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• Ermini
  |Breaking system || Brembo with self-­‐ventilating brake disk rotors ..., sports car manufactures of '40 and '50 years.(the cause of his premature death is still not known today)
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• Electric vehicle
  ...through [[regenerative braking]]. This can be used to reduce the wear on brake systems and reduce the total energy requirement of a typical trip. ...3/index.html The PBS newsmagazine NOW] takes a closer look at the life and death of the electric vehicle, including interviews with "[[Who killed the electr
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• Nigel Mansell
  ...f me died with him. I had lost a member of my family". Following Chapman's death relationships at Lotus became strained, as replacement team manager [[Peter ...am was heavily compromised due to Warr's unwillingness to give Mansell the brake pads he desired for the race. With 18 laps of the race remaining, and with
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• Car handling
  ...ight are a sprung differential (as opposed to [[live axle]]) and [[inboard brake]]s. (The [[De Dion tube]] suspension operates much as a live axle does, but ...and longitudinal force. So the driven wheels or those supplying the most [[brake|braking]] tend to slip sideways. This phenomenon is often explained by use
  36 KB (5,845 words) - 08:04, 8 October 2009
• Fiat Uno
  ...as not by the commonly used measurement of engine size but by [[Horsepower#Brake horsepower (bhp)|bhp]]: 45, 55, 60, 75 or 90. The Uno was available as eith ...d James Andanson|white Uno]] has been alleged to have been involved in the death of [[Diana, Princess of Wales]], on [[August 31]], [[1997]]. However, the c
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• History of the bicycle
  ...kg (48 pounds), had brass bushings within the wheel bearings, a rear-wheel brake and 152 mm (6 inches) of trail of the front-wheel for a self-centering cast
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• Pagani Zonda
  ...ly to be named for him, the "Fangio F1", but the name was changed upon his death in 1995, renamed after an [[Zonda wind|air current above Argentina]]. ...4 mi/h. Lateral acceleration on the skidpad was 0.93 g, and the car could brake from 60 mi/h in 110 ft.
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• Minardi
  ...Giovanni Minardi competed in his own cars in the late 1940s and after his death his son Giancarlo took over the racing part of the family business. He ran ...1989 Minardi 189 F1''' with a Lamborghini 3.5 litre F1 engine, full carbon brake system, 700 BHP, 0-60 1.9 secs
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• History of Formula One
  ...later Ascari was killed at Monza while testing a sportscar. After Ascari's death, Lancia followed Mercedes out of the category, passing their engines, cars, ...en Rindt]], dominated the championship until he was killed at Monza when a brake shaft broke. He took the {{F1|1970}} title posthumously for Lotus. 1970 saw
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• Le Mans 24 hours races
  This left the Ferraris on top. But the P2 began to suffer of excessive disk brake wear, probably due to heat. All the leading prototypes had pit stops to cha ...inish, Hans Herrmann repeatedly overtook each other as the Porsche 908 had brake problems, and eventually Ickx managed to beat Herrmann by a few seconds or
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• 2010 Formula One season
  ...ame to Formula One sixteen years after [[Death of Ayrton Senna|his uncle's death]]. ...1,367 lbs) to better accommodate heavier drivers with [[Regenerative brake#Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems|KERS]] systems, despite FOTA's agreement no
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