Row three, the 1978 world champion from Nazareth, Pennsylvania, Mario Andretti and Scott Pruitt,
second here two years ago.
Row four is the current point leader Bobby Rahal and winner of the season opener in Australia,
John Andretti.
For row five, the third place finisher, a year back from Aspen, Colorado, Eddie Cheever and
defending car PPG champion Al Unser Jr.
Row six from Michigan comes Scott Brayton and the young Canadian Scott Goodyear.
Row seven is the 85 Indy 500 champion Danny Sullivan in the Alfa Romeo and Roberto Guerrero
in Kenny Bernstein's car.
Row eight, making his IndyCar debut here a year back, Mike Roth and Jeff Andretti, the
leading rookie candidate.
In row nine, a 14-year veteran Tony Bettenhausen and from Japan, Hiro Matsushita.
In row 10, it's the 56-year-old legend from Houston, Texas, A.J.
Poyt and the freshman driver out of Vail, Colorado, Buddy Lazier.
Row 11, in the Vail Cosby, Derek Walkercar, Willie T. Ribson from South Florida, Dennis
Vitolo.
Row 12 is Italy's Guido D'Acco and alongside Jeff Wood.
Rounding off the field from Los Angeles, Ted Prappis.
There you see the temperature right now to 80, the humidity dropping to 50 percent.
The skies are cloudy, there is a potential of showers before the afternoon is over.
The field away in good order with Michael Andretti on the pole, his 16th career.
IndyCar Paul and the Andretti family on this Father's Day look stout out here, David.
They do, they certainly look stout just a couple of weeks ago back at Milwaukee and
I'm sure they're hoping for a repeat this afternoon.
Mario has not had a great deal of luck at this track.
John has led, Michael has led 114 of the last 117 laps here so I expect he's hoping to repeat
this afternoon and of course cousin or nephew John is in there with him.
Scrubbing in the tires, getting them a little warmed up.
Well exactly, they're trying to put some heat in the tires here by working the tire against
the road surface and of course it rubs off any stuff that may have stuck to the outside
of the tires.
There we see little Al, the current national champion going down Larnard Street to this
left right complex which he'll probably take right at the beginning of the race in second
gear.
We had third on our charts which is probably what he'll try and use as the race goes on
but with the tanks full of fuel and a lot of traffic out there he'll be in second and
of course he is stuck back in the field somewhat.
They had a terribly disappointing qualifying run yesterday afternoon.
He's languishing in tenth spot, not where he wanted to be at all.
On full tanks this morning Emerson Fittipaldi was the quick one and here is Bobby Rahal
still seeking his first win of the year although he leads by two points in the PPG kart championship
battle for 1991.
Bobby Rahal always a good runner, tremendously experienced, unflappable.
Down to the at water tunnel, just about ready to complete two and a half miles and complete
the preliminary laps as Michael Waltrip brings the field down.
We're having one flag to flag here a year ago coming to the pump house turn.
Michael the only driver to have led all six Indy car, rather five Indy car races this
season.
Trying to make it six here today.
Face car pulls off.
Start of trying to slow them down a bit, keep the field bunch together.
And on the brake here we come pulling for turn number one directly here in front of
us.
Michael Andretti jumps out in front, pulls away by two car lengths.
They call that second part of the horseshoe turn two.
Here we are diving down ready to head on to St. Antoine Street uphill here into third
gear.
Then they'll turn on to Woodbridge, tight running there.
Two by two around those corners and Ari Leyendike in the bright red car there, the number nine
car made a dynamite start.
He's right with Michael as they go up through that very tricky turns five, six and into
seven.
Very dodgy here, bumpy approach to that corner.
Woodbridge then on to Chrysler quickly.
Now headed down Congress Street and they let them out for just a moment.
Ready to make that quick turn onto Beaubien and then they'll get them up into high gear
as they head down Larnard and climb to over 160 miles per hour.
It's about the second fastest straight here.
It's also extremely bumpy, especially if you saw there where the car got just a little
bit over to the left of the road, which is where you want to be if you're going to overtake
anybody and it gets extremely bumpy out there.
Then Woodward now they're on to Jefferson Avenue headed for Cobo Hall by the Pontchacrane
Hotel coming around by the Joe Lewis Arena and over the railroad tracks right here.
Very tough part of the course.
Yeah, they actually crossed the real railroad tracks there, don't they?
Unlike Pescara back in the early sixties.
There we see little Al who is coming up.
They're the true sports, the American guy, the number 11.
That's got a Judd engine.
They feel they give a little bit up on their engines, but Michael and Freddie with the
Chevrolet back to all those four front cars with the Chevrolet power unit.
Michael pulls onto the front straight for the first time, completing the first of 62
laps here in Detroit.
Leyendeich making a good run in second place and as they come by, Michael and Freddie has
led every race this season.
They have an opportunity to be up in front.
They're riding with Unser as they come down into this very critical, fastest part of the
race course, breaking hard coming down here around turns one and two with Al Unser Jr.
Long corner that Rick Mears, the car in front of him, the number three Marlborough car of
Roger Bensky, seemed to have just a little bit more than Al Unser around that long corner,
which I'm just a tad surprised that that is one of the most important corners here because
it goes on for such a long way.
If you can get the car working through there and the section we're looking at now, it's
going to make your afternoon much easier.
Leyendeich, who has been getting stronger of recent here, he has had a great run again
in Annapolis this year where he won in 1990.
Stays right there.
Well, part of Leyendeich's key is that he's got Mo Nunn as his engineer.
And I remember Mo Nunn driving Formula 3 cars back 25 years ago in England with me.
And he has become one of the super engineers.
And he was Emerson Fittipaldi's engineer last year when he won the year before last when
he won the championship.
And he's working the magic now on Ari Leyendeich's car.
OK, take a look here.
This in-car camera shows two things, how stiff the suspension on the car is.
Watch the driver's head.
Now, they've repaired this circuit overnight.
Stock cars raced here yesterday and dug a lot of holes in it.
They patched it yesterday evening.
It was a tremendous rainstorm.
It washed out some of the patches.
They repatched it this morning.
The stock car drivers said it was the worst track they've ever raced on.
It's very, very bumpy.
And these cars have really cast iron suspensions.
This is one of the toughest cracks on drivers, as you can see.
It will really shake you loose as you complete just even half the distance.
And Willie T. Ribs was telling us, Chris, that you have to train for the second half
and really train for this course because it's so demanding.
It will beat you up more than Indianapolis.
Running third is Emerson Fittipaldi.
Fourth is Scott Pruitt.
Fifth is Andretti.
Mears is running in sixth.
Al Unser is in seventh.
Cheever is in eighth.
And you're riding with Bobby Rahal right now in ninth position.
Rahal, the current point leader in the CARP PPG Series.
There you see Bobby Rahal.
And you'll see what Chris was talking about as you come into the corner here.
That white streak down the middle.
Yesterday afternoon, the Trans Am boys really dug the surface up here.
And they had to lay that quick drying cement.
There's more of it there overnight.
The trouble with that quick drying cement is I've raced at many places with it.
It's very, very slippery.
And of course, they've had no chance to put any rubber down on it.
This is the first time they've seen it.
It was this morning.
And times in the morning's warm-up were way off yesterday afternoon's practice and qualify.
Speaking of slipperiness, one-third of the course has been resurfaced.
And whenever you lay new tarmac down, it has a quality of being a bit oily.
And then we had a dramatic rain shower last night that blew away about a third of the tenting here as that cold front moved through.
And between all of that and the...
Did about a million dollars worth of damage to tents last night in the paddock, didn't it?
Most of the tents can be found somewhere in southern or northern Ontario today.
There you see more of that patching there.
Actually, Chris had a point, you know, the suspension on these cars is so stiff.
And of course, the reason for that is that these cars rely so much on the air going not only over the car but under it to pull it down onto the road.
So you need to keep the gap between the road and the car as even as possible all the time.
And the only way to do that is to control the suspension movement.
It's up on the driver, but it certainly makes the cars a lot quicker.
Area of the course where there used to be a chicane for Formula One.
It's wide open here for the kart PPG cars.
And you see Leyendyk in the number nine, staying right there, just two, three car lengths behind Michael Andretti.
Leyendyk, who is a fine road racer but hasn't led on a road course since back in June of 88, three years ago, at Portland.
Chris?
Sorry.
Ken made the point that 30 percent of the track was resurfaced, but what he didn't say was it was done by the low bidder.
And that's why it's as rough as it is.
But seriously, for a moment, Leyendyk is staying so close to Andretti here, this is going to be a two-pit stop race.
If he can hold that interval, this race could be won or lost in the pit stop.
The first window for pits is in the late 20s.
Before 30 laps come up, the first scheduled pit stop will take place unless there's a yellow flag before that.
Tool consumption in this race is of vital importance.
They must average about 1.72 miles per gallon here to get by with only those two stops or running out.
You see the third place car, Emerson Fittipaldi, lying about 15 car lengths back.
Leyendyk is making a very good run in the early going against Michael Andretti, who had the entire field covered by a second.
He was one second quicker than anyone in qualifying the third year in a row that he's been on the pole.
This track just sort of fits his style.
It certainly seems to. He was quoted yesterday afternoon in an interview as being aggressive like his father.
He feels he's a very aggressive driver.
And this is the sort of track where you need to be aggressive with the track, not just with the other drivers.
This is the sort of track where you've got to take it by the scruff of the neck.
In fact, the first time Michael ever drove on this track was as teammate, your teammate, DWH.
When I drove the Chevrolet Corvette here in Trans Am, he came along and guested in the other car.
The team manager of the time was John Dick, who's the team manager now, or the chief engineer on little Al's car.
And he said he'd never seen just big flat spots on tires.
And he's all right.
He's learned a lot since then.
There you see the fourth place car, Andretti coming by, followed by Pruitt, then Mears and the three, Al Unser, Eddie Cheever rolling along here.
Remainder of the field coming down one of the fastest portions of the course alongside the Detroit River.
You see Roberto Guerrero's car storming by, and right behind him comes Jeff Andretti.
Back in front, it's a two-car war in the streets of Detroit between Michael Andretti seeking his second straight win on this course and Ari Leyendijk,
great Dutch driver, really giving it a run here in the early going.
Coming about, we've completed four laps.
That means that there are 58 remaining.
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Nikki Taylor sets up big brother Alex for the ride of his life.
You want me to be a glorified chauffeur?
They're just paying passengers.
With a few friends.
I bought a blue ticket. That's a ride and a kiss.
And a few surprises.
Nikki!
I'm definitely not one of Nikki's school friends.
One of Nikki's teachers.
Amid the frivolity, a drama unfolds.
I swear to God I'll never believe another word you say to me again, either of you.
Chances continues tonight, 8.30 on 9.
After five of 62 laps, Michael Andretti leads with Ari Leyendeich in second, Fittipale is third, Mario Andretti is fourth, and Scott Pruitt has fallen back one position into the fourth position.
Further back in the field out here, A.J. Foyt, who had started in 19th, has picked up one position. He's now up to 18th.
In racing, legends can come and go quickly, but one who has stayed the course for 35 years is A.J.
A record 67 victories, a lifetime in this sport.
But last fall's crash that shattered both his feet, had him in a talkative mood with Chris Economachy earlier this morning.
This is a physically demanding course, A.J. Is it extraordinarily tough on you?
Well, my feet aren't really quarantined like they should be. Of course, I'm trying to do something I'm not supposed to do.
The doctors didn't care for me to run this early on the road course, but I'm just going to try to ride it out because I figure the sooner the better.
I get my feet oriented again and it's going to be kind of hard, but we're just going to ride it out and try to.
For you, is Detroit tougher than Indy?
Oh, I would say yes. For driving, yeah, by far it's a lot tougher on me because, like I say, my feet aren't coordinated.
Indy, you run pretty much flat out and you can look ahead, but right here you've got so much braking and shifting to do and it's very hard for my particular situation, yes.
Fans the world over are wondering, A.J., is this your last year?
Oh, definitely it's my last year on the circuit, yes.
Notice that he said last year on the circuit he's still going for that one more once. At least that's in the back of his mind for Indianapolis.
Here he is closing on Bettenhausen, the number 16 car that's riding in 17th position.
Tony running just in front of A.J. Floyd and just behind them is Willie T. Ribbs in the number 10 car, 19th position, the yellow machine.
Willie T. going well this afternoon, I see.
Meanwhile up in front, it's still all Michael Andretti bidding for his second consecutive flag to flag win here at Detroit.
You know, the last guy to pull that off, David, A.J. Floyd back in 74 and 75 when they had those 100-mile qualifiers,
which were counting races out of the old Ontario Motor Speedway on that two and a half mile.
So it's been a while since anybody's backed them up like that.
But he's not having it all his own way. Ari Leyendeig and Emerson Fittipaldi right behind him.
This time last year, Michael had assumed a tremendous lead in this race.
But he's right being hounded at the moment by the other two.
Here we see Rick Mears in the number three car, followed closely by Bobby Ray Hall in the Graco car.
And right behind him is John Andretti. So all the Andrettis are right up there.
John Andretti in the 10th position, just in front of him.
By night, here's Bobby Ray Hall coming out onto Congress under the trees.
Trying to close in on Rick Mears in the three car just in front of him.
Bobby, in fact, these two, of course, are your current points leaders.
Bobby Ray Hall has two more than Rick Mears, the man in front of him.
As you said earlier, Bobby Ray Hall has yet to win a race this year, but is still leading the championship.
But not necessarily, oh, we've got trouble. That's a true sports car. That's Scott Pruitt.
Scott Pruitt around.
And I think he's taken that right, his right rear wheel looks a bit deranged.
There's another car there somewhere, I think.
Fifth and sixth place cars, and Bob Alenser Jr. was in that.
I think Al was trying to get around it, wasn't he?
Al moves up to fifth. Scott Pruitt was in sixth and now is falling back.
The true sports car, the only American chassis in the field.
And he was really hoping for a good day after he had been fourth fastest on full tanks in the 30 minute practice training period this morning.
Looks like he's trying to get it fired and get back into this thing.
He's seen them come from behind before. Remember Fittipaldi in 89?
He and Mario had that little altercation right here in turn number one.
Went to the rear of the field, fought his way to victory.
Well, he fought his way back twice because he then ran into Mario again down at the Cobo Hall, and they both came to a complete grinding halt.
And he still went on to win the race. A bit of a cliffhanger that.
I don't expect anyone to want to do that this afternoon, but these front three.
Michael Andretti in the number two car.
Harry Leyendeich and Emerson Fittipaldi waiting in.
Two time world champion in Formula One Indy 500 winner.
No mean accomplishment. Tremendously motivated still at the age of 43.
Real international flavor in the front three position here in the streets of Detroit live on CBS with the United States first.
Hollins Leyendeich second, Brazil's Fittipaldi third.
And Andretti's have Sandwich, Leyendeich and Fittipaldi between them.
As Michael runs up on top, Mario back and forth.
Al Unser picking up a spot to six. Eddie Cheever has come to fifth.
They're down at turn nine. We see a giant union jack against the fence.
Now then, this is where it's really bumpy down the inside.
Ray Hall has a go down the inside of Rick Mears. Thinks twice about it.
Meanwhile, that allowed John Andretti in the second and that very.
Oh, and that is the big enterprise car. Ted Frappis, I believe.
From Los Angeles.
It looks like a fire could be starting.
Is indeed.
He was in fact running dead last.
Something may have gone wrong.
Yep. Flames are coming out.
And that's at a spot on the racetrack, which is going to take a moment or two to get someone to it.
That's right. I believe at the beginning of the pit straight here, because that's the river just behind it.
I don't believe he realizes that he's and there is a full course caution coming out.
Paul Newman, whose car runs up in front, looking on here today.
As Michael and Mario team for Newman Haas, a first and fourth full course caution.
Is being put out for the first time today. It comes at lap number nine.
That's the first full course caution since 1989 here in the Detroit Grand Prix.
From Al Unser's car. Let's see what happened here with Scott Pruitt.
I'll try to go down the inside. Now, this is that very bumpy bit of track.
Scott takes his line. It's really his corner. I mean, he is in front.
Wheels touch. Doesn't seem to have deranged that right front wheel.
True sports car quite a belt and the true sports car looks OK, too. So both pretty lucky.
With ten laps complete, 52 remaining. Michael Andretti has the lead. He did not pit.
