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Every now and then one sees unadulterated metric references in U.S. newspapers. I’ve seen several in the Los Angeles Times, recently, and in Monday’s editions of The New York Times, in a story about the late Canadian Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve, the last paragraph reads as follows:
At the next race, at Zolder, during qualifying on May 8, 1982, Pironi was faster and Villeneuve was pushing. On his last lap, he hit Jochen Mass's car, went airborne for 100 meters, hit the ground and cartwheeled before being flung 50 meters into a fence. Doctors were there within seconds, but Villeneuve was beyond saving.
The rest of the article had the usual WOMBAT references, however.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/sports/othersports/15PRIX.html |
