 victory at the age of 49.
Jim, to the driver, these pit stops are not the calm things they may look like to us.
They're very disorienting because when you've been out on the track at 200 miles an hour, the track is very smooth.
The other cars are going about the same speed that you are.
Of course, here's Rick Mears and the Roger Penske pit.
He's the leader in the race, or was, until he came in here.
The chaos is when you're sitting still.
You feel that fuel flowing into that tank behind you.
It actually presses you forward a bit in the seat and cools your back for a split second, incidentally.
OK, we've had Michael Andretti into the pits. Now we've had Rick Mears into the pits.
But Tom Sneva is still on the track. Coming down low, however, let's see.
Doesn't look like he's... Yes, is he? Look at that move coming into the pit.
Sneva, I have been watching this man for the last few years, coming in and out of the pits.
And notice how bumpy that pit road is, by the way.
He has got to be the most ambitious man in and out of the pit.
I mean, that was a very dangerous move that he made, a very gutsy move,
because he came so close to the end of that pit wall.
But he does this all the time in the pits.
Dangerous to somebody unlike Sneva. To him, he knew what he was doing.
True. Everything is relative.
And this is the hardest-charging man, I think, who's raced at Indy for the last four or five years.
A very heady driver. He keeps his emotions in one compartment and his, you know, his logic in another.
Used to call him Mr. Second Place simply because he finished second three times here, which is not so bad.
Here it is again in slow motion.
All right. Now, maybe it doesn't look that dangerous, I'll grant, but when you're he's still going 190 miles an hour right here.
And you see he really just pulls in at the last minute.
And if anything had come just a little bit long and he t-boned into the end of that wall.
OK. Now here we have Mario Andretti into the pits.
So the son has been in. Now the father is in.
All of the leaders pitting here under the green and they're using fuel at a rather fast rate.
Take a close look at this car because it's a Lola car, one of the very few cars that aren't marches in the race.
And off goes Mario. All of the leaders back on the race course.
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We're back in Indianapolis with a leader following the first pit stops is now Mario Andretti at age 44.
The sentimental favorite here always. Of course he won the race once.
But you look down through the years and you see next to his name notations like engine detonation,
lost wheel, burned piston, flag, wreck, out of fuel, wreck, flag, broken header, engine seat, accident, accident.
Year after year, time after time, something has always happened to frustrate Mario Andretti's bid for a second win in the Indianapolis 500.
And to add to the drama this year, one of the men pursuing him and pursuing him fairly closely is his own son.
Let's meet them both.
The driver of car number three is 44 years old and has won Indianapolis in the World Grand Prix Championship.
He is Mario Andretti driving today in his 19th Indy 500.
The driver of car number 99 is 21 years old. The youngest participant in this year's race is Michael Andretti, son of Mario.
As a kid growing up in Nazareth, B.A., Michael liked tennis and football and water skiing.
But he also liked what his dad did.
Ever since I can remember I felt like I wanted to become a race car driver.
I started when I was nine in go-cars, but when I really started thinking seriously about it was when I was around I think 17.
You know that was my nervous stage where did I have it or didn't I?
So what I did I went to about three or four race driving schools and that's where I really judged myself on whether I had it or not.
Luckily I was always the quickest or one of the quickest students at these schools so that's where I felt this is great.
This is what I want to do and I'm going to go for it.
From that start in go-carts, Michael drove on and by last year had become the Formula Mondial champion and drove his first Indy car race at Las Vegas.
His father made him aware of the realities of racing.
There are certain values here that have to be kept in mind at all times.
And it is the value of life really has to be forever present in the sense that you don't just figure out the heck with it.
You know we just go for it.
You do that within reason and if you do that within reason you have a good chance of coming away from this thing with a long career.
But if you don't sooner or later it's going to bite and it can bite pretty hard.
Caution at 200 miles an hour is a difficult thing to learn but Michael seemed to have done it when he qualified for today's race faster than his father.
But he still marvels at his dad.
It's just amazing the drive that he has.
He's been in this now for over 20 years and I think he's got more drive than a lot of younger guys coming up.
He wants to win and he just all winter long you know when he's waiting for his new car he's like a kid in a canister.
You know he just can't wait to see his new toy.
Enthusiasm has to rub off especially if you have a close rapport with your kids which I think I always had.
I don't feel we have that much of a generation gap.
That's something I've never really felt with my kids.
I think that part I think has been very important in our forming years.
That when we're talking we're in many ways talking the same language.
I don't profess to know the music the way they do it you know but it's fine.
There are certain areas that are different yes.
But modern music that is.
But again some of the essential things the more important things the basic things I think we're really talking the same language.
The value of life Mario Andretti said remembering its value or you're laying it on the line.
Mario Andretti leading the Indianapolis 500 right now.
In second place Tom Sneva in the white car.
Behind him now Al Unterjur in number seven has passed Rick Mears for third place.
It's an interesting repetition isn't it at the end of the race last year Jim Tom Sneva and Al Unterjur were so close together.
Here's Al Unterjur just sewing Sneva that he is there.
That's all trying to rattle him a little bit by dodging around behind him occupying Sneva's mirrors.
Now let's see if that other car is going to get in between them.
At least it did momentarily.
Al Unterjur is in the black car number seven.
And he is moving down to get past that car at age 22 in his second Indianapolis 500.
There's Sneva number one the defending champion in the race.
So that's the lead Jim.
You know at this point of course how meaningful is it really.
But Tom Sneva look at that.
Wild spin that is Spike Gellhausen.
Spike it looks like he's pulled out of it all right this time.
That is the third time we've seen something like that happen to him.
Al Unterjur 1970, 1980 wrecked here.
1980 wreck here it is again.
Jim here he comes off the turn.
There's no one might think that it was a driving error there.
It looks as if he just came off wrong.
But having driven these cars you know Jim I don't think you can ever say for sure that it's a driving error.
Because there's so many different things that can go wrong with one of these very complex cars.
And Tom Sneva has slipped past Mario Andretti into the lead in the 1984 Indianapolis 500.
The yellow flag is out.
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Again we're back in Indy.
They're still under the yellow flag right now after Spike Gellhausen's spin.
And again he appears to be alright.
We have the facility through Comtrak radio to talk to Gordon Johncock.
Sam see if you can get him now.
Gordon this is Sam Posey.
Can you hear me?
I can't hear you Sam.
I have a copy on you Sam.
Okay.
How is the cross wind?
Is it windy?
Yes it is.
We do have a cross wind.
Especially coming on a tube that's pushing the car up to the wall pretty bad.
And we also have an oily condition out here.
There are several cars evidently that are oiling.
They oiled the first part of the race.
So that had kind of flipped it.
And now it is back to being a little oily again.
Has Gellhausen's crash put any extra debris on the track?
Negative.
He didn't hit anything.
He just made several spins and flint up to the wall.
No damage.
Gordon I'm sorry you had that problem early on.
How do you feel about things now?
Well the cars seem to be working pretty well right now.
All we can do is just keep walking away here and run as fast as we can.
Hopefully we can make up a few laps.
I don't know.
Thank you very much Gordon.
Good luck to you.
Gordon Johncock speaking with Sam from his race car.
We said you'd hear periodic reports from Jackie Stewart.
We're a quarter of the way.
Fifty laps and here's Jackie.
Looking back after fifty laps the first thing that impressed me was Rick Mears.
This is the sixth year of him straight leading this race.
This is impressive.
The other two impressive things,
Alonso Jr.'s come from 15th position right up to fourth position right now.
And Mario Andretti's son Michael driving a magnificent race showing a little bit of inexperience
which you would expect in traffic particularly when he was stalking Tom Sneaver
who of course is the master at that.
But Tom's car and Mario's car are so much better on the race track.
They can drive on any part of the track.
That's impressive.
Guerrero from Columbia by the way is up into fifth position.
He was the man that during qualification had part of his body work come undone
and fly off the car.
So that's pretty good that he's got himself up to fifth position here.
Now let's have a look at the standings after fifty laps.
So Mario Andretti is in the lead.
Rick Mears second, Tom Sneaver third, Alonso Jr. in fourth position,
Guerrero the rookie in fifth and remember I did mention
we thought while he was qualifying when the body fell off that a Zeus fastener had come undone.
But in fact we find out that air got underneath the bodywork and that was the reason for it.
Danny Ongaio is up to sixth, Sr. is in seventh, Theo Fabi eight,
Michael Andretti is ninth and Al Horbert another rookie making up the top ten.
Now I'd like to run through the whole thirty-three cars here
but the Speedway have a problem in their scoring.
They haven't been able to give us the rest of the field so I do apologize for that.
Cars out of the race, Jeff Brabham sad for Australia after only one lap with a fuel line.
Two-time world champion Emerson Fittifali from Brazil with an engine failure.
He was out in thirty-nine and Spill, Spike Gelhausen, he had a spin in lap forty-nine.
Now the leaders average speed so far 186.657 miles per hour.
We've only had one yellow flag and now we're going to go green.
The green flag out again at Indianapolis.
So they're racing again at speed.
Mario Andretti still the leader right behind him with that white car number one.
Another car in between them now.
Wait a minute, that's Mears in between them isn't it?
Yeah, Mears in between them in second place.
So it's Mario followed by Rick Mears, followed by number one Tom Steen,
followed by number seven Alan Unter Jr. moving low on Steenva right now.
That's as good as the racing gets, look at them.
The red car is Mario Andretti, the yellow car is Rick Mears now taking the lead.
The white car behind them is Steenva, the black car, Al Unter Jr.
They're the four of them.
It's this racing or not.
Now remember at Indianapolis they now froze up under the yellow flag
as they went around.
Years ago they were not able to do.
That's right, it does make for a much more exciting if fractionally less pure race.
The man who appears to be leading here at this point, Scott Grayton,
is at least one lap behind.
It's really the yellow car there of Rick Mears that is the leader at this point.
Father and son situation here getting more complex now as we have Andretti in second place
immediately followed by the son of another driver.
Yeah, Alan.
And of course by Steenva who now moves ahead of Andretti.
So he is now directly Andretti and the son of Al Unter in that order in third and fourth place.
Well I said at the beginning Jim, I thought there might be a little pacing
because of the possibility of running out of fuel.
I see no evidence of that.
I can't remember as much of a cut and thrust race.
See Steenva pulling out past Grayton there.
And we also saw young Al about to pass Mario I think.
We'll get back to that.
Don't you have the feeling this is the best racing we've seen at Indianapolis?
It certainly is so far.
Pure racing all the way.
Yeah, I think the fact that so many of the cars are virtually identical as I said at the outset.
Twenty nine of these cars have the same chassis and the same engine.
There, number seven, the black car is Al Unter Jr.
He has moved past the red car, number three, of Mario Andretti.
So Al Unter Jr. in third place.
