{"id":493777,"date":"2014-04-01T00:19:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T07:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=12238"},"modified":"2025-01-06T00:24:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:24:57","slug":"on-the-edge-of-greatness-formula-5000-in-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/on-the-edge-of-greatness-formula-5000-in-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge of Greatness – Formula 5000 in 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scheckter\u2019s Laguna Seca win was his first of four in a row that established a points lead he never relinquished. Photo: Treichler\/VR\u2008Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The decade of the 1960s was a historic time on dear old Planet Earth, as the evolution of human civilization rolled inevitably forward, advancing hard and fast with accelerated progress on cultural, social and scientific fronts. This was certainly true for the United States, despite the decade developing against the turbulent backdrop of senseless assassinations of public figures in Dallas, New York City, Memphis and L.A., racial riots in many of the nation\u2019s major cities and the unending war in Vietnam. Still, when a man named Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon as the decade was closing, mankind moved tentatively into an extra-terrestrial age.<\/p>\n

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Scheckter\u2019s Laguna Seca win was his first of four in a row that established a points lead he never relinquished.
Photo: Treichler\/VR\u2008Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the world of motor sport, the advent of the rear-engined car rearranged racing\u2019s dynamic reality, opening new frontiers of performance and rewriting record books around the globe. This new technology\u2014much of it borrowed from the space program and adapted for racing use\u2014rolled along at great speeds on low-profile tires made of freshly formulated, highly adhesive racing rubber, with everything catalyzed further by the discovery of downforce.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n