Sport: One + A = Mismatch

Once and for all, declared the press releases, the $288,900 Questor Grand Prix would decide the burning question: "Can brute American power beat effete European technology?" Can, in other words, the growling Formula A racing cars that are prepared in the U.S. hold their own against the sleek little Formula One machines from the international Grand Prix circuit?

Right up until race time last week at California's new $25.5 million Ontario Motor Speedway, the drivers were doing their rhetorical best to build the gate for the "dream race." The U.S.'s George Follmer, extolling...

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