Ari Leyendeich is staying second. He, too, did not elect to come in for fuel.
Maintaining third spot, Mario Andretti, who did.
Eddie Cheever, Rick Mears, running in the fifth position.
Those are the top five out here at the present time in the Detroit Grand Prix
10th annual get together on the banks of the Detroit River.
Let's go to Chris Akonomaki.
That yellow flag that Ted Krapis brought out was OK for Emerson,
Frieda Palli and Al Unser. They stopped because their cars needed adjusting.
What that does is commit them to a three stop race.
Michael Andretti, Rick Mears and Ari Leyendeich are out there.
They're only going to have to stop twice. Their stops will come later.
So this could have been a strategic plus or perhaps a strategic minus for those two drivers who stopped.
How do you feel about that?
Well, of course, if they did have little problems with their cars,
they were able to adjust those problems out. Of course, it could be a tremendous strategic plus.
Let's go to Mike Joy.
I may take issue with Chris's comment on strategy.
Emerson Fittipaldi right now has dropped his boost pressure, dialed it down.
He is using the highest possible gear that the engine won't lug on these caution laps
and doing everything possible to conserve fuel.
He also took on tires because of a slight altercation down in turn number one.
The other Penske car, Rick Mears, came in and took on fuel only.
But they're still thinking of this as a two pit stop race. Time will tell.
Let's take a look at how the Andretti family is doing here.
They're number first, second and third, scored by the Andretti's at Milwaukee the last time out.
Here's how they're scoring at the present time here in our live coverage from Detroit.
Michael staying first dominates this racetrack. Mario's a good stout third.
Jeff is in eighth and John, who won in Australia, is back there in 12th spot.
John must have stopped in that round of pit stops because he was running quite well up before.
He says it's nice to have the kids in the family trading.
He said yesterday, didn't he, that he was willing to accept a Father's Day gift from the family today.
And they said they thought they'd given him much too much already.
And they said, yes, Dad, no trouble at all.
The other thing he said, we then asked if he was how he felt racing in close proximity with any members of the family.
He says, well, I think we all know what we're doing. I think.
Didn't like the other thing the second moment.
Now, John Andretti has pitted in lap 10 to drop down in the running order.
The number four car, that's that number four right there, the Hall VDS car has pitted.
And so it falls further back.
That was a pretty good scoring sheet on the Andretti's again.
Sure, having fun.
The two brothers and their cousins sat together and their dad sat just in front of them in the driver's meeting this morning.
A lot of fun with Mario. Let's go to Mike Jordan.
No apparent problem on the Scott Pruitt car.
Team manager Steve Horn said they got into a punch up.
Alan Serj Jr. got into him and damaged one of those twenty four hundred dollar magnesium wheels.
But Scott is OK.
Lyon Dyke diving to the inside at turn one.
We have a new leader, Lyon Dyke.
The Dutchman goes in first. Andretti drops to second.
A great pass there.
Mario, Michael trying it down the outside inside.
Lyon Dyke did a great job there.
Michael thought about cutting him off, but decided not to.
Upstate Antoine headed on to Woodbridge.
New leader, Lyon Dyke in first place.
Mario Andretti lying third on the restart.
Eddie Tuber is in fourth. Rick Mears in fifth.
Here comes Michael thrashing that car as he tries to collect Ari Lyon Dyke back on Congress Street.
Lyon Dyke seems to be pulling away.
Michael went very wide as they came out onto Congress there.
Yes, Michael's car has definitely had the grip that Lyon Dyke's car has got at the moment.
Remember that Lyon Dyke qualified fourth in this race.
And that Michael Andretti was a second quicker than anyone, a second faster than even Emerson Pitti Palli who sat alongside him in the front row.
Now we've got the Andretti clan. Michael second, Dad third.
And Lyon Dyke putting just a bit of daylight between himself and Michael.
Down Jefferson. Now in front of Cobo Hall. Now in front of the Joe Lewis Arena.
Here they come diving back for the tunnel another time.
And Michael Andretti has been stung by the 1990 Indianapolis 500 mile champion, Ari Lyon Dyke.
Now in the lead.
And of course, Ari Lyon Dyke had a great race earlier on this year at Phoenix.
Just flat one. He beat everybody in the field, made good pit stops, won the race very convincingly.
Didn't run so well at Indy. Or did run very well at Indy.
He came from way back. Look at the distance he's put between himself and Michael.
And I suspect that Mario is holding up the rest of the field.
Mario is under serious challenge. Jeff Woods, number 12, has found the concrete.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Mario sliding down into turn one there. Everything locked up.
Mario going way wide. And you see everybody back to Guerrero diving beneath him there.
Guerrero up to from seventh up into sixth.
Mears collecting and Mario Andretti falling back dramatically.
Mario's brakes. I'm sorry about that, folks, but Mario was within about six inches of our nose here on the racetrack.
Slid past, smoke, pouring up all four tires, which allowed all these people to go by on the inside of turn one.
This little group here being led by Eddie Cheever.
Cheever now third. Rick Mears fourth. Ray Hall fifth. Guerrero sixth.
Eddie Cheever and there's Mario. Oh, the tires have it. That's why he locked up.
His tire was obviously flat, which dropped down the left rear corner, lifted up the right front.
And the right front is the one that was right under our window here, which is probably actually only that one that was really smoking so badly.
And that's a tough break. It happened right in front of the pits, of course, which means you've got to do a full lap like that before you can get it fixed.
A, it takes a long time, and B, it's not very good for the car.
There's his pit waiting and for Mario Andretti, whose last win was in Cleveland back in 1988.
Don't look too optimistic here today. Still moving them around to Jeff Wood, car number 12.
Here at the Detroit Grand Prix. That's a corner caution, but not a full course caution at this moment for Jeff Wood's car number 12.
Making his second start of 1991 in Alola Buick, one of two Buicks in the race, the other belonging to Roberto Guerrero.
Sure about those safety trucks on the track. I'm just not sure how safe that really is.
Make you nervous, don't they? I think that would make Frenchmen in Paris extremely nervous, if it was suggested it might be done in one of them.
Battle for first. Leyendyk there looking for his second win of the season.
Remember that Leyendyk just put on an amazing performance earlier on this year.
First rider to pass Michael here at Detroit found himself victorious at Phoenix on the oval.
Guy has really settled into Indy car racing in a big way.
At Long Beach he had himself a very good run going.
He had to settle back on that one when Al Unser came home victorious.
He's only fourth in the points. He's not all that far out. He's got 49 points and Ray Hall is leading Scott 60.
So that's only 11 points out of the lead. So if he was to win here today, obviously, I'll forbid that we start talking about the winner.
Here comes Mario into the pit. Just look at the time that that's cost him.
Here's Mike Joy.
The left rear tire is completely shredded on the car and a little bit of fiberglass damage to the aerodynamic fairing there just in front of the left rear wheel.
The car is up on the air jack. John Simmons working the front of Jim Bolini, that left rear.
Good quick stop getting Mario back out. Hopefully no further damage.
By our watch it was 13 and 2. 13.26 seconds on Mario Andretti's stop.
That little bit of aerodynamic damage of course could have a big effect on this car.
Talking to the engineers here over the weekend.
If you lift these cars as little as a quarter of an inch off the ground, it could make as much as 700 pounds of downforce difference at close to 200 miles an hour.
So you don't want to need to go wrong with the aerodynamics.
Harry Leyndy leads comfortably into turn one.
And David, Mario did not lose a lap. He did not go down a lap on that occasion even though he was limping on only three good legs around the course.
So he was extremely, he kept the pressure on.
Chris? Yes, I was noticing that start there. I think really it was Michael Andretti fell asleep.
And a Larry Leyndy got by. I don't think he was really beaten. He was caught napping at the start.
One of the drivers impressing me is in the top six is Roberto Guerrero who's back from after a crash.
And he's driving a Buick. Six cylinder Buick, a push rod production based engine.
It is written off in this kind of racing because it doesn't have nearly the horsepower the other specials in the race have.
He's took a remarkable job for Kenny Bernstein, the car owner and all the people from Buick in the stand here today.
And he just took that car over this past weekend. He got the call on Sunday night, went over to Mid-Ohio and did a couple of days of training with the car.
And that's the first time he had seen the Kenny Bernstein machine. Really driven it well, but he does well here on this course.
Roberto Guerrero watching from Bobby Ray Hall's vantage. Fifth place car. He attacks Rick Mears.
Again, down Jefferson. And that right behind him in the other mile, the Benzki car of course is Emerson Pidipaldi.
Trying to make up some time. He was one of the guys that stopped under that last caution.
Made a few changes to his car. We don't know what.
And looking to pick up a bit of time. Now these three in lockstep as they go into the at water tunnel.
That must really bother to drive into a tunnel like that. You've had experiences like that.
It's not good. When the race started, it wasn't quite as sunny as it is now.
And it wouldn't have been quite so bad. As the sun comes out, yes, it becomes quite disconcerting going from bright sunlight into the pitch black.
Luckily it's not a very long tunnel. Going past here, I saw Michael Andretti's left front wing sticking up in the air.
So I think that might have just got clipped by our Ari when he went down the inside of the turn line.
There were words yesterday when Eddie Cheever and Lydia Taze crashed here in turn number one.
Taze's car had to be withdrawn from competition. All the drivers were cautioned today to be respectful of each other out here on the main streets of Detroit.
Here you see those Penske cars wrapped around the Bobby Ray Hall number 18. One of our onboard cameras headed down Larnet.
Ray Hall, who's been consistent all year, has yet to score that victory, but stays right up on top in the standings as smooth as always.
Let's take a look a moment ago. Just coming out of the tunnel down by the pump house turn. Here's Lyon Dyke and here's Andretti challenging.
That's what happened to that wing. Again, Michael did what Al Jr. did. It clearly was Ari's corner. He was there first, but of course it's easy to say that sitting in here.
But that will have really spoiled Michael Andretti's afternoon. Expect him now to drop back into the clutches of the pursuing group.
Eddie Cheever, right behind him now and gathering up a challenge for second place as Lyon Dyke stays first at Detroit.
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After 18 laps, 44 remaining, 110 miles to go. Lyondike is your leader. Michael Andretti with a damaged wing is in second. Eddie Cheever finds himself third. Looking further back in the field, Fidapaldy is in sixth, waging a war to move up. Answers in seventh.
John Andretti in eighth. Roberto Guerrero has just slipped back three spots to ninth. And Scott Brayton finds himself in the top ten. The Coldwater, Michigan campaigner for the first time today. Here's Lyondike out in front and building a pretty healthy advantage, David Hobbs.
Yeah, he has. Of course, Michael would be really hurting with that wing derange like it is. Here we see the group battling it out for fourth spot.
Rick Mears in the three. Ray Hall in the 18th, fifth and Emerson Fidapaldy sixth. Here's more from Mike.
This $10,000 worth of carbon fiber and decals is the spare nose for Michael Andretti's car. It attaches with about a dozen countersunk screws. Mounts on pretty easily and quickly.
You notice the wing planes are very flat. They depend very little for downforce from this nose piece. So the team does not expect it will significantly slow Michael.
They'll wait until their regularly scheduled pit stop and when he comes in, assess the damage and see if they need to fit the new nose or just let him go on the way it is.
They sure could use another caution right about now for the Newman-Hoss team and the efforts of Michael Andretti. Here we see Michael coming up and Eddie Cheever's gonna get him any minute now I imagine.
Michael the car will be definitely wound at this stage. See if it takes a good line there, a wider line. Which means he should come off here quicker as long as he doesn't try and get him going into three.
Working the 21st lap.
Chris? Yes, I'm sorry I was asleep here like Michael. This long yellow flag that we saw has changed the character of the race to the point where the first pit stop is gonna be later. 30 to 32 laps. Which means Michael Andretti is gonna live out there that much longer with that damaged wing.
Now we should really watch when he makes that stop with a stopwatch in our hand because the nose piece is gonna have to be changed. We checked around here and they said that it's gonna take about 10 seconds to change the nose while the other work is going on.
It may be that the work can be done on his car and a new nose put on without slowing his pit stop at all. But it won't happen until after the 30 lap mark goes by.
And remember Chris that it was in 89 at Long Beach that answer won without that left front wing torn off in a similar incident.
Now Eddie Cheever will be very anxious to get around young Michael Andretti here because closing in behind him is Rick Mears, Bobby Rahal and Emerson Fittipaldi.
I suspect that Rick Mears is actually holding Rahal and Fittipaldi up just slightly and so Eddie Cheever will be wishing to get around this young gent and getting on his way after Ari Leondyne before the others catch him up and they get him roiled in a five car battle for what will effectively be second spot.
I must admit that Michael Andretti is handling this car around here exceedingly well considering he basically has no left front wing at all and it does make a tremendous difference.
And there you see Mears in fourth, Rahal fifth, Fittipaldi sixth trio and again Cheever. This is right where they had the incident yesterday that eliminated the Didier Taze car and also sent Cheever looking for the backup machine.
Michael is hanging in there extremely well with what must be reduced front downforce by 50%.
It's amazing you know you drive the car in practice and qualifying you turn the wing up half a degree and the driver comes in and says, why that's terrific or you lower it a quarter of a degree and he says, oh that's absolutely stinks and here's the thing ripped right off and it doesn't seem to make any difference at all.
Michael really has an affinity for this track. He led 52 of 55 laps here in 89 and last year was led flying the flag all 62 so that's 114 of 117 and back in 89 he would have gone the distance except for the piece of cable.
And then hits to that radio antenna on the nose got wrapped around the throttle. That was the end of his day plus he got stuck in that second gear and finally found a wall. He got his foot stuck under the cable. Cheever right up behind there, a bit deceptive there.
That's where he did close up very much on braking down under here. Downforce not such a major factor at this lower speed, quite low speed. But he hangs on well to that turn one.
Eddie Cheever there driving the number eight the target sponsored car owned by Chip Ganassi is under a little bit of pressure because he kind of the hot shot Formula One driver come into the kart series and this is the sort of circuit where he should really shine.
I mean he has raced on this track ever since 1982 from the first Formula One race on so he has far more miles on this track than anybody else and he needs to put up a good show I think.
And then he's got his second here in that first Formula One race from John Watson. These aerial photos of the Detroit Grand Prix are brought to you courtesy of the CRM group today.
Some of the course over which they're running on the streets of Detroit and there's Eddie Cheever around the old pop house turn.
Can't remember last year when Eddie Cheever finished third here and had such a blister he degraded two layers of skin off the palm of his right hand. He started this morning's race with already one layer gone off his thumb they have it taped up.
But the bouncing around here and the work you do with the gear shift in the steering wheel has to have him in a great deal of discomfort at this stage of the race if not some outright pain.
I think it's a marvel that he's able to hold that position and run as well as he is given that injury to his hand and it can only get worse.
Roberto Guerrero's car in trouble the second Buick that had been running in tenth position.
Finds itself in difficulty.
Where is that? That must be at Cobo Hall I guess the slowest corner on the track here. Appears to be stuck. The crew obviously somewhat unwilling to walk out in the traffic there with the car understandably.
Trying to get him to put some lock on the wheel there. Roberto Guerrero of course surviving that horrendous testing accident in Indianapolis a few years ago and was in fact unconscious for what 17 days and came back to racing.
There he goes on his way and very excited about the prospects for this car. Roberto Guerrero back underway another time after trouble just at the end of Jefferson Avenue right in front of Cobo Hall.
We'll be back with more from Detroit.
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...spot now on Pitt Road. Having completed 25 of the 62 laps.
And as tender as his feet are. He can't wear leather sole shoes.
Spends most of his time on his scooter.
Or lying down up there in the truck.
He's out here now and finding yesterday after running the qualifying period in the morning practice.
He ran every lap. He was just drenched in perspiration.
He said he was going to last the day. In fact he came back and sat on his stomach for a couple of hours.
AJ wanted to be here. When AJ wants to do something, stand back.
The part of the wing on Michael's car that was hanging loose and probably giving him most trouble.
Has in fact departed from the car.
So he's got a single plane left front wing.
And that may in fact stabilize the car a bit.
Bobby Rahal as you can see has got around Rick Mears.
Be interesting to see if he can catch up with these two.
I think Mike Joy's got something for us.
AJ Foite's pit stop was very routine. Just a set of tires and fuel.
And it was right on schedule. They're sticking to the two pit stop under green philosophy.
