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• Stock-car racing
  #REDIRECT [[Stock car racing]]
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• F1 (disambiguation)
  * [[Formula One]] racing * [[F1 Powerboat Racing]]
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• Stock-car racing
  #REDIRECT [[Stock car racing]]
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• Hot Rods (oval racing)
  ...l racing in Britain that had evolved in a very different way than American stock cars. ...nd, hot rod racing evolved from a class known as sports and production car racing, introduced at tracks such as Plymouth and St Austell in the 1950s.
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• Toyota 4Runner Baja 1000
  {{Racing Car Infobox | |Category = Tecate SCORE [[Baja 1000]] [[Stock Mini Class]]
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• Derek Bennett
  ...in Manchester - d.1978); was a self-taught, intuitive engineer and amateur racing driver. He was born in 1933 in Manchester, England but was brought up in Pr ...motor racing scene in the North of England, initially in local [[stock-car racing]] events.
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• Porsche-March 89 P
  {{Racing Car Infobox | ...uture led to the project being poorly directed and frequently delayed. The car was not particularly reliable nor competitive, and at the end of the year P
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• Open wheel car
  ...ow the body or fenders. Open-wheel cars are usually built specifically for racing, frequently with a higher degree of technological sophistication than in ot ...ndertray]] that helps achieve additional aerodynamic downforce pushing the car on to the road.
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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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• Lotus 20B
  {{Racing Car Infobox | ...ar that was an evolution of the [[Lotus 20|20]], but with [[sway bar]] and stock inboard drum brakes in the rear. Occasionally, 20Bs ran with other engines,
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• Officine Meccaniche
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Officine Meccaniche''' (OM) was an Italian car and truck manufacturing company, founded in 1899 in Milan as Societa Anonim ...the plant of the former [[Brixia-Zust]], just after OM took over [[Zust]] car company of Brescia, Northern Italy.
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• Abarth 750 Bialbero Record
  |Class = Land Speed Record Car ...rd car. After construction, the 750 Bialbero Record was tested at Monza by racing drivers Paul Frère and Marino Guarnieri in October of 1957. There, it set
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• Podium
  The [[NASCAR]] [[Sprint Cup Series]], the highest level of stock car racing in the United States, does not have a three-person podium. Instead the winn The [[Indy Racing League|IRL]] [[IndyCar Series]] does not use a podium at the [[Indianapolis
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• Walt arfons
  ...n [[drag racing]], and his competitor in jet powered [[land speed record]] racing. Along with Art, he was a pioneer in the use of aircraft jet engines for th ...cer at the drag strip laughingly announced the car as the [[Green Monster (car)|Green Monster]], and the name was to stick to his joint projects with Art.
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• Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez
  ...[[Juan Gálvez|Juan]] y [[Oscar Alfredo Gálvez|Oscar Gálvez]]''' is a motor racing circuit in Buenos Aires, Argentina built in 1952 under president Juan Peró The [[1000 km Buenos Aires]] [[sports car racing|sports car]] event used the ''Autódromo'' as well as sections of highway situated nea
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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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• Barley Motor Car Co.
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Barley Motor Car Co.''' was a manufacturer of automobiles in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It manufa In 1913, Albert C. Barley bought the assets of the [[Streator Motor Car Co.]], which was put into receivership in 1911. Streator was itself the pr
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• Yamaha Motor Company
  ...Company while Yamaha and Yamaha Motor each bought 500,000 shares of Toyota stock in return. == Racing heritage ==
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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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• Matra
  ...tomobiles produced racing cars and sports cars, and was very successful in racing. ...stribution. Matra was privatized in 1988, with Lagardère holding 6% of the stock and by 1992 25%.
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• Mopar
  ...ed Mopar Performance Parts to enhance speed and handling for both road and racing use. ...later [[American Motors]] (AMC) or [[Jeep]], vehicle. Thus, for example, a car club for owners of any Chrysler Corporation vehicle might describe itself a
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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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• 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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• Glasspar G2
  .... It was built as both a production model (in limited numbers) or as a kit car. ...Major Ken Brooks, design a body for the [[hot rod]] Ken was building. The car consisted of a stripped down [[Willys]] [[Jeep]] chassis with a highly modi
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• Clutch
  ...rsh, jerky start. This kind of start is necessary and desirable in [[drag racing]] and other competitions, where speed is more important than comfort. In a [[automobile|car]] the clutch is operated by the left-most [[Automobile pedal|pedal]] using
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• Moskvich
  ...y Zavod imeni Leninskogo Komsomola'', which means ''Youth Communist League Car Factory''). ...nd always exceeded production, so people had to wait a long time for a new car. Until the 1980s all Moskvitch cars were compact rear-wheel drive sedans an
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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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• Automobilwerk Eisenach
  ...o years he started to produce a motor car which he called the “[[Wartburg (car)|Wartburg]],” a licensed model of the French “[[Decauville]].” The co ...the factory suffered from reparations with removal of equipment. In 1919, car production resumed; but soon economic hardship forced a merger with [[Gotha
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• Mercury Comet
  ...in the Comet being classified as either a compact or an intermediate-sized car during the seventeen years that the Comet name was used. ...60 Edsel Comet. Following the Edsel's termination in the fall of 1959, the car received a new grille design before its March 1960 introduction.]]
