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Walt Brown (auto racer)
==World Championship career summary== ...test laps, and finished on the podium 0 times. He accumulated a total of 0 championship points.

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Antonio Brivio
...tomobile (FIA), where he participated in the launch of the Formula 1 World Championship. ...edal in the two-man event at the [[FIBT World Championships 1935|1935 FIBT World Championships]] in [[Igls]].

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Gaetano Starrabba
...1961]]. He scored no championship points. He also competed in several non-Championship Formula One races. == Complete World Championship Formula One results ==

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Jochen Rindt
...ormula One]] [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|World Drivers' Championship]] in 1970, after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix. ...any]], but after his parents were killed in a bombing raid in the [[Second World War]], he moved to live with his grandparents in [[Graz]], [[Austria]], whe

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Luigi Taramazzo
...4]]) was a racing driver from [[Italy]]. His single [[Formula One]] World Championship entry was at the [[1958 Monaco Grand Prix]], where he shared the [[Maserati == Complete Formula One World Championship results ==

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Piero Scotti
...ne]] World Championship Grand Prix, on [[June 3]], [[1956]]. He scored no championship points. ==Complete Formula One World Championship results==

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Bob Sweikert
...[[Indianapolis 500]] and 1955 [[American Championship Car Racing|National Championship]]. He died in 1956 after crashing a [[Sprint car racing|Sprint car]] at [[S ...inclusion in the World Championship was largely symbolic, with very few F1 drivers taking part).

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Ferrari F1 641
! Drivers ! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]

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FIA
**** [[FIA World Council for Mobility and the Automobile]] – governs all non-sporting **** [[FIA World Motor Sport Council]] – governs all the sporting events regulated by

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Peter Hirt
...Championship Grands Prix, debuting on [[May 27]], [[1951]]. He scored no championship points. == Complete Formula One World Championship results ==

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Taru Rinne
...n had to settle with second place. In 1983, she also finished first in the championship but was disqualified from the last race due to illegal fuel. Thus the title ...inne decided to switch to motorcycles and debuted in the Road Racing World Championship, now known as MotoGP, in 1988. With her [[Honda]] bike she qualified second

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Lancia LC1
...[1982 World Sportscar Championship season|1982]] to [[1983 World Sportscar Championship season|1983]]. The car was built as an attempt by Lancia to move up from p ...ons. Lancia driver [[Riccardo Patrese]] was in contention for the Drivers Championship into the final round, but ended the year eight points behind [[Porsche]]'s

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Jody Scheckter
...p;) is a former [[auto racing]] driver, the [[1979]] [[Formula One]] World Drivers Champion. He was born in [[East London]], [[South Africa]] and educated at ...merican and Canadian Grands Prix of 1973. Scheckter is one of only two F1 drivers to compete under this number, the other being [[Damon Hill]].

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Piero Carini
...]]. He scored no championship points. He also participated in several non-Championship [[Formula One]] races. ==Complete Formula One World Championship Results==

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Jimmy Bryan
...Automobile Association|AAA]] and [[United States Automobile Club|USAC]] [[Championship Car]] series, racing in the 1952-1960 seasons with 72 starts, including eac ...1954(AAA), 1956 and 1957(USAC) [[American Championship Car Racing|National Championship]].

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Dorino Serafini
...d the drive with [[Alberto Ascari]]. Serafini also competed in several non-Championship Formula One races. ==Complete World Championship Formula One results==

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Keke Rosberg
...nderpowered [[Theodore (Formula One)|Theodore]] team in 1978 and won a non-championship race at [[Brands Hatch]] that season in just his second race with the team, ...cy won Rosberg the [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|Drivers' Championship]], despite using the once ubiquitous Ford/Cosworth normally aspirated V8 ag

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Siegfried Stohr
...hampionship Grands Prix, debuting on [[March 15]], [[1981]]. He scored no championship points. ...on the grid and some cars' engines running and others not, and the Arrows drivers and mechanic can be seen as innocent victims of the officials' shortcomings

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Wayne Gardner
...tired [[motorcycle]] road racer and touring car racer. His success on the world motorcycle racing circuit earned him the nickname ''The Wollongong Whiz''. ...areer in 1977 at age 18, riding a second-hand 250cc bike in the Australian championship and finishing second on debut at [[Amaroo Park]]. He went on to record his