And right behind is Roberto Carrero from Columbia, the formula X Formula One driver.
Having his first taste of Indy competition, he's a rookie.
And driving very well.
There's Danny Sullivan in the center of your screen in the black car.
Look at the immensity, the size of the crowd.
Penske looking on.
Penske making many of these strategic decisions that are essential to winning this race.
Jim Long gone is the day when the driver wins it alone.
And of course Roger is a brilliant businessman.
He said, you know, he makes strategic decisions every day.
Look at this, Sneva closing in on Mears again.
Nobody can pull away each time a leader seems to pull away for about one lap.
The man behind him closes in again.
Right now the factor here, I believe that's Tom Gluy in between.
Jim, he's a rookie and he pulled way out of the way.
So no interference there from Tom Gluy, the rookie, 37 years old, as he has lapped.
How close to that wall do they come?
Well, during the days of practice that I was here, Tim, I saw tire after tire, the scuff marks on it.
Touching the wall.
I would suspect that at least half the drivers in this race touch the wall at some point or another.
But when they're not touching the wall, if they do it perfectly, how far are they from the wall?
You're talking about three or four inches?
Three or four inches.
Okay.
Now, the reason they pull well away from the wall going down the straight, as you see them doing now,
is to reduce turbulence between the side of the car and the wall.
That's the reason for that.
And the little extra distance that you have to move, you know, get the car out into the center of the road and back,
doesn't really mean anything.
And so it's Rick Mears in the lead, Tom Sneva in second place, and Al Unter, Jr. in third place,
and they couldn't be closer without touching.
This is absolutely magnificent racing.
You see the black groove there that's starting to develop.
The track, I reckon, is not in tip-top condition.
It's a little bit oily.
There's a crosswind that's causing the understeer, the front of the car to wash out a little bit
as you come out of turn two.
A crash.
We can't pick it up yet.
I can't see who it is.
Parts everywhere.
Yellow flag out.
This could be a very bad...
This could be the worst crash that we have seen in Indian years, Jim.
I'm afraid the driver is in there.
Rescue equipment there, as usual, I'm afraid.
It looks like Pat Bidart.
Let's not say it until we are sure.
Could be Pat Bidart, the racing writer, turn driver, a man in his 40s.
Yes, he's in there.
I'm afraid...
He's in there in the front of the car, the engine gone.
Gone.
However, that part is all in one piece.
Well, yes, it is.
And these are survival...
To the worst crashes we ever saw were Tom, Steve, and Danny on Gaius.
On Gaius, particularly, we thought he might have been dead.
And he's back in the race.
Steve is only back in, but fighting for the lead.
Let's see, is his head moving?
I don't know, but it's very encouraging to see that that survival capsule...
And there's no fire.
...is very much intact.
There is no fire.
There hasn't been serious fire here for quite a few years.
Yeah, well, let's see what we have in slow motion.
We can see what happened.
We just came in on the end of that.
Still working on the driver.
Tentatively identified as Pat Medard.
Well, you see that smoke.
That's not it.
Here it is over here.
Yeah.
Into the inner wall.
The inner wall there.
Incredible.
Well, you see it.
Violence.
Well, now you know what happens when something goes wrong at 200 miles an hour.
You know, sometimes, you know, Jim, you really don't understand the speed.
But the flying parts, again, do dissipate the energy.
They, in a sense, give the driver a chance rather than a solid car that...
Oh, I...
...gives all the force to him.
Well, absolutely right.
But it's only when you see something like that that the full knowledge of what 200 miles an hour means.
Yeah.
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The yellow flag still out of Indianapolis. And that is the car, number 30, of Danny Sullivan.
Now, something happened to Danny, presumably as a sort of aftermath of the terrible crash of Pat Bedard, on whom they are still working.
Now, look at this.
All right, there's the debris, of course, from the Bedard accident.
Now, watch the right of your screen and you will see Danny Sullivan appears going what it seems to be much too fast.
He hits Roberto Guerrero. That's the white car just to the right of Sullivan, who's now getting up into the air.
Other cars dodging. Wasn't serious.
But then again, it looks like an accident that in some ways really need not have occurred had everyone slowed down enough.
Certainly could have been serious.
Jackie Stewart's been watching all this. Get his reaction to it.
What you've just seen is not a racing car accident. It's like an aircraft accident.
The total destruction of a car at that speed is incredible.
As I speak to you now, we have no reports on Patrick Bedard's condition.
But really, in my opinion, it's a synonymous accident with these very high speeds that I spoke of at the opening.
In my opinion, they are excessively high.
Only last night I spoke to the great Parnelly Jones and I spoke to A.J. Foite and I spoke to the man who's fastest around this speedway, Tom Sneaver.
They all said that they were all going too fast because if something did go wrong, it was difficult to see life expectancy being in the correct conditions.
It's this type of accident that I think should convince us that we do have to go slower around this racetrack and lots others.
As Jackie said, there's still no report on Pat Bedard.
This tells us it's a little earlier shot. Maybe we can tell more, Sam.
All right. Do you see that it's between turn three and four? It's coming off turn three.
Now, let's watch here.
Into the inner wall. You see a flash of fire, I think.
Yeah. Left side of your screen.
That's it. All right. Now, that is not the fuel tank exploding. It could be friction. It could be the oil tank.
And as we said earlier, the incredible energy that is absorbed by that tumbling and by the parts coming off, frankly, Jim, is what encourages me to hope for Pat.
I think if people want to see crashes like this at all, it's just because the enormity of a crash like this validates and proves the speed.
Here's the crew.
There you are. Now, Pat, on the stretcher being put into the ambulance.
Well, you saw an illustration of seatbelt giving a man his only possible chance.
Jackie Stewart with that.
It's unnecessary to tell a racing driver to wear seatbelts. They all do. It's essential.
Nineteen years ago, I came to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and was introduced to the wearing of seatbelts in racing cars.
Since then, I've always worn them in cars, both on the road and on the track.
Of course, we need them in racing because of accidents such as this.
And one of the most spectacular accidents that I've ever seen in India, Tom Sneever, remarkably escaped with relatively light injuries from this crash.
Then, in the first corner of the first lap of the Monaco Grand Prix, Derek Daly in his turtle was fortunately strapped firmly into his car
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Maynard Troy amazingly survived this one to tell the tale again he was wearing his seatbelts.
What you are seeing here is perhaps the best example of how serious injury can be avoided,
even though, as you will recognize, Gary Gray is being bounced about in the cockpit of his car in a severe manner.
He was wearing a full harness belt system, but as this slow motion action shows, his body seems at times to be almost elastic.
In the end, his crash helmet even came off.
It's not only an accident that you've just seen that you wear seatbelts. You need them on the road also.
Because almost every year 21,000 Americans die in the front seat of their cars.
If you were to have compulsory wearing of seatbelts, such as they have in 25 other countries around the world,
you would save just in front seat passengers alone 7,000 lives a year.
You only wear seatbelts in about 10% of your motoring public in America, against in Australia some 97%.
Now when accidents do occur, such as this, where a dummy is unrestrained in a crash test, look what happens.
On the other hand, where the dummy is wearing the seatbelts, you can see it never reaches the windshield or the dashboard,
and therefore gets saved from serious injury and perhaps death.
So what is the message? If race drivers wear their seatbelts and they're exposed to many accidents,
and a lot of the rest of the world wear seatbelts, why don't you?
You hear every year about the fatalities on Memorial Day weekend. They'll be again this year.
Make sure you're wearing your seatbelt. Let's go to Larry Newber with Dr. Henry Bach.
Dr. Bach, can you repeat the conditions of Danny Sullivan and Pat Bedard, please?
Danny Sullivan is in good condition. Pat Bedard, we would list as serious right now until we're finished with our evaluation.
Any details on Patrick's injuries? Not right now.
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In Indianapolis, we have a new leader in the race.
The man who sat on the pole of last year's race, the Italian Teo Favian, car number 333, followed by Danny Angaioz in number 25.
However, it's my feeling, Sam, that those two cars did not pit under the yellow and that they might have pit stop coming up quite soon under the green to cost them both the lead.
Because otherwise, I can't imagine that they would have moved ahead of Al Unser Jr. in number 7, who's third, Rick Mears and Tom Sneaver.
Yes, I agree with you, Jim.
Nonetheless, they are matching the pace of the ostensibly faster cars at this point.
Which is to say that maybe psychologically, once you're out there and out front, maybe you just push it down a little bit harder, do you think?
And should there be another yellow very soon, they can come in and pit and hold onto the lead.
Well, that's the point. They know if they can stay ahead, as you point out, of the leader, that could save them.
So there is a special incentive to run really hard.
Danny Angaioz setting up on Bobby Angaioz, who had that terrible crash a couple of years ago, back in action and driving as well or better than ever.
We mentioned that he's taken off 40 pounds. He's much more physically fit, ready to stay the course than he used to be.
And he's leading the Indianapolis 500. Not bad.
What's wrong with that? Bobby, who was magic here last year, as I said earlier, has not had the handle on the speed at all this year so far.
He's been a very discouraging monk for him. He's very occupied now with his Formula One racing program.
Look at Angaioz beginning to pull it out a little bit in his black number 25.
Tremendous comeback for Angaioz. You know, you think after we just seen Pat Bedard's accident, you think of Danny Angaioz's accident.
And that didn't seem survivable either, did it, Jim? And yet, I mean, maybe there's something about racing that pushes our horizons further and further.
They show us that things are possible that we didn't hitherto realize was possible.
Well, what they've done with these race cars, as you said, in the realm of safety, is just unbelievable. There they go. Look at that. Yeah, tremendous speed.
Look at that speed. You know, in the turns, they are going 195 miles an hour. In the turns themselves, and about 210 on the straight.
There's the helicopter, we're told. Pat Bedard is in that helicopter. Will be airlifted to Memorial Hospital here in Indianapolis just two or three minutes by helicopter.
And he'll get instant attention. But now look here, we have Bobby retaking the lead with Danny Angaioz.
And look who's ghosting along right behind them there, young Alex. That's right, Al Unser Jr. at age 22.
And we have Sneba behind them and Rick Mears, the white and yellow car that flashed through your picture. Gordon Johncock into the pits again.
I'm trying to figure out whether that would be routine. There's Unser making the pass of Angaioz for second. That's coming into turn one there.
That pass taking place right at 210, 215 miles an hour. And again, that's Unser Jr., the younger, not the three-time champion of Indian.
I think we're going to get another report now on the condition from Dr. Bach. Here we go, Larry.
Can you give us an update on Patrick's condition? Yes, we just loaded him into the helicopter. I'm sure as you're aware, we're still listing him as serious.
But he is waking up. He appears to be reacting appropriately. And there's no major problems at this time.
We'll still list him serious till they complete their evaluation down at the Methodist Trauma Center.