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• Auburn
  ...A 2-speed [[planetary transmission]] was fitted. The angle-steel-framed car weighed 1500 lb (680 kg) and used [[leaf spring|half-elliptic spr ...h-priced luxury vehicles. He also put his own name on a front-wheel-drive car, the [[Cord L-29]].
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• Race car
  ...le sport, and it can further include motorboat racing and air racing. Auto racing began in France in the late nineteenth century and is now one of the world' ...t over the line was [[Émile Levassor]] but he was disqualified because his car was not a required four-seater.
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• Marmon
  ...tled upon. Marmons soon gained a reputation as a reliable, speedy upscale car. ...the '''Wasp''', winner of the first [[Indianapolis 500]] motor race. This car featured the world's first rear-view mirror.
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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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• Carrera Panamericana
  The '''Carrera Panamericana''' was (and is again) a [[sports car racing]] event on open roads in Mexico, similar to the [[Mille Miglia]] and [[Targ ...l is eligible. The bulk of entries are provided by 1950s and '60s American stock cars; the most popular shape is the 1953 Studebaker Champion Regal Starline
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• Antônio Pizzonia
  {{Infobox racing driver | car number = 14
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• Ferrari 250 GTO
  The '''Ferrari 250 GTO''' was a [[supercar]] and auto racing [[automobile|car]] made by [[Ferrari]] in the early 1960s. It is widely considered to be the ...r International]]'' named the 250 GTO number eight on the list of [[Sports Car International Top Sports Cars|Top Sports Cars of the 1960s]]. Similarly, ''
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• SRT-4
  ...who had previously only considered owning [[Japan]]ese [[sport compact]] [[car]]s. ...numbers equal or better than sports cars costing 2-to-3 times as much. The car was also a huge sales and marketing success for Dodge, with sales of over 2
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• Mosler
  ...ic" brakes. Confronted with this test, Warren Mosler claimed that the test car was older and worn out. The Consulier GTP competed successfully in many rac ...cles, including electric cars, composite-bodied cargo vans, and small city-car commuter vehicles.
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• Bristol
  ...nsington in London. They claim to be the last wholly British-owned luxury car builder. The cars have only ever been made in very small numbers. The most ...will maintain any car they ever built. The vast majority of parts are in stock, and they will remanufacture or hand-make any other required parts.
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• Porsche 930
  | Supercar/Sports car ...ere - and included everything, from a Formula One project, to a new racing car, via a completely new model and suggestions that even a change of ownership
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• 1972 United States Grand Prix
  ...rrell Racing|Tyrrell]], five seconds ahead of [[Denny Hulme]]'s [[McLaren (racing)|McLaren]]. ...all the letters they had received begging them to continue, they would be racing in the following season.''
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• Motor Racing
  ...'', or '''car racing''') is a [[motorsport]] involving the [[racing]] of [[car]]s. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports. ===The beginning of racing===
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• Autódromo José Carlos Pace
  ...a One]]'''<br>[[Brazilian Grand Prix]]<br> [[Mil Milhas Brasil]], [[Stock Car Brasil]], [[Fórmula Truck]], [[TC 2000]] ...Carlos Pace''', also known by its former name '''Interlagos''', is a motor racing circuit located in the city of São Paulo, and named after [[Carlos Pace]],
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• Jaguar XJ220
  | One-off [[Concept Cars|concept car]] (1988)<br>Production car 1991-1994 (281 units) | Sports Car
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• HEMI
  ...passenger cars. It was not until 1964 that the 426 Hemi engine caught the racing world by surprise. In 1955 Chrysler introduced the first car in North America to produce 300 horsepower and 345 pounds of torque. The 19
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• NASCAR
  .../www.racing-reference.info/exhibition.htm|title=Exhibition Races|publisher=racing-reference.info|accessdate=2009-04-18}}</ref> ...Jayski-about">{{cite web|url=http://www.jayski.com/pages/faqrace.htm|title=RACING FAQ, NASCAR Trivia and TECH Questions|date=February 15, 2009|publisher=Jays
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• Drag racing
  '''Drag racing''' is a competition in which vehicles compete to be the first to cross a se ==Basics of drag racing==
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• Benz & Cie.
  ...e only from pharmacies that sold it as a cleaning product, and they didn't stock it in large quantities. The early-1888 version of the ''Motorwagen'' had to [[Image:1885Benz.jpg|213px|1885 Benz Tri-Car]]
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• Coventry Climax
  | title = Legendary Car Engines: Inner Secrets of the World's 20 Best ...x engine was used by [[Lionel Martin]] to power the first [[Aston Martin]] car<ref>{{cite web
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• DAF Trucks
  ...managing director of a brewery. [[Huub van Doorne]] had repaired Huenges's car several times. Huenges was so pleased with his work that he offered to lend ...eels. Huub liked this project, called 355, but his brother Wim thought the car was too small. They decided to build a four-seater, and project 455 got und
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• Formula Three
  ...itish F3 now costs around £400,000 and about £80,000 in Asia, for a year's racing), but is regarded as a key investment in a young driver's future career. Su ...lass to run that day. The race was won by [[Eric Brandon]] in his [[Cooper Car Company|Cooper]] Prototype (T2).
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