Supertec's looked okay.
About the only thing he hasn't wanted to do all week is pose for a CBS head shot.
He said, just got all my hair lopped off and I don't want you to shoot me looking like this.
So we didn't.
You bet we didn't.
You bet I was going to carry the camera.
So Eddie Cheever now having his work cut out.
Michael's found a slightly new lease of life as that defending flap has blown off.
There you see a tremendously tight race for 5th, 6th and 7th.
Which is Mears, Frida Pauley and Al Unser who have pulled right up onto them.
Blue flag being shown there.
Harry Lyon Dyke going around.
Hiro Matsushita.
Chuster.
Whatever we're supposed to call him.
Here you see, Eddie Cheever in and we've got a spinner.
Looks like Danny Sullivan in trouble.
On course.
Go the wrong way, Dan.
It's it out of the way.
Sullivan had a chance of winning this race a couple of years back.
Trying to get back in it now, driving the Alfa Romeo car.
At racing.
Danny Sullivan who was running in 10th.
AJ is back in another time.
I think he's probably had about enough.
Worked his way to 13th position at one time in the event with carnival 14.
Wants him to crank it back up.
Get back out of here.
Meanwhile, take a look at this.
Here's Rick Mears and Emerson Frida Pauley mixing it up.
Penske team right behind them.
Al Unser.
Yeah, right behind him.
He's giving his teammate room there.
Emerson.
But I guess Emerson didn't feel that that was quite the place to try and make the pass.
Al getting down the inside.
He's had one unfortunate incident this afternoon.
But he is all over.
And I can keep soon.
Rick Mears, fifth.
Frida Pauley in the red and white, number five.
Six.
On through seventh and John Andretti right there.
Mario Andretti continues to pick people off slowly but surely from his unfortunate flat tire,
which happened, as I said, right in front of the pit.
So he had to do a full lap, just limped around and lost a lot of time.
In fact, he's only just in front of the leader, but he's still picking people off.
Into turn one with this battling trio here.
Battling in close for fifth, sixth and seventh spot.
Twenty-seven laps complete, thirty-five remaining in the Detroit Grand Prix, tenth annual go.
Now there's Leigh, there we see Mike Groff's car.
That's the number fifty car.
On the leaderboard by five, by seven, seven and nine tenths seconds now,
Leigh and I drawing away from Michael Andretti.
He stands a fair chance of lapping Mario Andretti the next ten laps or so.
He's only about three and a half seconds behind Mario, putting the elder of the family a lap down.
Here's the contest.
It's Mears, Frida Pauley, Hanser and John Andretti.
Fourth to eighth.
Coming down past the Pontchartrain to the slowest corner here.
We see Scott Brayton about to be lapped by the leader.
Number nine, Ari Leyendeig, as they go onto the bridge.
Tony Benthausen's car is in fact a last year Penske with a Chevrolet.
One of the, I guess a lot of people regard him as being somewhat fortunate to be able to get hold of a Chevrolet.
And that looks like our leader coming to the pit.
Leyendeig pitting.
This will give Michael Andretti a chance to go back into the lead.
Leyendeig in.
Four tires on. Four tires on. Fuel.
And at twelve and six tenths seconds.
Good start for a full stop.
At that stage he'd have had to take on pretty much a full load of gas, of methanol.
Into turn one.
Ran a telecar back on the track that Lola Chevy whooped.
Bringing it up through the gears is Ari Leyendeig.
Looking for his second win of the season.
Had a fine run at Long Beach. Got himself a fifth place there.
Then came back to win on the oval.
Phoenix, Arizona.
A pretty convincing win.
Drove well. Dropped back a bit on his pit stop there.
And came right up.
And what this has done is placed him in seventh on the leader board.
Michael Andretti in first.
Ray Hall in second.
Mears to third.
Fittipaldi in fourth.
Al Unser in fifth.
John Andretti sixth.
Leyendeig seventh.
Then comes Scott Brayton eighth.
Scott Goodear and Willie T. Ribs is up to tenth place.
Willie T. Ribs and Scott Pruitt just having a tremendous dice out the window here.
Which I'm not supposed to be telling you about.
Number three there. Rick Mears being followed by M.O.
Fittipaldi his teammate.
I think Emerson is being held up by Rick Mears just somewhat.
And I'm wondering what's happened to Al Junior who was right behind him a moment ago.
He must have had a little bit of indiscretion somewhere.
There he is.
He dropped back a bit. Now he's going to make a run up to them again.
Ooh, John Andretti slides it down there into the tunnel.
Enjoying it. He likes it better sliding around.
Mike Joy.
Michael Andretti is in for his start. Stop at the front of the car.
Art Stewart built camp out and having a look at that wing.
He said it's okay. It's on there.
Secure. They are going to change the angle of the right front wing.
Have a look here at the left front. Got an air hose they've got to pull out of the way.
And away goes Mike a little longer. Stop than he'd like.
But he's back out without having to replace that nose piece.
And that will put number 18 Ray Hall in the lead.
Fittipaldi in second. Mears in third.
And that's only the second lap that Ray Hall has led all year.
Okay, Emerson Fittipaldi in the Benz Cacara has got around his teammate Rick Mears.
It'll be interesting to see now if he can pull away at all. I suspect he will.
He was very quick in the morning's warm up, which is always a big way of telling.
And of course he's now hoping that Rick Mears is as hard for Al Anzard to pass as he was.
So with this first period under caution that had been anticipated,
here's Bobby Ray Hall leading Fittipaldi now in second, Benvene Challenger, powered by Mears.
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Out on the racetrack, we're watching from Bobby Ray Hall's place.
First place, that is, the Detroit Grand Prix, which is now in its 31st of 62 laps.
And there goes Unser.
Al Unser Jr. screaming up on the bottom of the racetrack and making a move on Rick Mears for position.
Putting himself into third spot there.
You see the view from inside the cockpit into turn three.
Under the bridge, bumping up straight there.
You can hear the engine note.
Those back wheels go over, tough on transmissions this place. Very tough on transmissions, driveshafts, as well as the driver.
So, in half way, it's Bobby Ray Hall out in front with Emerson Fittipaldi in second.
Rick Mears now losing out to Al Unser for third.
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Mears falling back and John Andretti is in fifth.
And here's Jeff Andretti's car number 86 having some problems.
The car out of the Northwest trying to get that fired and not having much luck.
That car owned by Bruce Levin, who I drove for and with on a few occasions.
He and I came second at Elkhart Lake a few years back in the Porsche.
But he decided to go the IndyCar route and, of course, got himself some good sponsorship when he took on Jeff Andretti.
Here's Chris O'Connamacky.
Well, we had a chance to look at Michael Andretti's front wing that they did not change.
The wing is OK.
It's the end plate on the left side that's missing.
If Rep. David Hart took comment on whether that's a significant loss for Michael, he's a lap down now, right behind Ari Leyendeig.
Those men that are out front, a lap ahead of everybody, are going to have to stop fairly soon for fuel.
That'll equalize the situation.
Well, normally the end plate and, of course, he lost the secondary flap on the left side, too.
So, I would have thought the loss would be quite significant.
But he certainly seemed to be holding his own when he was dicey against Eddie Cheever and does not seem to be losing much time on the track.
So, I'm amazed.
Like I say, if you raise or lower these cars as little as an eighth of an inch, it's very, very significant in terms of downforce, which can be measured on these cars.
And to lose the half of your left front wing could make a lot of difference.
I would have thought it would make a tremendous difference.
Michael Andretti is being shown the lead lap, being shown in seventh position here.
As we get to half the distance, and here you see Rahal in number 18, continuing to sustain that drive for first place in his first win of the year.
Looks really good here at Detroit at the present time, and he's been consistent here in the past.
Take a look at the running order after 30 laps as you look back through the field, to give you an idea of where some of your favorites may be.
There you see the new wider lower Craigo Lola compressed up into the top of the screen.
If only they could be that way, they'd be really slick.
Rahal himself now is coming under pressure from Emerson Fittipaldi.
Fittipaldi got around his teammate, and I think you'll see when we pull back a little bit that Emerson Fittipaldi is in fact catching up with Rahal.
This could make a very interesting race.
There you see Fittipaldi not so far behind.
The last win for Rahal was at the Meadowlands.
That was in 1989 as Guido Daco pulls off the course, slowing down in car number 33, the Italian driver.
Rahal staying up in front.
Emerson Fittipaldi, the 89 winner of this race, and that dramatic finish.
Definitely closing ground as they come right below our broadcast location right here.
Crossing this dark finish line there for the 33rd time is Rahal.
There's Buddy Lazier in the 90 car.
Here's Mike Joy.
Well, they were pretty happy here in the Hevelgarn pit.
Buddy Lazier had only completed 10 laps total in the three races he'd run this year, and he was running quite well.
But now problems. The car is in. They're fueling it.
This is not a scheduled pit stop, and they're going into the toolbox.
They're going to make an adjustment with an Allen wrench at the back of the car underneath the transaxle, possibly shifter problems for Lazier.
Let's go ahead, Ken.
And that's the same problem Michael, they've had all week. I was down there with him yesterday. Great frustration on that team.
He says it feels like the car buckles right in two for this X-Gear out of Dale, Colorado.
But still, it's the most laps they've run this year. And also, let's note Dennis Batolo, Ken.
They'd only run a total of nine laps in two races as he's out there at midpoint and still running, so it's their best run of the season as well.
Dennis Batolo really trying to give it a shot with a team that comes out of this part of the country out of Warren, Michigan.
Bit of class driving there from Danny Sullivan. Real class driving. I mean, the guy is trying hard.
Bobby Rahal, the leader, came up to him being closely harried by him, as if in a pit stop, and he really made a big effort to get out of the way of both those guys.
But of course, Sullivan himself is running in 14th spot.
Lazier has just brought his car number 90 back on the track, and look at this war for the lead.
This is marvelous racing. Here's Rahal and Bit of Pauly ready to get into it. Here's Mike Joy.
Holy two ribs crew fitting four tires, and they're making an adjustment to the angle of the right front wing as well.
Fueling is complete. Ribs refires it. He's got to pull the sideboard back to get him out of there.
And he is gone after a somewhat easy tire change.
And what a great run he's had, Mike. He has been up to 12th position, so he's really cut some time through the field,
and he just hasn't had much time in the cockpit of that machine.
Here's the battle for the lead, and here comes Emerson looking inside and looking out as they're about to move on to St. Antoine.
Not a good place to pass here. How would you like to try a dice on Woodbridge, Dave?
Not much. There you see the view out of Rahal's car as Emerson, for the ball, he comes up through those two fast left-hand sweeps into,
there you see Mike Joy's clutch of manhole covers seem to be growing as this race is progressing into the Congress area now.
Very fast sweeps here. A lot of downforce exerted by these cars into 89 for the ball, he thinks about it.
But you see he can take a much tighter line. I think he's got more grip. His chassis as the race is progressing, he seems to have got more grip.
That's a good line off Obian as they come on to Lagerd, and he hits that bump and gets it loose, but he finds the hole.
He took two of those manhole covers and had all four wheels off the ground, but now we have a change up in front with Emerson Fittipaldi,
the 89 winner at Detroit leaping into the lead. Absolutely leaping into the lead, and Rahal again some class driving there.
One thing about overtaking, as I said, a couple of little instances we've seen this afternoon where people clearly were in the lead,
but you also have to know when to give up. It's no good keeping that door closed forever until you put yourself and the other guy out.
Very good driving there for Bobby Rahal. Emerson make a great skier. He could handle those moguls.
That's hard on the body and it's hard on the car, and it takes a lot of finesse to get the braking just right.
When all the wheels come off the deck like that, it's difficult to keep the car pointing in the right direction.
One and seven-eighths inches off the ground at 150 miles an hour, just went right down through, found the hole,
and even though it put him in a spot where that car was totally loose, airborne for a moment, he made the move in the first place.
Rahal takes second. Here's the pass that made the difference. Fake to the outside, and then David, wow.
All four wheels off the ground there. Look, not a trace of smoke as he just brings in.
Rahal wants to cut him off, but just can't quite bring himself to put these $300,000 machines into each other.
Quality. Yeah, really. Kept his head there, both of them did.
Here's Rahal on Pipp Road. Follow him back. Here's Mike.
And it's a quick stop, Ken. Quickly they've got the tires done. Tim got that. Larry Ellers a little late with the fuel,
but Rahal's away with a good quick stop, and right behind him, Al Unser Jr. gets in and out extremely quickly.
I think Unser made up a good bit of ground there.
That leads to the Paulie in front and puts John Andretti in second spot.
The number four car just going by, John Andretti in second.
Leyendeich back up to third. He led earlier. Bobby Rahal comes out in fourth.
Unser fifth. Michael Andretti in sixth. Rick Mears in seventh. Eddie Cheever has shown eighth.
Rick Mears ninth. Mario Andretti is tenth.
There you see Michael Andretti just going past Rick Mears in the number three car and closing on little Al in the number one car.
Michael Andretti, of course, had his stop just a few laps ago when he adjusted the wing.
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Here's the number one, Al Unser in fifth place.
And right there you see Michael Andretti hounding him at the present time.
Then moving down Jefferson.
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Down by Cobo Hall.
Number five, Emerson Fittipaldi making his pit stop. Let's go to Mike.
Scheduled stop for Fittipaldi here. Rick Rittman and Todd Hankinson, the right side tires.
Kevin Chambers, John Wusslog, the left sides.
Fueling almost completed. Tire change is done.
A little on the fueling. They wanted to get every drop in and Fittipaldi scoots away.
Danny Sullivan in right behind him in the Alfa Romeo powered car, the Pat Patrick car.
And this is also a scheduled stop for tires and fuel. No chassis adjustment.
And there you see the John Andretti car that had been running in second. That one in as well.
Stop on the leader was about 15 seconds for four tires and fuel.
And John is back out as we swap some positions.
Now here's the nine car.
That's R.L. Iondike who led earlier back in front another time.
Iondike into the lead. Emerson for second right there.
And Bobby Ray Hall for third with Al Unser in fourth.
R.L. Iondike driving a good race there.
As we saw Emerson when he came into the pitch made a bit of a bish of the approach.
Got all locked up. Came in and made his approach slow.
And it's not just the time that you actually stop changing wheels and tires and putting the fuel in these pit stops.
It's getting in and getting out. And I think he was probably just a bit slow in with that approach.
Now the thing is he made those adjustments on that caution flag just a few laps ago.
And is he going to be able to hang on to R.L. Iondike?
Iondike for the moment has this advantage.
And he wheeled out in front earlier in the game. Pulled away from Michael Andretti.
They had a good dice for several laps.
And Michael made a move at the pump house turn that cost him part of the front wing.
Iondike Pinnett fell back to seventh.
He finds himself back in the lead with 38 of 62 laps complete on the streets of Detroit.
There you see the 10 car at his ribs and he is now shown in 14th.
As he continues to give the Cosby Walker car a very good run in its first road race appearance of the year.
And right behind him a furious race of Unser, Andretti and Ray Hall.
Trying to catch this guy, Harry Iondike having a great afternoon.
Seems to be pulling away from Emerson for the Paulie.
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Lyondike has found himself the lead once again.
Fittipaldi, the 89 champion, has come back to second.
Looking back through the field, Scott Goodyear, the young Canadian, is up to 10th spot.
Mario Andretti holding on in ninth.
Rick Neer is running a steady sixth at this time.
44 of 62 laps have been completed.
For David Hobbs, I'm Ken Squire.
Topside, Mike Joy.
And here's the leader.
Let's go to Mike Joy.
Ari Lyondike rolls that car to a halt right on the markers.
And quickly, Jim Wilson has the car in the air.
Bruce Anderson trying to get every drop of fuel in there.
As Davis Cameron, Stadge at 11, changed the tires.
Tires are done.
Watching those last drops come down through that clear hose.
And away he goes.
13.7 seconds. Great stop.
Tremendous stop.
The others have been in around 15 to 17 seconds.
And on the second go around, Lyondike having a great run here today.
Five lead changes, incidentally, is a record for Indy cars here at Detroit.
And that's what we've seen thus far.
It's about to get changed again.
Emerson Fittipaldi now with a substantial lead over Ari Lyondike.
And we don't think that Fittipaldi is going to have to stop again.
He stopped with 25 laps to go.
Did his last stop, so he should be okay.
