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• Mosport International Raceway
  {{Motorsport venue | Events = [[Canadian Grand Prix]], [[American Le Mans Series|ALMS]] [[Grand Prix of Mosport]]<br />[[NASCAR Canadian Tire
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• Reynard
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Reynard Motorsport''' was at one time the world's largest racing car manufacturers. Initially ...the sales and commercial side of the business. Gorne was one of the first people to really bring a commercial mindset to the sale of racing cars - he worked
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• Ken Tyrrell
  ...came a timber merchant; as a result, he is sometimes [[List of motorsports people by nickname#C|known as]] "Chopper".<ref name="Setright1"/> In 1952,<ref nam ...focusing on their V12, leading Tyrrell to secretly employ [[Derek Gardner (motorsport)|Derek Gardner]], then at [[Ferguson Research Ltd.|Ferguson]] (whom he had
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• Adelaide Street Circuit
  {{Motorsport venue ...1985 to 1995 as well as an [[American Le Mans Series]] [[Endurance racing (motorsport)|endurance race]] on New Year's Eve in 2000 (The [[2000 Race of a Thousand
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• Grand Prix of Long Beach
  {{Motorsport venue ...League|IRL]] [[Izod IndyCar Series]]'''<br>Long Beach Grand Prix<br>'''[[American Le Mans Series]]'''<br>Grand Prix of Long Beach
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• Bill France, Sr.
  ...ne 7, 1992), also known by '''Bill France Sr.''' or '''Big Bill''', was an American race car driver. He is best known for co-founding and managing [[NASCAR]], ...50 miles / 400&nbsp;km) for street-legal family sedans sanctioned by the [[American Automobile Association]] (AAA) for cars built in 1935 and 1936.<ref name=Fl
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• Jaguar D-Type
  ...disk brakes in Europe. The [[Powel Crosley|Crosley Hotshot]] was the first American automobile with disk brakes, in 1949. ...ing ball and sent burning wreckage and debris into the crowd. More than 80 people, including Levegh, were killed, and many more injured. Merceded withdrew fr
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• Race car
  ...is a sport involving [[racing]] [[automobile]]s. '''Motor racing''' or '''motorsport''' may also mean Motorcycle sport, and it can further include motorboat rac Single-seater ([[open-wheel]]) racing is perhaps the most well-known form of motorsport, with cars designed specifically for high-speed racing. The wheels are not
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• Motor Racing
  ...as '''automobile racing''', '''auto racing''', or '''car racing''') is a [[motorsport]] involving the [[racing]] of [[car]]s. It is one of the world's most watch ...ite web | url=http://forix.autosport.com/8w/bdb.html | title=The cradle of motorsport | author=Rémi Paolozzi | date=May 28, 2003 | work=Welcome to Who? What? Wh
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• NASCAR
  ...[NASCAR Local Racing]], the [[Whelen Modified Tour]], and the [[Whelen All-American Series]]. NASCAR sanctions over 1,500 races at over 100 tracks in 39 states ===Significant people===
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• International Motor Sports Association
  ...al Motor Sports Association''' (generally referred to as '''IMSA''') is an American [[auto racing]] sanctioning body based in Braselton, Georgia. It was starte [[John Bishop]], a Sikorsky employee, first became involved in motorsport in the 1950s when he met Dave Allen, a [[Sports Car Club of America]] (SCCA
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• Lola
  ...n the second class (LMP2), including championship class victories in the [[American Le Mans Series]]. ...Le Mans with Ray Mallock Limited. It also earned several class wins in the American Le Mans Series in 2005 and 2006 with Intersport Racing, including a second-
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• Indianapolis Motor Speedway
  {{Motorsport venue ...orporate the word. With a permanent seating capacity for more than 257,000 people<ref name="seating"/> and infield seating that raises capacity to approximat
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• Sports Car Club of America
  ...each organizing events in that area to make the events more accessible to people throughout the country. There are eight large areas of the country which fo ** [[Sandia Motorsport Park]], Albuquerque, New Mexico
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• Indianapolis 500
  ...ana. "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" is one of the oldest and richest [[motorsport]] events in existence, having the largest attendance and one of the largest Although the first race was won by an American driver at the wheel of an American car, European makers such as the Italian [[Fiat]] or French [[Peugeot]] com
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• Bernie Ecclestone
  ...the first of its kind in Britain. On Friday, 17 June 2005, Ecclestone made American headlines with his reply to a question about [[Danica Patrick]]'s fourth-pl ...on based football club would prefer to sell to a British party, this after American based investment company KSE headed by "Silent" Stan Kroenke are thought to
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• WilliamsF1
  ...a preference for teams to run two cars, so Jones was partnered by [[Swiss (people)|Swiss]] driver [[Clay Regazzoni]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Hamilton | fir ...that will ever race in Formula One".<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/cars_guide/4272031.stm ''The changing face of F1'' ]. Retrieved
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• Top Gear challenges
  * '''Historic [[People Carrier]] Racing Championship''' ''Series Five, Episode Five'' ===Convertible people carrier===
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• Formula One
  ...nds Prix have been held all over the world, and with new races in Bahrain, People's Republic of China, Malaysia and Turkey since 1999, its scope is continual ...es won the drivers championship for two years, before withdrawing from all motorsport in the wake of the [[1955 Le Mans disaster]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Bill |
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• V8 engine
  ...IRL]], [[ChampCar]] and [[NASCAR]]. V8 engines are also used in Australian motorsport, most notably in the [[V8 Supercars]]. [[Formula One]] began the 2006 seaso ...n 1912. It was produced only in small quantities, but inspired a number of American manufacturers to follow suit.<ref name="Daniels, Driving Force, 32-33" >{{c
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