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• Dutch Grand Prix
  The '''Dutch Grand Prix''' was a [[Formula One]] automobile race held at [[Circuit Zandvoort]], from 1952 to 1985. ! [[1985 Formula One season|1985]]
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• Elfin Cars
  ...urer of [[sports car]]s and [[motor racing]] cars since 1957. Elfin Sports Cars was purchased in 1998 by businessmen and historic racing enthusiasts Bill H ...l championship driver and designer and builder of racing and sports/racing cars as '''Elfin Sports Car Company'''.
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• 1962 Italian Grand Prix
  Results from the 1962 [[Formula One]] '''[[Italian Grand Prix]]''' held at [[Autodromo Nazionale Monza|Monza]] | '''[[Cooper Car Company|Cooper]]-[[Coventry Climax|Climax]]'''
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• Alejandro de Tomaso
  ...sed form as ''Alessandro de Tomaso''. He participated in two [[Formula One|Formula 1]] Grands Prix, debuting on January 13, 1957. He scored 0 championship poi ===Complete Formula One results===
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• Derek Bennett
  ...was brought up in Prestwich. He is most significant for founding [[Chevron Cars Ltd]]. ...was only a modest success - rear-engined competition from [[Lotus]] and [[Cooper]] was more than a match for it, and the era of the special-builder in FJ wa
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• Lucien Bianchi
  ...Laystall]], [[Reg Parnell]], [[Scuderia Centro Sud]], [[Cooper Car Company|Cooper]] | ...Partnership|UDT Laystall]] and [[Scuderia Centro Sud]] teams in [[Formula One]].
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• Brian Redman
  ...ams]], [[Surtees]], [[McLaren (racing)|McLaren]], [[BRM]], [[Shadow Racing Cars|Shadow]] | ...ith a [[Porsche 935]]. He was for many years associated with the [[Chevron Cars Ltd|Chevron]] marque, founded by fellow-Lancastrian Derek Bennett.
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• Cooper Car Company
  ...g industry, and the Cooper name lives on in the [[Mini Cooper]] production cars that are still built in England but are now owned and marketed by [[BMW]]. ...[[Fiat]] [[Fiat Topolino|Topolino]] front-ends together. According to John Cooper, the stroke of genius that would make the Coopers an automotive legend -- t
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• British Racing Partnership
  ...[Stirling Moss]]'s father and former manager respectively — in 1957 to run cars for Stirling, when not under contract with other firms. ...During this time four of the team's drivers were killed while racing their cars, and the Yeoman Credit management became concerned that the team was not ge
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• BRDC International Trophy
  ..., England. For many years it formed the premier non-championship [[Formula One]] event in Britain, alongside the [[Race of Champions (Brands Hatch)|Race o ...Club (BRDC) in August 1949, sponsored by the Daily Express newspaper, for cars meeting contemporary [[Grand Prix motor racing]] regulations. The BRDC drew
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• English Racing Automobiles
  ...[[Formula 2]] teams contested the Championship, the team used a [[Bristol Cars|Bristol]] unit. [[Stirling Moss]] became the driver, but results were disap ...e ''ERA Mini Turbo'', a [[turbocharged]] version of the [[Mini Cooper|Mini Cooper S]] capable of 115mph.
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• Formula Junior
  ...mula Three]], and although Italian marques dominated the first year of the formula, they were soon overtaken by British constructors. ...pacity sports car racing had become the accepted route into racing. As the formula gathered momentum, though, constructors started to take note.
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• Porsche 804
  | Formula One | [[Cooper T53 F1]] <br> [[Lotus 24]]
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• Straight-4 engine
  ...e-4''' is an [[internal combustion engine]] with four cylinders aligned in one row. This inline configuration is the most common in engine displacements u ...d [[Porsche]] to use a 3.0&nbsp;L (2990&nbsp;cc) straight-4 engine on road cars like the [[Porsche 968]], but the largest modern non-diesel was the plain 3
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• MR layout
  ...uses up central space, making it impractical for any but two-seater sports cars. ...ut is heavily employed in [[formula (car)|Formula]] racing cars (such as [[Formula 1|F1s]]).
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• Maserati 250F
  | [[Formula One]] ...la One season]] and remained in use by customer teams until [[1960 Formula One season|1960]].
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• Ken Tyrrell
  ...acing]] driver and the founder of the [[Tyrrell Racing|Tyrrell]] [[Formula One]] constructor. ...ula 3]]. In 1958, he advanced to [[Formula Two]] in a [[Cooper Car Company|Cooper]]-[[Coventry Climax|Climax]], joining [[Cecil Libowitz]] and [[Alan Brown (
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• Alta Car and Engineering Company
  ...ar]] manufacturer from England, commonly known simply as '''Alta'''. Their cars contested five FIA World Championship races between 1950 and 1952, as well ...''vice versa'', allowing drivers on a limited budget to contest more than one class without having to buy a second car.
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• Coventry Climax
  An early user was [[GWK|GWK]], who produced over 1000 light cars with Coventry-Simplex two-cylinder engines between 1911 and 1915. Just bef ...ompany|Bayliss-Thomas]], [[Clyno]], [[Crossley Motors|Crossley]], [[Crouch Cars|Crouch]], GWK, and [[Marendaz]], [[Morgan Motor Company|Morgan]], [[Triumph
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• Colin Chapman
  ...thousands of relatively affordable, cutting edge [[sports car]]s. Lotus is one of but a handful of British performance car builders still in business afte ...Seven|Lotus 7]] in 1957 that things really took off, and indeed [[Caterham Cars]] still manufacture a version of that car today - the Caterham 7; while ove
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