Only 17 laps since his last stop on Lyondike.
Here's the number five car.
Fittipaldi finds himself up in front.
Michael Andretti is now second.
Bobby Rayholt is third.
Lyondike fourth.
Eddie Cheever to fifth.
Rick Mears is in sixth.
And there are six lead changes recorded as Lyondike made that pit stop.
And there we see Eddie Cheever.
A gentleman that we didn't mention a moment ago,
but well should, the Dean of American Racecasters, Chris Iconomachy.
Thank you very much.
We're looking at the people in the grandstands here, Ken.
This race is not certain to continue.
The organizers of the race say they have a three-year contract about to be signed with CARP,
but the stipulation is that the race may not be held here in the streets of downtown Detroit.
Construction could very well stand in the way of the continuance of this event.
And I wouldn't, though we don't think this one will be the last race.
It certainly can't go on for too many more years.
So an alternate site is being sought.
Perhaps the fairgrounds, perhaps Belle Isle, but somewhere in greater Motown,
they want a race, but it can't be downtown for many more years.
Construction continuing around the Renaissance Center is the issue,
but it sure is fun to see them run down by the Detroit River.
Chris, how many years ago were you out at the fairgrounds?
Oh, Ken, let's see. I don't think I had a driver's license.
What a cruel question to ask a man.
It will be a shame to lose it, because although the drivers complained about the roughness
and this sort of thing, I drove here a couple of times in Trans Ams,
and it really is a very interesting track to drive on.
But right downtown here, the main paddock area and grandstand area
is really destined, one of these days, to have a large building on it,
and obviously will lose the site.
There you see M.O. coming through 8 and 9, past the human jack there on the corner.
There's a group of English people there, not many English people in this race to root for,
but pretty well every car except the Truesports is of British origin.
John Andretti's number four, shown in seventh position,
looking for Rick Mears out there, and it's a lonely look right now.
The car that won the first race of the season on the Gold Coast in Australia,
first time out with that new team, Jim Hall, BDS team.
What an outstanding run that was, and they said that with a track as bumpy here as Australia,
they thought they would be a formidable opponent for all the rest of these 24 starters.
But that's not the way it's worked out.
He finds himself looking up Mears, Cheever, Lyon Dike, Ray Hall,
and Ready, Fittipalda in front of him at this time.
He's certainly not out of the hunt. He's on the lead lap.
So it doesn't take much, you know, to get yourself up near the front as long as you can stay on that.
All importantly, in lap, John and I drove together in 1986 for the BMW team.
There you see that track break up to the left there.
You can see the marbles all appearing on the left, so if anybody gets offline there,
they're going to be in trouble.
Bettenhausen, Tony Bettenhausen, the number 16, or the number 16, is running into 16th position,
is about to be lapped.
The break's wearing out at 47 of 62 laps complete, and there you see the Dennis Vitolo car in trouble.
That's the car at a war in Michigan, car number 39, trying to get it cranked once again,
hoping to have a good day here. Those are all local sponsorships.
There's a dentistry on the back of it.
Looks like a stock car for Saturday night kind of sponsor, David.
Get your teeth knocked out here pretty quick, and that's one of the corners that's supposed to be breaking up.
The corner workers trying to get him out of the way.
Put some lock on it, Dennis. That's it. Turn the wheel. That's what it's for, lad.
You're terrible. You're just terrible.
Now turn it the other way while they push you backwards.
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With 48 of 62 laps complete here in the Detroit Grand Prix, Emerson Fittipaldi trying for
that second victory here is in the lead with Andretti in second, Rahal third, Leyendeig
fourth and Eddie Cheever maintaining fifth. It's mirrors in sixth and we're coming to
a full course caution at this moment. There's John Andretti in seventh, Al
Unser Jr. eighth and Mario Andretti's car in trouble and Michael's car has come to a
stop and the whole track is blocked. We're under a full course caution and what
has happened is the Dennis Vettolo car that we were talking about as we went to commercial,
they brought out that safety vehicle to move that car and I believe that Mario has run
into the safety vehicle. Mario ran into it and it looks like Michael
ran into Mario and now Bobby Rahal is stuck there as well. Red flag's out. The whole thing
is going to come to a halt. Red flag is halted as this safety vehicle
which is something that you have questioned several times about having these things darting
and dodging around the track has put us in a situation where we are going to a red flag,
a red flag condition. Michael getting out of the car there, going
to go and have words with his dad, gesticulating. Look at them. A lot of Italian being spoken
in that corner right now. We don't know what happened because Vettolo had trouble getting
away from that position and we don't know whether the safety vehicle has arrived there
or not. But obviously somebody ran in. Let's take a look. Maybe we can find out right
here. This is one of the corners that's breaking
up by the way. So these drivers may have found it difficult to stop.
Here we see a replay. Everybody gets through safely. Here comes the safety vehicle.
And pretty much in the line. Guerrero getting through.
This was taped moments ago. Now you know that the flight men were working
on the other side to alert him. There was a condition on the other side of the corner
but right in the line was that safety vehicle. And there is Michael getting into it.
Well now Michael and Mario to be really, I mean, everybody else got through.
Then is Vettolo back signaling the cars behind and Ray Hall has to come to a complete halt.
So we are under a red flag. Full course red. Emerson Fittipaldi in the lead.
Michael Andretti in second. Bobby Ray Hall in third.
Leyendeich in fourth. And the race is red flagged.
And Michael Andretti, Caput, Mario Andretti's car out.
And here's where it all came untethered in the 10th annual Detroit Grand Prix.
We are under a red flag condition. One of the men involved is standing by with
Mike Joy. He is hot, Ken, and it's not just the weather.
Michael, what happened there? Well there should have been a full course yellow
thrown in there. It wasn't.
Came around there. It was a local yellow for a while and we knew the position of the car.
But then we come around and next time, and here my poor dad stuffed underneath the truck.
And I came around. I was in first gear because I was taking it easy because I thought, you
know, that there was a little trouble and I mean there was nowhere to go.
And I hit Vittolo's car and, you know, total two Newman Austin cars for nothing.
I mean they moved the stalled car from where it was to the other side of the racetrack
into the line? Right into the line.
The truck was right into the line. And my dad nailed the truck.
Is he okay? He's a totally, totally blind corner.
I mean you have no idea what's around the next corner.
And, you know, there should have been a full course yellow.
And, yeah, dad is all right. We reported he's on his way back to his pit.
Sorry to have fate steal one from you here today.
Thanks.
Here's Mario.
Mario Andretti indeed coming in all in all.
Not a very good day for the Andrettis here in Detroit.
Mario back on pit road. Nor for Paul Newman and Carl Haas, the owners of that team.
Who had such high hopes all weekend long after Michael's great performance in taking the
pole. And you can see the damage on Mario's car, David.
The front suspension looks remarkably under range.
You can see how the front wing must have gone right under the truck.
Never touched it at all. And it's just buried itself into the top part of the front body
there. And with only just a few laps to go in this
race, 13 odd laps to go, I can see them putting some tape over that hole and he can run out.
Mike Joy with Mario Andretti.
Mario's out of the car and he's getting a cold drink of water.
He's watching the work continue on the car. And it looks as if there's a good chance that
they can get this car back into the race.
As we told you, the radio took a direct hit and the sound you hear is a hacksaw that they're
using to remove the left front suspension, the upright on the car, to hopefully get them
back in. Mario, are you okay?
All right, he'll give us a nod and watch the work continue and help direct repairs to the
Newman-Haslolla.
Well, obviously this race is under a red flag at the moment.
That's complete stoppage, Alan Jones. Let's recap the situation because it's something
that you talked about at Surface Paradise when we saw the Indy cars here for the first
time, the support vehicles that go out on the circuit. Now this incident really could
have been quite disastrous. Let's recap on tape. Here we go, car under tow, Mario Andretti
first goes in.
Well, he's first on the scene. There are marshals there, obviously, but I can only assume that
they're not doing their job well enough. They have parked the truck in a stupid position.
It's right on line and Mario's come through and just literally run right at the back of
the thing. They're attending to him now, checking to see if he's okay. In the next minute, son
Michael comes through and whacks the back of the car as well. So like the Newman-Has racing
team are out in point three of a second, both father and son doing exactly the same thing.
But I am totally against any sort of surface vehicle being on the circuit like that. We
have that happen at Bathurst and there's blind corners there and I think if in any way they
can avoid doing that, they should. In Formula One, they never put a car out like that on
the circuit. They always make sure that if it's in a situation which is a blind corner,
they have a great big crane and if a car is stranded, they lift the car out of the way
and plonk it out of harm's way because that's exactly what happens. You get guys coming
through a blind corner. We saw a marshal killed in Canada on a blind corner in exactly the
same scenario. And to me, to put big trucks like that out on a narrow circuit with fast
little racing cars, he is looking for a disaster.
Alright, well the grid has been reformed. We're ready to go. There's only 12 laps of
this race remaining. So pretty interesting result. The heat is starting to take its toll.
Emerson Fittipaldi having his best drive so far that we've seen in the series. So let's
go back to Ken Squires as a reminder, 12 laps to go.
The leaderboard has a 49 laps. Look like this. Fittipaldi, Rahal, Leylandyke, Cheever, Mears
to 49. We'll get a green on 48. Looking further back, John Andretti on Sir Jr., Mario, Scott
Goodyear, Scott Brayton rounding out the top ten.
And a guy who really is going well, he's in the back there in that bright yellow machine
there with the red wings. Of course, Willie T. Ribs who's lying 12th. By far the leading
Cosworth contender this afternoon. Maybe his pal Bill Cosby should just buy him a chandelier.
You're determined to spend Bill and Camille's money, aren't you?
I want to see this done for all sorts of reasons.
Willie has carried the colors well for Walker and Cosby today. Fittipaldi bringing the field
about two laps and then they turn them loose. I think the man to watch will be Leylandyke
in the number nine car, lying third. He's bound to give it a run here. He made a great
start earlier. Fought with Michael over the first 10, 12 laps of the race. Made it an
exciting program as we began. Cheever, one of his best days was here in that very first
Formula One race when John Watson came out from back of the 20th position to win it.
And Cheever came home in second.
Field bunch last two corners for the Pauley now starting the day of it. He's going to
want to get away here. He's going to want Scott Goodyear to act as a bit of a block
on Ray Hall and Leylandyke for him. All being just a bit careful to turn one for the first
time on their second start of the day. Fittipaldi getting a great start. Leylandyke scooting
down the inside on Scott Goodyear. Did they clip there? No, I don't believe so.
They're still up in the air, I thought. Maybe not. Now Ray Hall under pressure from Harry
Leylandyke. Then the lap car. Goodyear fourth overall on the field, running a lap down.
Here comes Leylandyke trying to close ground again. Closing in on Bobby Ray Hall to second
position. Ray Hall leading the Clark PPG standings.
Fittipaldi's car loosening up there as he goes between turns 10 and 11. I mean 8, 9.
Down line and straight. This is the bumpy bit where we saw him make that great pass
on Bobby Ray Hall. Bobby Ray Hall blocking any attempt by Harry Leylandyke to get past
him on that lap. He won't be quite so accommodating now. Just a few laps to go.
Big cloud cover. I suppose that course has changed some out there. It would have changed
a little bit. It was breaking up. We had reports of it breaking up before. It's still got the
same rubber down on it. It won't have changed dramatically because the sun has been sort
of half shining most of the day. But of course as the day wears on and the sun gets lower,
comes off the direct signing on the track, it obviously cools up dramatically.
Fittipaldi gets leaped out in front. Bobby Ray Hall with second in Australia, second
in Long Beach, second in Phoenix to get the season started. Run second right now here
in Detroit. Chris Akonomaki? Well, when that sun went behind the cloud, these drivers say
that these racetracks change instantly when the sun goes. It's a lot cooler now. There's
a cool breeze blowing. So the track quality of the asphalt surface here is a lot better
than it was when the red flag came out. Looking back from Ray Hall's car number 18 at
Leylandyke. There's that long turn one from inside the car. See how close they get that
guardrail on the exit up to about 145 down into turn three. Harry Leylandyke closed up
a bit on the brakes there. You can see all those little bits and patches of concrete
up to the corner where the trouble was. Turn four. Fittipaldi stretching the lead just
a little bit. Fittipaldi smells blood. He took that start. It was his to start at his
discretion and he really got a magnificent start. Pulled about 10 car lengths on Ray
Hall as they came to the line and drew away in turns one and two. Here you see Ray Hall
in second, Leylandyke in third. It's so hard on those single file restarts to judge somebody
wants to go goodbye. Goodbye, exactly. And of course, if you get bogged down behind somebody
who doesn't go, you're absolutely trapped, especially when you've got those two sharp
corners coming on to the start from his straight line. He was back in fourth spot. We don't
even see him. Ray Hall seems to be able to hold his own very well with Harry Leylandyke.
There you see those marbles rolled up, getting kicked up by the outside tire. Coming into
the tunnel with the cloud cover now, not quite so bad going into that tunnel as it would
have been earlier on. There you see the leader, Tittipaldi, 1989 winner, and there you see
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Down the front straight, up to about 175. Just right about there before they do the brakes
on into the corner. Fourth place coming about.
And he's in fifth. And he's in fifth.
See Cheever just coming into your picture. He is in fourth. And following him is Rick
Mears in fifth, just behind Eddie Cheever.
Now here is Cheever. And there you see Rick Mears after him. And then Al Unser. And Unser
is in the sixth position.
And right behind Al Unser now is Mario Andres. There you see a good on board shot from Al
Unser. There's Eddie Cheever coming into the Congress Park area under the trees.
Down the line.
Definitely pulling away a bit from the other two pursuers, Ray Hall and Ari Leyendijk.
Eddie Cheever not making, I don't think making any ground on Leyendijk.
If it is, it's pretty slow, sure.
The Brazilians have certainly had some fine moments here at Detroit.
Senna three times in a row.
Earlier Nelson Piquet. Out of retirement. Emerson Fittipaldi winning here in 89.
And right now it looks like he has the legs to do it again. Ray Hall trying to reel him
in.
And then Al Unser, Ray Leyendijk right there as well. Cheever further back in that fourth
position.
And there you see part of that interval between first and second and third.
Penske car leading. Penske Chevrolet. Two Lola Chevrolets. And another Lola Chevrolet
of Eddie Cheever. Mears and a Penske of course in fifth spot.
Good grace there from Fittipaldi. That must be Al Unser going down the inside of Rick Mears.
They come into turn one side by side down the long straight.
And so it's got the corner but Rick Mears is not giving up.
Rick Mears likes the outside as he proved in Indianapolis this year with that amazing
move on Michael Andretti.
I'll tell you an interesting thing about Rick Mears and that car. Did you know that the
third of that race at Indianapolis he drove with his left foot over his right foot because
he couldn't keep it on the throttle?
So 217, 211 hour laps and he just couldn't keep the foot pressed on the old accelerator
so he had to use his other foot and that's how he won this year's Indy 500.
That stems from his injuries way back at San Air in Montreal, just outside Montreal many,
many, many years ago.
And from the crash that he had in practice this year at Indy as well and he had five
tire recoveries back at full strength here for Detroit. Those off road racers, his brother
Roger just won in the truck division the Baja 500 and he was as thrilled about that or seemed
to be as his own Indianapolis one. Couldn't wait to tell an individual of how excited
he was that Roger had such a great run in that Nissan truck.
Here you see the nine, Lyon Dyke closing in again on Ray Hall, gets him down to two car
lengths.
Cheever just behind him out of the picture and Al Unser closing in on Cheever but there's
no doubt about it, Lyon Dyke is closing up on Ray Hall.
And look at Pidipaldi pull away.
Second and third is at issue and Unser continuing to pull up, try to get some additional points.
They give 20 points for a win in kart racing and it goes to 16 for second, 14 for third,
12 for fourth, 10, 8, 6, down to one.
And with this positioning today, Ray Hall in second place, he can do it for the fourth
time this year, he'll draw away a bit from some of those who are battling him so tightly
for the championship.
It's what Emerson Pidipaldi needs in the worst possible way is a win because he slipped way
down to tenth spot in the standings. He's only got 21 points at the moment compared
to Bobby Ray Hall 60. He hasn't had a very lucky season so far and I must say I hate
talking about him winning the race at this stage of the race because if you remember
a couple of weeks ago Nigel Mansell started the wave when he thought he was going to win
the Grand Prix on the last lap and the car stopped about five seconds later.
