Drivers could communicate with their pit crews only while easing off the gas to turn a corner.

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At the spot where they proposed to build, there was a Pizza Hut and a gas station on the corner and almost nothing else.

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In the Highlands and then back in London, Keating gave pictures to friends and neighbors, acquaintances at the corner pub, the man who read his gas meter.

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