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Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia
...the majority of the races being in Sweden. The cars are [[Porsche 911 GT3#Racing|Porsche 911 GT3]] Cup (Type 997) with 3.6 liters, [[flat-6]] [[naturally-as Since then it has been one of the support series for the [[Swedish Touring Car Championship]].

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Panoz
...oup includes several racing series and race tracks. The group also owns a racing school operating at multiple locations. ...rnational Raceway]], [[Road Atlanta]], [[Sebring Raceway]] and the [[Panoz Racing Schools]].

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Gran Turismo (Disambiguation)
*[[Grand Tourer|Gran Turismo (Car)]], An Italian name for "car". *[[Maserati GranTurismo]], a 2-door, 4-seat long distance cruiser/sports car hybrid from [[Maserati]].

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Porsche Carrera Cup France
...s car racing]] championship held in France. The cars are [[Porsche 911 GT3#Racing|Porsche 911 GT3]] Cup (Type 997) with 3.6 liters, [[flat-6]] [[naturally-as | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Renaud Derlot]] || Graff Racing

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Andy Wallace (racing driver)
...prototype [[sports car]]s since 1988, winning over 25 International Sports car races including: ...ich for over 11 years this was the world record for the fastest production car. According to the [[Autosport]]'s [[Le Mans]] supplement, he liked the plac

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Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain
...im Harvey]].<ref>[http://www.porsche.com/uk/motorsportandevents/motorsport/racing/porschecarreracupgreatbritain/teamsanddriver/ Porsche Carrera Cup GB] Teams ...ocalist Maxi Jazz.<ref>[http://www.maxijazzracing.co.uk/news.htm Maxi Jazz Racing]News</ref>

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Philippine Touring Car Championship
...the Philippine National Touring Car Championships, is the only touring car series running under the banner of the [[Automobile Association of the Philippines ...erated by Philippine racing legend [[Pocholo Ramirez]]) and the [[Batangas Racing Circuit]] (owned and operated by [[Johnny Tan]]).

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Australian Carrera Cup Championship
...Porsche 911 GT3]] Cup cars. First held in 2003, it was administered by Cup Car Australia and is sanctioned by [[Confederation of Australian Motor Sport|CA The regulations for the championship are based on those used for Carrera Cup racing in Europe and the rest of the world with modifications to the cars strictly

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Clubmans
...rently races with the British Automobile Racing Club (BARC) and is a Motor Sports Association (MSA) recognised Club ...due course wings and slicks. Unlike endurance-oriented forms of sports car racing, Clubmans tended to run at club-level meetings. Races were typically short

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Kieft
...itish car company that built [[Formula 3]] racing cars and some road going sports cars in a factory in Derry St, Wolverhampton. ...etition success resulted. Publicity was gained by successful attempts on a series of records at [[Autodrome de Montlhéry]] in France. One of the drivers was

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Porsche RS Spyder
...marks Porsche's return to the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]]-type of [[sports car racing]] since the its last entry and overall win there was with the [[Porsche 911 ==Racing==

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Podium
...odium''' (plural '''podia''') for the trophy ceremony. In an international series, the national anthem of the winning driver, and the winning team or constru ...t-flows.html |last=Franck |first=Lewis |date=August 1996 |publisher=Inside Sports}}</ref> The drivers will generally refrain from spraying champagne if a fat

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Alfa Romeo 164 Procar
{{Racing Car Infobox | ...gorgeous M1 exoticar, and it turned out to be one of the best spec-racing series of all time. BMW folded the program after two seasons, but Alfa Romeo hoped

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Mosport International Raceway
| Owner = [[Panoz Motor Sports Group]] | Operator = [[Panoz Motor Sports Group]]

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Dino
...no brand was an attempt by Ferrari to produce a relatively low cost sports car by using components from other vehicles. The Dino models used Ferrari racing naming designation of displacement and cylinder count with two digits for t

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Guy Buckingham
...aft technology to help build triangulated, multi-tubular, [[space frame]]d racing cars, which had in the past been seen in Australia only as imported automob ...he historic register HSRCA in Australia as 1959 and 1960 Nota FJ.The third car was rear engined Nota FJ Renault. History unknown.