So now let's talk about Emerson Pidipaldi winning this race.
A couple of years back with 13 laps to go, he and Mario tangled down by Cobo Hall and
he still came back to win as he overcame Scott Pruitt, finishing in second position that
round.
Emerson is pretty good at the moment of the car. He's got plenty of grip, he's got good
traction coming off the corners, he's not doing much fish staining and the whole thing seems
to be handling extremely well. He's made a couple of changes to the car during the course
of the race and he was able to work on it during that extended red flag period as well.
And he looked incredibly relaxed and happy during that period, unlike you would expect
a guy to look who's had the race pretty well. Locking up the left front there, now he's
got to get that will close the others up a lot.
Coming to the Atwater Tunnel for just a moment.
Talking about it too soon.
And here comes Rejal charging right back into it.
Now I wonder if he's got a tire deflating inside it.
A front brake locking up sometimes can signal another tire deflating.
A diagonally opposite one.
Seven laps to go, seven remaining and Rejal is challenging for the lead.
Emerson Fittipaldi wanting this win.
Said it would be the perfect day to win on Father's Day and become a father once again.
Talking to Roger Penske about that this morning. He says I think he's about two days off on
that becoming a new father.
Of course Rejal also wanting a win. He's leading the championship and of course has not won
a race this year and he really feels that he has to win a race to be a worthy leader.
Look at Rejal close. Here he is coming down Congress. Picking up 120 miles, 130 miles
an hour here.
Up to 140. Hard on the brakes, brings it back down.
Makes that quick turn. Gets himself onto Bolvien and now about to head on to Larned where
they'll really pull some power and if there's anything amiss on car five, Rejal can make
the move. One of the problems that Fittipaldi's had this year is he's had some gearbox problems
and of course if you're going to get gearbox problems anywhere, the streets of Detroit
are certainly a classic place for him.
Coming to Cobo Hall.
Not much time to view the spectators here by the Joe Lewis arena and down the hill.
That's about what a 10, 12 degree drop there David.
It's quite a steep drop and it's breaking up. They go through there in the one gear.
Although it may be now as they get near the race if they've got enough fuel left, they'll
be using some slightly lower gears.
Or a shorter. Maybe using second here instead of third to make the most acceleration on
the straight. Rejal right with him now. Rejal in the draft as they go down the straight.
Down to just a couple of car lengths between Fittipaldi and Dublin, Ohio's Bobby Rejal.
Leading by just two points over Rick Mears coming into this battle. Here we are back
in turn one. Rejal really closing you up on the brakes there.
Coming through turn two.
Rejal so smooth, so consistent and on this track, which is anything but smooth and anything
but consistent. It's one of the ultimate tests and Rejal always meets it.
He is just dancing this car. Sun's out again. That again will alter the temperature of this
racetrack and change things just a little bit for these drivers.
This is live, the Detroit Grand Prix and its final moments delayed almost an hour after
one of the most bizarre situations we've ever seen when the entire Paul Newman, Carl Hostin,
was in collision at turn three of the course. Dennis Vitolo's car.
Rejal locks up the right front there. He was thinking about trying what Emerson Fittipaldi
did to him just a few laps back. Well, an hour and a bit back now.
Decided against it, pulled back and lost a bit of weight on the inside wheel and locked
her up. Closes here at that first gear turn. There's one other turn which you could run
at first gear right down at the bottom of the hill as you enter the tunnel. That one's
really tricky there. This one could be used. They could sometimes use first gear.
Well, I think these Chevrolet engine cars are using second there as an emergency gear
and third normally, which they've got a tremendously wide rev band.
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in the world to pass on there, as Eddie Chief just came into picture. Ray Hall right with
him now. Last time, he was very late on the brakes into turn one. Going down the outside,
a bit of poorly covering the inside. Difficult to make an outside pass there. Certainly not
beyond the realm of possibility, but not your first choice. Bobby Ray Hall, last win, 1989
at the Metal Land on another of these artificial street circuits. Seeking his 20th career victory.
There you see Debbie, Bobby Ray Hall's wife, wearing his Rolex for good luck today, David.
She's thinking hard about how much luck she can give him too. Down the inside once more,
but you remember how rough it is there. Pretty poorly pulled off that great pass there, all
four wheels off the deck. Bobby doesn't seem to be quite in line to try the same stuff.
Lyon Dyke lies third, about 10, 15, 12 car lengths back, something like that. Then comes
Eddie Cheever. Al Unser is to fifth, Rick Mears is in sixth, John Andretti is to seventh,
Mario is in eighth. They are in the lead lap, one lap down in ninth is Scott Goodyear, followed
by Scott Brayton and Scott Pruitt. Danny Sullivan's going 12th, Willie T. Ribs in 13th, the lap
down, then two laps down is Tony Bettenhausen and Macchista. For the lead. Now this is the
place, he's using the draft to the best of his ability. It looks further on here than
it is, he's pretty close. Down the outside. That's how close. By taking that wider entry,
he'll probably come off the corner just a bit quicker. He's got thoughts of overtaking him
into this corner, but it's a tricky one to do it. It's very narrow and a very unyielding
apex and exit. And avid golfer, this guy in car number 18, Bobby Rahal, needs a birdie
right here, real bad. He comes down Congress and tries to close in and leaving him for
the moment is Filippaldi. He seems to be just a little bit quicker. I don't know, just a
sweep of the speed. He has just a tough back marker, good player things of course, the
fly of the land. Filippaldi's got a dancing around on the brakes there, very bumpy on
that line of street. He's in turn 10. Now down to Colville Hall, he's going to catch
his back marker, the very, oh no, managed to get around him. Ooh, and Rahal squeeze
over there, that's Buddy Luzier in the 90 car. Bobby Rahal was the runner up here a year
ago. He's had three second place finishes in the first three races of 1991. He'd certainly
like to change that situation and here he is making another challenge as they go through
the tunnel. Harry Leyendijk falling back a little bit and not too far behind him is Eddie
Cheever. Four laps left, three just about to be come. I don't know what my imagination
was. There's that car out of control, standing down the inside. I think that was Cheever
trying to get around Buddy Luzier who slowed right up I think. Cheever locks everything
up going into turn one. That's Al Jr. just coming around turn one and two right behind
him. So the pressure's not off Cheever yet. Cheever running in fourth and Al Jr. closing
in fifth. Meanwhile back for the lead. Plenty of room on the exit for that corner there,
very fast exit up through the trees here. This is one of the smoothest places here.
They've resurfaced this this summer. Bobby Rahal using up every bit of racetrack on this
two and a half mile course here at Detroit as he makes his charge. Time is running out.
Wants this win. He has the lead in the standings. He could really stand the win on the podium
and he has closed it up each time on these straightaways. Emerson Fittipaldi, the twice
world champion, draws away a bit but in the tighter part of the course Rahal counters
and closes ground. Even if he finishes second he will extend his lead quite considerably
because he's the nearest pursuers which are Rick Mears and Michael Andretti. Obviously
Michael Andretti is right out of the hunt. Mears is back in sixth. The pump house turn.
The straightaway which here to four has been owned by Fittipaldi. I believe we're showing
two on the field. Two on the field this time by and into one. And right here it's negative
camber David. It throws you down. Exactly. Just right there. It wheels away. The floor
peels away and leaves you right out to that guardrail on the exit. It's like one of those
wild rides at the country fairs at the end of the summertime. Just throws your stomach
no matter how used you are to things. Every driver will tell you that one will get your
attention. Looks to me like Rahal may have settled for second unless he's lulling Emerson
into a false sense of security with just one lap to go. Scott Pruitt in trouble. The car
number 11 which had been running in 11th retires. Fittipaldi stays first. Rahal second. Lyondike
third. The in fourth cheever. Unser fifth. Rick Mears sixth. John Andretti in seventh.
Mario back in eighth. Eight cars in the lead lap. Of the most lead changes in a kart PPG
race in three year history they've run this course here in Detroit. And unusual circumstance
taking us well past the time that we thought we would be with you. A 50 minute hold after
the Andretti's both crash. On the back of a safety truck at turn three. That one is going
to be conjecture for some time. That'll keep this going. Emerson lucky at that right front
again. That'll put him off his stroke as he goes into the tunnel. This is an important
part here. Rahal could pull up to him under the tunnel. That's that first. Maybe his front
tires going off. Watching Fittipaldi at that turn just before you come to the tunnel. It's
a first gear turn. Want to run it that way. Some take it in second. White flag is out.
One lap to go. Bobby Rahal has anything else to deliver. Now is the time to send it special
delivery. Here he is in turns one and two. And he's closer this time. He's moved in just
that much more. But on the straightaway look at Fittipaldi leap away. Up to turn three.
And now to the turn where they had trouble before. Had that big hesitation in the race.
St. Antoine and Woodbridge. Now up onto the Chrysler freeway. Down to Congress for the
final time. Emerson Fittipaldi. Still in front and draws away. Coming up to that hard 90
degree left hand turn. On to Beaubien. Headed for Larnon. Fittipaldi trying to win it again.
This track sure likes Brazilian drivers. It would seem. But remember he's had trouble
just at that tunnel entrance twice David. Rahal is only going to do it one more time.
Down to Covo Hall. This is the slowest corner here. If he's going to have a braking problem
it could occur there. But he seems to. Oh Jeff Andretti in front in the 86 car. Yellow
flag is out. Final time through. He's going to have to pass Andretti in the tunnel. Or
maybe just on the other side by the pump house. Here they come out. It's clear it's a run
to the finish now. Closing in. Rahal look how he cuts it down into that final straightaway
now. From Sao Paulo Brazil and Miami Florida. Fighting to the finish. Checkered flag about
to be unfurled. And at the line 44 year old Emerson Fittipaldi has just won his 13th kart
PPG race. One more and that would tie his mark with his Formula One victories. A great
victory for Emerson Fittipaldi here today in the Detroit Grand Prix. The Penske Chevy
has done it. And Emerson Fittipaldi the man of the hour. And we have another winner this
year. That's the sixth different winner on the kart PPG circuit for 1991. Fittipaldi
for the second time in his career wins at Detroit. Bobby Rahal finishes in second. And
the Dutchman Ari Lyon Dyke pulling up in number nine to congratulate him. Al Unser Jr. comes
home in fourth. Mears will be fifth. And Cheever dropped way back at the end. Six went to John
Andretti. Then Mario Andretti. There's Roger Penske. Talking with some of his crew after
this brilliant victory by Emerson Fittipaldi. Eddie Cheever concluding the day in eighth
position. Eddie Cheever stopped down at turn nine for some reason. We don't know why yet
but he had that violent maneuver down at the end there. Maybe something like a drive shaft
broke. So the winner today is Emerson Fittipaldi. The Penske Chevy has done it again. And the
great Brazilian champion reigns supreme over the mean streets of Detroit.
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almost three point two nine. The margin of victory by which Emerson defeated Bobby Ray
Hall at the line here today. The completion of 155 miles, 62 laps. And a jubilant Fittipaldi
now being taken out of car number five. Off comes the five point hitch. The harness is
off. Radio has been disconnected and Emerson clambers out of this $400,000 car. This $4
million team put together for him by Roger Penske has tasted success here in Detroit.
Fittipaldi, another guy that is in the thick of political maneuverings at the moment. All
sorts of contracts are going between Penske and Marlboro and Fittipaldi, et cetera, et
cetera. So that win was something I guess that Fittipaldi really felt he had to achieve
sometime during the season. I guess today was as good a day as any. Certainly was and
it was as dramatic as anything we've ever seen on the IndyCar series with this delay,
with this bizarre situation on one of the corners holding us up for nearly an hour.
Chris Akonomaki is standing down there in the victory area and I believe with the man
who's just done it. Christopher? I didn't know you were a drinking man, Amal. How thirsty
are you? Well, it was a very tough race the last few laps. When it was like seven laps
to go, I had a good lead on Bob and start jump out of gears. I have to drive with just
my left arm and I was holding the gear, gear lever with my right arm. How much time did
you spend looking in the mirror in those closing laps? Well, I was not looking in the mirror,
I was looking at my gear box because I was jumping out of gears and I was trying to hold
as quick as I could Bobby, but on the very slow corners with one hand it was very tough
and very difficult to be quick. I was quite quick on the fast corners. The car worked
beautifully. What did they do to the car, Amal, during the red flag period? Did they
work on it? No, no. The car, I mean, before I did 43.1, I was faster mid-race when I was
leading before. We didn't change the car, just new tires. The car was beautiful the
whole race. Now what about over there where the corner was blocked? You were the only
one to get through. How close a car was that for you? Well, when I saw the marshals giving
the sign, they were really looking like a merge or something bad. And I went very slow
and I was able to go through on the inside. Well, you did a great, happy Father's Day,
Amal. Thank you very much. Good enough. Well, let's go back now to Ken Squire. It was a
grand victory for Fittipaldi and for Roger Penske who has just cored his 66 as a car
owner. And look again, David Hobbs, at this wonderful moment in racing when Fittipaldi
made this move on Bobby Rahal. Goes to the outside. Rahal goes to block it. All four
wheels off the ground comes alongside. And at this stage, Rahal knows he's done. No point
turning into the side of Fittipaldi. A bold move by Fittipaldi and a difficult one, not
a trace of tiresmith. And well executed by both drivers throughout the race. This 62
lap, 155 mile test. Here's Mike Joy. I'm with Ari Leyendijk who's going to be on the
winner's rostrum. And geez, another great top three finish for you. And tell me now,
how mean are the mean streets of Detroit? Well, that's still pretty mean as you can
see. I don't look that healthy anymore after a two hour race. But my car is looking really
good. And at the end of the race, I couldn't really challenge Bobby because we had a boost
problem. I think we picked it up when we were stopped there with the red flag situation
there. I had the engine running and the engine got very hot. And I think it kind of hurt
the engine. We didn't have much power at the end. But you had a great run today. Yeah,
I really enjoyed it. I mean, you know, I've never had as good a race I had here thanks
to my crew and my engineer, Morris Nunn, and the whole crew. They just did a fantastic
job and it makes all the difference. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations on that great
second place finish, Bobby. He had too much for you? Down the straights here. It's just
a little too strong. And when I could get a run at him in one, that penske got pretty
wide. But it was just the, we gave it everything we had and he did too. We were both locking
tires up. Are you telling me that he used all the road, Bobby? No, there was a little
bit left for me. But not enough, huh? What about the handling of the car? You really
were giving it your all. I'm sure we could see wheels locking up here and then slithering
and sliding. Did you have anything left at all? No, I mean, the last 10 laps, I actually
made a little bit of a mistake. I got a little wide and I lost to Emerson and Ari caught
up and I said, come on, let's get it together. So we drove pretty hard. In fact, I think
we went quicker than I qualified. So the last lap, so we were, we weren't holding anything
back. Let's put it that way. Let's look back at that incident over there that brought the
race to a halt. You weren't involved in that. What? I mean, you had to stop over there.
How did you see it? Well, I mean, the lap before they were pushing the fellow and, you
know, there was room to get by and, and, uh, but when I came back around, uh, the guys
were waving the yellow flags very hard. So I really didn't see it. I mean, when I got
around the corner, you could see Michael's car sitting there and only until I got right
up there. Cause I see what really happened. But, uh, you know, it's, uh, it's unfortunate
that they both had the incident and that it stopped the race. Cause, uh, there was some
gambling going on by people with pit stops. It would have been interesting how it panned
out, but the STP Craco car ran beautifully. And, um, you know, I'm really, I'm, I'm disappointed
we didn't win, but I'm pretty pleased about second. Bobby, a year ago today, your hands
were ribbons. Let's see them today. Oh, you're telling us it was an easy race. I won't say
it was easy, but easier. Happy Friday. Debbie, come over here. It's pretty wife here. What
were you thinking of those closing laps, Debbie? Well, very anxious. It was almost the way
I felt at Indy when, you know, you want them to go so well and these second places are
wonderful. We're real happy for the team, but I think we need a first somewhere along
the line here. Okay. That's father's day. Where are your kids? They're home in, uh, in
Columbus. I'm a Kayla Graham. Jared, how you doing? Okay. Well finished up a really interesting
race and a good result for Emerson Fittipalli. He's been a bit skinny on the winning results
of life. Yeah. Well actually good result for the Penske team. First and fifth Rick me is
in fifth place. I've obviously got that Penske chassis working really good because Rick was
leading the surface paradise race there until he had brake problems right towards the very
end. A very good package. He runs a fabulous team. Not Japan's key. Ari Lyon. Dyke is a
strange driver too. He seems to just pop up every now and then with a good result. Yeah.
