Andy Granatelli passed

http://racing.ap.org/article/granatelli-indy-500-winning-car-owner-dies-90

RIP to a legend.

STP.

His book was the first car racing book I ever read. One of the more famous pictures.

Woody wrote: STP.

Studebaker and Paxton too.

I had a STP sticker on my bike.

"The Racers Edge"

Datsun310Guy wrote: His book was the first car racing book I ever read. One of the more famous pictures.

Funny. It was him in another book that sent me down this road only written by Clint Brawner.

One of the first big names in racing I remember as a young kid in the '60s

RIP

In what lap and what took his Nova turbine out at Indy?

What was the material pattern of his dress suit?

Why did turbine Novas run just two years before he went back to a standard Offy?

I read his autobiography years ago. Quite a guy... I thought he had died a long time ago.

Chipperb wrote:

In what lap and what took his Nova turbine out at Indy? 198 I think, Bearing in the trans.

What was the material pattern of his dress suit?

Why did turbine Novas run just two years before he went back to a standard Offy? The sanctioning body restricted the inlet to the turbine to uncompetativeness.

Chipperb wrote: In what lap and what took his Nova turbine out at Indy? What was the material pattern of his dress suit? Why did turbine Novas run just two years before he went back to a standard Offy?

Novi was the ancient piston engine he ran before the turbines, wasn't it? The turbines were some sort of helicopter thing...Which lost a trans input bearing.

The suit was the famous STP pyjanas.

USAC kept shrinking the air intake size until it drove him away.

Supplementary : He ran all wheel drive at Indy until it was banned...I think.

In reply to Streetwiseguy:

We have a winner! Took him out on the 197.5 lab of 200 laps.

I forgot about the intake restrictions..I thought it was just that they banned turbo engines

I grew up in Cincinnati and went to the Indy time trials and races for years, starting in 1958..

At one time. Under yellow, drivers would have to maintain the distance between cars that was present before the flag was shown ie they could not close up the gaps between cars..was a bit boring. And the track is 2.5 miles around, cannot see but a part of it from the stands. Then I discovered Indy on TV..

Great racer, innovator and movie star too.