Any specific injuries you can list at this time? Nothing that we can tell you right now.
Isn't that an unbelievable report? I mean, it's an entirely optimistic report as far as it can be at this time for Dr. Bach.
After what you saw, Pat Bedard go through, and he is coming, regaining consciousness at this point, talking to people. It's just, well, stay with the story.
Just as you couldn't possibly believe that cars could lap here at over 200 miles an hour routinely, there goes Dale Fobby down in.
And look at Sneeva. Sneeva coming on with little Al Unser. Sneeva blowing right by to take the lead.
White car of Tom Sneeva, the defending champion of Indianapolis. Now here is Dale Fobby in the pits.
Fobby in the pits. Stop very neatly. Changing rubber on the right side.
The precision of the crew. But this is the crew that failed last year on Fobby's second pit stop.
You recall? Not the crew, but they had a problem with the O-ring on their refuel.
This gives you an idea, even when something looks routine, something violent can go wrong in a moment.
That was certainly a very professional pit stop, though. It was.
Again, I point out the roughness of that pit lane. Jim, if there's anything that worries us, I think year in and year out, look at that.
Young Al pulling out and now neck and neck with Tom Sneeva.
Young Al Unser moving back ahead of the veteran Tom Sneeva, the defending champion here.
Wow. Terrific racing.
So far, good news on Pat Fadard.
Danny Sullivan, of course, also was involved in the crash, but he's back in the garage area now.
In fact, we're going to have a word with him.
Danny, you got involved in the Fadard incident. What happened?
Well, actually, I got involved in an incident after Pat's accident.
He had his moment and big accident there, I guess, in three and four.
We slowed down, coming down the back chute.
The yellow was already on. Everybody was getting in line.
And then as we went by the accident on the left-hand side, we were up against the wall.
Somebody in front decided to stop and have a look at the accident and slow right down.
Fabi locked up his brakes, trying to miss it.
Went up and closed up the gap over the wall. Guerrero closed it up even closer.
And I had nowhere to go and drove over the back of Guerrero's wheel.
Danny, do you know who it was who stopped suddenly in front of all of you?
No, I wish I did, but it wouldn't do any good.
I just can't believe that somebody would stop on a racetrack to look at an accident.
You went over Roberto's wheels, though, right?
Right. I went over his left rear with my right front, and that was it.
Was the debris on the racetrack a factor at all in your incident?
No, they had us pushed up a little bit tight on the wall, but there was still no problem.
The only thing was that I couldn't go to the left because one of the marshals was standing there,
and I certainly couldn't hit him.
So it was just a matter of trying to get it stopped, and I couldn't.
Well, frustrated Danny Sullivan, but he is at least totally well.
There's Al Unser Jr., the leader of the Indianapolis 500 at the age of 22.
The youth movement has certainly arrived this year at Indy.
We've been saying for so many years there's got to be changing of the guard while it's underway right now.
Gradual, but it's underway.
Now, then there is Al coming into the pits.
Leader into the pits, making Tom Steba in white car number one the leader again.
I started to mention earlier the roughness of that pit lane.
You see him bumping in there.
It's the only part of the track that hasn't been resurfaced in recent years.
You may wonder why they don't have half a dozen or a dozen people over the wall there.
Well, the rule is only five people over the wall in any pit.
Obviously, you can see they are not changing tires here, only refueling.
So it's a relatively rapid stop, and he's away.
A neat stop for Al Unser Jr., but at this moment, Tom Steba is again the leader.
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Well, for the first time today, a driver has taken something of a comfortable lead in the Indianapolis 500.
Tom Sneaver, the defending champion.
No one has repeated a champion in this race since Al Unser, senior, in 1970 and 71, and he happens to be running second in the race at the moment.
You know, Sneaver's so interesting to me, Jim, because in this day and age when the car counts for so much, many of the drivers have a kind of ambivalence for their car.
Because when it's so good, then it diminishes your role. See what I mean?
Well, one solution is to be identified with your car and its success.
In other words, to know how to set the car up or to be a quasi-designer.
Sneaver has taken this route.
In fact, even to the slightly disconcerting habit of referring always to himself as we.
You know, whenever he describes a racing situation, I guess he means me, my car, and the team.
But that is very real with him. He really does not see. Here's Al Unser, senior, coming into the pits, into the Penske pits.
Contrasting Sneaver, A.J. Ford, for example, almost treats his car like a steed, like his horse, right?
For rating it if it's going badly and fixing it, praising it when it does well.
And you see what different generations they are. There's that bumpy pit lane.
Sneaver coming in very, very fast.
You can see how easy it would be to get a car out of control if you didn't have his skills, Jim.
Al Unser, senior now being pushed back out. Sneaver still in the pits. That's the second place car. This is the first place car.
Fresh tires there for Al Unser, senior.
There he is, very calm.
He's very much of a thinking man, too. Particularly on the aspect of speed here.
In fact, Sam talked earlier about that.
Well, I think it just gives you a little more time to react in certain situations.
We do a lot of things by anticipation and trying to look ahead and evaluate the people you're around when a situation arises
and putting that all through the mental computer in a short amount of time to decide how you're going to react in a certain situation.
So it just gives you a little more time to react and if something does happen, the resulting impact, if there's going to be one, is going to be a little slower.
So you're going to have an advantage that way.
Now, you know, idealistic, a lot of people say, well, what's going to be the difference between 210 and 185?
Well, there might not be a great amount of difference, but if I get my choice, you know, I'm going to opt for 185.
You know, it helps to be a little crazy to be a race driver, but you don't have to be completely stupid.
I mean, I wish I could run 131 miles an hour instead of 231. I don't think they're going to let us do that.
So you've got to pick out a number that's going to be somewhat realistic to the people.
Again, we don't have to run that fast to put on a good show.
The show consists of good, close racing is what makes it entertaining.
Here at Indianapolis, people like to see speed when it comes to qualifying.
The rest of our series isn't based on that.
For our series, IndyCar Racing, to be successful, we've got to be entertaining, and what's entertaining is close competitive racing.
And that's the direction we have to go this place.
Indianapolis is going to make it, you know, no matter how fast we run or what the rules and regulations are,
to establish it's going to be the granddaddy of them all.
So we've got to be more concerned about what's going to make IndyCar Racing as a whole, the sport, grow, and that's close racing.
The fastest driver in the history of Indianapolis and the leader in the race and the defending champion,
putting in his pitch for slower speeds. He thinks it's getting too dangerous.
Yeah, and here he goes, putting a lap on Alan Sorsina.
And you know, Jim, I'm not sure I agree with him because history and statistics show that racing is safer today than it ever has been despite the increase in speed.
Well, we talk about speed, it's so hard to show it here.
Really, if we put the cameras where we get the speed shot, you get something of the feeling.
But maybe we can illustrate it for you.
Comparing it to something, well, that's very familiar. Let's try to do that.
One hundred yards is a very understandable distance to the average American.
We all know that a track star can run that distance in less than ten seconds.
And here, we're seeing Tony Dorsett of the Dallas Cowboys on what turns out to be a hundred yard run in about thirteen seconds.
That's about as fast as man can run through traffic with a full load of football pads.
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Now, I've mentioned many times that an Indy car on the straightaway goes a football field in one second, but maybe you don't believe me.
So, we measure off one hundred yards on the straightaway in Indianapolis very precisely.
Then, through the electronic magic of television, we superimpose a football field.
Now, watch the cars flash by.
And then watch for the clock.
On the next car.
Let's see how long it takes. He flashes by and, well, what? Hard to catch, wasn't it?
So, let's slow it down for you.
In the slow motion now, the clock at the bottom. Here comes the car.
Remember, he's going a hundred and twenty yards. That's the field plus the end zones in one point one seconds or just under one second for a hundred yards.
So, that seems to make that point, I think.
There is car number one, Tom Steva. We've passed the halfway mark. We have an official race right now.
Jackie Stewart checking in with his periodic reports at the halfway mark. Let's hear from him again then, Jackie.
So, at the halfway mark, what have we had? Well, obviously, the enormous accident of Pat Bedard.
Dr. Bok told us that his condition was favorable in the sense that the significance of the accident was so enormous.
That says a great deal for the way the motor cars are built here.
The survival cells that these drivers are strapped into certainly save lives.
The way the cars are constructed today as deformable structures defuse the energy as the accident goes on.
But it's almost a miracle to me that Pat Bedard has lived through that accident.
So, let's wish him well and let's see how his condition develops.
What else has been happening out there? Well, I think the remarkable story is, of course, Alan Sir Jr., who's come from fifteen position,
went on as far as taking the lead at one point. Danny Ongyus also made his presence felt after his horrific accident back in 1981.
It's nice to see Danny Ongyus because he got into the lead also.
A peculiar story is the A.J. Foyt-Jim Gilmer team because they've got three cars entered in this race this year,
with a total over the drivers and Jim Gilmer and A.J. Foyt of 66 entries in this Indianapolis 500.
And after all, it's only been going on for 68 races, so that's impressive.
However, none of his drivers, Rutherford Foyt or George Snyder, are in the top ten, as I speak to you now.
The road racers are doing very well. Rick Mears, of course, was an off-road racer,
but it looks like the new generation of Indy driver is being competitive.
Now, let's have a look at the standings at the halfway mark.
Tom Sneever is in the lead. Alan Sir Jr. up into second position.
Rick Mears, Mario Andretti, Michael Andretti.
The son follows in the father's footsteps, with in sixth place Bobby Rahal,
Guerrero is in seventh, Al Hobart, another rookie in eighth.
Alan Sir Sr. is in ninth, and Theo Fabi tenth.
That means the two father and son combinations are in the top ten.
Cars out of the race so far after 100 laps. Brabham, Fittipaldi and Gelhausen, they're all out.
After them, of course, Badad with that horrific accident.
Danny Sullivan with the aftermath of that accident broke a wheel and damaged the bodywork.
Canassi went out with electrical problems.
Derek Daly, who's had a very difficult month of May with handling problems in his car,
he's dropped out of the race.
And Tony Bettenhausen blew a piston, so he's retired.
Now, the leader's average speed has dropped to 160.772 miles an hour
because of the Badad accident. Took up a lot of time.
And we've had two yellow flags.
So we'll be back for more racing at Indianapolis after this.