Well, when it counts like Indianapolis, uh, yeah, they're all our old diet as he's known.
Um, there's good result for him too. He's with a new team and, uh, you know, it takes
a little while to sort things out and work, you know, as one and, uh, he's putting a good
package to get. He's got some good results. Okay. Just coming up in a couple of hours
time, the playoff between Scott Simpson and Payne Stewart, 6 a.m. today. That's the US
Open Golf. So join Ian Chappell for that one. And that's been some sensational golf there.
AJ, good to have you company again. You go around in the touring cars again. Is it next week?
This coming Sunday, Malala, South Australia, um, seventh or sixth round of the Australian
Touring Car Championship and looking for another good result. Okay. Good luck for that. Okay.
Thanks for being with us right through the Motor Sport Weekend. We've really enjoyed your company.
We'll see you next time round.
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This is a lucky spinster, Fran Burney, 26. Until four weeks ago, her world was bounded
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It's great to see you, Fran. I got here one drink ago and I already ordered, OK?
Yes, yes, fine. How did your day go? Oh, great, great, just great. You remember that
stock I told you Buddy of mine took me off on? Up, up, up like a rocket almost into orbit.
Another killing like today and you can start picking up that split level with the built-in
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How do you do? I'm Lieutenant Mike Parker of the 61st squad. The waiters tell me you know the man
who was stabbed, but you were talking to him. Friend of my husband. Would you be kind enough
to give me his name and address? Answer the man. His name was Al Horner. Al Horner? Horner,
yeah. We were together at the Friendly Russian. You know the place. Practically new car.
What was his address? Well, you know, there's no guy who'll necessarily go to his house, you know.
They never invite us to their house. We don't know where they live. Of course the boss
could know. Oh, the Friendly Russian. His name was Sam Garvey. The Friendly Russian.
Well, he bought it from the original. Give the detective a card. Policemen also buy cars.
How about the woman who stabbed him? Do you know her? Well, I wouldn't exactly say we knew her.
Well, if you're speaking about acquaintance. No, we didn't know her. But who she is, well,
she's his wife. His wife? Well, we were talking about the baby, the new baby. Are you sure about this?
Well, it should be his wife. Some wife and mother that Mrs. Horner, isn't she? Huh?
Would you wait a minute? I'll be right back.
Operator, this is Detective Lieutenant Mike Parker of the 65th Squad, shield number 203.
Could you find out if there's a listing for Al Horner? Yeah, Horner. H-O-R-N-E-R.
You know, if you had any sense, this would be a lesson to you. What do you mean?
Don't push me beyond my limits either.
What's that number again, Operator? Thanks.
Yeah, Mike. How's Horner doing? Well, he's still alive, but nobody here is willing to say for how long.
Look, Adam, I got the information on who stabbed him. It happens to be his wife.
His wife? Wait a minute, Mike. Is her name Millie? What does that add up to?
Well, he was kind of delirious, but he mumbled a few things, and I wrote him down just a minute.
Yeah, he said, uh... Millie, Millie, you know good. Give me my money's worth, huh?
You gave me my money's worth, Millie.
You can find that out when you pick her up. Here's the information I got when I called the house.
She left her baby with an aunt, and she went downtown to do some shopping.
She came back, looked in on the kid, and she went out for some groceries.
Well, that doesn't necessarily sound like a person who just stabbed somebody.
Who can tell what shock is gonna do? Remember that woman on 61st Street? Knocked her husband off.
We walked in, she was baking a cake. Yeah.
Well, take down the address. Go down to the apartment. Check in. See what you can get. Okay?
Just a minute.
Mrs. Al Horner, come to the check stand, please.
What number is this? Uh, three.
Mrs. Al Horner, kindly come to check stand number three, please.
You Mrs. Horner? Mrs. Al Horner?
Oh, what's the matter?
Well, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Oh, what's the matter? Is something the matter with my baby?
We're police officers, Mrs. Horner. Have you talked to your mom?
What's wrong? Is something the matter with my baby?
Your baby is fine. Just want to ask you a couple of questions.
Where were you from 12 o'clock to 2 o'clock this afternoon?
Well, I went downtown to get some things in a department store.
Did you have lunch with your husband at the cabin restaurant?
He was working.
Why are you asking me these questions?
Well, I hate to have to tell you this, Mrs. Horner, but your husband had an accident.
He's dead.
No, no, he's not dead, Mrs. Horner.
He's in the hospital. Your husband was stabbed.
Dad?
A woman stabbed him.
He was working. How could she stab him?
He was with a woman?
I have to get some baby food.
Mrs. Horner, I'll take it to your husband.
Detective Arcaro here can take the food home to the baby.
Yes, all right.
I want to see Mildred, please.
I have to talk to her.
Send her in.
You told me he was single.
What?
You told me you checked on everyone we went out with.
You said he was single.
Who did you go out with?
Who did I go out with? Don't you even know that?
I take care of a hundred clients.
Do you think I can remember every one of them?
I went out with Al Horner.
What did he tell me he was single?
What do you want? Your money back?
We got a no money back policy.
I just thought you'd like to know, to protect somebody else.
I thought maybe you should tell his wife so that she'd know.
Listen, what are you trying to do? Make trouble.
My hands are covered with blood because you lied to me.
What did you do?
I killed him.
What do you think I am?
Some kind of cheap woman?
What do you think I am?
What are you coming to me for?
For the police following you.
The police?
Police, yes.
I don't know.
I just thought you wanted to know what you did.
I just wanted to talk to somebody.
I tried to call Miron. She's not at home.
I'm going to give you a break.
Get out of here.
I won't tell anybody you came to see me.
Get out of here.
You don't mention me or the police.
Where should I go?
Get out of town. Get on a train, get on a bus.
I don't have anybody to go to.
Don't you realize what I'm losing?
I lost my license.
Who are you?
Did I come to you or did you come to me?
Did I ask you to go out with Horner?
Or did you come to me and tell me how lonely you were?
I did you a favor.
And look what's happening to me because of it.
I want you to go away.
And I want you to protect me.
Here.
Take this money and keep quiet about me.
What do you think I am?
Do you think I came here to blackmail you?
Anyone can use a little money.
When you're in trouble, it's useful.
I came here to talk.
I wanted to ask for advice.
I wanted to ask for help.
I don't want anything from you.
Just take the money.
Don't insult me like that.
If I ever find that you told anyone that Bernie was here today,
I'll shred you into small ribbons.
That who was here?
Now get Frankie.
I'm going to get over here immediately.
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Could you lend me a dime so I could call a girlfriend of mine?
Only got a quarter.
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Miss? Miss?
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He's still alive.
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When a married man goes out with a woman who isn't his wife,
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One thing I gotta say about Adam, he's always logical.
Yeah.
Well, it just so happens that I know who Millie is.
What?
You didn't ask me, so I didn't tell you.
But I got an idea.
What do you say we all go down to the police lab?
Maybe we might find out something.
Hi, Frase.
Why should I be the only one who's frustrated?
Now I want you to tell them everything that you told me, point by point, from the top.
Now, I received the victim's effect from the hospital,
and I put the victim's clothes through the standard tests,
and I am pleased to report that he spent time in close proximity to machinery and or automobiles.
For example, he sells used cars.
Possibly.
I went through his wallet, which contains the usual identification and collection of credit cards,
and then I took the liberty of calling this restaurant in the hope that I could get hold of a glass or a dish that the young lady had handled.
I'm pleased to report that all the utensils on that table were picked up and steamed clean.
It's a very signatory place.
In other words, you got nothing.
Frase, we could have saved you the trouble.
We also went through the wallet before we sent it to you.
But who's Millie?
Ah, remember, in my work nothing is sometimes progress.
Therefore, I went through the wallet again, and this time I looked down in the inner lining.
Yes.
What you're looking for is right there now, acting on the lieutenant's instructions, I put it back.
Where, where is he in the line?
You have to go down inside this thing and around the other thing and pull out that piece of cloth, and there you are.
No Dutess court service.
When you went to the police academy, weren't you taught to be observant?
You boys are in quite a hurry now, aren't you?
Yes, sir.
Thank you for your observance.
Anytime.
Yes?
I'd like to see Mildred, please.
Well now, are you registered?
We don't just take anyone you know.
Mildred worries about her clients.
She's very fussy.
Would you like to fill out a card?
You're such nice gentlemen.
Mildred, you've got policemen.
What are they?
Let me have that.
This is Detective Flint, 65th precinct, want to ask you some questions.
Sure, I'll ask the questions.
You just come right on in, and if you got any idea in mind, I'm going to shake down your thing twice.
Because when I talk, I talk in front of witnesses.
A mother's heart is behind it all, huh?
That door over there.
Thanks.
First of all, you got a warrant?
You got a charge?
I just want to ask you a couple of questions.
Now let me tell you two something.
I got friends.
And if I don't like your questions, you're going to hear from my friends.
You want to ask questions?
Here's my identification.
Maybe you want to press charges after we leave.
It's mine.
I can be just as polite as you.
On the wall over there is my license.
I'm a legitimate business.
That's about me.
Now anything you want to know about my clients is privileged and confidential.
And locked in a mother's heart.
So ask questions.
If I feel like it, I'll answer.
You'll either answer them here, or you're going to be brought down to the precinct and talk to the lieutenant.
I don't have to talk to no lieutenant in no place.
You start moving me around, and I'll wrap you up in a charge of false arrest so fast.
Lady, lady.
Why don't you just listen to the question before you get so excited.
You don't even know what we're going to ask you yet.
This afternoon a man was stabbed, a man named Al Horner.
We don't know if he's going to live or die.
I don't know Al Horner.
Lady, you lie like breathing.
He's a client of yours.
I can make you prove that in court.
That won't be too difficult.
What do you want?
What's the name of the girl he had a date with last night?
What made you think I'd keep records like that?
I introduced my clients once.
I did that there on their own.
I also want a list of all the girls you got him dates with.
You're asking me to betray your sacred trust.
You're asking me for the names of nice girls who you want to drag into the dirt.
Now lady, get off of your high horse, will you?
Who do you think you're talking to, a couple of morons?
You know about my patrons are clients.
Little secretaries who live like mice, all by themselves.
Nobody would ask for a date if they lived for 2,000 years.
Mildred makes dates for them.
Mildred makes it possible for them to look in the mirror and say to themselves,
I had a date with a man too.
You're off the subject.
So sue me.
I want the complete record on Al Horner and I want it now.
Otherwise, Detective Acara is going to stay here while I go get a warrant.
I'm going to come back and take it whether he want to give it up or not.
Al Horner's a louse.
If he got stabbed, he deserves it.
Go get him what they want.
What do you want me to do?
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Oh, hi Mike.
Hi.
Mike, this is Mrs. Lowe, the landlady.
Mrs. Lowe, this is Lieutenant Parker.
How you doing?
How you doing, Mrs. Lowe?
We're looking for a picture of the girl or anything else that might turn up.
Mrs. Lowe, I'd like for you to tell the lieutenant here what you told us about the way Miss Bernie came home.
You want me to start where I started with you?
No, actually, see, she just gave us a character sketch of a kind of shy type woman.
A little sad, you know.
Now, if you would just start from last night.
Well, it was about 2.30 in the morning.
I was lying in bed.
My room is directly under Myra Edwards' room.
Mrs. Lowe, who is this Myra Edwards?
That's the Bernie girl's best friend, probably her only close friend.
I heard this tapping on Myra's door and a soft little voice saying,
Myra, Myra, you know like in a dream, there's a voice outside your window asking to please come in?
And when you got up there, there was the Bernie girl?
But she never comes home at this hour.
This was the first time in five years in my house.
But she wasn't drunk.
She was very disturbed.
I said, what is it?
And she said, I can't find Myra.
Now Myra's out all the time.
Almost every night.
So why she should be so disturbed about that, I don't know.
I said, can I help?
And she said, I've lost my purse.
And I said, oh, did you lose a lot of money?
And she said, it's not the money, Mrs. Lowe.
I don't have my key.
And I said, why you foolish girl, you're entitled to wake me up one night in five years.
And she said, I've done enough wrong in one day.
I can never make it up as long as I live.
I can't make it up to the dead, and I can't make it up to the living.
She was on the verge of tears.
So I let her into the room and I went downstairs.
I started to get into bed and I decided it might be a cup of tea would be nice for
and a little conversation.
So I made the tea and I went back up with it.
And when I got there, she was gone.
Oh, her phone's been ringing like crazy all day yesterday and since early this morning.
Do you think that could have been the Bernie girl calling him?
How would I know that?
Or any of these pictures of her.
We'd like one that looks as close to her as she might look now.
This one.
Thank you very much, Mrs. Lowe.
I want a stakeout put around the house.
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And I want on all points put on the woman herself.
That's the beginning anyway.
Who is it?
Honey, I'll go if you want.
Are you kidding? Don't go. Come in. I like you.
I'm sorry. I didn't want to get you up.
Oh, it's all right.
Take off your coat.
How about some coffee?
Yeah, yeah, thanks.
Oh, I had the greatest dream last night.
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What?
Yeah, three faucets.
Hot, cold and morning coffee.
There you go.
What's the matter with the coffee?
No, no, coffee's fine.
I'm just thinking about this case that I'm working on.
Oh, stop. It's too early to think.
I just thought of something.
Huh?
Yeah.
Good morning.
Honey, would you get mixed up with a married man?
What?
Would you become involved with a married man?
Sure.
You would?
Mm-hmm.
If you were married to me.
Can he sleep?
No, I spent the night looking for a girl.
Oh, did you find her?
No.
I found out who she was, but I couldn't find her.
What'd she do?
She stabbed a guy.
She'd just pick up a knife and stab him?
No, she didn't just pick up a knife and stab him.
It's never that simple.
She may have been pushed to the ground,
but she didn't just stab him.
She may have been pushed into him when she was holding the knife.
Then again, maybe she wasn't.
There's a lot of conflicting stories. There always are.
She's walking around the streets of New York right now.
She doesn't know anybody.
She has no place to go as far as we can tell.
Mm.
I don't know.
Oh.
Who is it?
It's Fran Verney, Mrs. Horner.
Who? Who is it?
You don't know me, Mrs. Horner.
Please open the door.
I didn't want to ring the bell because I was afraid
it might wake the baby.
What's the matter with you?
I've had trouble enough without you being
to be a summons now.
My husband's in the hospital with his heart wounded.
No, no, no. This isn't a summons.
Please, Mrs. Horner, it's money.
I want you to take it, please.
Money for what?
It's...
It's... it's conscience money.
Don't you understand?
I'm the woman.
I'm that woman who was in that restaurant with him.
Honey, I knew something was wrong with me.
What?
This is Detective Flint.
Let me speak with Lieutenant Parker.
Yeah?
Mike, Adam.
Listen, you remember when the landlady said she left
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she didn't have a purse?
Well, of course that means she had no money.
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We got the airports and terminals covered.
Have you heard me put out the old points?
I don't know.
Well, look, what about the bank account?
What bank account?
I don't know. She's...
Like all the other secretaries in New York,
she must have a bank account.
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I'll bet she's going to be at that bank today
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I think we'd better find out where the bank is.
We haven't anything better to go on.
I'll start checking it out here.
Good. I'll be right down.
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What else?
I expected it.
One thing about being a policeman's girl,
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You don't know that this woman's here. You're only guessing.
You know she took her money out of the bank, didn't we?
She said she was going to give it to somebody who did her a great wrong.
Well, she didn't give it to Horner at the hospital,
therefore who else is left?
Look, Malm, I'm just saying take it easy.
She could have mailed the money just as easy as not.
Okay, Frank, but while we're talking about it, we can find out.
Yeah, but let's not run about it. That's all I'm saying.
Hey.
Frank, go back to the car and call the fire department.
I'm going to go up there and see what I can do.
Yeah.
You better stop.
You're Frank Burnie, aren't you?
Who are you?
I'm Adam Flint. I'm a detective.
Miss Burnie, you think you killed Al Horner, but you didn't.
He's still alive.
He's going to recover.
Now that's the truth.
I don't think that's got anything to do with the case.
