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| | TIME.com: The Amateur Spirit -- May 8, 1950 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | At midnight, in a drenching rainstorm, the little Fiats were sent off first, then the larger carsmostly powerful Italian Alfa Romeos and Ferraris and British Jaguars. |
 | | The man to beat, the experts thought, was four-time winner Clemente Biondetti, a hard-bitten roadwise pro who drove a big Jaguar. |
 | | Enthusiastic Romans cheered and kissed him, told him he was in the lead and that Champion Biondetti's Jaguar had dropped out for emergency repairs. |
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