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Gimax
...Prix|Italy 1978]]) but failed to qualify. He also participated in one non-Championship Formula One race. ==Complete Formula One World Championship results==

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Giuseppe Farina
...raight-arm' driving style and his status as the first ever [[Formula One]] World Champion. ...for Farina, he was just reaching his peak as a driver at the outbreak of [[World War II]], and it would be another eight years before he would win a major r

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Cagiva WMX
...[[two-stroke engine]] home [[Cagiva]], which have participated in various world cross, winning some title, this motion is accompanied by [[Cagiva WRX|WRX]] ...he competition is still higher, especially the Suzuki, which dominated the World Motocross, the victories will come only in Class 125, reaching to touch on

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Ferrari F2003-GA
! Drivers ! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]

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Ferrari F2003
! Drivers ! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]

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Endurance racing
...durability of equipment and endurance of participants. Teams of multiple drivers attempt to cover a large distance in a single event, with participants give ...egulations make it impossible for any racing car to win all three events. Drivers are still able to run all three events, although none have yet to win all t

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Ernesto Maserati
...litary. His racing career started in 1924, when he won the Italian drivers championship in 1927 in the [[Maserati Tipo 26]], in 1930 using the Tipo 8C-2500. ...ntract, Ernesto participating in the design of the [[Maserati A6]] after [[World War II]]. He left with Ettore and Bindo (1947), to found the [[Osca|O.S.C.

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Giovanni de Riu
...]. He was an engineer who entered his own [[Maserati A6GCM]] mainly in non-championship races and failed to qualify for the [[1954 Italian Grand Prix]], with a pri ==Complete Formula One World Championship results==

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Franco Rol
...Championship Grands Prix, debuting on [[May 21]], [[1950]]. He scored no championship points. ==Complete Formula One World Championship results==

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Alan Jones
...gural season of the [[Grand Prix Masters]] formula for retired Formula One drivers. ...and won at [[Österreichring]] for his maiden victory, finishing 7th in the championship.

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Jack Brabham
...raced midget cars and in his first season won the [[New South Wales|NSW]] Championship and formed a partnership with [[Ron Tauranac]]. ...Championship with a [[Coventry Climax]] engined Cooper. In 1960 he won the championship again with Cooper.

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World Touring Car Championship
|Drivers || 50 (2006) ...hip''' ('''WTCC''') is an international [[touring car racing|Touring Car]] championship organized by the [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]].

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North American Racing Team
NART raced at only the world's premiere races, such as the [[24 Hours of Daytona]] in Florida and the [[ ..., a Ferrari officially entered by NART sealed the win of the 1964 F1 World championship with [[John Surtees]], as the factory team competed the last two races in c

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Rallycross
...d production or specially built road [[automobile|car]]s, similar to the [[World Rally Car]]s, but with about 250bhp stronger engines. It is mainly popular ...al Clubman's rallycross, was held the next day. It opened up the new rally drivers' fun-sport to many amateur competitors, proved very successful and thereby

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Vincenzo Sospiri
Born in [[Forlì]], he won the European [[Formula 3000]] championship in 1995 driving for the [[Super Nova Racing|Super Nova]] team. He had teste ...led to qualify, that the car was not capable of making the grid in a world championship race. Sospiri quit the team, which collapsed shortly afterwards without com

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Massimo Natili
...Championship grands prix, debuting on [[July 15]], [[1961]]. He scored no championship points. [[Category:Italian Formula One drivers|Natili, Massimo]]

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Giulio Cabianca
...e scored a total of 3 championship points. He also participated in one non-Championship Formula One race. ==Complete Formula One World Championship Results==

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Emerson Fittipaldi
...zil]]) is a highly successful [[open-wheel]] racing series driver, winning world championships in both [[Formula One]] and [[Champcars|CART]]. ...enough to gain Fitipaldi's sponsor, Team Lotus, the 1973 F1 Manufacturers Championship.

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Ferrari 333 SP
|Test Drivers || |Drivers ||

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Ferrari F2004
! Drivers ! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]

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Chet Miller
==World Championship career summary== ...[1952 Indianapolis 500]]. He retired from both races, therefore scoring no championship points.

