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    THE GLEN

    Mar 30, 2022 4 minutes

    HOMELY, UNRULY – AND JUST about everything in between. Watkins Glen was a curious but captivating mix, best summed up by the charm of the provincial town from which the race track got its name – and the torching of a Greyhound bus within the circuit’s bucolic boundary.

    Contradiction had always been present from the moment a motley collection of cars came under starter’s orders in the town’s main street to mark the first Watkins Glen Grand Prix in October 1948. A Stutz Blackhawk had lined up alongside an Alfa Romeo 8C touring car and ahead of an 11-year-old Maserati single-seater. Further back, drivers of a Lagonda Rapide and a Jaguar SS counted themselves lucky to be

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