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there's Teo Fabio of Italy coming into the pits at Indianapolis the man who
sat on the pole last year who has already announced that he's not coming
back to Indianapolis or he says anytime in the future he's going to drive a
couple of years of Formula One that's his intention and then hang it up he
doesn't want to stay in the sport too long Bobby into the pits there is the
leader Tom Sneba in car number one by the way Bobby going in so slowly Jim is
to suggest some kind of a problem there have a look at that group the dark group
that of course is the safe racing line where you know there's this story I guess
okay Bobby out of the car looks like that is probably it for the day we have
seen cars get back in the race after the driver got out of it but not too often oh
I'm sure he's out of it now though as far as having any shot to win I was gonna
say there's that dark that gray area above it is that's where the dust
accumulates you know that's blown off the tires and the cars and so on it's
almost like an ice skating rink up there so you won't see people there's Sharon
Steve of course Tom Sneba's wife
I don't know under control about things well he's not things pretty well in the
gum though yeah I would be too there's our man up there for example right
there would be a reason to be nervous passing Chris night who stays cleanly out
of the way though still when you pass any car at 190 miles an hour
well whoops Jim Gordon Johncock coming into the pits look out look at that
Gordon watch out for the big oh wow how he missed everybody I don't know look at
the guy behind him that he almost hit yeah 40 throwing his steering wheel I
think he's okay he's not seriously hurt pointing to the front of the car he may
have his feet all right there he is the right of your screen it's amazing I was
talking about that groove he was wider the groove Jim he was right behind
Sneba Gordy in the few laps before this had been doing speeds at about 204 miles
an hour he was look what could have happened look at the end of that pit
wall if you hit that you're finished incredible what happened had been greater
he could have flipped over that wall this was fraught from moment to moment
now he could have hurt somebody other than himself
this is the closest we've seen to the kind of a pit crash that we've dreaded
for years in Indianapolis had the speed been more tremendous here is an off
remember he hurt himself very badly hurt his ankle last summer in Michigan and I
just hope he hasn't re-entered it in some way he did look like he was in pain
no question Jackie Stewart would you like to have a look at this well Jim I'd
see Gordon Johncock doing something here that only spells an enormous amount of
enthusiasts it's one of our super slow-motion camera shots here he steered
into the wall after he hit it with his rear right he steered into the wall to
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what could have happened here with all these gas tanks there I fear to think if
it happened in different ways if he had climbed over that pit wall it would have
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suspect might have been Tio Fabi's car that could also been adding the trouble
but my goodness he handled it well but it could have been much more serious
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could have happened and there's Gordy on the stretcher right now
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and off the oval is not two and a half miles like the one at the big speedway
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with Sam Posey in the booth and there is mirrors going way down low trying to put
a lap on Guerrero the fourth-place car and doing it what a move right down on
the grass of course it was in the middle of the straightaway so there isn't great
danger let's have another look at it if we can all right here it is of course he
initiates the move coming off that turn let's turn to talk about the yellow car
now behind the white at whitish car right the orange car just ahead of him
Scott Brayton he's being lapped now of course here's the drafting maneuver by
mirrors this is when he's allowing Guerrero to blast the air out of the way
for him so he in effect can slingshot by of course Guerrero is going out around
Brayton at the same time so mirrors has to come right out next to the grass of
course if he'd gone on to the grass Jim that would have been it he would have
spun like a whirling dervish down that straightaway but he didn't just a matter
of a no more than a foot yeah probably just inches deep away from the grass
deep oh I think it's terrific here's with good reason we're at lap 127 by the
way returning to the action now lap 127 and well I should think that the
physical demands might be coming into play pretty soon we'll be talking about
that there is Rick Mears the leader a young man who is in very good physical
condition keeps himself in shape just about all of the drivers do today of
course but conditioning or not think of the g-forces two and a half to three
lateral g-forces in Austin Rick Mears of Bakersfield California is he in physical
shape well you Sam talked to him a little bit earlier about the physical
demands of the sport it's never much of a problem at this track because you don't
have the banking you get to Atlanta or Michigan those kind of places the high
banks there's where you really feel it and that's where it can get to you but
here you kind of get into you know you feel it at first your arms get heavy you
know your legs your left leg is being mashed over against your right leg and
you know you feel those things at the start of the race and say for the first
20 and 30 laps and then pretty soon you get acclimated to it and you're almost
immune to it and you're just thinking about what you're doing and what the car
is doing and all that just becomes irrelevant so to speak you don't you
just no longer think about it
Rick Mears the leader 200 miles an hour they showed him the last lap imagine that
you know Jim there's a correlation possibly between that speed and and the
what we were just talking about with Rick Mears and the fitness issue which is
that it's cooler now it's shady here it's cloudy and cooler weather makes
for higher speeds on the track because the engines produce more horsepower and
it's easier on the driver so maybe it isn't so bad today means we may get
better racing this race is moving along toward its conclusion now there has been
a forecast of rain sometime this afternoon as you said it's overcast and
cooler right now the moment it looks okay notice how close but that is the
Rick Mears trademark he seems to be very comfortable slicing very close to
things several other drivers through history have been like that Jim Clark
was that way the great Ronnie Peterson so it does it has precedence of the
sport well into the pits comes the car in second place Al Unser jr. into the
pits his silver bullet
routine you think don't stand there's a link they're not changing the tires
talking to oh wait a minute no no I seem to be walking rather than running
stop you be somewhere in turn one by now yeah call that one long I saw them
walking instead of doing their usual balletic number of you know yeah I'm
almost around the car well whatever it was was sudden and total this is not
good no there comes his wheel out of the car he's gonna get out of the car jeep
and running so well all day in the second Indy 500 well he certainly
covered himself with glory again today he was so good here last year in my view
even though he didn't have a high finish because the car didn't run that well
during the day now of course he had many many laps in the lead young Al Unser who
will win this race you just know it someday very soon that's a forecast from
you a well I don't know I think so what do you think haven't seen your man Al
Holbert so far and you predicted would be in fourth doing all right Al Holbert's
running here in the top ten yeah Rick Fears however is the leader
comfortable at this moment at this moment no Fleming's to I think he's
gonna have a word Bill is with Alan's
I'm with Alan's her junior who obviously is heartbroken at this point because
now you were running second when you had to drop out what happened well the engine
started season is someone in a bearing some Indian motor it just my water temp
went real sky-high it just lost a couple cylinders we had an unofficial
observation there was a hole in your radiator
I didn't know about that never knew about that well that certainly could
account for the high temp and then of course with the engine getting over I
tell you one thing it does prove to you just how tough it is to win out here and
the fact that your dad won three times is really remarkable yes it is he's a
great champion and
the car was running good
coming down the straightaway but I could outrun him in the corners and seemed like my average
speed was quicker than what they could do so we were just trying to lead it that
young man has an awful lot of racing knowledge in his head at age 22 there we
have the leader Rick Mears and now we only have two cars on the same lap just
Rick Mears and Tom Steven see Steven car number one defending champion he's not
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Stever in second place there you see the relationship on the racetrack between
the two cars so it's a good long way back to Sneba but he does seem to be
infinitesimally eating into the lead of beers at this moment Alan sir senior in
the bits this is the much fabled Pinsky pit crew in action and actually not
making that great an exit from the pits of your mind a little bit about Bob
sledding or even yours for the blue well there are the standings Mears and Steve
on the same lap one lap down Roberto Guerrero what a debut at Indianapolis
for him so far these road racers into this sport I say this you know with some
pride having been a road racer myself have the skills this kind of racing I
might also say leader into the pits up to this point normal speed now this you
know would not be the same crew that just you will now see you know the
Pinsky that has entirely separate crews right going into action here and at this
moment Tom Sneba becomes the leader in the race good battle starting to shape
up between Steve and Rick Mears who you see here good pit stop for Rick Mears
has the making of what they call a trophy dash to the finish huh remember
when we had Mears couple years ago he lost the race by 16 100 of the second
was the closest well here comes Steve up for his pit stop now first the finish
you mentioned was the closest ever in the history of Indianapolis here's
this is the team that's headed by Teddy Mayer and Tyler Alexander the men that
won this race when they ran team McLaren then they went back to Europe and got a
gun in Formula One got squeezed out over there for one reason or another came
back here formed an entirely new team here they are looking tough extremely
well Steve I headed back out of the race course years ago it just needs to take
them so long to get back up to speed but it doesn't anymore they're up almost
immediately you just saw beautiful pit work there and what about the mechanics
who work on the cars ahead of time that's a very delicate job too Sam has a
comparison
Sylvia Mayuri has played the piano since she was six her hands trained by
thousands of hours of practice almost have a life of their own she thinks and
they act there are other professions in which a person's hands whether through
their strength or delicacy or dexterity perform tasks far beyond the capabilities
of the ordinary person one thinks of surgeons or carpenters or sculptors
like Bill Grimes Dennis McCormick is an indie mechanic like all top mechanics
his hands are powerful they are also remarkably deaf capable of performing a
wide variety of jobs including some in which he must work in places he cannot
see jobs that involve threading his fingers into the narrow innards of the
car
just as the pianist must play under pressure at a concert the mechanic must
be able to work fast with unfailing certitude often when parts of the car are
red-hot changing an engine for example in the minutes before a race or adjusting
the suspension during the rush of a pit stop just as a sculptor may strive to
create forms of enduring beauty an indie mechanic works with parts and pieces
which are beautiful because they are superbly functional parts made from
high-grade steel magnesium carbon fiber welded and machined and shaped without
regard to cost this is what Dennis McCormick works with every day his hands
developing a kind of x-ray sensibility to any flaw anywhere in the car
Bill Grimes knows when something is wrong too when a form has not attained
the strength or grace he intended and he will work until he makes it right
Sylvia Maiori knows when she has hit the wrong note or played with less feeling
than the music deserves and she will practice and get it right but if Dennis
McCormick makes a mistake he may not find out about it until his driver is
out on the track like any racing mechanic he does his best and hopes that
it was enough
and I might add that my race driving colleague Sam Posey is also an artist a
painter of landscapes and other things it's a nice piece Rick Mears still
leading at Indianapolis Tom Stevens second place he leads by about 10
seconds in the race right now we'll be watching his weather
Steve will begin to chew into that lead of 10 seconds Jack a route right now is
down with the team leader Roger penske here in the pits with Roger
Penske and Roger you're 11 seconds ahead at this time with Rick Mears are things
going according to plan well hopefully we make it on one more stop everything we
put a set of tires on that time so we don't have to put one on on the last
stop we just feel it we don't have to make a mistake maybe a slight wing
adjustment but still a long race to go just keeping our fingers crossed well
you've been doing a lot of calculating though for the fuel consumption does it