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Eric Bachelart
'''Eric Bachelart''' (born February 28, 1961 in Brussels) is a former [[race car driver]] and current team owner, born in Belgium. ...s in the 1988 F3000 season. Although he was a star in the national touring car championship, Belgian Procar, driving for Audi and Peugeot, his heart seeme

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Ferruccio Lamborghini
...erruccio Lamborghini''' (April 28, 1916- February 20, 1993) was an Italian car maker and the founder of the [[Lamborghini]] brand. ...ms before and after World War II, Lamborghini was an enthusiastic owner of sports cars, including [[Ferrari]]s. He noticed that some of the clutch components

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Porsche 114
The '''Porsche 114''' was a proposed design for a [[sports car]] powered by a 1493 cc [[V10 engine|V10]] [[Internal combustion engine|engi ...top speed of at least 160km/h (90[[Miles per hour|mph]]). Originally the car was to use a large number of VW parts, but due to the intricacies of then G

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Martini Racing
{{List of Martini Racing Models}} '''Martini Racing''' is the name under which various motor racing teams raced when sponsored by the Martini & Rossi distillery that produces

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Group C
...car racing]], along with ''[[Group A]]'' for [[touring car racing|touring car]]s and ''[[Group B]]'' for [[Gran Turismo (automobile)|GT]]s. ...nce Championship (1983 only). It was also used for other sports car racing series around the globe. The final year for the class came in 1993.

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Ferrari 333 SP
{{Racing Car Infobox | ...structor = [[Ferrari]] [[Dallara]] (Series One) [[Michelotto]] (Series Two)

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Reynard
...0, [[Formula Vauxhall Lotus]], [[Formula 3]], [[Formula 3000]] and [[Champ Car]]. ...ne of the first people to really bring a commercial mindset to the sale of racing cars - he worked out pricing models for cars and spares (basing this on res

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Lola T70
{{Racing Car Infobox | |Debut = 1966 CanAM Series

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Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
...>'''[[Grand American Road Racing Association|Grand Am]] [[Rolex Sports Car Series]]''' ...ionwide Series]] and [[Rolex Sports Car Series|Grand-Am Rolex Sports]] Car Series.

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Detroit street circuit
| Events = [[Formula One]], [[Champ Car|CART]], [[Trans-Am Series|Trans-Am]] | Record_team = [[Lotus 99T]]-[[Honda Racing F1|Honda]]

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Circuit Mont-Tremblant
| Record_class = [[Champ Car]] | Record_team2 = Doran Lista Racing, [[Dallara LMP]] Judd

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Tom Walkinshaw Racing
...'', also known simply as TWR, was a racing team founded in 1976 by touring car racer [[Tom Walkinshaw]]. ...was contracted to head [[Mazda]]'s works program in the [[British Touring Car Championship]]. The TWR developed [[Mazda RX-7|RX-7]], with Win Percy in th

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Formula Junior
...i|Giovanni "Johnny" Lurani]] who saw the need of a class for single-seater racing cars where younger drivers could take their first steps. It is often specul ...e, and small-capacity sports car racing had become the accepted route into racing. As the formula gathered momentum, though, constructors started to take not

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Test driver
...rd set up and raced what is called a Research & Development car (a one-off car entered to a race primarily for team improvement) with [[Greg Sacks]] at th ...=cache:TuatK3FSR-MJ:www.racindeals.com/record.asp%3FArticleID%3D940+digard+racing&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us 403 Forbidden]</ref>

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BMW M
...cing program, which was very successful in the 1960s and 1970s. The first racing project was BMW’s [[BMW E9|3.0 CSL]]; in the late 1970s the first modifie ...nd exterior styling. The objective of BMW M is to sell factory production sports cars that are comfortable enough for everyday use while offering uncompromi

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BMW V12 LM98
{{Racing Car Infobox | ...[[Porsche]]. Due to their declining performance, McLaren pulled out of GT racing at the end of 1997.

