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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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• 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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• 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|France}} [[French Grand Prix]]
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• World Sportscar Championship
  ...'World Sportscar Championship''' was the world series run for [[sports car racing]] by the [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]] from 1953 to 1 ...ld Championship, one of the two major world championships in circuit motor racing.
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• Cooper T51
  {{Racing Car Infobox | ...er]], [[Rob Walker Racing Team]], [[Scuderia Centro Sud]], [[Yeoman Credit Racing Team]] |
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• Scuderia Toro Rosso
  ...beverage company Red Bull (the other is [[Red Bull Racing]]). It made its racing debut in the [[2006 Formula One season]], after [[Paul Stoddart]] sold his Scuderia Toro Rosso is the sister team of [[Red Bull Racing]], with the aim of developing the skills of promising drivers for the senio
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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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• Race car
  ...le sport, and it can further include motorboat racing and air racing. Auto racing began in France in the late nineteenth century and is now one of the world' An international competition began with the [[Gordon Bennett Cup in auto racing]].
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• Motor Racing
  ...''auto racing''', or '''car racing''') is a [[motorsport]] involving the [[racing]] of [[car]]s. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports. ===The beginning of racing===
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• Sports car racing
  '''Sports car racing''' is a form of circuit [[auto racing]] with [[automobile]]s that have two seats and enclosed wheels. They may be ...y involve complex pit strategy and regular driver changes—sports car racing is seen more as a team sport than a gladiatorial individual sport, and team
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• Jacky Ickx
  ...{{·}} [[Team Lotus|Lotus]]{{·}} [[Walter Wolf Racing|Wolf]]{{·}} [[Ensign (racing team)|Ensign]]{{·}} [[Equipe Ligier|Ligier]] |First win = [[1968 French Grand Prix]]
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• Formula Three
  ...itish F3 now costs around £400,000 and about £80,000 in Asia, for a year's racing), but is regarded as a key investment in a young driver's future career. Su ...ay). The 500 cc formula originally evolved in 1946 from low-cost "special" racing organised by enthusiasts in Bristol, England, just before the Second World
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• Mugen
  ...[[sports cars]] and single-seaters and worked for Honda R&D and then Honda Racing Service before he helped H. Honda establish Mugen. ...any and in recent years has been largely involved with running Mugen's NSX racing program.
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• British Racing Motors
  ...d in 1945, it raced from 1950 to 1977, competing in 197 [[Grand Prix motor racing|Grand Prix]] and winning 17. In 1962, BRM won the Constructors' Title. At ...e. Mays' pre-war successes (and access to pre-war [[Mercedes-Benz]] and [[Auto Union]] design documents) inspired him to build an all-British Grand Prix c
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• Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche
  ...enior enjoyed success particularly with his racecars which excelled at the racing tracks. His personal preference for designing [[compact cars]] differed wit ...ime. Some of these jobs made historical influences, like the mid-engined [[Auto Union]] ''[[Silver Arrow]]'' race cars, designed by Porsche.
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• Antônio Pizzonia
  {{Infobox racing driver | former teams =
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• Indianapolis 500
  ..._x.htm]. The event lends its name to the "[[IndyCar]]" class of [[formula racing|formula]], or [[open wheel car|open-wheel]], race cars that have competed i ...wheel of an American car, European makers such as the Italian [[Fiat]] or French [[Peugeot]] companies soon developed their own vehicles to try to win the e
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• Formula One
  ...maximum power achieved in the history of the series was around 1200 bhp in racing trim, during the 1980s 'turbo era'. ...ula One constructors|constructor teams]], however, in recent years several teams have gone bankrupt.
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• Porsche 928
  Porsche soldiered on with the manual gearbox option, but the same 4-speed auto fitted to the S4 was available, and as always, this was the bulk seller. ==Racing Efforts==
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• Renault F1
  ...m which debuted in 2010 and which will use Renault engines in 2011 [[Lotus Racing]].'' ...d engines to the [[Benetton Formula|Benetton]] and [[WilliamsF1|Williams]] teams in the 1990s that Renault first tasted world championship success. Renault
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