look good right now our fuel mileage has been better than we expected so we made
a long run there so we could try to just make one more stop and hopefully it'll
pay off seems to be the only major problem down here is a lost rearview
mirror they came off the left side of Rick Mears's car well his hair has turned
to silver but the wheels are still turning inside Roger penske's head as
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still Rick Mears leads at about the 150 149 lap mark of this scheduled 200 lap
race 500 miles here on this two and a half mile race course so there's still a
bit of a ways to go still to go Bill Fleming right now is down with Tyler
Alexander the crew chief for Tom Sneva let's get into that Tyler we just heard
a report from Roger Penske over and Rick Mears bit there 11 seconds ahead of you
but you seem to be gaining a little bit
how many pit stops you have to go we have one pit stop and at the moment my
watch just said that we're eight and a half seconds behind Mears and the car is
not handling very well so Tom is talking to me on the radio about some things
that we maybe should change on the next pit stop so we have quite a conversation
going so I'm sorry that I haven't got time to chat to you some more very good
thank you okay a very busy Tyler Alexander the most significant thing is
it's eight and a half seconds now it was 11 seconds not too long ago so despite
the handling problems Tom Steeler here is moving in just a bit bit by bit but
he's got plenty of time to catch up if he could continue doing that yeah there's
plenty of race left here and I must admit I'm moving forward on the edge of my
seat you have that feeling you have that I think we might be headed for a showdown
again the relationship between the two cars on the race course
the possibility of some rain look up a spin that is Roberto Guerrero I'm looking
who's been running so well but he's under control he didn't hit it and he
didn't stall it Jim that a beautiful job he didn't stall it his cars always
stall when they spin to avoid stalling you have to put in on the clutch you see
what I mean yeah and he did that that's incredible presence of mind and I must
say you know in Formula One the turns are slower they're more apt here Chris
is even coming in now that there's a yellow there's a yellow out in Formula
One there so we say a little more used to to to spin where they can afford them
and Guerrero I mean all right he lost control but what he did after that was
absolutely brilliant I mean you know I mean I think so many other people would
have wound up in the wall there without any idea why comparatively young in the
sport the other man Columbia but here is Sneva in the pitch remember that was his
groupie well Fleming was talking to just a minute ago Tom back out again another
efficient pit stop by the teddy bear crew spoke of trying to change they did
make the tires here comes the leader mirrors changing the rear tires Jim as
you well know means changing the handling of the car because the tires
these days are not quite the same diameter no two are quite the same so
you change the tires and you get a little bit different handling combination
okay mirrors back out again it's time now to check in with Jackie Stewart
periodically now that the watermark of the race and here he is before this
yellow came out right now we had quite a spectacular set of circumstances we had
three rookies in the top six AJ fight had entered the top ten the Penske
Pansers were roaming again with Rick Mears very much in control it looked at
this stage Mears very controlled he's been the quiet man of the month here at
Indianapolis everyone's been paying more attention to Andretti to the young
Charger so to speak and Mears has been sneaking up on the mall and finds
himself in a very good position Tom Snever still can't be counted out
remarkable the Tyler Alexander teddy mayor team should have the two cars that
they have entered fastest and second fastest at the start and certainly Tom
Snever is not out of this motor race yet they're still in contention now let's
look at the order Rick Mears is leading the race Tom Snever in second spot
Alan's a senior is in third position and Al Hall but who incidentally Sam Posey
forecast to finish fourth in this race he's up to fourth position that's good
Michael Andretti's in fifth position Danny and guys Guerrero Reha and AJ
fight is in ninth position tenth position howdy homes and now our cars
out of the race Brabham Fittipaldi Gelhausen they've all gone out of course
Patrick Pettah is that horrific accident and Danny Sullivan the aftermath of that
accident he broke a wheel and damaged the car Ganassi had electrical problems
he's out Derek Dillies has a difficult month of May with handling and that's
been the problem today for him Bettenhausen Gordon Johncock of course
crashed in 103 he's retired from the race Fabby and the oldest man in the
race Dick Simon he's retired from the race Johnny Rutherford winning this race
three times in the past he's had a very difficult month of May even qualifying so
he's retired Al Unser jr. retired Kevin Cogan and the only all-american car of
Dan Gurney's with a stock block engine he's retired Pancho Carter he's out
also Scott Brayton with transmission went out in one lap of 150 then the
leaders average speed is a hundred and sixty two point nine six five miles per
hour continue it does and here is Mario Andretti number three into the pits look
at the front wing he's had an incident on the course getting out of the car it
looks like the bad luck that has dogged him for the past 15 years since he won
the race in 1969 has got him again Jim I saw Mario sitting out by the swimming
pool the other day he had his swimming trunks on he had his cooler sitting by
with his wife here comes that incident now a replay as he's coming into the
pits who's the legards in front of him is it yes Garza in the white car yeah
coming here and there yeah there is an avoidable no that's a shame it's gonna
say he was sitting by the pool and he was all ready to go except there was no
water in the pool has that kind of luck at Indianapolis Bill Fleming is down
with a sad Mario here we are again and we have to we have to do an interview
under unhappy circumstances but what happened
cars that just was all of a sudden just decided to duck in in a pits and
apparently I don't know if you knew where he was going or what because it
looked like he was in the last pit he was gonna stop Garza yeah it looked like
he was gonna get out of the way then all of a sudden he pulled in a fast lane I
couldn't stop you know I just hit him Mario you were running about 400 revs
slower than anybody else and and and I think Darrell was concerned about that
he talked to us about it earlier any idea what that problem was I had a
broken exhaust pipe and that would cause that just a decrease in RPM hey listen
let me just ask you one question about this start how did you feel looking
over there at Michael well he was looking good he's still looking good so
hope he brings home the bacon okay Mario okay Mario Andretti out of it again and
Indy there is the co-owner of his team Paul Newman yes the Paul Newman might be
interesting to meet him a bit not Paul Newman the actor Paul Newman the racing
man it is well known these days that Paul Newman loves racing and those of us
who've seen him drive know he's good at it he has a sort of talent and
determination to have been an indie driver if he'd begun his career when he
was younger as it is he's one of the country's top sports car drivers I asked
him what his goals were for his race well to to avoid being placed in the in
the race car from a wheelchair
we had a the Datsun that we're racing I'm racing with a fellow named Jimmy
Fitzgerald is older than I am and so we thought it would be very a lot of fun to
go to Geritol and see if we could get some sponsorship you know the oldest
living racer and
I called the fellow who was supposed to make these arrangements and he said
you're not gonna believe this I said what is it he said they've decided that
they're going for a younger market and you're too old so you know that when
you're too old for Geritol you're really old
this would not be a race which Paul would win but although he claims he races
only to win it is obvious that driving whatever the result seems to have
contributed to his extraordinary youthful energy I asked if it might have
helped his acting too well
I think if you can find a new passion I think it's likely to bleed over into the
old ones into the ones that are simply dying embers and I think racing has done
that for me at least that's what Joanne thinks and she's probably a lot more
accurate about what I do than I am but it certainly has been welcome it's been
slow and painful but it's been welcome last year with the movie in the works
with his racing with his salad dressing company booming Paul's schedule was so
hectic by the end of the season he was physically and mentally exhausted when
the last race of the year ended with a crash I asked Joanne what if she thought
he quit she said he should well times change today there's no one who supports
me more or is more forbearing
you understand she said at the end of last year our daughter was through with
juniors and riding and she was gonna get rid of her horses and I was gonna get
rid of the cars and and Joanne was so pleased because she said for the last
ten years every Sunday during the summer I've either been in a horse show or an
automobile race and she said I've got other things that I enjoy doing so
Claire did not sell her horses and I did not get rid of the cars Joanne had said
I have done my motherly and my wifey duties now for ten years and I'm not
going to any more races she was in Atlanta and she was at Long Beach so so
much for that she's marvelous and she makes it very
comfortable for me to continue all Newman the green flag is out again now
however Rick Mears still leading car number six yellow car passing the
slower car at the moment Tom Floyd still no problems but still
steve is edging up just you know quarter of a second a lap maybe something like
that but getting closer not further away so again we could still be setting up
for the kind of a finish we had here a couple of years ago with Mears and John
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the same Rick bears the leader Tom Steve a second but Steve is still gaining
bit by bit by bit Al Holbert has now moved up in the third place the man you
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I think he's terrific driver one little more last year you know if we're really
headed for a showdown and it appears we may be here's what you should know about
Steve and mirrors 35 mirrors 32 both are in the very prime of their driving
careers Jim right now this is Steve's 11th start here
mirrors is seven each has won one and you know they drive the two best teams
in Indy racing right now interesting how experience when you get near the end in
Indianapolis almost inevitably rises to the top
Ray Gandalf has risen from the infield here in Indy let's see it the charge
began literally before dawn at five o'clock this morning by the time the
Sun had risen over the still empty stands the arteries leading to the
speedway were clogged but somehow everybody got in filling the stands and
spilling all over the infield they're a study in motley this is definitely not
Edith Horton country you won't find Truman Capote hanging out on the first
turn the height of elegance here is a guy wearing a shirt with buttons you can
see almost anything here in the infield except the race that's not quite true of
course you can see a tiny corner of the race if you climb a tree or are early
enough to get the front row along the fence or scrunch down and peek through
the bottom of the stand but who needs to see the race this is a happening people
come here to eat they come here to drink they come here to sleep off what they
have eaten and drunk they come here to look at each other and to be looked at
they wear outlandish clothes sometimes very few clothes at all some of them are
too young to be able to remember this day when they grow up but they'll keep
coming back until they can that's what you find out there
Reagan dog reporting from the infield Rick Mears the leader Thompson even
second Al Holbert a lap down but in third place in the race right now
here's just so smooth now conceivable he is cooling at the least little bit and
that's why Steve is gaining on him slowly or is he just doing it oh here's
got a great job that's that v6 Buick engine this is not the standard engine
that almost everyone else has and Rick Mears and and I don't know if that's the
cause of the failure but here's the yellow flag brings out the yellow again
there is Scott Brayton
can't tell what the occasion for that has been this is an opportunity to check in
with Bill Fleming again he's down in the pits Bill here's something I think that
is extremely interesting on the same number of pit stops Rick Mears has
spent four minutes and 21 seconds off the course Tom Steve of 449 so there's a
difference of 28 seconds there and yet they're only about eight seconds apart
on the course this of course indicates that Tom Steva is the faster car right
now that was Tyler Alexander we're able to listen in on the radio he was talking
to Tyler's to Tom Steve and said Tom if Mears ducks into the pit you come right
in with him interesting yeah they mean to cover Mears's moves the way you would
cover another boat in attacking dual in the Americas Cup something like that
Tyler Alexander extremely experienced crew chief and so Steve of course himself
trying to work out what should be done see we can pick something up again
on the yellow before we do stop to try to make it to the end
it's Alexander yeah well it's going to be close if they can make 30 laps on the
green they're now in lap 167 they wouldn't quite do it if the green came
out now no they might be able to stretch their mileage if Steve it was able to