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Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet
...= [[Brazilian Grand Prix]] (1978-1989), [[Stock Car Brasil]], [[Champ Car|CART]] (1996-2000) | Record_class2 = [[Champ Car World Series|Cart FedEx Championship Series]]

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Formula Holden
'''Formula Holden''' was an Australian [[open wheel racing]] category. ...designed for the class, like the [[Cheetah Racing Cars|Cheetah]], [[Elfin Sports Cars|Elfin]], Spa (designed by F1 designer [[Gary Anderson (F1 designer)|Ga

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Lancia LC2
{{Racing Car Infobox | |Notable Entrants = [[Martini Racing]] [[Mussato Action Car]] [[Dollop Racing]]

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Radical
...of Radical's sportscars are road legal, they also build some purpose-built racing cars, such as the SR9 [[Le Mans prototype]]. ...he cars were intended to run in the [[750 Motor Club]]'s races under the [[Sports 2000]] category, with co-founder Hyde driving.

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Lotus 340R
| Rover k-series VHPD 1.8 The '''Lotus 340R''' was a limited edition [[sports car]] maunufactured by [[Lotus|Lotus Cars]] in 2000 at their Hethel factory.

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Circuito del Jarama
...was deemed too narrow for modern racing. It still holds occasional sports car and motorcycle races. {{Le Mans Series circuits}}

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Trident
{{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Trident''' Cars Ltd was a British car manufacturer based originally in Woodbridge then in Ipswich, Suffolk betwee Their first car, the prototype "Clipper" convertible, was based on a prototype [[TVR]] mode

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Automobiles Venturi
...for the ''Atlantique'' series. A limited edition ''400 GTR'' was built for racing [[homologation]] requirements, and later used in the [[24 Hours of Le Mans] ...[[Heuliez]]. The goal was to present the only “[[Grand Tourisme]]” French car capable of competing with the French [[Bugatti]], the Italian [[Ferrari]],

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Trojan (Racing team)
The car producer Trojan Limited founded by [[Leslie Hounsfield]] in 1914 in Purley ...s had been produced. Also in 1962 Trojan acquired the [[Elva|Elva]] sports car business and started to make the Mk IV Elva Courier.

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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 ==Characteristics of a touring car==

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MR layout
...t also uses up central space, making it impractical for any but two-seater sports cars. ...ght dynamics, this layout is heavily employed in [[formula (car)|Formula]] racing cars (such as [[Formula 1|F1s]]).

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Petit Le Mans
...for ''little Le Mans'') is a [[sports car racing|sports car]] [[endurance racing|endurance]] race held annually at [[Road Atlanta]] in Braselton, Georgia, U ..., then in 1999 became one of the original events of the [[American Le Mans Series]]. It uses the rules established for the [[24 hours of Le Mans]] by the [[

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Jaguar XJ13
| Sports car The '''XJ13''' was a prototype racing car developed by Jaguar to challenge at [[Le Mans]] in the mid-1960s.

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AC Propulsion tzero
....S. company [[AC Propulsion]]. It is based on the [[Piontek]] Sportech kit car. The tzero uses a reinforced steel [[space frame]], [[Double wishbone suspe ...red — it can be driven hard using only the accelerator pedal. Also, if the car detects a turn with more than half a ''g''-force (5 m/s²), it eases the re

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Porsche Supercup
...e Supercup|accessdate=2007-03-05}}</ref> is the international motor racing series supporting the [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]] [[Formul ...average, 24 race cars take part in each race. Most circuits visited by the series are European, although circuits in [[Bahrain International Circuit|Bahrain]

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Zenvo Automotive
...based on a combination of their names.<ref>[http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/3961/Zenvo-ST1.html Zenvo ST1 from Ultimatepage.com.] Retrieved 18 December ...ssive Power”. Motor Trend December 17, 2008].</ref> The designation of the car is Zenvo ST1. Only 15 cars are to be built and will be sold to approved cus

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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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Valiant
{{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}The '''Valiant''' was a compact car based on the [[Chrysler A platform]], introduced by the [[Chrysler Corporat ...r as "Nobody's Kid Brother" to indicate that the vehicle was not a compact car from any Chrysler division; however, the vehicle was sold through Chrysler-

