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• Formula 3000
  ...ula One]] and above [[Formula Three]]. It was named for the fact that the cars were powered by 3000 cc engines. ==Formula 3000 championships==
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• Lancia D50
  {{Formula One Infobox | ...r better weight distribution and aerodynamics. Six of the cars were built, two of them are displayed in Italian museums.
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• Alejandro de Tomaso
  ...sed form as ''Alessandro de Tomaso''. He participated in two [[Formula One|Formula 1]] Grands Prix, debuting on January 13, 1957. He scored 0 championship poi ===Complete Formula One results===
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• Connaught
  ...prix, entering a total of 52 races with their A, B, and C Type Grand Prix Cars. They achieved 1 podium and scored 17 championship points. ==Complete Formula One results==
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• Elfin Cars
  ...urer of [[sports car]]s and [[motor racing]] cars since 1957. Elfin Sports Cars was purchased in 1998 by businessmen and historic racing enthusiasts Bill H ...l championship driver and designer and builder of racing and sports/racing cars as '''Elfin Sports Car Company'''.
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• Formula racing
  ...ormula 3000]] (which had itself been the effective replacement for Formula Two). ...here there is an open chassis formula but a restricted single brand engine formula.
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• Straight-two engine
  ...offset) and is commonly called parallel twin. An inline twin or straight-two has one piston moving up as the other moves down (180° offset). The third Straight-two engines regardless of configuration do not use a common crank pin for both
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• Circuito del Jarama
  | Events = '''[[Formula One]]''' [[Spanish Grand Prix]] ...3.404 km (2.115 mile) race course in Madrid, Spain which has hosted nine [[Formula One]] [[Spanish Grand Prix]].
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• Kieft
  ...ar company that built [[Formula 3]] racing cars and some road going sports cars in a factory in Derry St, Wolverhampton. ...of the drivers was [[Stirling Moss]] who explained the shortcomings of the cars. As a result of this a new design was acquired and Moss joined the company
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• Jim Crawford
  ...x, debuting on July 19, 1975. He was also the winner of the 1982 [[British Formula One]] Championship. ...ford moved to the United States in the 1980s and began a career in [[Champ Cars]]. In 1987, he suffered a devastating accident during qualifying for the [[
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• Gioacchino Colombo
  ...[[V12 engine|V12]] for use in the new [[Ferrari]] marque's racing and road cars. ...These included the famed 3.0 L [[Ferrari 250]] racing, sports, and GT cars.
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• Formula Nippon
  [[Image:Formula Nippon.png|right]] '''Formula Nippon''' is a type of [[formula racing]] and the top level of single-seater racing in Japan.
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• Clubmans
  ''Clubmans'' are prototype front-engined sports racing cars that originated in Britain in 1965 and remain a very popular class of racin ...ed cars such as the [[Team Lotus|Lotus]] [[Lotus 23|23]]. Before long, the cars rapidly evolved into highly specialised and very quick sports-racers (retai
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• Caparo
  ...ased in England. It was began by two former engineers of [[McLaren|McLaren Cars Ltd.]] and cut their teeth helping design and engineer hyper exotic [[super ...as envisioned as a road-legal car with performance approaching that of a [[Formula 1]] race car.
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• Formula Junior
  ...mula Three]], and although Italian marques dominated the first year of the formula, they were soon overtaken by British constructors. ...pacity sports car racing had become the accepted route into racing. As the formula gathered momentum, though, constructors started to take note.
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• Carlo Chiti
  ...us [[Ferrari 156 Sharknose]] cars, with which [[Phil Hill]] won the [[1961 Formula One season|1961 championship]]. Shortly afterwards Chiti was part of the br ...asion by Chiti, Alfa Romeo gave Autodelta permission to start developing a Formula One car on their behalf. The partnership with Brabham finished before the e
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• Pole position
  == Formula One == {{main|List of Formula One polesitters}}
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• BMW M12 engine
  ...ced in 1961, powered the F1 cars of [[Brabham]], [[Arrows]] and [[Benetton Formula|Benetton]] and won the world championship in 1983. ...kW) from the beginning, it rendered the normally aspirated engines in the two liter category useless. After some development, power, driveability and rel
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• Kurtis Kraft
  '''Kurtis Kraft''' was a designer and builder of race cars. The company was founded by [[Frank Kurtis]]. ...dy cars (champ cars)]], and [[List of Formula One constructors|Formula 1]] cars.
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• Test driver
  In NASCAR, test driving has mainly related to "Research & Development cars". A team might hire a driver and put him in the race to gather more data. N ...ocusing its attention elsewhere, Bobby Allison left the team mid-season -- two weeks after Sacks' July 4 win.<ref name="sacksfan">[http://www.longislandra
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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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• Talbot
  ...''Talbot''. Locally designed cars followed from 1906 and by 1910 50 to 60 cars a month were being made. A Talbot was the first car to cover 100 miles (160 ==Talbot in Formula One==
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• Reims-Gueux
  Events = '''[[Formula One]]'''<br>[[French Grand Prix]]<br><br>[[Grand Prix de la Marne]] | ...tween the towns, and teams strove to maximize straight-line speed of their cars; many slipstream battles ensued. Race organizers actually felled trees and
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• Arturo Merzario
  Team(s) = [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]], [[Frank Williams Racing Cars|Williams]], [[Fittipaldi (constructor)|Fittipaldi]], [[March Engineering|Ma ...helmet) is a former [[racing driver]] from Italy. He participated in 85 [[Formula One]] World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on July 15, 1972. He scored
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• Guy Buckingham
  ...hnology to help build triangulated, multi-tubular, [[space frame]]d racing cars, which had in the past been seen in Australia only as imported automobiles. ...lt front engine cars. These still exist and are known as the "89" and "90" cars. The 1959 car won the first FJ race held in Australia at Warwick Farm with
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• Tax horsepower
  ...ing was computed not from actual engine power but by a simple mathematical formula based on cylinder dimensions. At the beginning of the twentieth century tax ...acity) with very long stroke and low piston surface area: British cars and cars in other countries applying the same approach to automobile taxation contin
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• Osella
  ...They participated in 132 Grands Prix between 1980 and 1990. They achieved two points finishes and scored 5 championship points. ...in 1974 to further develop his business. The team would rise to [[Formula Two]] in 1975 achieving some success with its own car (the Osella FA2); [[Fran�
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• V10 engine
  ...V10 engine''' is a [[V engine]] with 10 [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]]s in two banks of five with a distinct exhaust note. ...a source for this. But as it stands this is no controversial topic and the two sentences just serve to stop the reader thinking about an ideal V10 --> A 3
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• Cisitalia
  ...the wealthy industrialist and sportsman [[Piero Dusio]]. Cisitalia was a [[Formula One]] constructor from Italy. Piero Dusio participated in a single grand pr ...oted the D46 to multiple successes against more advanced, but older racing cars. The successes led to a much more ambitious single seater project that woul
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• Chevron
  ...later moved into the [[Clubmans]] category. Bennett also built a one-off [[Formula Junior]] car which was only a modest success - rear-engined competition fro ...ens) for a decade and a half Chevron produced successful, beautiful racing cars.
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• Group C
  ...pes like [[Porsche 935]]) and [[Group 6 (racing)|Group 6 Two Seater Racing Cars]] (open-top sportscar prototypes like [[Porsche 936]]). Group C was used in ...an 800&nbsp;hp. Engines had to be from a recognized manufacturer which had cars homologated in the FIA's Group A Touring Car or Group B GT Car categories.
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