lay out of the throttle a little bit and trap but I don't think they could also
lead that way well this is very very interesting cerebral stuff right here in
Indianapolis we're still under the yellow there's Tyler Alexander the
corner and his car with Tom Steve on the racetrack so the yellow and each lap
under the yellow gives them a better chance but a little spot some sparks came
out the back of the car Tyler of course has no idea about that at this point
they just ran over something or what yeah you may very well let's see if we
can listen in on them again there's Tyler hold it he's coming in he's got
something wrong with a car this is the moment he knows what won't run
great yeah here they said they go in and we're gonna go wrong with it
something is broke in the back of the car there is the green out and you heard
it something broken in the back of Tom Steve's car coming in at the pit lane
must have been that's why yeah yeah sparks just as we thought it was
shaping up for an incredible battle he comes in with a good head of steam
though Jim he was just in position to get into that trophy dash that dash to
the finish with Rick Mears and he could have made it on fuel that he was very
close to being able to make it but it's all over now they're just going through
the motions I mean the engine obviously is all right wasn't a fun look the
crewman is pointing to the back there a suspension member or something
forget about it yeah forget about it they didn't need to top it up with fuel
that's for sure quickly this happened but Jim just this epic duel appeared to be
shaping up it's over yeah Steve are the man who won the race last year try to
become the first repeat winner since Al Unser in 1970 and 71 has failed in that
quest after some beautiful virtuoso race driving here this afternoon he drove
just beautifully today highest possible marks this of course has given Rick
Mears a bigger lead than ever here the crowd there Jim they know it it's a
knowledgeable crowd here and they love a good drive like that here's Rick now of
course the commanding collection has changed it certainly has we had West now
just maintaining the car for Rick Mears Fleming has moved over to Sneevis pit
here he is well Tom it's a dramatic moment in this race but certainly very
undramatic for you what happened well I don't know it looks like something let
go in the back of the car half shaft or something fortunately it happened under
the yellow when we were going slow which is a real break because it happens at
speed we get the wall but it's too bad because we had the car working I think
we were catching the leader and it would have been an exciting race actually you
were running faster on the course than he was I think you're only concerned with
Tyler Alexander according to the conversation we heard was fuel did you
think you could make it with one more stop yeah we would have had to stop one
more time we weren't concerned about that too much because we knew Mears
wasn't getting the mileage we were I think the car was a little quicker
there towards the end but you got to run 500 miles well you gave us a heck of a
show time thank you I think that's the definition change considerably here in
the Penske pits and now the race strategy is simple wait for 28 laps to
go and then come in and take on fuel when Tom Sneeva came by here coasting
into his pits you can see the change on ever everybody's face they broke out
into smiles then they gathered it back up and said wait a minute the race isn't
over yet as Roger Penske in communication with this driver with Rick
Mears now with a great big lead in the race
let's get a reaction on this from Jackie Stewart the three-time world champion
with us as always Tom Sneeva has just demonstrated why he's a real champion he
was driving that car even very slowly and felt a suspension or transmission
problem had he continued at that time under the green conditions the chances
are he would have lost control of that car this is what a racing driver has to
do he has to think it's much more than just driving with sheer talent and
natural ability you've got to be a thinking driver and that's why people
like Tom Sneeva win the Indy 500 and that's why they become old racing
drivers there aren't any brave old racing drivers around well done Tom
Sneeva
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Rick Mears apparently breezy to victory the Indianapolis 500 and now we get a
report that there is some rain falling on the racetrack not all the way around
there is rain now over the racetrack still under the green Sam but they don't
allow much rain to fall before they stop things here well Rick Mears still
running 200 miles an hour plus though Jim and you know these tires which give
the car such incredible grip under ideal circumstances are very treacherous indeed
in the wet they have no grooves in them whatever they are slicks if there's any
water on the road the cars become unhandleable did I almost thought for a
second I who I saw something on one of the lenses of our cameras yep so now
this is a tremendously difficult position for Mears also looked like
here's wiggled a little bit coming out of that last turn yeah he did I mean
obviously he doesn't want to slow down dramatically but he could lose control
completely I mean this is a very dangerous situation for him because he
is two laps ahead Jim of his own teammate a while ago it looked like he
would have to battle Tom Steve on the race course have the battle of fuel in
the pit he's eliminated those two the only one left is the weather with his
two-lap lead but still he's going at tremendous speed and it did look like he
wiggled a little bit coming out of that one turn can't take too much less
moisture on the track no now this is very tough for a driver Jim because you
can see on your visor of course how much rain is falling where you are but at
these speeds and remember you're traveling over a hundred yards a second
at these speed it is sometimes hard to pick out especially this late in the
race what the track conditions might be in the turn ahead of you in other words
it's a little bit oily out there right now well there's Kathy Pesky
Rogers why she doesn't think like it's look like it's time to relax at all and
neither does Roger by the way no the emotions obviously running very very
high there very much so and no doubt in the race car though Mears has to keep
his totally under control and concentrated the work and have what's it
like inside that cockpit let's listen to Jackie Stewart here at the Speedway when
the drivers go down the front straight and on the back stretch a lot of time is
spent addressing the instruments in the cockpit now I'm sitting in a Chevrolet
Corvette now which is very similar to most modern cars today but extremely
sophisticated in the inside with many instruments and dials and knobs and
switches to address let's have a look at some of them looking at it it looks
quite bland until I switch it on suddenly the world lights up and when I
start the engine up suddenly we get movement as well as color we have
analog which means this movement here of the rev counter and a digital readout of
the speed of the engine but the whole dashboard itself in fact is a is a
bizarre range of colors and shapes and switches and dials can you imagine
addressing turn one at 215 miles an hour and having to read all of this by
comparison the instrument panel and Al Unser's race car is stark the steering
wheel much much smaller but the driver can see all of the instruments through
the spokes of his steering wheel and another difference there are switches on
the steering wheel here the kill switch if an emergency occurs he can switch
electricity off and by pressing this button be in two-way conversation with
his pit crew another big difference is this steering wheel comes off in the
case of an emergency the driver is allowed out of the car much faster the
instrument in the center of the panel is the rev counter that's to see the engine
speed the dial on the left is for the water and oil temperature the orange
needle is oil temperature the white needle indicates water temperature this
is the turbo boost dial that needle will go up to the indicated yellow mark
during the race instead of having an oil pressure gauge we have a red warning
light that will only come on when there is low oil pressure or trouble the same
applies to fuel pressure that will only come on if there's little or no fuel
left and it's not being picked up this here this little button is just to check
if all of those lights are working correctly and if the driver wants no
lights he can switch this off and it cancels those two finally the panic
button if the car goes on fire the driver presses this and fire extinguishing
fluid comes all around the cockpit allowing them time to get out so as you
can see there's a considerable difference between the cockpit of a
streetcar and the cockpit of a racing car the race driver has much less to
look at and much less to do we and our street cars have got to have much more
instrumentation many more controls for the race driver those simply wouldn't be
possible in the interest of safety and concentration but at the same time
everything is within reach and easy sight okay the cockpit of a racing car
Rick bears still the leader by a couple of laps over his teammate Al Unser
senior Al Hover the rookies still in third place on place higher than Sam
Posey predicted calmly and coolly before the race that he would finish in fact
there's Al senior just in the foreground there's Rick here who seems to be going
faster at this point that Al senior yeah he's closing in on Al senior another
car in between them but that's Al senior up in front yeah once again a lap soon
was teammate right and that's Tom boy a good race staying out of everyone's way
in his rookie appearance and here comes Rick Mears of course into the pits yeah
this will be his last topping off pit stop this should be absolutely routine
but it's just in this kind of thing isn't it that fiasco can occur you know
looking at that cockpit piece they're not changing the the tires at all just
refueling that cockpit right now for Rick Mears is like a cloister Jim it's
warm it's damp in there with his own sweat I imagine he feels a oneness with
the car at this point and with the task that he has ahead of him focus
concentration anybody would envy Rick Mears now the crowd you hear in the
background you see some of the waving they're beginning to urge him on he
looks like their man he's the one that they're going to identify with on this
particular day a collective sense of achievement really not just Rick Mears
and the treatment everyone that's the idea identifying with the driver win or
lose there's the way they stand
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young family well Rick Ray von Mears born in Wichita Kansas raised in
Bakersfield California certainly seems on his way to winning the 1984
Indianapolis 513 laps to go however but it would have to be something happening
to his car to stop him now because his lead is so long over everybody and you
know the second-place car is his teammate Allen sir jr. so one way or
another the Penske people appear to be in pretty good shape in this year's race
beers water schemes spare time fly remote-controlled drive remote-controlled
cars pretty mechanical with everything he does yeah but Jim did you notice how
many things he just mentioned he's had dozens of hobbies none of them hold his
interest for very long only racing I think you can see why but by the way his
latest toy if you can call it that is radio controlled helicopters that he
bought just a couple of days before Rick incidentally makes a point of keeping to
himself on the morning of the race he stays in the Speedway Motel I do as well
and he stayed there very late this morning have a breakfast there with his
girlfriend there's Roger Penske squirming nervous yeah of course he can't work off
the tension not Mears is busy his heart rate in that car even though he's
relatively relaxed it's probably triple what it would ordinarily be the physical
effort has been kind of measured approximately is about what it would be
if you were chopping wood that's funny because he just seems to be sitting
sitting still yeah there's really a lot more to it than that even though the
movement of the circumference of the wheel very very small
32 Mears has driven 84 in the car races not at any but in the car type races the
experience is there he's having the kind of victory Jim your interest in horses
remember a secretariat yeah the Belmont he's takes secretary by 31 in the
Belmont
anywhere Rick Mears and the crowd looking on nobody's left for sure
400,000 and more his brother you know of course is a race driver Roger Mears
didn't qualify this year let's meet that family a little bit seems like most
people in California have vanity license plates but one in the 79 was earned the
hard way it stands for the victory of Rick Mears at Indianapolis in 1979 Rick
is one half of a brotherly driving team part of a racing family really and a
close one Rick qualified in the first row for this year's 500 their parents
home is the nerve center and gathering place for the Mears clan race driving
really started with their father Bill today he operates an excavating company
from his backyard but his heart is with his sons and their racing machines this
was Bill Mears and his race cars a teenager back in Kansas a far cry from
Rick and Rogers sophisticated equipment of today as their faces and haircuts
matured with the times Rick and Roger Mears grew up racing was never far from
their mind their sister admires what her brothers have done but she doesn't want
to be a passenger on their bandwagon I went for one ride with Roger on a
motorcycle and I will never get on a motorcycle with he really scared me oh I
hit a few times and shut the curtains when things like that were going on you
know I think I don't want to look at that anymore I was kind of always messing
around getting in trouble you know for one thing or seemed like I always got