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1000km Suzuka
...held at the [[Suzuka Circuit]]. It is a round of the Japanese [[Super GT]] championship. ...l Japan Sports Prototype Championship]] and later of the [[World Sportscar Championship]] before these series were cancelled. After that the race has become part o

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1000km Spa
...cars and GTs. The 500km race at Spa counted towards the [[World Sportscar Championship]] from 1963 onwards. Since 1966, it is run for 1000km, following the [[1000 ! Drivers

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Consalvo Sanesi
...etrack, somehow this rarely translated into good results. He scored only 3 championship points. He found some success driving in [[sports car racing]], continuing 29 minutes, and 24 seconds. He was overtaken by fellow Italian and Alfa Romeo drivers, [[Sergio Mantovani]] and Mario Della Favera. A couple of days later Sane

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Gerino Gerini
...ted in 7 grands prix, debuting on [[January 22]], [[1956]]. He scored 1.5 championship points. ==Complete Formula One World Championship results==

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List of Formula One World Championship pointscoring systems
...tructor who accumulate the most championship points over the course of the Championship season. ...Formula One season|2003 season]], and was designed to allow more teams and drivers to score points regularly, whilst the reduced gap in points between the pos

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Benetton B195
! Drivers ! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]

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Renato Pirocchi
...n Grand Prix]] on [[September 10]], [[1961]] finishing 12th and scoring no championship points. ...zo Bandini]], but on the track, there was a sacred rivalry between the two drivers as proved in the Grand Prix of Syracuse. The next year Renato changes teams

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Graham Hill
...ianapolis 500]], the [[24 hours of Le Mans]] and the [[Formula One]] World Championship. ...us|Lotus]] in [[1968]]. Hill was part of the dubbed 'British invasion' of drivers in the Indianapolis 500 during the mid-1960s, triumphing there in [[1966]],

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Scuderia Italia
... [[FIA GT3 European Championship|FIA GT3 Championship]] [[Italian GT Championship]] ... [[Formula One]] [[Super Tourenwagen Cup]] [[Italian Superturismo Championship|Italian Superturismo]] [[Le Mans Series]] [[International GT Open]]

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FIA Formula Two Championship
...a Two is to establish a clear system of progression for young and talented drivers wishing to reach Formula One. == Background to the Championship ==

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Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
...ation]] [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] [[World Tourism Organization]] [[UN Environment Programme]] ...t be confirmed during the next meeting of the Committee or of the relevant World Council."

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Ernesto Prinoth
...Jolly Club but failed to qualify, and this was his only attempt at a World Championship [[Formula One]] event. He returned in 1963 for two more Formula One races, ==Complete Formula One World Championship results==

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Andrea de Adamich
...red a total of 6 championship points. He also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races. ...who performed solidly when asked to race in F1 where he was one of the few drivers to have worn spectacles to race.

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TI Circuit
...It soon hosted its first race, staged by veteran [[Great Britain|British]] drivers (which explains the circuit's corner names, such as [[David Hobbs|Hobbs]] a ...the [[FIA]] [[World Touring Car Championship]]. It will be the first world championship FIA race since 1995.

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Aintree race course
...to win both the [[British Grand Prix]] and a round of the Formula 1 World Championship, whilst driving a British car, a [[Vanwall]]. The 1957 Grand Prix also took

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Ferrari F2005
...easons of Ferrari winning the constructors championship, and five straight drivers championships, the F2005 was not a successful car, and Ferrari scored their ...race winner Fernando Alonso, putting a huge amount of pressure on the 2005 World Champion, but being unable to find a way past. As for the Hungarian Grand P

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Formula One racing
...finished outside the top four of the previous season's World Constructors' Championship are allowed to take part in Friday's free practice sessions. Another free p ...o add an additional strategic challenge to the race engineers, the top-ten drivers must begin the final 15-minute session with the fuel load on which they pla

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Nino Farina
...raight-arm' driving style and his status as the first ever [[Formula One]] World Champion. ...for Farina, he was just reaching his peak as a driver at the outbreak of [[World War II]], and it would be another eight years before he would win a major r

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Tony Kanaan
...car with the [[BAR-Honda]] Team at [[Jerez]] as a reward for his 2004 IRL championship in a Honda powered car. ! Championship Finish

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Piero Dusio
Dusio tried but failed to qualify for one [[Formula One]] World Championship grand prix ([[1952 Italian Grand Prix|Italy 1952]]) with a [[Cisitalia]] D4 ==Complete Formula One World Championship results==

