1968 was a year for startling new technology at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and STP’s Andy Granatelli commissioned Colin Chapman and Lotus to build new rear-engine turbine cars with four-wheel-drive and radical wedge shape bodies.

Three-time national motorcycle champion and 1967 Indy 3^rd place finisher Joe Leonard put one of the Lotus turbines on the pole at 171.559mph.  For the first 475 miles, Leonard and Bobby Unser dueled for the lead, but the turbine “flamed out” as green flag racing resumed for the final ten laps and Leonard was out of the race

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