Please don't come any closer. Please let me think.
Okay. Can I sit down here? Right here?
You're going to try that trick of offering me a cigarette like they do in the movies.
Maybe you'd like to have a smoke. Sorry. Fresh out.
That's the way it is. Fresh out. It's the story of my life.
Did you call the fire department to put out the nets?
Yes.
Why?
To save your life.
Why? So you can arrest me? So I can have my picture and all the newspapers?
Look, Miss Burnie, you got mixed up in an accident.
I was born. That was my accident.
Al Horner's going to live. I'm positive of that. I talked to the doctor and I talked to him.
He's worried about you.
Did you talk to his wife?
Go away. Leave me in peace.
A person is entitled to a little peace once in their life.
There's no peace down there.
You know what's the biggest crime of all, Mr. Detective?
Not robbery. Not even murder.
It's the waste of people.
Not being used.
Drying up and blowing away.
My mother used to say, when God sweeps out his house,
it's people like me he sweeps under the rug.
It's his broom.
The life under the rug.
So let's tell the truth. Even you don't care about me as a person.
I'm just part of your job, that's all.
If I jump, it's just a black mark on your record.
An hour later, you'll arrest a pickpocket.
He'll arrest me, Mr. Detective, because I got caught with my hand in somebody's pocket.
I stole another woman's husband.
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Of Americans going into Vietnam, we are finally bringing American men home.
By December 15, over 60,000 men will have been withdrawn from South Vietnam, including 20% of all of our combat forces.
The South Vietnamese have continued to gain in strength.
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We have adopted a plan, which we have worked out in cooperation with the South Vietnamese, for the complete withdrawal of all U.S. combat ground forces and their replacement by South Vietnamese forces on an orderly scheduled timetable.
1969. No longer was this Lyndon Johnson's war. It was Richard Nixon's war, and President Nixon pursued a program called Vietnamization, withdrawing some American troops, turning more of the fighting over to the Army of South Vietnam.
But could South Vietnam meet that challenge? When the chips were down, would these troops stand and fight?
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These would be tested soon enough, and the future of Vietnam would be at stake.
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Within six months of his inauguration, Richard Nixon had announced the first withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. There were other decisions he did not announce.
In March of 1969, he'd begun the secret bombing of communist strongholds in Cambodia.
And later that year, Nixon's national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, began a series of secret peace talks with officials of North Vietnam.
Already, official peace talks were underway in Paris, but only after a ten-week dispute about the shape of the table, who would sit where at the table?
The answer was to make it round. Everyone was equal. The United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Viet Cong.
For the thousands of American troops brought home from Vietnam, a nightmare had ended. For those who remained, the nightmare continued, as Richard Threlke reported.
The battle for Bu Dap is supposed to be an all-Vietnamese operation, but it's becoming more Americanized every day.
American helicopters and fighter planes raking the North Vietnamese positions that surround the Special Forces camp.
And an all-American firebase known as Jerry. The 1st Air Cavalry Division reoccupied this abandoned firebase only five days ago.
And now, like Bu Dap, Jerry is surrounded and under siege.
Now these Americans are racing against time to build new bunkers before enemy artillery zeroes in on Jerry.
For some, the race has already been lost. Five GIs have been killed and 11 wounded here at Jerry today alone.
Moving around is done at one's own risk.
The operational commander, Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Rasmussen, took the same risk when he paused for a moment to answer a question.
Colonel, what do you think the enemy's intentions are for the Bu Dap area as a result of the last week's action?
I think he has two things in mind. First of all, he'd like to upset the pacification program here in this particular district.
And secondly, if the opportunity presents itself, he'd like to overrun the district headquarters.
Do you think the pressure here at...
This is exactly the way it's been, that firebase Jerry, for the last 24 hours.
You never know when that terrible, frightening word, incoming, is going to start.
And there it is.
This time, the enemy gunners were off their mark and the shells exploded in a momentarily deserted section of the base.
Jerry's defenders retaliated by firing their howitzers point-blank into the enemy positions only 30 yards beyond the perimeter.
CBS cameraman Fanboy Huan and soundman Pham Thanh Zon repeatedly exposed themselves to enemy fire to film these scenes.
A reconnaissance platoon was sent out to find the enemy mortar and ran right into a big enemy bunker.
Outmanned and outgunned, the Americans beat a hasty retreat to the relative safety of the barbed wire perimeter.
Firing back from behind the trenches, World War I style.
Helicopter gunships moved into the enemy bunkers, striking so close that shrapnel fragments whistled over Jerry's own sandbags.
Firebase Jerry was reopened to give the South Vietnamese some help.
But Jerry's defenders are now spending most of their time defending themselves.
And there's a growing suspicion here that it is the Americans, not the South Vietnamese troops, who are the real enemy targets.
Most of the Americans at Jerry are newcomers to combat. It's taken only five days here to make them veterans.
So that's the way it goes at Firebase Jerry, the newest North Vietnamese target.
A few minutes of hard work and a few minutes of hell and fear.
You may get used to it, but you never get over it.
Richard Threlkeld, CBS News, Firebase Jerry, South Vietnam.
1970 was the second year of the Nixon presidency.
It brought a combination of escalation and de-escalation.
More American troops were withdrawn, but the president also ordered troops into Cambodia.
That touched off new protest demonstrations in the United States, especially on college campuses.
One of those demonstrations was at Kent State University in Ohio, and there the protest led to tragedy.
National guardsmen fired on the crowd and four students were killed.
Despite the protests, American troops were fighting in Cambodia now, as well as Vietnam.
The stated purpose was to destroy the Communist command headquarters in Cambodia and to wipe out enemy sanctuaries.
President Nixon described the operation as an incursion.
American troops would be withdrawn in two months, but South Vietnamese troops would remain.
Jerry Shepard went along with one American unit as the ground war expanded across the Cambodian border.
Bravo Company's mission is to take Hill 423, a seemingly insignificant piece of terrain 10 miles inside Cambodia.
Little did the men realize when they moved out that when they made it to the top, they would have another name for Hill 423.
The enemy was waiting when Bravo Company and a reconnaissance platoon from Echo Company began the assault, and it wasn't long before the men were in the midst of bitter fighting.
The battle raged on for nearly four hours, and before it was over, six members of Bravo Company had been wounded.
The rest of the company pressed on to the top of the hill. The wounded were carried to a small jungle clearing, where a helicopter would carry them to a hospital bed in South Vietnam.
Specialist 4 Chris Keflos of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was killed in action during the battle.
The company finally made it to the top of Hill 423. The men decided to name it after him. From then on, it would be known as Shakey's Hill.
John, you were Shakey's best buddy. How did he get the name?
Well, he kind of had a speech impediment, and he always stuttered, so. Like on the LZ one night, we all got drunk, and that's how he picked it up, Shakey.
So they started calling him Shakey all the time, because he stuttered so much.
What was he like? He was only 19 years old.
Shakey's Hill turned out to be a major communist supply depot, everything from Chinese communist AK-47 rifles to machine gun bullets and medical supplies.
Lieutenant Bob Lewis of Miami, Florida.
Just how large a cache is it?
Well, I feel it's going to be one of the largest ever found, including Vietnam or Cambodia, reason being we found, I see, 29 bunkers, and you can see what comes out of one bunker.
I think you've already got pictures of that, and we haven't even touched upon it.
It's hard on all of us. I know we're all tired of this. Tired.
You want to get back to Vietnam?
I never thought I'd be saying that either. I want to go to Vietnam for a change instead of staying in Cambodia.
We're going home. We're going home. This is it. Bravo Company's going home.
After spending 22 consecutive days in the Cambodian jungle, Bravo Company was about to move out.
It had been a tough campaign. During the almost daily fighting with North Vietnamese troops, casualties ran above 50 percent.
Four of the men had been killed, and 60 had been wounded.
The huge Chinook helicopters arrived by mid-morning, and Bravo Company begins its move out of the jungle.
More than half of the enemy bunkers discovered by Bravo Company remain to be opened, so Delta Company is brought in to finish the job.
And Bravo heads for fire support base Neel, still inside Cambodia, but at least out of the jungle.
It doesn't take long before the men find a place to clean up, something they haven't been able to do for a long time.
It's okay. It will run out.
Did you bring a beer?
It's hot chow. I don't know how you're going to react to it, but it is hot chow.
There it is.
All right.
There really isn't any end to this story. The few days Bravo Company will spend here at fire support base Neel amount to just a brief intermission in the war.
Before long, these men will move back into the jungle and pick up the war where they left it today.
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Vietnam War, as any war, had its moments of quiet and moments even of humor, punctuated by other moments of desperation and fear.
The television series MASH was based on the Korean War, not Vietnam.
But sometimes life can imitate art, as Gary Shepard reports.
This is the 18th Surgical Hospital, the last major American medical facility north.
Before you hit the demilitarized zone.
Nearly 150 doctors, nurses, medics and helicopter pilots on call around the clock, 12 miles from the DMZ.
Oh God!
What's your name?
I don't even remember, 02 I guess.
Okay, you don't remember?
Yes, I do.
What's your unit?
One 11.
Glad I heard.
How's it going on here?
Okay, babe.
You alright?
Relax.
I was under control.
Inside the emergency room, two American soldiers have just been brought in by helicopter from Kamlo, 20 miles to the northwest, where their 5 ton truck ran over a mine.
One of them has only 36 days left before he is scheduled to go home.
Both will survive.
Fortunately, the truck itself kept most of the shrapnel from penetrating their bodies.
What's hurting you?
My neck.
Oh.
Oh.
Jimmy, let me have the Jack Daniels, will you please?
It is 7 PM.
The flurry of activity in the emergency room has subsided, and most of the doctors finally have time to take a break.
Their gathering place is a small hut called Kamtiki Port.
Where do the stakes come from?
Well, friends give it to us, and we give them something else in return.
A little fading in there.
Why do you eat here instead of at the mess hall?
The food is excellent. We have a good cook, Willie Sanchez.
Yeah, I like it very much.
He's the chief of surgery.
He's the chief of surgery and the best meat cutter you've ever seen.
You'll pardon that.
Right, I got 39 units from you people by a chopper about 10 minutes ago, and I'm drawing people up here now for all positive.
But I'm completely flat out.
In the emergency room, two dozen GIs have responded to an urgent call for blood.
A few minutes before, DMZ Dustoff brought in a GI who had both legs blown off by a mine.
The soldier is now in the operating room, and the blood these men are donating will be used almost as quickly as it is received.
No, I want to increase it. I need more of it.
Right.
Because they're ordering 25 units from this guy in the O.I. now. Single guy.
He's had a double invitation.
Betty Corbridge is leaving us, and he's going back to the states after a year.
I know she really did a great job with the kids, and I know a lot of kids are going to miss her very much, and so are we.
Betty?
Yes.
They told me when I was elected that I have to kiss all the nurses goodbye.
This is part of it.
Captain Marcy Kidd of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, won't get her goodbye kiss for ten more months.
She has been in Vietnam for only seven weeks.
Is there much to do here at the hospital besides working?
Yes, there is.
Surprisingly enough, everybody thinks that all you do is work and then go to Vietnam and get up in the morning and work again.
But at night, we are very close. The hospital unit is a real close unit.
You work together and you play together. We have parties on Saturdays or Friday nights and steaks out of the club, barbecue, rice, drinks.
Just a really good time. Get together, have a recorder, music, talk, play bridge. Just really have fun.
When you're not working, it's hard to believe that you're really over here until you walk on the floors and see the patients.
In recent months, it hasn't been as busy here as it used to be, with the level of fighting down significantly.
But it's busy enough, sometimes too busy to think about steaks or Jack Daniels or a trip to the PX.
Too busy to think about anything except the battle with death. When the medevacs come in, the party's over.
Gary Shepard, CBS News, Quang Tri.
Even as the American withdrawal was underway, hundreds of thousands of American fighting men remained in Vietnam.
But there's one point to remember. Many of those were not really fighting.
Throughout the war, the combat troops were outnumbered by support troops, and life at the rear was significantly different from life at the front.
Morley Safer explored that difference in 1970.
This is Long Binh Army Post, 16 miles from Saigon.
It's one of the biggest American bases in Vietnam, a city of 26,000 men.
One sergeant here told me that being in Long Binh was the next best thing to not being in Vietnam at all.
But Long Binh, like the rest of Vietnam, is a combat zone. Everyone gets combat pay.
You can spend your year in Vietnam at Long Binh with very little feeling of a war going on.
The Air Conditioned Soldiers
These are the air-conditioned soldiers. They work in dozens of different headquarters and logistics jobs.
One colonel, the head of information here, has a staff of 45, three of whom put out the headquarters magazine called Up Tight.
The colonel admits that his 42 other information personnel have very little to do.
This is an example of the Parkinsonian principle behind every big bureaucracy, military or civilian.
The more support troops there are in Vietnam to support the combat troops, the more support troops are needed to support the support troops.
The result is finance center east, where platoons of troops wait to be paid by a battalion of clerks and their companies of Vietnamese secretaries.
But the real war can be found at Long Binh.
The two evacuation hospitals bring in the day's collection of sick and wounded and dead from the field.
This is Long Binh's most important support role, and it functions quickly, quietly and efficiently.
The 24th evacuation hospital is next to one of the four football fields.
The 24th specializes in head wounds and neurosurgery.
Right now we're having a football season going on, and there are so many people involved with it that we're having a hard time scheduling enough fields and people to referee these games.
Captain Edward Moore of Martinsville, Virginia, is Long Binh's operations officer.
Well, here at Long Binh, we have about the same facilities that you might find at a stateside military installation.
We have eight Olympic-sized swimming pools here at Long Binh.
We have ranges for archery, for skeet shooting, for putting and driving.
We have a miniature golf course.
We also have plans for bowling alleys in the future, and these are programmed and will be completed within the year.
To look after the 27,000 Americans on Long Binh, there are 22,000 Vietnamese who come to work on the base each day.
They work as bank clerks, gardeners, massage experts, but mostly as roommates for the men.
Simply looking after and transporting the maids requires a support system all of its own.
Vietnam and America at war together.
Many of the combat companies in Vietnam are 40 men under strength.
At Long Binh post, there are units with as many as 400 men over strength.
Of more than 400,000 Americans in Vietnam, in all, only 75,000 men are considered to be combat troops.
A disproportionate number of draftees are engaged in direct combat.
The rifle companies, eight out of ten men are draftees.
Long Binh has a disproportionate number of career officers and NCOs.
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The world began winding down, at least for American ground troops.
Problems of discipline and morale became increasingly apparent.
And disregard of military authority was becoming widespread, as Gary Sheppard reported.
This is fire support base Ares, a small clearing in the jungles of War Zone D, 50 miles northeast of Saigon.
Like most other American installations, fire base Ares isn't very busy these days.
The war is at its lowest level in five years, and there just isn't much to do.
The big guns, which normally would be firing around the clock if the war were raging, now remain silent most of the day.
And the men have a lot of time on their hands.
Time for such former luxuries as haircuts...
...and games of volleyball...
...and even occasional live entertainment by the 1st Cavalry Division Band during a leisurely noon hour lunch break.
Time also for a trip to a muddy swimming hole less than 200 yards from the fire base perimeter.
But in this case, the trip is more than a mere stroll in the jungle.
Most of these soldiers are about to turn on with marijuana.
Rangutan, get your hair cut!
Grass is as plentiful in Vietnam as sea rations.
One pipeful, which the soldiers call a bowl, can easily take care of five or six men.
Marijuana cigarettes are just as easy to get, and just as potent.
This man is a medic, assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division's 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry.
This stuff smells pretty strong.
It is, this is really nice stuff over here.
How often do you come down here?
I make it down here maybe twice a day. Sometimes in the morning I'll come down here, sometimes in the afternoon.
Then we really get it on in the evening, up there at the fire base.
You were telling me about a special way you do it.
Oh, Ralph? Oh, Ralph.
Ralph's this shotgun this guy carries, and you empty it out and you stick the bowl in the barrel.
Blow into the bowl, and when it comes out, you get really stoned.
Then, you know, who like who cares about the war?
This war.
You do that very often?
Whenever Vito's around.
Vito is the 20-year-old draftee from Philadelphia.
A photographer before he entered the Army, Vito is now a squad leader, responsible for the lives of a dozen men.
What's that you got there?
This is what they were telling you about, Ralph.