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Benetton B196
! Drivers ! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]

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Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
...committee which planned and put on the [[1990]] [[Football World Cup 1990|World Cup Italia]]. ...lo made it his personal goal to win the [[Formula One]] World Constructors Championship once again. During the [[1990s]] di Montezemolo resurrected the Ferrari roa

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Benetton B200
! Drivers ! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]

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Clemente Biondetti
...Grand Prix]]. His racing career came to a halt following the outbreak of [[World War II]] in 1940. By the time he was able to resume racing after the war, h ...h in a [[Ferrari]] at the 12 Hours of Pescara in 1952 against much younger drivers. After suffering from [[cancer]] for a number of years, he was forced him t

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Benetton B198
! Drivers ! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]

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Gianmaria Bruni
...He won the European title in 1999 and moved on to [[British Formula Three Championship|British Formula 3]], where he came fifth in 2000 and fourth in 2001. After ...wo drivers to contest the majority of the season without scoring any World Championship points.

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Gabriele Tarquini
|Caption || Gabriele Tarquini in 2006, as a [[World Touring Car Championship|WTCC]] driver ...[[Formula One]] Grands Prix, debuting on [[May 3]], [[1987]]. He scored 1 championship point, and holds the record for the most failed attempts to pre-qualify, ma

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Benetton B199
! Drivers ! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]

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Giovanna Amati
...best known as the last female driver to have entered the Formula One World Championship. ...portscars, placing 3rd overall in the [[SportsRacing World Cup]] SR2 class championship in 1999. She has also moved into media, writing columns in Italy for motors

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Bruce McLaren
...championship history, with McLaren cars and drivers winning a total of 19 world championships. McLaren cars totally dominated [[CanAm]] sports car racing ...t—and master it—so much so that he was runner-up in the 1957–8 New Zealand championship series.

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Mike Hawthorn
...n could keep his second place in Porto, that contributed to his win in the championship only one point ahead of Moss. After winning the title, Hawthorn immediately {{Formula One World Drivers' Champions}}

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Ted Horn
...cing well in the championship standings, but never winning a major race or championship. ...bsequent years, giving him the [[American Championship Car Racing|National Championship]] in [[1946]], [[1947]] and [[1948]]; this was the first three-time win. H

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List of Formula One fatal accidents
|[[Image:Nürburgring - Nordschleife.png|thumb|right|215px|Five drivers have died while driving a [[Formula One car]] at the [[Nürburgring]]; only ...500 World Championship events, 9 during a test session and 4 during a non-championship Formula One event.

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Ferrari 156 Sharknose
...r first [[List of Formula One constructors|Formula One World Constructor's Championship]]. In 'good' Ferrari tradition all the sharknose 156s were scrapped at the == Famous Drivers ==

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Rodger Ward
...9]] and [[1962]] [[Indianapolis 500]]. He also was the 1959 and 1962 USAC Championship Car champion. Ward was born in [[Beloit, Kansas]], and died in [[Anaheim, C ...tor Company|Ford]] hot rod. He was a [[P-38 Lightning]] fighter pilot in [[World War II]]. He enjoyed flying so much he thought of making it his career. He

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Coppa Acerbo
...struck in the 1934 race when [[Guy Moll]], one of the most promising young drivers of the day, was killed during the race. In the 1930s, the German [[Silver A After [[World War II]], the name of the race was changed because of its [[Fascist]] conne

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2008 World Touring Car Championship season
...A World Touring Car Championship for Drivers and the FIA World Touring Car Championship for Manufacturers. ...ert Huff]] finishing third just a point behind Tarquini. The Manufacturers Championship was awarded to SEAT.

