2 As a publicity stunt, Ford has professional racers drive Cortinas down the Cresta bobsled run in Cortina d’Amprezzo, Italy. Best time is turned in by Jim Clark, with Colin Chapman as codriver (1964).
3 Indy 500 winner Rick Mears is born in Wichita, Kansas (1951).
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