caught at everything he never did I was a little sneakier yeah Roger is the older
brother by four and a half years he came to Indy later than his little brother
making his first appearance in 1982 unfortunately he did not make the race
this year he started racing and go-karts then motorcycles and stock cars but
off-road racing brought him his greatest success first in dune buggy then bigger
four-wheel-drive vehicles Rick first tagged along then joined his brother in
off-road racing at one stretch between the two of them they won 20 of 27 main
events in sprint buggy competition in the rugged world of off-road Rick
developed a philosophy that serves him well at Indy to finish first you must
first finish he came to the Speedway in 1978 was named co-rookie of the year the
next year came his great victory starting on the polls then winning the
race it's quite a family all right whatever the occasion whatever the
terrain the Mears gang will find something to ride on that goes for mom
and dad as well as the brothers Roger and his wife Carol have two sons the
youngest Casey already racing on dirt bikes racing tends to become a family
tradition brothers like the Mears and the answers fathers and sons like
the Benton houses Bukovic's Parsons answers and Andretti's but none seems to
have more plain fun out of the speed business than the Mears family of
Bakersfield California Rick talked about it as far as any other brother teams go
I don't think there's any other brother teams in it like we are you know any
others we've seen have been farther apart in the racing from each other and
they're as far apart from each other as they are from the rest of the team you
know the other drivers where we've always been very very close and we've
enjoyed racing with each other and we've been racing against each other with each
other since day one and we've grown up with it and we're closer I think than
any other brother teams going four laps to go in the Indianapolis 500 of 1984
and Rick Mears is well reason along with the breeze no problems evident anywhere
in the pits or on the race course the second-place car his teammate Alan sir
more than a lap behind nobody is going to be able to catch him or even come
close to him he's just got to finish the course now
interesting that Roger Penske the meticulous preparer of cars has another
race type of race car running for him today well exactly because in the first
two races of this season before Indianapolis his own Penske cars Jim broke
down both of them broke down he's all for four so to speak this year so he made
the decision to switch to these marches but she got very late in the game there
is a Pesky's wife you can feel the emotion there she's with Rick Mears his
parents you see his mother on the left or is there just counting the laps that
are going by that thread of rain that we felt a few minutes ago see the extent of
the emotion maybe it's almost harder to control joy Jim then a feeling of
tragedy sometimes you know talking about Penske changing cars
I think a highly intelligent man to face the reality that the cars he spent
hundreds of thousands of dollars developing for this year simply aren't
good enough and to have to scrap them and go out and buy somebody else's race
cars but that's I think a function of intelligence well right and Roger didn't
get where he is and I've known him for many years by letting his emotions
overrule logic he's an extremely logical man the march cars that we're talking
about have totally dominated this race what is it I think 29 or 30 of the 33
cars that started our marches made in England but the driver was made in
America here is the very best part of the day and if you're wondering why he's
still running so fast Jim with the end virtually in sight you don't want to
lose your rhythm it's really safer to keep running at full speed and slow down
you mentioned earlier something about a golfer you know when he tries to play
defensively doesn't work you may lose the whole thing so Rick Mears very
wise I say to keep his foot in it here running well up in the 199 right now
pesky getting tensor with each lap I think yeah one two finishes almost too
much to hope for there's the white flag Rick Mears has one lap to go one lap to
go to win his second Indianapolis 500 at the age of 32 he won in 1979 five years
later he is on his way to victory again boy would he like to win this one
because there were many that said the first there's his mother there's his
mother Rick's mother they many of them said that the first one he won here was a
little bit of a fluke he was still so new to the game this one's no fluke at
all no question about that and then of course he almost won another in that
breathtaking finish with Gordon Johncock where he lost by 16 one hundredths of a
second very little of this race to go Jim and I think it's gonna come in just
before it rains proud waving to him the applause going the checkered flag for
Rick Mears he's won the Indianapolis 500 with a hand in the air
yep hand in the air there's his mother
and Al answer what we believe to be finishing second in the race it's been
so confusing on the scoring system at the racetrack here about that we believe
Al answer a second but they're still with that hand in the air is Rick Mears
Kathy Pesky more emotional than Rick's parents it's so hard that joy you're
almost not ready for that emotion that is that strong and a big thumbs up from
Rick Mears
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to others this winter well Rick Mears it seemed to be an effortless run for you
today well none of her have for less you do have to work at it but the guys just
did a tremendous job on a pencil car and it never missed a beat all day long and
they got me in and out of some good clean pit stops so it really made my job
pretty easy we just had to stay keep our head on straight and stay out of trouble
all day and that's what we did and it just worked out perfect when Sneva
dropped out of the race were you aware of it and what were your thoughts yes I
was aware of it and you know I was sorry for him but it was a relief for me
because he was my toughest competitor and I really figured we were gonna have
a heads-up battle right at the end of the race and really gonna be a good
close tough show but you know he had his problem and that was that enabled me to
kind of cruise the rest away which I'm not gonna complain about this is your
second Indy 500 victory does it feel as great as your first one I tell you what
I think it feels better because the first one I was still pretty new at it
and I didn't realize exactly what it all meant but and it took a week to soak in
this one's soaking in already and I'm very happy and your mom and dad are here
where are they they were right over here on the side you're they've got to be
thrilled yeah absolutely you know he just I just very thrilled for the team
especially because we've been down I say we had a little bit of a low year last
year and a low year to begin with now and we knew if we got competitive we could
get the job done the guys did it for me well will you go back to the Penske
design now will you stay with the March for a while we got to go home and
discuss that I doubt if Rick is thinking of much now except for the exhilaration
of his great drive but there are other delights that go with an Indy win the
purse this year is expected to be a new record although the official amounts
will not be disclosed until tomorrow it should work out like this Rick Mears
about $400,000 second place about $180,000 now again to Jack Aroot Jack
Mears you've got to be excited and thrilled with this 500 victory for your
son I cited excited and am I thrilled what do you what do you do with a son
like that let me tell you that he does everything that way he's a winner we
watched you here in victory lane with about 15 laps to go and you walked back
and forth you look like a caged little animal what was going through your mind
well you know you I don't ever see anything or do anything until that black
flag comes down and that race is over I've learned the checkered flag and I
learned it long time ago pardon me for being so excited but I learned it long
time ago so I just hope and I did a lot of praying and let me tell you I think
that's what does it well Bill Mears your husband corrected you when you said
black flag and said no it's the checkered flag Bill you seem to be pretty
dialed into what was going on today got to be pleased yeah he was up in the
suites with that pencil for people and we just couldn't believe it even just
running 202 204 and we just knew that we had all had a good feeling that he's
gonna win what does it mean to a father to have a son be an Indy 500 champion
just emotions too too tough to describe a former driver yourself Bill a very
emotional Bill Mears there and that's not surprising his son just won the
Indianapolis 500 that's a pretty important event in anybody's life I
guess we can expect to see Rick back next year trying to do it again of
course second place to Formula One driver Roberto Guerrero at least ex
Formula One driver now racing in America where there's more money and
third place to a real Indianapolis veteran Al Ansa senior that takes us
off good night
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and since I am strongly of the opinion that we are already providing more than
enough entertainment for visitors I wish to propose the motion that the
provision of more would be detrimental to the good name of the better
knickers please counselor I should strike that from the minutes Mr. I beg
upon you I see it don't take down knickers chance of me a funding wouldn't
have counselor Fiddler I really must request you to moderate your language
when in committee I second that I do beg the committees pardon your worship and
all those bleeding Cods wallop about mucking up the good name of the butter
gets on my way oh god why don't we face facts we don't attract any visitors to
this dump because there is nothing for them to flip and will do of course we
are all well aware that mr. Fiddler would like to see more people in that so
called amusement arcade of his playing on those dreadful machines you're dead
right do you know how much what the button saw took last season one pound 60
it works out about two pence of growth yes please I really do feel that we are
somewhat straying from the point here but that is the point it's about the only
indoor amusement we have apart from snogging under the bandstand I do feel
that you know that counselor Fiddler does have a point there considering our
very high seasonal rainfall figure really mr. mayor personally I think it
is quite an average one if you think nine inches is an average one you've been
spoiled yes yes yes no no there's anyone else any useful suggestions to offer I
have and what is that counselor miss Fercom miss Fercom a beauty queen that's
what we want all the best results have them mr. mayor I think we have wasted
quite enough time here today and I propose that you close the meeting
mrs. mrs. prod were they please I do feel that the proposal merits some
discussion mr. mayor you are well aware of my views on women's rights and there
can never be anything proper in young women being shown off like cattle for
the sexual gratification of a lot of drooling men both I think about an
ornament right both competitions that's what we need poor old pret he really
will have to go and so will I we heard quite enough rubbish spoken here today we
still wish to hear yours mrs. prod will be your views I mean I think I have made
myself perfectly clear and as far as I am concerned the matter is closed good
morning
I'm a great that's that thing oh no it isn't we're still in committee I propose
we put into the vote what without mrs. prod we're still got a quorum yes yes
you're all right then yes all those in favor of the motion to hold a beauty
contest one only how about you you were all for it a moment ago all those
against to also I'm afraid we still haven't a majority counselor
hang on just a minute boys you're all for it I know yes anytime
carried
all right
Thank you, William. Are you all right now?
Oh, yes, thank you. It was just a touch of...
I generally go at this time of the...
Yes, it's the C.R.
Yes.
Hello, Mrs. Dukes. I thought you were going to the cinema.
I did, but I had to leave.
A young man sat next to me and started to make improper suggestions.
Again? Really, you should complain to the manager, you know.
I can't. He's after me too, you see.
Well, Mrs. Dukes, perhaps you shouldn't make yourself look quite so attractive.
No, it's not that. I can't help it. I give out waves, you know.
Really? Yes, my late husband used to call it...
William? Have you seen Mr. Fiddler?
Yes, not a bad photo considering.
No, I don't mean this. I mean, has he been in?
Ah, ah, yes. It was last Tuesday.
Has he been in today?
Today? Just a moment, let me see.
Never mind, William. If you do see him, would you mind telling him I'd like to see him right away?
Yes. What shall I tell him if I don't see him?
Nothing, William. Nothing.
Yes, I'll try and remember that, Mrs. Philpott.
Is the Admiral all right?
Yes, I think so. Of course, he's quite old, you know.
He's not as fit as some of us.
Oh, well, then.
We don't need your recommendations, do you? Go on, hop in.
I'll be right back.
Ah, it's all happening tonight.
Ah, yes, I'll get him in a second. I am the greatest...
Oh, I'm sorry. I thought I was back in the game, then.
Willie, I want you to get me a nice double room with hot and cold running chambermates.
Yes, yes.
Does that mean that you and Mrs. Philpott are going to do it, then?
Don't be filthy.
No, no, I didn't mean that. I mean, get hitched.
Oh, no, I wouldn't say that. We're just good friends.
Oh, well, I wouldn't bank on that for the minute if I were you, Mr. Fiddler.
Oh, it's like that, is it?
Yes. Oh, ah, I'm glad you reminded me.
Mrs. Philpott said to tell you, um, dear, I must get this right.
All right, take your time. I've got all night.
No, that wasn't it. Yes, he was. No, no, no, no, it wasn't.