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Sprint car
[[Image:957b.jpg|thumb|right|350px|'''World of Outlaws drivers honor the fans with a Four Abreast lap at the Knoxville Raceway''']] ...nt years has been greatly improved by the use of roll cages to protect the drivers, which, since the 1970's, are often joined by wings mounted on top of the c

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Lancia D50
| Drivers || {{flagiconITA}} [[Alberto Ascari]] {{flagiconITA}} [[Lui | Drivers champ || 1 ({{F1|1956}}: [[Juan Manuel Fangio|Fangio]])</smal

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1000 km Buenos Aires
...nly annual [[South America]]n race in the history of the [[World Sportscar Championship]]. ...wing year, and it was also decided that the newly formed [[World Sportscar Championship]] would add the track to their schedule as a traditional season-opening eve

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Ralph DePalma
...tion]] established the [[American Championship Car Racing|national driving championship]]. ...h line to take twelfth place. He went on to earn the U.S. national driving championship that year, but was almost killed in an accident at on October 5th at the We

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Maria Teresa de Filippis
...]. She scored no championship points. She also participated in several non-Championship Formula One races. The four other women who attempted to start in F1 were [ ! [[List of Formula One World Championship pointscoring systems|Points]]

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Vitantonio Liuzzi
...orld Karting Championship, beating Formula One [[list of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|champion]] [[Michael Schumacher]] in one race. ...shing second. Racing in the [[Germany|German]] [[Formula Three|Formula 3]] Championship, he managed only ninth place overall. However, in that year he won the [[Sa

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Formula 5000
...uto-racing formula that ran different series in various regions around the world from ==F5000 around the world==

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Alfa Romeo P2
! Drivers ! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]

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Rallying
...it, but instead in a point-to-point format where participants and their co-drivers “rally” to a set of points, leaving in regular intervals from start poi ...peeds, almost totally unhindered until the mid-eighties. The [[World Rally Championship]] now visits nearly all continents, taking its stylish sideways driving sty

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Benetton B197
! Drivers ! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]

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Ferrari 312PB
| Drivers || {{flagiconSweden}} [[Ronnie Peterson]] {{flagiconBelgium | Cons champ || 1 ([[1972 World Sportscar Championship season|1972 WSC]])

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Alfetta
...name of the Tipo 'B' 158 which won the first world [[Formula One]] drivers championship in the hands of [[Giuseppe Farina]] in 1950. In 1951, none other than [[Jua

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Jean Todt
...ort rally team until his retirement from competition in [[1981 World Rally Championship season|1981]]. ...eot, despite Todt's continual urging, refused to enter the [[Formula One]] Championship, and when a position opened at the recovering [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]]

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Earl Cooper
...ed out of racing, and he finished fifth in the championship. The won the [[World War I]] shortened 1917 season, and then he retired. *[http://www.indy500.com/stats/drivers.php?drivername=Earl%20Cooper Indianapolis 500 statistics]

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Derek Bell (auto racer)
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 He won two [[World Sportscar Championship]] titles (1986-87), three in the [[24 Hours of Daytona]] (1986-87 and 1989)

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Arturo Merzario
...Championship Grands Prix, debuting on [[July 15]], [[1972]]. He scored 11 championship points. ...illiams]] and finished third in a non-Championship race in Brazil, but the Championship seasons of 1974 and 1975 proved unsuccessful. Merzario quit during the 197

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Gastone Brilli-Peri
...ay these are known in Italy as a brilliperi. He first raced just after the World war I. In 1925, with Alfa, he won his first Grand Prix at the Italian GP in [[Category:Italian racecar drivers]]

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Rudolf Caracciola
...opean driving championship]] three times between 1934 and 1938. As the two drivers who all but defined success for the two German car makers, Mercedes-Benz an ...ious accident ended his comeback attempt well before the new [[Formula 1]] championship was first contested in 1950. Caracciola died of a bone disease in 1959.

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Istanbul Racing Circuit
...DTM]]; [[Le Mans Series|1000km]]; [[Grand tourer|GT]]; [[World Touring Car Championship|WTCC]] ...augural [[Turkish Grand Prix]] certainly caught the drivers out, with many drivers spinning off throughout the weekend.

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Enzo Ferrari
...up with little formal education but a strong desire to race cars. During [[World War I]] he was a mule-skinner, his father Alfredo and brother Dino died in ...or Ferrari to receive any cars at all. Despite the quality of the Scuderia drivers the company won few victories (1935 in Germany by Nuvolari was an exception

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Eugenio Castellotti
...ured one [[pole position]], achieved 3 podiums, and scored a total of 19.5 championship points. He also participated in several non-Championship Formula One races. Castellotti won the March [[1956]] [[12 Hours of Sebring