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ
{{Racing Car Infobox | ...as the '''Alfa Romeo TZ''' or '''Tubolare Zagato''') was a small [[sports car]] manufactured by [[Alfa Romeo]] from 1963 to 1967. It replaced the [[Alfa

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Straight-4 engine
...e for production cars. Larger engines (up to 4.5 L) have been seen in racing and light [[truck]] use, especially using [[diesel]] fuel (an example is th In the early 20th century, bigger engines existed, both in road cars and sports cars. Due to the absence of displacement limit regulations, manufacturers t

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Nash-Healey
...[Donald Healey]] between 1951 and 1954. It was the first American [[sports car]] built since the [[Great Depression]] and served as a [[halo vehicle]] to == Racing ==

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List of IndyCar Series teams
...es that this driver or sponsor is currently unknown for the [[2010 IndyCar Series season]]. ==Full Time IndyCar Series Teams==

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Monteverdi
{{List of Monteverdi Models}}'''Monteverdi''' was a Swiss brand of [[luxury car]]s created in 1967 by [[Peter Monteverdi]] (1934 - 1998) and based in Binni ...ecided to undertake series production of exclusive high performance luxury sports and touring cars. The first model, the 2-seater Monteverdi High Speed 375S

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Sebring International Raceway
| Owner = [[Panoz Motor Sports Group]] | Operator = [[Panoz Motor Sports Group]]

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Chevron
{{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Chevron''' was a manufacturer of [[racing car]]s, founded by [[Derek Bennett]], who remained in charge from 1965 to his d ...e for its proud Lancastrian nature - unlike the rest of the British racing car industry which tended to be based in an arc running from South West London

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Autódromo do Estoril
...= '''[[Portuguese Grand Prix]]''', [[A1 Grand Prix]], [[World Touring Car Championship|WTCC]], [[Superleague Formula]] ...T Championship]], the [[Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters|DTM]] and the [[World Series by Renault]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.race-game.org/caterham/tracks.

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Spa 1000 km
...n [[Endurance racing (motorsport)|endurance race]] for [[Sports car racing|sports cars]] held at [[Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps]] in Belgium. ...oth a 24h race for touring cars and GTs is held, and an endurance race for sports cars and GTs. The 500 km race at Spa counted towards the [[World Sport

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Mazdaspeed
...et car tuning arm. It began in 1968 as "Mazda Sports Corner", a tuning and racing operation run by Takayoshi Ohashi, who also ran Mazda's [[Tokyo]] distribut ...[Piston]] powered car which came forth, then turned away from professional racing and focused instead on enabling third-party competition of Mazda vehicles.

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Famous Cars
===Racing=== * Swamp Rat, name of a series of [[drag racing|dragsters]] built and raced by [[Don Garlits]].

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1970 Can-Am season
| Series = Can-Am ...he [[Can-Am]] [[auto racing]] series. It consisted of [[FIA]] [[Group 7]] racing cars running two-hour sprint events. It began June 14, 1970 and ended Nove

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Sports Car Club of America
...f America''' ('''SCCA''') is a club and sanctioning body supporting [[road racing]], [[rallying|rally]], and autocross in the United States and was formed in ==Types of racing==

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Ginetta Cars
...ne at the rear. On test the car reached 120 mph with a 1500 cc engine. The series III version of 1966 added the then popular pop up headlights. ...ord V8 and MGB engines respectively. The G12 was a mid-engined competition car.

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Prodrive
...Warwick provides road car design and engineering consultation for various car manufacturers. ...to [[touring car]]s, running BMW's [[BMW M3|M3]], in the [[British Touring Car Championship]]. They were the outright 1988 champions, and class champions

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Circuit Paul Ricard
| Record_team = [[Williams F1|Williams]] [[Honda Racing F1|Honda]] With innovative facilities it was considered by some to be the safest motor racing in the world at the time. The circuit had three possible layouts, a large a

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Mercedes
...and, because of the success of the model, DMG began to apply the name as a series to other models such as, ''Mercedes 8/11 hp'' and ''Mercedes 40 hp Simplex' ==History of the beginning of the Mercedes series==

