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• DAF Trucks
  ...2 litre engine in 1979, the model range eventually started to sell and was one of the economic pillars under Volvo in the eighties. In the end more than 1 ...style was introduced, which was upgraded into the late 1980s. DAF was also one of the first to introduce a [[turbocharger|turbocharged]] [[diesel engine]]
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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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• Indianapolis 500
  .... The event lends its name to the "[[IndyCar]]" class of [[formula racing|formula]], or [[open wheel car|open-wheel]], race cars that have competed in it. It ...a smattering of small events before the promoters decided to focus on just one major event and it was paved with 3.2 million bricks urged by principal Car
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• 2008 Formula One season
  The '''2008 Formula One season''' was the 59th [[FIA]] [[Formula One]] World Championship season. It began on 16 March and ended on 2 November w ...24592637-11088,00.html|title=Lewis Hamilton becomes youngest world Formula One champion|publisher=Heraldsun.co.au|accessdate=2008-11-02}}</ref>
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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. ...design group started to sketch various possible future Smart cars. A small team of designers and engineers within the group realised that the powertrain of
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• Motor Racing
  ...racing''') is a [[motorsport]] involving the [[racing]] of [[car]]s. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports. ...ers like [[Peugeot]], [[Panhard]] or [[De Dion-Bouton|De Dion]] to amateur owners, and only 25 were selected for the main race.<ref name="8W"/>
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• 24 Hours of Le Mans
  ...in the same year but for an error in the team orders of the [[Ford GT40]] team at Le Mans, in 1966, which took the win from him, although he finished firs ...nish line for hours, then restart their engines and crawl around the track one last time in order to finish after the 24 hours and be listed with a finish
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• International Motor Sports Association
  The first race to be organized by IMSA was a [[Formula Vee]] and [[Formula Ford]] event at [[Pocono Raceway]] in October 1969. The SCCA threatened the ...rules similar to [[Group C]] (Bishop was unhappy with the fuel consumption formula of the latter).<ref name="Endurance">{{cite book
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• Indianapolis Motor Speedway
  ...= [[Image:Indianapolis Motor Speedway - road course.png]]<br>Formula One Grand Prix layout<br>[[Image:Indianapolis Motor Speedway - Speedway.png]]<b |Record_class2 = [[Formula One]]
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• Top Gear challenges
  ...to drive to be undetected by a [[speed camera]]?''' ''Series One, Episode One'' * '''How many motorcycles can a double-decker bus jump over?''' ''Series One, Episode Two''
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• Off-roading
  Recreational off-roading is popular among a sub-section of the owners of [[four wheel drive]] or all-terrain vehicles and motorcycles. There are Greenlaning or two-tracking is one of the least extreme categories. It is generally suitable for any four whee
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• Wankel engine
  ...d and controlled by a pair of synchronizing gears. A fixed gear mounted on one side of the rotor housing engages a ring gear attached to the rotor and ens ...urn at different speed, point B moves 3 times faster than point A, so that one full orbit of the rotor equates to 3 turns of the e-shaft.
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• Holden Special Vehicles
  ...repreneur [[Tom Walkinshaw]]. HSV effectively replaced the [[Holden Dealer Team]] (HDT) special vehicles operation run by [[Peter Brock]], after Holden sev ...[Allan Grice]] and [[Win Percy]] for HSV's racing arm, the [[Holden Racing Team]].
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• La Macchina
  ...onounced ''Ley Mahk-ki-ney'') is an automobile conceived by father-and-son team [http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir/AllMyFiles.html Ardeshir and Cyrus Mehta. ...2 mph) time of 0.33 seconds, and a quarter-mile elapsed time of 3 seconds. One special edition of La Macchina is also intended to be able to lap the [http
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• Top Gear (2002 TV series)
  ...RTÉ Two in Ireland, Channel 9 and GO! in Australia (also previously on SBS One who showed the program until the end of the 13th series aired in 2009), Pri ...]", "The Cool Wall", "The News", "[[Top Gear Power Laps|Power Laps]]", and one off features such as races, competitions and the regular destruction of [[t
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