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• Gioacchino Colombo
  ...y success in the 166, the engine was [[supercharge]]d for use in [[Formula One]] but failed to perform well. Ferrari hedged his bets, as he often did, by [[Category:Formula One people]]
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• Carlo Chiti
  ...rari 156 Sharknose]] cars, with which [[Phil Hill]] won the [[1961 Formula One season|1961 championship]]. Shortly afterwards Chiti was part of the breaka ...Chiti, Alfa Romeo gave Autodelta permission to start developing a Formula One car on their behalf. The partnership with Brabham finished before the end o
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• Gordon Murray
  ...'' (born 1946 in Durban, South Africa) is a renowned designer of [[Formula One]] race cars and the famous [[McLaren F1]] 'supercar' road car. ...of the year Murray left the team, which temporarily withdrew from Formula One at the end of 1987.
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• Cisitalia
  ...thy industrialist and sportsman [[Piero Dusio]]. Cisitalia was a [[Formula One]] constructor from Italy. Piero Dusio participated in a single grand prix, Dusio's dream of a one model series came to nothing, but instead his D46s started to dominate the
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• Ralph Gilles
  ...eil Walling, Chrysler's design chief at the time, suggesting Gilles attend one of three design schools. He attended the College for Creative Studies in De ...es has participated in the Targa Newfoundland Rally and the Car and Driver One Lap of America. In addition, he has frequently served as a judge at Pebble
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• Ground effect in cars
  ...eamlining. [[IndyCar]]s employ ground effect to some extent, but [[Formula One]] and most other racing series worldwide currently use design constraints t ...e the force one wants the maximum area at the minimal pressure. Racing car designers have achieved low pressure in two ways: first, by using a fan to pull air o
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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 ...racing events. He named the car "Lotus"; he never confirmed the reason but one (of several) theories is that it was after his then girlfriend (later wife)
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• McLaren Technology Centre
  ...ork at the Technology Centre. It is home to the [[Team McLaren]] [[Formula One]] constructor and [[McLaren Automotive]], the makers of the [[Mercedes-Benz The building is accompanied by a series of artificial lakes: one formal lake directly opposite that completes the circle of the building, an
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• Osella
  ...s}}'''Osella''' is an Italian racing car manufacturer and former [[Formula One]] team based in Volpiano near Turin, Italy. They participated in 132 Grands ...ome success with its own car (the Osella FA2); [[François Migault]] scored one point.
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• Lola
  ...rs, and branched out into [[Formula Junior]] cars before diversifying into one of the oldest and largest manufacturers of racing cars in the world. ...rtin Birrane]] in 1998 after the unsuccessful Lola MasterCard attempt at [[Formula 1]].
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• Alfa Romeo in motorsport
  ...ries of '''motorsport''', including [[Grand Prix motor racing]], [[Formula One]], [[sportscar racing]], [[touring car racing]] and [[Rallying|rallies]]. T ...com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.velocetoday.com/cars/cars_75.php|title=Alfa Designers|accessdate=2007-08-24|work=velocetoday.com}}</ref> In 1920 [[Giuseppe Campa
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• V6 engine
  Many [[V6|V6]] engines have been based on [[V8 engine]] designs. One characteristic of these engines is a notorious ''odd-firing'' behavior. Purpose-built [[V6|V6]] engines use one crankpin per cylinder for a smooth ignition 120° ignition pattern. In cont
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• Circuit Park Zandvoort
  ...= [[Dutch Grand Prix]], [[Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters|DTM]], [[Masters of Formula 3|RTL GP Masters of F3]] ...was called the [[Dutch Grand Prix]], and it was included in the [[Formula One]] World Championship in {{F1|1952}}. It remained on the F1 calendar for 30
  10 KB (1,444 words) - 20:29, 25 October 2010
• Pontiac Fiero
  ...ed it into a rolling example of brilliantly innovative engineering. It's a formula that has worked well for Pontiac over the years, and Fiero may be the fines ...dramatic, functionally beautiful Pontiac shape. And best of all, Fiero is one of Pontiac's best examples of what driving is supposed to be all about: pur
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• Erwin Leo Himmel
  ...ars in London, where he got to know people such as [[Raymond Loewy]], were one of the most influencing times in his life. ...di V8. In this creative environment he enjoyed working together with other designers such as [[J Mays]] and [[Peter Schreyer]]. In 1990, he became Director of A
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• Formula One
  ...nics, aerodynamics, [[suspension (vehicle)|suspension]] and [[tires]]. The formula has seen many evolutions and changes through the history of the sport. The ...translating into extremely high monetary budgets for the [[List of Formula One constructors|constructor teams]], however, in recent years several teams ha
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• WilliamsF1
  ...ank Williams]] and [[Patrick Head]]. The team was formed in [[1977 Formula One season|1977]] after two earlier and, compared with WilliamsF1's achievement ...a record until [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] surpassed it in [[2000 Formula One season|2000]].
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• Williams F1
  ...ank Williams]] and [[Patrick Head]]. The team was formed in [[1977 Formula One season|1977]] after two earlier and, compared with WilliamsF1's achievement ...a record until [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] surpassed it in [[2000 Formula One season|2000]].
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• Smart Roadster
  ...slashed from 200k per year to 80k per year. For a new brand with just the one product, this was close to disastrous. ...roup started to sketch various possible future Smart cars. A small team of designers and engineers within the group realised that the powertrain of the City Cou
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• Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche
  ...9, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. On that day, his father was competing with one of his designed racecars (called the Maja) at [[Semmering]] and he finished Ferry remarked later that in fact, "One could say that I was already born with the automobile." For example, on the
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