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• Tom Walkinshaw Racing
  '''Tom Walkinshaw Racing''', also known simply as TWR, was a racing team founded in 1976 by touring car racer [[Tom Walkinshaw]]. ...CSLs]], but soon was contracted to head [[Mazda]]'s works program in the [[British Touring Car Championship]]. The TWR developed [[Mazda RX-7|RX-7]], with Win
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• British Racing Partnership
  ...ed Kingdom. It was established by [[Alfred Moss]] and [[Ken Gregory (motor racing)|Ken Gregory]] — [[Stirling Moss]]'s father and former manager respective ...or the {{F1|1961}} and {{F1|1962}} seasons BRP was renamed '''UDT Laystall Racing''', as part of a new, similar sponsorship deal.
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• English Racing Automobiles
  ...AME}} Models}}'''English Racing Automobiles''' ('''ERA''') was a British [[racing car]] manufacturer active from 1933 to 1954. ...ge sums being spent by wealthy and government-backed works teams such as [[Auto Union]] and [[Alfa Romeo]].
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• Jim Hall
  ...son, Jim Hall, Jr., resides in California and operates the [[Jim Hall Kart Racing School]]. | [[1960 British Grand Prix|GBR]]<br /><small></small>
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• Prodrive
  ...om. It designs, constructs and races [[automobile|cars]] for companies and teams such as [[Subaru]] and [[Aston Martin]]. Its Automotive Technology division In addition to its British base, the group has activities in Germany, Detroit and California in the Un
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• Formula Junior
  ...rques dominated the first year of the formula, they were soon overtaken by British constructors. ...e, and small-capacity sports car racing had become the accepted route into racing. As the formula gathered momentum, though, constructors started to take not
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• BRDC International Trophy
  ...annually by the [[British Racing Drivers' Club]] to the winner of a [[auto racing|motor race]] held at the [[Silverstone Circuit]], England. For many years i ...Daily Express newspaper, for cars meeting contemporary [[Grand Prix motor racing]] regulations. The BRDC drew the name from that of an extinct event formerl
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• French Supertouring Championship
  From the inaugral season in 1976, the cars were run to [[Group 2 (racing)|Group 2 specification]], and the championship was called the Championnat F ...ng in the name change to Championnat de France de Supertourisme. All works teams abandoned the championship at the end of 1995 but the series soldiered on w
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• Group C
  ...82 for [[sports car racing]], along with ''[[Group A]]'' for [[touring car racing|touring car]]s and ''[[Group B]]'' for [[Gran Turismo (automobile)|GT]]s. ...Endurance Championship (1983 only). It was also used for other sports car racing series around the globe. The final year for the class came in 1993.
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• Ken Tyrrell
  ...etright1"/> [[auto racing|racing]] driver and the founder of the [[Tyrrell Racing|Tyrrell]] [[Formula One]] constructor. ...]-[[Coventry Climax|Climax]], joining [[Cecil Libowitz]] and [[Alan Brown (racing driver)|Alan Brown]].<ref name="Setright1"/> A good but not great driver, h
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• Radical
  ...of Radical's sportscars are road legal, they also build some purpose-built racing cars, such as the SR9 [[Le Mans prototype]]. ...to create a one-make series based around the car. Backed by the [[British Racing and Sports Car Club]], the series featured identical cars that were open to
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• Cooper Car Company
  ...Thanks in part to Cooper's legacy, Britain remains the home of a thriving racing industry, and the Cooper name lives on in the [[Mini Cooper]] production ca The first cars built by the Coopers were single-seater, 500cc Formula racing cars driven by John Cooper and Eric Brandon and powered by a JAP motorcycle
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• 1972 United States Grand Prix
  ...rrell Racing|Tyrrell]], five seconds ahead of [[Denny Hulme]]'s [[McLaren (racing)|McLaren]]. ...all the letters they had received begging them to continue, they would be racing in the following season.''
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• Touring car racing
  '''Touring car racing''' is a general term for a number of distinct [[auto racing]] competitions in heavily-modified street cars. It is notably popular in B ...ies insist on a "control tyre" that all competitors must use) and keep the racing close (sometimes by a "lead trophy" where winning a race requires the winne
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• Surtees
  The '''Surtees Racing Organisation''' was a race team that spent nine seasons (1970 to 1978) as a ...]] because of a delay in the construction of his in-house F1 car. The new British Petroleum sponsored car earned its first (and only) points that year in the
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• Supertouring
  ...It was based on the "2&nbsp;litre Touring Car Formula" created for the [[British Touring Car Championship]] (BTCC) in 1990.<ref>[http://www.supertouring.co. ...ion road cars, while expensive changes had to be made to provide space for racing tyres inside the standard wheel arches.
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• 1970 United States Grand Prix
  ...n inherited the lead with eight laps to go when Mexican [[Pedro Rodríguez (racing driver)|Pedro Rodríguez]] had to stop for a splash of fuel. Fittipaldi cam ...again. By the start, however, all but [[Clay Regazzoni]] and [[Derek Bell (auto racer)|Derek Bell]] had reverted to slicks. Stewart took the lead off the g
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• List of Formula One constructors
  == Terminology: constructors vs. teams == In [[Formula One]] racing the terms "constructor" and "entrant" have specific and differing meanings.
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• Merzario
  ...mber of March 761s on the grid,<ref name="Ref-1">[http://www.f1rejects.com/teams/merzario/profile.html Profile at F1 Rejects]</ref> though as the season wor ...le.<ref name="Ref-1"/> The resultant '''A4''', which debuted at the [[1979 British Grand Prix]], employed the same Cosworth / Hewland running gear and the sus
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• 1950 Formula One season
  ...a number of privately entered cars, in the 6 European Grands Prix. Only US teams, constructors and drivers participated in the [[1950 Indianapolis 500|India | {{flagicon|UK}} [[British Grand Prix]]
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