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• Non-synchronous transmission
  ...nges of gears. They also learn not to leave their foot on the clutch while driving, because these types of transmissions use the clutch for several very diffe
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• Andrea de Cesaris
  ==Driving career== ...him dearly, and he finished 2nd in the championship to [[Chico Serra]]. A wheel banging incident with [[Nigel Mansell]] broke the Briton's neck, and did li
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• Ludovico Scarfiotti
  ...motor sports competitor for a decade, Scarfiotti won the European mountain driving title in 1962. Scarfiotti was born in [[Turin]]. His [[1966 Italian Grand Prix]] win, at the wheel of a Ferrari, was the last Italian Grand Prix victory (as of July 2007) by
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• Mika Häkkinen
  ...him sponsorship that aided the Finn through the junior categories of open wheel racing. The "''New Flying Finn''" won three [[Scandinavia]]n championships, [[File:Mika Hakkinen 1991 USA.jpg|thumb|right|Häkkinen driving for [[Team Lotus|Lotus]] in his first F1 race, the [[1991 United States Gra
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• Rick Mears
  ...r racing in the late 1970s, making his debut for the small Art Sugai team, driving a Eagle-Offenhauser. His speed attracted the attention of [[Roger Penske]]. ...year in a crash at Sanair. The March chassis, like most contemporary open-wheel racing cars, sat the driver far forward in the nose, with little protection
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• Electric vehicle conversion
  ...automotive type front wheel steering, as compared with placing the single wheel in the front. ...sumption in start and stop traffic and so increase range in many practical driving conditions.
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• Maserati Coupe
  ...and electronic management operated by F1-style paddles behind the steering wheel. The system allows the driver to choose between four different operating mo ...ls the engine and brakes to help the driver control the vehicle in extreme driving situations. The MSP system integrates four different vehicle systems - the
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• Fiat 24-32 HP
  ...a Sassi, near Turin on June 29, 1902 and July 27, with [[Vincenzo Lancia]] driving, the race Susa - Col du Mont-Cenis at the average speed of 44.16km/h. *two-wheel mechanical brakes with mechanical driveline brake
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• Automatic transmission
  ...according to the manual it is used for ''stop & go traffic'' such as city driving. ...CVT designs are usually as fuel efficient as manual transmissions in city driving, but early designs lose efficiency as engine speed increases.
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• Turbo
  ...''kick-in''. This is symptomatic of the time taken for the exhaust system driving the turbine to come to high pressure and for the turbine rotor to overcome ...the effective boost rpm to a slightly higher level. The amount a turbine wheel is and can be clipped is highly application-specific. Turbine clipping is
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• Daytona International Speedway
  ...me since [[1959]] that Indy Cars and the first time since [[1984]] an open wheel car have taken to the track at Daytona. The test seem to had a few incident ...www.trackpedia.com/wiki/Daytona_International_Speedway Trackpedia guide to driving this track]
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• Forti FG01
  ...car was its blue and yellow colour scheme accompanied by fluorescent green wheel-rims, illustrating the team's Brazilian influence in its first year. Rinlan ...itain (crop).jpg|<font face="Trebuchet MS" font color=black>Roberto Moreno driving the FG01 at the 1995 British Grand Prix.
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• Car handling
  ...pring rate]], damping, straight ahead [[camber angle]], camber change with wheel travel, roll center height and the flexibility and vibration modes of the s ...ing and improve handling. On most types of poor surfaces, large diameter [[wheel]]s perform better than lower wider wheels. The fact that larger tires, rela
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• Derek Bell (auto racer)
  ...t [[Silverstone Circuit|Silverstone]] with Ferrari and also raced the four-wheel-drive McLaren M9A in its only race in the [[British Grand Prix]]. Bell was also a runner in the 1970 European [[Formula 2]] Championship driving a March. In 1972 he got the drive in the Tecno F1 team, along with [[Nanni
  14 KB (1,844 words) - 20:57, 22 September 2009
• Gilles Villeneuve
  ...a|Canadian]] [[Formula One]] racing driver. An enthusiast of cars and fast driving from an early age, he started his professional career in [[snowmobile]] rac ...gure in the history of the sport, renowned for his car control, aggressive driving style, and a 'never give up' attitude. His son, [[Jacques Villeneuve]], bec
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• Lancia Beta
  ...n as one word, not Monte Carlo, the capital of Monaco). This was a [[rear-wheel drive]] [[mid-engine]]d two-seater sports car that shared very few componen ...herson strut]]s all round and disc braking on all four wheels. The [[front wheel drive]] models were available in a number of engine capacities ranging from
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• Pagani
  *Transmission: 7-speed sequential cross. AMT robotic system with driving programs **Drive: Rear wheel drive
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• Spada
  ...and, when it was ready, we carried out a series of tests. With Elio at the wheel and me next to him with a stopwatch we carried out a series of kilometre ru ...ko Shark infuence in the front end design. It is a front-mid-engined, rear wheel drive two-door coupé featuring a very lightweight aluminum spaceframe stru
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• Chris Amon
  ...oper]] and then an old [[Maserati 250F]], but only began to draw attention driving the Cooper [[Bruce McLaren]] had used to win his first Grand Prix. ...time, however, Amon's social life was attracting as much attention as his driving. He was a member of the [[Ditton Road Flyers]], the social set named after
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• De Tomaso Deauville
  ...but the body was an accurate reproduction of the new Jaguar XJ6 sedan. The wheel base was shorter but had a wider track. The car, overall, was 20 cm shorter ...such a small country. Most of these cars are still somewhere in a garage, driving in Holland or were exported.<br>
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