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V10 engine
...V10 engine, originally designing a version of its [[Chrysler LA engine|LA series small block]] for use in trucks. However, the engine saw its first product .../Econoline]] full-size [[van]], and also saw duty in the [[Ford F-Series|F-Series Super Duty]] line and the [[Ford Excursion]] SUV, and is still in productio

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Arturo Merzario
...ldi (constructor)|Fittipaldi]], [[March Engineering|March]], [[Walter Wolf Racing|Wolf]], [[Merzario]] | ...blunder on name registration - sometimes used on his helmet) is a former [[racing driver]] from Italy. He participated in 85 [[Formula One]] World Championsh

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Marcos
{{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Marcos''' is a British [[sports car]] manufacturer. ...wealthy Canadian buying the company, is now producing cars again. The race car production is now located in The Netherlands while the road cars are now ma

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Bentley Speed 8
...years). The Speed 8 marked [[Bentley Motors Limited|Bentley's]] return to racing after a 73-year absence. ...0 [[Horsepower| hp]], mated to a 6-speed [[manual transmission]]. The car weighed 900 kg (1984 lb) in with the minimum weight mandated for the L

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Osella
{{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Osella''' is an Italian racing car manufacturer and former [[Formula One]] team based in Volpiano near Turin, ...would rise to [[Formula Two]] in 1975 achieving some success with its own car (the Osella FA2); [[François Migault]] scored one point.

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Morgan Aero 8
The '''Morgan Aero 8''' is a [[Sports car|Sports]] [[automobile|car]] designed and currently built by the [[Morgan Motor Company]] in their fac ...ies from both works cars and privateers. It is also used in the British GT Series.

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Bentley Blower
...ompany, producing the famed '''"Blower"''' [[supercharged]] version of the car. ...nbsp;kW) in road-going models or 130 hp (97 kW) when tweaked for racing. However, the supercharged engine had a ridiculously huge thirst: the non-s

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Oversteer
...instead slide out toward the outside of the turn. Oversteer can throw the car into a spin. Porsches (because of the rear engine design) are known for acc The tendency of a car to oversteer is affected by several factors such as mechanical traction, ae

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Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR
...ionship sportscar racing world championship series, known as BPR Global GT Series up to 1996. To be allowed to do so, 25 cars had to be built for the GT1 cla == Racing car==

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Cadillac Northstar LMP
...y [[General Motors]]' [[Cadillac]] brand for use in the [[American Le Mans Series]] as well as an attempt to return Cadillac to the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]] s ...to not only survive Le Mans, but also to beat the dominant [[Audi R8 (race car)|Audi R8]]s. GM would therefore turn to [[Riley Technologies|Riley & Scott

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Trojan
...rear wheels. Solid tyres were used, even though these were antiquated for car use, to prevent punctures and very long springs used to give some comfort. ...ny had become in 1914, made production tools and gauges. In 1920 the first series of six cars were made from a works in Croydon and the final production vers

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Autocross
...wn right, autocrossing is a good way to learn skills that transfer to road racing, as drivers learn vehicle control and club ethics. ...clubs. Automobile manufacturers and their associated clubs (e.g. the [[BMW Car Club of America]]) sometimes hold marque autocross events.

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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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Lancia Scorpion
| Sports car ...'Lancia Monte Carlo / Scorpion''' was a [[MR layout|mid-engined]] [[sports car]] sold in the 1970s. A low-power version, the '''Scorpion''', was sold in

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Spyker
...aarten de Bruijn]], and since 2000 the company has been building exclusive sports cars like the [[Spyker C8|C8]] and the [[Spyker C8 Laviolette]]. Spyker's h ==MF1 Racing becomes Spyker==

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Lola
...rs before diversifying into one of the oldest and largest manufacturers of racing cars in the world. Lola is one of the best-known names in [[automobile racing]]. A subsidiary of Lola is the rowing boat manufacturer Lola Aylings. Lola

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Ground effect in cars
...oy ground effect to some extent, but [[Formula One]] and most other racing series worldwide currently use design constraints to heavily limit its effectivene ...1960s 'wings', or inverted airfoils, were routinely used in the design of racing cars to increase downforce, but this is ''not'' ground effect.) This kind o

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English Racing Automobiles
...odels}}'''English Racing Automobiles''' ('''ERA''') was a British [[racing car]] manufacturer active from 1933 to 1954. ...o win [[Grand Prix motor racing|Grands Prix]]. However, by 1933 Grand Prix racing was becoming much more expensive thanks to the very large sums being spent

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Honda CRX
The '''Honda CRX''', originally launched as the '''Honda Ballade Sports CRX''' in Japan, was a ...ic Renaissance Model X", although some believe it is an acronym for "Civic racing experiment".

