B4 - Sunday, August 22, 1982 -

North Shore News

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FROM PAGE B1

And whenit's over he'll be
exhausted, exhilarated, and
remembering every lap over
and over again, running
them through his head like
an instant replay.

Bruce Goldsworthy has.
been Mahood’s Team
Manager from the begin-
ning.

“A driver gets so attuned
to the world coming at him
at 160 mph that it takes
about twenty minutes for
them to wind it down.
Usually we (the crew) leave
him alone for a while so he
can Start to correlate the
data he’s absorbed over the
past hour. It always amazes
me how Andy can recall
every detail of every lap
including his lap times and
the lap the ywccur on.”

“We've accomplished
every goal we've set in
racing. Andy, at 26, is ready
for Formula Two in Europe,

DETROIT (UPD - General
Motors, faced with slumping
car sales, will temporarily
close two plants and
eliminate two shifts at two
others, placing another
9,100 autoworkers on in-
definite layoff.

GM, which already has
125,000 workers on in-
definite layoff, announced
Monday “current market
conditions” forced the
move. The company's sales
in the first 10 days of Algust
dropped 29.1 per cent from
last year’s levels.

Production will cease at
GM's Framingham, Mass.,

or the new World Cham-
pionship in Formula
Mondial (Formula Atlantic
in North America). Our
toughest battle is to attract
enough sponsorship dollars
to allow Andy to reach his
potential. Pentax Cameras of
Canada, CK VU Television,
CAM-2 Motor Oil and our
newest sponsor, General
Foods (Jello-Pudding Pops).
have been a_ tremendous
help in getting us this far.
We are constantly flirting
between maintaining a
winning team and financial
disaster.”

Rick Weaver joined the
team a year and half ago. His
job is to make the car work
so that it responds to the
skill of the driver. He 1s also
the man who is responsible
for the driver's safety. A
loose nut, a cracked frame, a
broken part can mean a

serious crash.
“Preparation must be
meticulous. Almost all

equipment failures are

GM lays off more wor

and Lakewood, Ga.,
assembly plants. Second
shifts will be eliminated at
Leeds, Mo., and North
Terrytown, N.Y. The first
layoffs will be made at Leeds
Aug. 30 and the last Oct. 1.

GM _ spokesman Cliff
Merriott said production at
Framingham and Lakewood
would not resume “until the
market brings them back.”

The automaker has no
plans to eliminate jobs or
cease production at any
other plants, Merriott said.
adding there is “no way of
forecasting” when the

preventable. Before every
session I pour over the car.
‘Between the races the car is
literally stripped and rebuilt.
There is no room for error.”

Mahood has no hesitation
in talking about some of the
near misses he has had in
racing.

“Twice I’ve come close to
bad accidents. Once my

“throttle stuck wide open

going into’ turn one at
Westwood. It’s a high speed
severely banked right-
hander. I knew | was going
to launch the car off the top
edge of the track so instead
of hitting the tre wall at an
angle and tearing the corners
off and potentially rolling
the car, I decided to steer
the car head first into the
tires. It's funny how you
mentally prepare for these
things in the space of a
second or so. I hit the wall
about 100 mph completely
burying the car and moving
the wall about three feet. I
walked away.”

workers would get their jobs
back.

The automaker recently
expanded a program of
incentives to dealers in an
effort to pare its inventories.

GM's inventory of unsold
cars jumped from 79 days in
July -to 90 days in August.
The automaker has the
largest backlog among the
Big Four auto makers, due
mainly to the large in-
ventories of the front-wheel!
drive models.

Before it is indefinitely
closed, Framingham will
build Chevrolet Celebrity
and Pontiac 6000 models

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“The other time was at
Victoria (Western Speed-
way). I was attempting to set
a new lap record and was
coming off the fastest corner
of the track at about 120
mph when a novice driver
came out of the pits at about
40 mph and unexpectedly
moved right onto the racing
line. I managed to veer right,
tearing the front left wheel
and suspension off on his
rear wheels and then sat
ught as the car spun six times
coming. to rest a hundred
yards down the track. I was
sure glad the car knew where
it was gomg ‘cause I lost
track after the second spin.”

“I race because I enjoy
pushing myself to the limit.
Driving at 10/10ths and
knowing you're on the edge,
and knowing that you can do
it lap after lap, in spite of the
pressure. This is what makes

me race, and keeps me
racing.”
Mahood will be competing’

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from Aug. 25 to Oct. 1, when
approximately 3,400 workers
will be placed on indefinite
layoff.

All models produced by
the plants — except the
Chevette — are front-wheel
drive cars introduced by GM
in the past three years.

ne

in the “Gilles Villeneuve
Memorial Formula Atlantic
Race” at Westwood this
coming weekend, pitting his
skills against the top formula
drivers in North America as

they make their annual visit:

to the Coquitlam track. Over

ahood's had near misses

26 drivers from all over the
U.S. and Canada are ex-
pected to be competing in
this race, including one very
hungry North Vancouver
driver with aims towards
establishing a long career in
professional auto racing.

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