"Impossible!" growled Andy Granatelli, the Illinois millionaire who developed the controversial turbine-powered car that came within a hair of winning this year's Indianapolis 500. ;"A terrible mistake!" grumbled Parnelli Jones, the Californian who drove Granatelli's flame-colored STP Special at Indy and was only eight miles from victory when a $6 ball bearing failed. What angered Granatelli and Jones was a regulation adopted by the U.S. Auto Club last week that sets new limits on the power of turbine engines thereby banning the STP Special from Indy.
The U.S.A.C. ruling reduces the size of a turbine racer's air intake from...
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