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• W18 engine
  ...[[Bugatti EB 118]], [[Bugatti EB 218]] and [[Bugatti 18/3 Chiron]] concept cars in the late 1990s. This engine featured three banks of six cylinders set 60 ...ee cylinders and one bank with only two. Essentially the four-bank W18 was two V9 engines (one bank of five cylinders and one bank of four) mated to a com
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• Montjuïc circuit
  Events = '''[[Formula One]]'''<br> [[Spanish Grand Prix]]<br> [[Penya Rhin Grand Prix]] | ...h [[Autosport]] rating it among its ten best for their 50th anniversary of Formula One issue.
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• BRDC International Trophy
  ...ircuit]], England. For many years it formed the premier non-championship [[Formula One]] event in Britain, alongside the [[Race of Champions (Brands Hatch)|Ra ...Club (BRDC) in August 1949, sponsored by the Daily Express newspaper, for cars meeting contemporary [[Grand Prix motor racing]] regulations. The BRDC drew
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• Frank Kurtis
  ...acing|sprint cars]], [[IndyCar|Indy cars (champ cars)]], and [[Formula 1]] cars. He was the founder of [[Kurtis-Kraft]]. ...and 1955. [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] (US) running gear was used. About 36 cars had been made when the licence was sold to [[Madman Muntz]] who built the M
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• Circuito da Boavista
  ...guese Grand Prix]]<br><br>[[FIA WTCC Race of Portugal]]<br>[[International Formula Master]] | ...was a [[street circuit]] in Oporto (Porto), Portugal used twice for the [[Formula One]] [[Portuguese Grand Prix]].
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• Silver Arrows
  ...and also later applied to the [[Mercedes-Benz]] [[Formula One]] and sports cars in 1954/55. ...auto racing colors|traditional color in automobile racing]]. Italian race cars are still famous for their [[Rosso Corsa]] red color, English ones are [[Br
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• Mercedes-Benz W196
  ...] entry of [[Mercedes-Benz]] in the [[1954 Formula One season]] and [[1955 Formula One season]], winning 9 of 12 races at the hands of [[Juan Manuel Fangio]] ...lready won the first two GPs of 1954 with a [[Maserati]], won this and the two following GPs, securing his 2nd World Championship.
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• British Racing Partnership
  ...[Stirling Moss]]'s father and former manager respectively — in 1957 to run cars for Stirling, when not under contract with other firms. ...During this time four of the team's drivers were killed while racing their cars, and the Yeoman Credit management became concerned that the team was not ge
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• Stars in Fast Cars
  '''''Stars in Fast Cars''''' was a humorous motoring-themed celebrity game show series, in which va ...ty of motor-esque machines, from the aforementioned armchairs to Formula 1 cars.
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• Flat-12 engine
  ...ed to the more commonly-used V-12, the design is rarely used on production cars. ...s. A true boxer has one crank pin per piston, while in the 180° V-engine, two opposing pistons share the same crank pin.
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• Lotus 96T
  The project was the brainchild of former [[Formula 2]] team owner Roy Winkelmann. During the 1960’s Winklemann had proved su .... However he did not wish to buy an "off-the-shelf" March or [[Lola Racing Cars|Lola]] chassis as was de rigueur in [[CART]] racing during the 1980s. Inste
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• Jim Hall
  ...l = http://www.silhouet.com/motorsport/archive/f1/title.html | title = The Formula One Archives | accessdate = 2007-08-13}}</ref> ...siness and motorsports racing legacies. The saga of Jim Hall and Chaparral Cars is documented at the [[Permian Basin Petroleum Museum]] in [[Midland, Texas
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• Merzario
  ...d [[Formula Two]] team and constructor from Italy. They participated in 39 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix but scored no championship points. ==Formula One==
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• Brian Redman
  ...ams]], [[Surtees]], [[McLaren (racing)|McLaren]], [[BRM]], [[Shadow Racing Cars|Shadow]] | ...ith a [[Porsche 935]]. He was for many years associated with the [[Chevron Cars Ltd|Chevron]] marque, founded by fellow-Lancastrian Derek Bennett.
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• Circuit Mont-Tremblant
  ...adian Grand Prix]] events staged here. Of the forty cars entered in those two races ([[1968 Canadian Grand Prix|1968]] & [[1970 Canadian Grand Prix|1970] ...hicane]] was added in Turn 2, while Turns 6 and 10 were modified to create two separate circuits which could be run simultaneously. The signature hump wa
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• Porsche 804
  | Formula One ...che 804''' was the car built by Porsche for the sole intention of entering Formula One in 1962. The 804 followed on from the single-seater versions of the [[P
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• Gillet
  ...champion of Belgium for several consecutive years, builder and driver for two [[Paris-Dakar]] rallies, he came to the automobile industry in 1982, when h ...arbon fibre and honeycomb materials (a technology directly borrowed from [[Formula One]]), insuring a greater strength and resistance, while being lighter (58
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• English Racing Automobiles
  ...e at [[Nürburgring]], ERAs took first, third, fourth and fifth places. The two Siamese princes, Chula and [[Prince Bira|Bira]], whose pair of ERAs became ...[[Formula 2]] teams contested the Championship, the team used a [[Bristol Cars|Bristol]] unit. [[Stirling Moss]] became the driver, but results were disap
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• Circuit de Catalunya
  | Events = '''[[FIA]] [[Formula One]]'''<br>[[Spanish Grand Prix]]<br>[[GP2 Series|GP2]], Spanish [[Grand t ...k]] in Montmeló, to the north of Barcelona, Catalonia. It is home to the [[Formula One]] [[Spanish Grand Prix]]. With long straights and a variety of corners,
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• Naturally-aspirated engine
  ...of [[RPM|engine speeds]] and hence is most useful in very high performance cars, aircraft and helicopters. Many N/A engines today make use of [[Variable L ...e all in this category. Naturally-aspirated engines have been mandated in Formula One since 1989, in order to curb excessive power output and the high cost o
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