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BMW V12 LMR
{{Racing Car Infobox | ...y revamp their sportscar project and quickly replace the V12 LM with a new car for 1999, the V12 LMR.

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Lotus Elise GT1
...5''') was a [[race car]] developed for [[grand tourer]]-style [[sports car racing]] starting in 1997. ...tional exposure. [[Porsche]] was the first to start a new breed of racing car in 1996, with their purpose-built homologation special known as the [[Porsc

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Pietro Frua
...ne 28, 1983) was one of the leading Italian coachbuilders and [[automobile|car]] designers during the 1950s and 1960s. During World War II car-styling work was scarce and Frua had to turn to designing children’s cars

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Audi R15 TDI Plus
{{Racing Car Infobox | ...than in the R10, resulting in a more neutral weight balance that gives the car better agility around the corners than its predecessor.

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Keiichi Tsuchiya
...s nontraditional use of [[drifting (motorsport)|drifting]] in non-drifting racing events, and his role in popularizing drifting as a [[motorsport]]. He is al ...o known as "Hachi-Roku" in Japan (''hachi-roku'' meaning "eight six"); his car is also called "The Little Hachi that could". A video known as ''Pluspy'' d

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Bill France, Sr.
...naging [[NASCAR]], a sanctioning body of United States-based [[stock car]] racing. ...an painting houses, and then worked at a local car dealership. He set up a car repair shop in Daytona. [[Malcolm Campbell]] and other land speed record co

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Mark Blundell
Team(s) = [[Brabham]], [[Equipe Ligier|Ligier]], [[Tyrrell Racing|Tyrrell]] and [[Team McLaren|McLaren]] | ...n, 8 April 1966) is a former [[Formula One]], [[sports car]], and [[CART]] racing driver. He was a Formula One presenter for the British broadcaster ITV unti

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Frazer Nash
...ts production. From 1948 to 1957 the company made a total of 85 sports and racing cars. Although these cars were entirely unrelated to the pre-war Frazer Nas ...e parent company '''AFN Limited''' remained as a Porsche distributor after car making ceased. AFN also worked with the Bristol Aeroplane Company to set up

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Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
...neral public, the FIA is mostly known as the governing body for many motor racing events. ...rominent role is in the licencing and arbitration of [[Formula One]] motor racing. The FIA, along with the FIM also certify [[land speed record]] attempts.

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Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours
| Events = [[Formula One|F1]], [[GP2 Series|GP2]], [[Touring car racing|WTCC]], [[Superleague Formula]] '''Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours''' is a [[motor racing]] circuit located in France, near the towns of Magny-Cours and Nevers. It i

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Audi R8 LMP
...e 2006 season. It is considered by some to be the most successful [[sports car]]s ever (alongside such greats as the [[Porsche 956|Porsche 956/962]]) havi The gasoline-powered Audi R8 [[race car]] has been replaced from 2006 onwards by the new [[Audi R10]] Diesel, howev

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Acura
'''Acura''' is a brand name used by the Japanese car maker [[Honda]] in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong and China s ...]. Some would even call it the only true supercar to hail from Japan. The car's meticulously engineered quality and sterling reliability were icing on th

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Gateway International Raceway
...tionwide Series]], [[Camping World Truck Series|NASCAR Camping World Truck Series]], [[National Hot Rod Association]] | ...oval, a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) infield Road Course used by [[SCCA]] and various car clubs, and also has a quarter-mile drag strip that hosts an annual [[Nation

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Ultima
...example to great success, but Ted Marlow, an early customer, modified his car for road use. ...is Ultima produce the parts required for an owner/builder to construct the car offsite, and this is the only way to receive such a vehicle in the USA. How

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