This is what, well, we use it for also, you know, killing books and all, plus little added pleasures.
Which we use shotgun, which in our time means...
Wild chicken, you walk in it by the conflict.
How does Ralph work?
Well, it's a 12-gauge.
I think it works real good.
What we basically use it for on the LZ and I guess even out in the field, too, if you want to know.
Is that we use the shotgun from a ball, you know, you just put the ball in a chamber and all.
Give me the ball.
You got to blow real hard and it's going to have to work out.
I don't think this one's going to work.
Where's the other one?
We got another one around here.
Paul, let me borrow that bow from you.
This is probably all Sid's and we're getting busted, but I don't care.
Shotgun.
Fire Base Ares is not unique.
What's happening here is also happening to some extent at virtually every other American installation in Vietnam.
Recent surveys estimate that well over 50 percent of the soldiers in Vietnam use marijuana.
That's my good buddy Sam.
Gary Shepard, CBS News, in War Zone D.
The drug problem in Vietnam was more than marijuana.
At one point, it was estimated that almost one third of American troops were experimenting with opium and heroin.
In some cases, addiction led to desertion.
Late in the war, Ed Bradley filmed this report.
Since January 1970, 700 American servicemen have deserted in Vietnam.
Of that number, 430 either returned voluntarily or were captured.
That leaves 270 men still listed as deserters.
I talked with five of them, all but one a drug addict, and two of the men consented to tell their story on camera.
Army Specialist 4th Class Roberto DeLeo of Los Angeles, California, and Army Specialist 4th Class Clifton Washington of Norfolk, Virginia.
Why did you go a war?
Well, I had a problem dealing with drugs. And as you know, they have a new analysis test here in Vietnam.
I couldn't report to Camp Alpha clean, as you would say.
So I took off for a couple of days to deal with the drug problem.
And so maybe afterwards, I would report that I'd be late sure, but I'd be clean, you know, and I wouldn't have any static.
You took off so that you'd be without drugs for a period of days so you could pass the analysis test?
Yes.
And what happened after a few days?
Well, I found myself still leaning on. Then time went by and continued to go by and I'm still here, you know.
I know if I go back, I'll probably get hung, time in jail, and still a bad discharge, you know.
So I just wait a while and see what changes.
And then I was strung out on the scag, you know, heroin.
Were you smoking or shooting heroin?
Well, I was smoking at first and I went down to shooting. Now I'm doing both, smoking and shooting.
You ever think of yourself as a junkie?
Yes, I do. I don't like it a bit, you know, but something, well, something that I don't want to do but my systems keep asking for it, you know.
I just don't like it and I'm tired of it, but my system keeps asking for scag, so I just give it to it.
Have you ever been stopped by MPs here?
Yes, I've been stopped by MPs.
And what happens then?
Well, they couldn't prove that I was their boss so they had to let me go, you know.
Is it difficult to get false, civilian ID papers here?
No, it's not. It's very easy, really.
I have papers myself, you know, and like that's what keeps me here in Vietnam without being half of anything, you know.
So if MPs stop you, you have phony ID cards to show them?
Right.
Can you get into the PX to purchase goods with those ID cards?
Yes, you can.
Is that a way of making a living here?
Yes, I'd rather.
How do you go about that? Explain that to me.
Well, like you would purchase the items that you want to buy and then whatever you purchase, you know, you could bring it downtown and you could sell it to the Vietnamese, you know.
I said like beer, cigarettes, so on, you know. It caused a pretty good profit on the black market.
So where there would be a means of income, you know, survive, you know.
Do most of the guys who are AWOL make money that way?
Yeah.
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The talks in Paris continued.
The secret talks between Kissinger and North Vietnam continued.
But in 1972, the communists launched another offensive storming into the northern provinces of South Vietnam.
Nixon responded with force.
In full coordination with the Republic of Vietnam, I have ordered the following measures,
which are being implemented as I am speaking to you.
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and claimed territorial waters of North Vietnam to interdict the delivery of any supplies.
The spring offensive of 1972 was the first acid test of President Nixon's policy.
Could the troops of South Vietnam fight and win?
The first results were not encouraging.
A key communist target was the city of Quang Tri, here.
The result was something of a disaster, as Bob Simon reported.
For four days, rockets rained down on Quang Tri's military headquarters almost every hour on the hour,
24 hours a day.
By Sunday afternoon, the city's only airfield was in a shambles,
and the American advisors decided to get out.
150 American soldiers assigned to advise and assist the South Vietnamese Third Division
set fire to their compound and evacuated to the south.
Officers complained they could no longer help their Vietnamese counterparts,
and there was virtually nothing between their compound and the communists to the north.
In three days, the McNamara Line had been obliterated.
The string of fire bases and outposts between Quang Tri City and the DMZ no longer exists.
By Sunday afternoon, the communists were just outside the city of Dong Ha.
The road between Dong Ha and Quang Tri to the south was a river of refugees,
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This boy doesn't know where his parents are.
They told him to leave the village, that they'd meet him somewhere along the way.
People don't understand what's happened.
The Americans, they say, were supposed to protect us.
Many are convinced a deal has been made between Hanoi and Washington,
a deal giving the communists their homes.
But they never really believed the Americans would ever let this happen.
Passing soldiers donate bags of rice, a gift from the province chief.
No one knows when the next meal will be offered.
They will spend the night in Quang Tri City, most of them on the streets,
in a queue in makeshift government shelters.
Meanwhile, many residents of Quang Tri are fleeing further south, to Hue and beyond.
They may not be able to do it much longer.
The communists are trying to cut the road.
In Quang Tri province today, the most valuable commodity is a motorcycle or a bicycle.
The South Vietnamese Army knew this day was coming, the day without Americans.
It was to be the big test both for them and for President Nixon's Vietnamization program.
The results in so far are not encouraging.
Whole battalions of the government's third division joined the refugees on the road south.
They had been outnumbered, overpowered, overwhelmed.
The soldiers complain about the lack of air support.
The Air Force complains about the weather.
The big questions now are what happens when the weather clears,
and what in fact are the communist objectives.
But on one point, high-ranking officers, American and South Vietnamese, are agreed.
This time, the North Vietnamese are not fooling around.
This is the offensive everyone's been waiting for.
Bob Simon, CBS News, on the road to Quang Tri.
American air power blunted the force of the communist offensive,
and some units from South Vietnam fought both bravely and well.
The offensive finally was turned back, but only at a terrible price.
Again, a report from Bob Simon.
The situation in Quang Tri province has stabilized.
The enemy has been contained.
American advisors and South Vietnamese officers have been saying that for the past two weeks,
but someone forgot to tell the North Vietnamese.
Much of the day's fighting is left to the regional forces, the local people's militia.
The communists blocking the road are dug into the wastelands just south of Quang Tri.
Sand dunes would stretch endlessly miles from the ocean.
The North Vietnamese bunkers are less than 50 feet away.
The regional forces use grenade launchers, mortar, M16s.
The communists answer with AK-47s, machine guns, and more grenades.
It's impossible to tell at any moment whether the fire in the air and the explosions on the ground
are coming from one side or the other.
Sometimes a soldier appears in a strange place a bit distant from the battle.
We don't know what side he's on.
That's Vietnamization. Everybody looks alike.
The ranking South Vietnamese officer quickly decides the communists have been flushed out.
He urges his men forward to finish them off.
The decision is premature.
There is the first to fall, an AK round in the chest.
Then another man goes down, another chest wounded.
An American helicopter approaches on its way to Quang Tri.
The pilot quickly changes his mind.
Vietnamization means very few helicopters to evacuate the wounded.
The men will wait for a jeep.
A bit up the road, an armored car with ammunition for the troops is hit by a communist rocket.
The South Vietnamese are isolated. The North Vietnamese are also alone.
A few men get cocky, run forward, throw grenades into bunkers, hit the dirt, run back with prizes.
AK-47s and rocket launchers.
Then what everyone had been waiting for, a North Vietnamese soldier in the open on the run.
The men open up with everything they have.
From the amount of fire coming at them, government troops had thought they were facing at least a company of North Vietnamese regiments.
It turns out to be just a couple of platoons on another suicide mission.
One by one the men blow up the bunkers with hand grenades.
They examine the bodies and sift through the belonging.
There's a wounded soldier in one of the bunkers, but the men are in no mood to take prisoners.
Up the road, civilians sense that the fighting is over, that the road is open.
They come racing down on motorcycles and trucks.
Another premature decision. AK fire rings out from a distant bunker.
And the communists still have another surprise. The road is mined.
It's mined to prevent tanks from coming down, but mines are not very discriminative.
A truckload of refugees goes up in smoke. Women, children, babies. Some are dead, some are not dead.
By evening, government spokesmen are saying another grand victory has been won in Quang Tri province.
The situation is once again stabilized. But there will be more fighting and more words.
Words spoken by generals, journalists, politicians.
But here on Route 1, it's difficult to imagine what those words can be.
There's nothing left to say about this war. There's just nothing left to say.
Bob Simon, CBS News, Route 1.
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War as always could be reported in numbers.
So many dead, so many wounded.
But they weren't really numbers, they were people.
And as the Americans pulled out, the victims were increasingly Vietnamese.
Their pain was equivalent to our pain.
A son, or brother, or friend lost in war.
A pain for which there was no cure.
Consider this report from Richard Threlkeld.
It happens every day.
The South Vietnamese Army tells the world press how the war is going.
So many victories, so many wounded, so many dead.
Facts and figures.
But there is no way to measure how much this war has cost Vietnam in human suffering.
In the funeral shops in Saigon these days, the wreaths are made of plastic.
There are too many funerals and not enough flowers.
No way to measure how much of South Vietnam's future has been lost on the battlefield.
How many poets and politicians are among the corporals and sergeants and captains waiting to be buried.
These days in the cemeteries there are too many coffins and not enough gravediggers.
In a Saigon pagoda, the soul of Lieutenant Nguyen Van Phuc is committed to Buddha's eternal care.
The war ended for Lieutenant Phuc two days ago along the Cambodian border.
In one of those nameless little battles that never make the headlines.
He was 24 years old.
Everyone is here, his family, his friends, his military comrades, the girl he was going to marry.
In a way, Lieutenant Phuc was lucky.
He was an officer and his family is moderately wealthy.
So he rates the best.
He has his medals, the gifts of food and drink to sustain him in the afterlife.
The tears of those who knew and loved him.
And a military escort on route to the cemetery.
After this is all over, Lieutenant Phuc's family will be compensated by the government.
One year's salary, $500.
A small price for a lifetime of memories.
Memories that began in Hanoi in 1950.
Nguyen Phuc's parents were killed in the war.
So his uncle adopted him.
There were eight children, but Phuc was the favorite.
Happy and precocious.
They moved to this house in Saigon when Phuc was seven.
Phuc grew straight and tall.
He was a boy scout.
The pride of the family.
There were weekends at the zoo.
Summers on the beach at Vung Tau.
Phuc spent a lot of his time at the music stores with all the other teenagers.
He loved music and played a good guitar.
He and his pals buzzed around Saigon on their motorbikes.
Flirting with the girls.
Happy, carefree days.
And Phuc was the happiest.
The most carefree of them all.
Phuc graduated with honors from this high school.
He was good in debate.
A talented poet.
And quite a ladies man.
He was going to the university, but the draft came along.
Then the Tuduk Military Academy.
A reserve officer.
His unit called up.
An officer's commission in the elite rangers.
And finally, called to combat.
And then his family learned Nguyen Phuc was dead.
So Nguyen Van Phuc, poet, musician, soldier, is buried.
In a few moments, the military escort will march away to another funeral.
And Phuc's family will dry their tears and resume their lives.
In Lieutenant Phuc's personal effects, there was a diary.
In it, written in his own hand, was this passage from Ernest Hemingway's Farewell to Arms.
Why are you afraid of the rain?
I don't know.
Tell me.
Don't make me.
Tell me.
All right.
I am afraid of the rain because sometimes I see myself dead in it.
Richard Threlkeld, CBS News.
In a cemetery near Saigon.
Four years of peace talks, secret and public, have been dragging on in Paris.
Sometimes there appeared to be progress.
Sometimes there was deadlock.
But on October 26, 1972, shortly before the presidential election in the United States,
Henry Kissinger issued an electrifying announcement.
We believe that peace is at hand.
We believe that an agreement is within sight.
What remains to be done can be settled in one more negotiating session
with the North Vietnamese negotiators, lasting, I would think, no more than three or four days.
So we are not talking of a delay of a very long period of time.
As it turned out, Kissinger was premature.
The peace agreement was not signed until three months later.
And then only after the recently re-elected President Nixon had ordered the heaviest bombing raids of the war,
the so-called Christmas bombing of Vietnam.
But on January 27, 1973, the ceasefire agreements were signed in Paris.
American troops would leave Vietnam.
American prisoners of war would be released.
President Nixon coined a phrase to describe what had been accomplished.
I have asked for this radio and television time tonight for the purpose of announcing
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Sort of.
No luck, huh?
I keep going over and over at my mind, you know.
Pulled in front of the store, gave Harris enough time to get around behind.
All of a sudden, that guy comes running out.
Before I have a chance to yell freeze, the other guy in the car yells,
Hey, you know, whatever his name was, it's a cop.
Whoa, has he ever thought about getting hypnotized?
No, have you?
Well, the problem is, we've got qualified personnel.
We've used it to help witnesses and victims recall details.
Not a bad idea, you know.
No, I'll remember it on my own, maybe.
But if you can't, hypnosis can be used very effectively.
Taps the subconscious, helps to locate facts or images that seem to have been lost or forgotten.
Or make a guy act like a chicken.
Yeah, I love that stuff.
Listen, old Joe, it's not a bad idea.
Maybe worth a shot, huh?
Barney, an alarm just went off in a factory over on Canal.
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Harris?
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Think of how to get hypnotized?
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This is Herbert Emery.
We picked him up at Power Rite Electronics, found him in the President's office.
He'd broken into the safe and taken out these blueprints.
They're mine. I drew them.
According to his ID, Mr. Emery is the Director of Research and Development for the company.
Yeah, but I'm quitting.
Good move.
Anyway, I contacted the company and they're going to send somebody over to press charges.
Sure, they'll do anything to keep me quiet, to keep my research from becoming a reality.
These blueprints, Barnard, are of some kind of battery.
Not some kind of battery! A battery that will last forever!
No, no. It's against the law.
What?
The law of physics.
That's what I used to think too, but I was wrong.
It can be done, and I've done it.
Here, look at my plan.
You too.
Look, it's all there.
See?
Let me explain.
You see, they hired me to develop a better battery, but I went too far.
I developed a perfect battery, and now they're afraid it's going to put them out of business.
Well, I'm afraid we're going to have to book you anyway, Mr. Emery.
But Sheriff!
Captain!
That's not very nice of you.
I'm Dr. Kramer.
Ah, Doctor, I'm Captain Miller.
I take it you're the hypnotist?
I'm a psychologist who uses hypnosis as one tool among many.
I see.
Are you the officer with the problem?
No.
I thought possibly you'd forgotten why you put your real tie.
I'm just kidding.
I'm the guy.
Sergeant, what would you hoax?
Dr. Kramer.
How you doing?
Fine, and you?
I'm all right, but I think I should tell you right now that I don't think it's going to work.
Possibly, Sergeant.
Hypnosis isn't foolproof.
But I think if you'll just try and relax and give me your cooperation and trust,
we have an excellent chance of reaching down into your subconscious
and retrieving that information you're searching for.
I'm still awake.
Well, would you like to use my office?
Not really necessary. We can do it right here.
Unless you're more at ease in the captain's office.
Uh, no, I think we should do it right here.
Come see.
Just put your hands in your lap.
Take a few deep breaths, relax.
Is there something I should be doing?
You mean like boiling water?
No, Captain, just stand by.
Are you comfortable, Sergeant?
Yeah.
First, I'd like you to focus your attention on something in the room.
Spot on the wall, a light fixture, anything you wish.
Okay.
You can rely on it, but don't strain.
I'm going to begin counting from one to 20.
As I do, your body is going to become more and more relaxed.
By the count of 20, your eyes will have closed
and you will have fallen into a very pleasant hypnotic state.
One, your eyelids are getting heavy.
Two, even heavier.
Three, even heavier.
Wake me when he gets to the chicken plate.
What have I got that the kids at school will be interested in paying for?
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