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...Wallace attended the [[Jim Russell Racing Driver School|Jim Russell Racing Drivers' School]]. He has raced prototype [[sports car]]s since 1988, winning over * [[24 Hours of Le Mans]]

...of America]] (SCCA) championships and was inducted in the [[Corvette Hall of Fame]]. Thompson brought credibility to the Corvette as a world-class sport ...tory at [[Watkins Glen International]]. He took third place that year at [[Daytona International Speedway]] and won the GT class in 1970.

|Power = N/A hp @ N/A rpm<br>N/A lb-ft. of [[torque]] @ N/A rpm |Notable Drivers =

|Power = N/A hp @ N/A rpm<br>N/A lb-ft. of [[torque]] @ N/A rpm |Notable Drivers = [[John Surtees]]

...ldracingcars.com/bydriver/watn.asp?letter=R |title= The World Championship drivers - Where are they now? |accessdate=2007-07-29 |last=Jenkins |first=Richard | ...inning the 1970 [[Targa Florio]] with a [[Porsche 908]] and the [[12 Hours of Sebring]] twice, in 1975 with a [[BMW E9|BMW Coupé]] and in 1978 with a [[

|Power = N/A hp @ N/A rpm<br>N/A lb-ft. of [[torque]] @ N/A rpm |Notable Drivers = Kazuho Takahashi<br>Hiroki Katoh

| Events = '''[[American Le Mans Series]]'''<br>[[12 Hours of Sebring]] | Record_year = [[2009 12 Hours of Sebring|2009]]

...Kinnunen - Biography | work=[[F1 Rejects]] | url=http://www.f1rejects.com/drivers/kinnunen/biography.html | accessdate=2007-01-28}}</ref> ...nner-up in the [[Finnish Rally Championship]] and matched the points total of the winner [[Simo Lampinen]]. Kinnunen also participated in the Finnish F3

...Salvadori]], and driving for [[Aston Martin]], he won the 1959 [[24 Hours of Le Mans]]. ...3]] American companies, [[Dodge]], and [[Oldsmobile]]. The most memorable of these cars was the [[Dodge Viper]].

'''Joseph Siffert''' (July 7, 1936 – October 24, 1971) was a Swiss [[racing driver]]. ...e Simone during the height of his career in the late 1960s and at the time of his death in 1971. They had two children together, Véronique and Philippe.

| Jaguar C-type, Jaguar E-type,Ferrari Daytona, Iso Grifo ...2 February 1957, a fire broke out at the Browns Lane plant destroying nine of the twenty five cars that had already been completed or in semi-completion.

The '''24 Hours of Le Mans''' (''24 Heures du Mans'') is the world's most famous [[sports car racing|sports car ...iver to win all three 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, al

The '''Porsche 935''' was introduced in 1976, as the racing version of the [[Porsche 930]] (911 Turbo), prepared for [[Fédération Internationale ...n a fireball spitting from the exhaust and giving out a large power output of typically 800bhp.

...portscar Championship''' was, with the Formula One World Championship, one of the two major world championships in circuit motor racing. *[[24 Hours of Le Mans]] 1953-

The '''12 Hours of Sebring''' is an annual [[motorsport]] [[endurance race]] held at [[Sebring ...ing during the day and finishing at night. For many years Sebring was part of the [[World Sportscar Championship]].

...m<br><br>'''EB110 SS'''<br>592 hp (600 PS/441 kW) @ 8000 rpm<br>N/A lb-ft. of [[torque]] @ N/A rpm ...ry. It was unveiled on September 15, 1991 in both Versailles and in front of the Grande Arche at La Défense in Paris, France exactly 110 years after [[

|Date of birth = 1 January 1945 |-{{Le Mans drivers

The son of a Metropolitan Opera star,<ref>[http://www.allamericanracers.com/bio.html A ...radition, he also was the first to put a simple extension on the upper end of the rear wing. This device, called a [[Gurney flap]], increases downforce a

...(無限) is a Japanese company formed in 1973 by [[Hirotoshi Honda]], the son of [[Honda|Honda Motor Company]] founder [[Soichiro Honda]], and [[Masao Kimur ...[Formula 1]], from 1992 to 1999, and up to 2005 was the exclusive supplier of [[Formula Nippon]] engines.

...ion was capable of a 0-62mph time of less than 2.5 seconds and a top speed of over 248 [[mph]] (394 km/h). The 917 is one of the most iconographic sports racing cars of all time largely for its high speeds and high horsepower outputs and was ev

...wife Peggy in 1969 with help from [[William France Sr.|Bill France, Sr.]] of [[NASCAR]]. ...ved in motorsport in the 1950s when he met Dave Allen, a [[Sports Car Club of America]] (SCCA) staff member. Allen offered Bishop a management position o

...ng''') is a [[motorsport]] involving the [[racing]] of [[car]]s. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports. ===The beginning of racing===

'''Sports car racing''' is a form of circuit [[auto racing]] with [[automobile]]s that have two seats and enclos ...ber]] and [[Reinhold Joest]] have become almost as famous as many of their drivers.

...Auto racing began in France in the late nineteenth century and is now one of the world's most popular, and perhaps the most thoroughly commercialized, s Redline began almost immediately after the construction of the first successful [[gasoline|petrol]]-fuelled autos. In 1894, the first

...cars 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 was acquired by [[M

...ilt to accommodate several different configurations, depending on the type of car and race length. The three options on Riverside Raceway were the long c ==The six courses of Riverside==

...Prix layout<br>[[Image:Indianapolis Motor Speedway - Speedway.png]]<br>Map of the basic NASCAR speedway |Image_caption = Aerial photo of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

...ons]]. Its [[four-stroke cycle]] takes place in a space between the inside of an oval-like epitrochoid-shaped housing and a rotor that is similar in shap ..., chain saws, and auxiliary power units. The most extensive automotive use of the Wankel engine has been by the Japanese company [[Mazda]].