Updated: March 23, 2000, 1:11 PM ET

Hard turn

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Assael By Shaun Assael
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George Franchitti's eyes couldn't lie. All they could do was reflect the sorrow of the words he could not find. He had just watched his son Dario lose CART's championship by a single point -- a point that had been squandered a dozen different ways. George knew his son was fuming, that his heartbeat was still in his ears. "I'm sorry," he said.

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