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• List of Top Gear episodes
  | Aux2 = Which professor can do the best burn-out? - What is the best British car? | Aux2 = People carrier racing • Jeremy attempts to break 10:00 around the [[Nürburgring
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• The Stig
  ...cted ''Top Gear'''s third award for ''Best Factual Programme'' at the 2008 British National Television Awards. The Stig did not speak, but supplied an accepta ...le=In the Spotlight: This week, Ren-TV unveiled the Russian version of the British show about cars, "Top Gear." |publisher=[[The Moscow Times]] |date=2007-02-
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• Jeremy Clarkson
  ...larkson has become a recognised public personality, regularly appearing on British television presenting his own shows and appearing as a guest on other shows In 2007, Clarkson and co-presenter [[James May]] were the first people to reach the magnetic North Pole in a car,<ref>{{cite news | title = Top Ge
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• Rallying
  ...te roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars. This motorsport is distinguished by running not on a [[Race track|circuit]], but instead in The term "rally", as a branch of [[motorsport]], probably dates from the first [[Monte Carlo Rally]] of January 1911. Unt
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• V8 engine
  ...IRL]], [[ChampCar]] and [[NASCAR]]. V8 engines are also used in Australian motorsport, most notably in the [[V8 Supercars]]. [[Formula One]] began the 2006 seaso ...dual exhausts, this results in the typical V8 ''burble'' sound that many people have come to associate with American V8s, In all-out racing cars it leads t
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• Lola
  ...ant success for the next few years, competing with [[Ralt]] and [[Reynard Motorsport|Reynard]], although Reynard effectively wiped the others out of the market. ...for 2005, with Lola building their own chassis, which won its debut in the British series.
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• Gas turbine
  ...e up to 22 newtons of thrust, and can be built by most mechanically minded people with basic engineering tools, such as a metal lathe.<ref name="Schreckling, In 1950, designer F.R. Bell and Chief Engineer [[Maurice Wilks]] from British car manufacturers [[Rover]] unveiled the first car powered with a gas turbi
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• Indianapolis 500
  ...ana. "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" is one of the oldest and richest [[motorsport]] events in existence, having the largest attendance and one of the largest ...]] V8 its first success at the race. The following year, 1966, saw another British win, this time Graham Hill in a [[Lola]]-Ford.
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• Citroën DS
  ...ion afforded by its small four-cylinder engine, the DS was successful in [[motorsport]]s like [[rallying]], where sustained speeds on poor surfaces are paramount British built cars are distinguished by their leather seats, wooden dashboards, and
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