Oh, dear me. It's on the tip of my tongue.
Your finger?
My finger, yes. No, that wasn't it.
Why are you thinking? Get that number for me, will you?
Yes, I'll remember it. Don't you worry.
I'll get this number for you while I'm waiting.
Yes, and, um...
Oh, dear me!
All right, all right, I'll do it myself. Good.
I'm only doing the best I've saw.
Oh, dear me!
Give me that thing. Come with me.
All right, give me the book. Thank you.
017543230.
Pata Publicity Bureau, to whom do you wish to speak?
Oh, hello, Paula. Sid here. Sid Fiddler. How are you?
Oh, very well, thank you.
You haven't changed. Peter there?
It's that terrible man, Sidney Fiddler.
You don't want to talk to him, do you?
I'd better. You know what he's like.
He may have something for me.
If it's anything like the last time, you'll need bailing out.
Don't worry. I can handle him.
Hello, Sid?
Hello, Pete. How's business?
Great, great.
I've got a job here you'd love to get your teeth into.
Right up your alley.
What is it?
He's got a job for me.
I can imagine.
I want you to do the publicity for a beauty contest we got down here in Fercom.
Beauty contest? What, you mean girls?
I don't mean budgery, guys.
Oh, I don't know.
I don't think Paula'd like me getting mixed up with a lot of girls.
Why not?
Well, we're engaged.
And you know how jealous Paula can be.
Think of all those lovely 38s and 40s, bobbling up and down.
I am.
Sounds like an interesting assignment, Sid.
Putting Fercom on the map.
Writing about local trade figures and that sort of thing.
Oh, she'd come back into the office, hasn't she?
What's the job worth?
One hundred in round figures.
And there'll be plenty of those, I promise you.
One hundred?
That's right. Could be more. I'm on the council.
I think I'd better come down, Sid.
That's my boy. And don't take any of that old guff from Paula.
If she doesn't like it, tell her she can lump it.
That's the way to deal with women. Treat them rough.
Hello, sweetheart. I didn't see you there.
Obviously. I'd like to see you, Sidney. Right away.
Hey. Ah, that's it. Mrs. Philpops wants to see you right away.
Thank you, Willie.
Yes. I knew I'd get it.
And how's my favorite little hotelkeeper today?
Hungry. Very hungry.
So would I be if I had a wee, dear.
But I haven't eaten.
You on a diet again?
No. You had asked me out to lunch.
Oh. Lovely. So I did. I'm sorry, love.
I've had a very busy day. I'll be in it right up to here.
So I see.
That's it. Great idea, isn't it?
Oh, for you, I'm sure it is.
No, no, no. I did it mainly for you, darling.
For me? Oh, really?
Well, you've got a hotel, haven't you?
Just think of all the people that this is going to bring into the town.
You'll be packed out.
And you'll have the beauty contestants staying here for a start.
Oh, yes, of course. I hadn't thought of that.
Now, that was very clever of you, Sidney.
You know me, love. Anything for you.
Anything but marriage?
Yes. Well, as I was saying, you'll have at least a dozen of the beauty queens staying here for a start.
At the usual rate.
You can't charge the contestants, can you?
Why not?
You love the bait, aren't they?
When people hear about all these lovely-looking dollybirds staying here,
they're going to be queuing up for your rooms, aren't they?
I don't doubt that.
But I am not going to have anything going on here that might upset my regulars.
Don't worry about it. I've fixed that.
There'll be a full-time chaperone here day and night.
Well, that is better.
Who?
Well, it wasn't easy, but we've got it down to a short list of possibles.
Yes.
We had to find people that would not take advantage of the situation.
Yes.
Somebody honest, dependable, with strict morals.
And?
They talked me into it.
I knew it.
Chaperone?
You and a bunch of beauty queens.
It's like asking Dracula to be in charge of a blood bank.
Now, now, now, wait a minute, darling. That's not true.
You know I don't go for beautiful women. I like you.
That doesn't get it. Go on.
All right, I'm going.
You natural son of a...
Get out!
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Really Mother, I don't see why I have to come too.
You haven't come too since the day you were born.
Look, you were there when he gave out this statement, weren't you?
Yes, but...
You even took this photograph of the revolting man.
Yes, well I want you here as a witness to what the man said.
She's still under waiters.
She is not heaving too, sir.
Very well, Mr. Christian, fire a shot across her bounce.
Oh, come along, answer the door.
All right, I'm coming.
Sorry if I kept you waiting. I was in the lab, you see.
Mrs. Bumble, I wish to speak to your husband immediately.
Well, you'd better come in then.
Honey, I've only got to go to the lab and someone starts knocking at your door.
It's almost as if I knew.
Mind you, I must admit, I do go out a lot.
Well, I'm not here to take a census on toilet habits, Mrs. Bumble.
Please take me to your husband.
Oh, how disturbing now, dear, he's upstairs.
Well, I damn well can.
Very well, Mr. Christian.
Stand by to ram and board her.
You've seen this, I presume?
Yes, but you have no right to be in here, Mrs. Proudworthy.
Never mind that.
Do you mean to tell me that in my absence
the committee actually approved this disgusting idea?
Mrs. Proudworthy, I hardly think that this is the time or the place to discuss matters.
Oh, Poppycock, I've seen men naked before, you know.
Damn it, I've buried three husbands.
I'm not surprised to hear it.
Excuse us, sir. Come along, Mother, please.
Oh, now you shut up.
Come along, I want a straight answer. Was it or was it not approved?
Mrs. Proudworthy, I refuse to discuss this with you in my bath.
I am not in your bath, thank goodness.
Now, was it or wasn't it?
Yes, it was, but the...
Right, then I must warn you that I mean to fight it to the bitter end.
Mrs. Proudworthy, I have a civic duty to support any...
Oh, fiddlesticks, you are a weak need ass.
And as far as I can see, you are as poorly equipped to carry out your civic duties
as your domestic ones.
That's what the job's all about.
I still don't see why you have to stay down there.
I've already told you, darling, they need some on-the-spot publicity now.
I've done all I can at this end. Surely you can understand that.
No, but I might do if you stop being so darn secretive
and tell me what the job's really about.
It's a publicity campaign, that's all.
Well, to publicise what?
Furcombe. Having a sort of competition to go with it.
Oh, like spot the boobs.
What? What made you say that?
Well, like the one you wanted to do
while spotting the deliberate mistakes on the cornflakes packets.
Oh, yes. Well, not quite like that.
It's to encourage people to come to Furcombe.
Well, you haven't exactly encouraged me to.
Well, I couldn't trust myself to ask you to come with me.
I'd only burst into your bedroom and try to make love to you or something.
You know I wouldn't let that happen.
Exactly, that's why I didn't. Didn't want the temptation.
Anyway, I'd lose my job, and if that happened, I couldn't afford to marry you.
Excuse me, are you going to Furcombe?
This train's going there, yes.
Oh, good.
You know that girl?
No.
Funny, she's going to Furcombe, too.
Well, a lot of people must live there.
Are you all right for Furcombe?
I'm sure you are.
Thanks.
I'm beginning to understand why you don't want me down there.
Oh, don't be ridiculous, darling.
You're the only girl in my life, you know that.
Excuse me, is this the train to the beauty contest?
Yes, that's right.
Oh, good. Are you coming?
Certainly not.
Perhaps you're right. Are you in this one?
Yes, that's right, I am.
Oh, I'll join you then.
You didn't tell me anything about a beauty contest.
I think I'd better go. Excuse me.
Well, goodbye, darling. I'll be back as soon as I can.
Now.
Oh, oh, oh.
Why did you wait until we were in the tunnel?
I thought I was. Sorry.
Sorry, darling.
Kiss.
I'll take most any time.
Most any time.
Get up.
Get off.
What?
I remember seeing them in the bathroom last night,
and in the morning they were gone.
Really, I can't believe one of these young ladies
would deliberately take your knickers.
Well, I'll make inquiries, of course. What were they like?
Red fanlet. Reinforced.
Yes, I see. Well, I'm sure they must turn up.
Oh, they can't do that. They've got elastic at the bottom.
How chic.
Well, I'm sure they'll be fine, Mrs. Duke.
Well, I certainly hope so, because I don't feel at all safe
walking about this town without any.
Perhaps I can help, Mrs. Duke.
Oh, the Admiral.
Come outside, ma'am. I've got something to show you.
Come.
What do you mean? Where?
All will be revealed, madam.
Across the promenade there. Look.
Yes, well, I've got to check all your measurements, haven't I?
I've never had it before.
Never mind. The experience will do you good.
Sydney, I'd like a word with you.
Yes, love? What is it?
It's about these complaints.
Complaints? I'm not complaining.
Everything's going fine.
Oh, yes. Yes, I can see that.
Yes. Well, you run along. We'll finish off later.
Finish what off? You've measured everything I've got.
Yes. Off you go.
You're always kidding, that one.
What's the trouble?
It's my permanent residence I am worried about.
All this running about the corridors in and out of each other's bedrooms.
It's simply not good enough.
You're dead right. At their age, they ought to know better.
It's your girls I'm talking about.
I've heard them all night long, doors banging.
Oh, blimey, Con. When you get a bunch of young dollies,
you've got to expect a bit of banging.
Well, I expect you to get them all into bed at a reasonable hour.
I promise you, I'll do my very best.
Mr. Fiddler, what about these photos? I haven't got all day, you know.
Excuse me, love. Business.
I'm just waiting for my publicity manager.
Yes, I know, but I'm supposed to be covering the Mayor's opening this afternoon.
You do get some unpleasant jobs, don't you?
He's opening a new municipal building at four o'clock.
Thank you. Thank you, ladies. And, erm...
And what about the ladies, may I ask?
What? What was that?
Why, Mr. Mayor, is there provision only for gentlemen
in this monument to natural and universal functions?
Yeah!
Because it was specifically designed for use by the male sex
as approved in council last September.
I see. So the ladies must wait, is that it?
Mrs. Prudworthy, I do feel that the place for protest is in the chamber.
I did protest in the chamber, Mr. Mayor, and most strongly.
And I still insist on knowing why this place could not have been for the use of both sexes.
Because it's for men.
We can't have them all using the same one.
Perhaps the Mayor would care to explain why we can't all use the same one.
Yes, well, no. Why can't we all use the same one?
Ah, yes, yes. Because the fittings are different for one thing.
We all have only one thing, Mr. Mayor.
Mrs. Prudworthy, you are deliberately misunderstanding me.
What I am trying to say...
I know what you are trying to say.
You are trying to say that women are inferior.
Yes.
I put it to you that this is one more example of this council's policy
to deliberately demean and debase womanhood.
Yes.
A policy which was brought to a head recently when in my absence
they passed this disgraceful resolution to hold a beauty contest here.
Yes.
I want every male here to know that the...