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Formula Three
...a class of [[auto racing]]. It is widely accepted as an important step for drivers towards [[Formula One]]. Formula 3 race cars are fast and relatively inexp ...l' racing organised by enthusiasts in [[Bristol]] just before the [[Second World War]] - British racing after the war picked up slowly and home-built 500cc

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Benetton B194
! Drivers ! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]

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Achille Varzi
...company. He drove it as well as an Alfa Romeo earning his country's racing championship, a feat he would repeat in 1934. One of his big victories came at the prest ...different vehicle. By 1938 he had dropped out of sight and the advent of [[World War II]] ended racing in Europe. During the war, Varzi overcame his drug ad

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Ferrari F300
| Drivers|| 1./5. [[Michael Schumacher]] 2./6. [[Eddie Irvine]] | [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]|| 0

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Giancarlo Baghetti
...o have won his first ever World Championship race. He would enter two more Championship races, retiring from the British and Italian Grand Prix, though he posted f ...hip with [[Alfa Romeo]] and [[Fiat Abarth]], winning the 1966 1000cc Class Championship in an [[Abarth]] 1000. After dabbling in [[Formula Two]], he retired after

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Rally
...it, but instead in a point-to-point format where participants and their co-drivers “rally” to a set of points, leaving in regular intervals from start poi ...peeds, almost totally unhindered until the mid-eighties. The [[World Rally Championship]] now visits nearly all continents, taking its stylish sideways driving sty

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Autodelta
...1975 World Sportscar Championship season|1975]] and [[1977 World Sportscar Championship season|1977]]. ...again for their AutoDelta Squadra Corse team in the [[European Touring Car Championship]] in the early 21st century. Since the group's original demise, the Autode

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Touring car
...ny|Ford]] between 1908 and 1927 were four and then three-door models (with drivers sliding behind the wheel from passenger seat) touring cars, accounting for ...s from weather elements by snapping or zipping them into place, otherwise, drivers and passengers braved the elements. When the top was folded down, it formed

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José Froilán González
==World Drivers Championship== [[Category:Argentine Formula One drivers|Gonzalez, José Froilan]]

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Johnny Cecotto
! [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|Championships]] ...tire field while working his way up to third place, relegating the 15 time World Champion [[Giacomo Agostini]] to fourth place in the process.

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Narain Karthikeyan
...x|Jordan]] team. He is often given the title of "The Fastest Indian in the World". ...son, and in the same year, he also competed in the Formula Vauxhall Junior championship in [[Great Britain]]. This gave him valuable experience in [[Europe|Europea

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Ghinzani
| Current series || [[Italian Formula Three Championship|Italian Formula 3]] [[A1 Grand Prix]] ...Formula Three Euroseries|Formula 3 Euroseries]] [[German Formula Three Championship|German Formula 3]]

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Scuderia Milano
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Neil Bonnett
|Awards:||Named one of [[NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers]] ([[1998]]) ...y 400 in [[Richmond, Virginia]]. He later successfully won back-to-back [[World 600]]s (NASCAR's longest race, now the [[Coca-Cola 600]]) and back-to-back

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Hungaroring
==Drivers== ...oland]]'s [[Robert Kubica]] made their debut on this track as the first F1 drivers of their countries.

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Sébastien Bourdais
...nce]]) is a race car driver and three-time defending [[Champ Car|Champ Car World Series]] champion. ...mpionships, winning the Maine Bretagne League in 1991 and the Cadet France championship in 1993.

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Irwindale Speedway
...is event, the top 30 drivers in the Grand National Division and the top 40 drivers in the Elite Division come from their respective regional tours to compete ...courses for crowds and drivers despite the unforgiving concrete wall which drivers usually brush through with their rear bumpers.

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Mark Webber
...am, the [[Canberra Raiders]], of the late [[1980s]]. Like most Formula One drivers, Mark Webber's journey to the pinnacle of the sport began in [[karting]]. V ...ord manufacturer, Van Diemen, to race in the [[1996]] British Formula Ford Championship – but not before he won the Formula Holden support race at the inaugu

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Bellasi
...seen in 1969 with Georges Ferreira, Pino Pica and Giorgio Pianta among the drivers. ...at Monza it was back to non-qualification. The car reappeared for the non-championship Argentine Grand Prix in 1971, entered by the Jolly Club. In September the c

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Hillclimbing
...ng''' or '''speed hill climbing''') is a branch of [[motorsport]] in which drivers compete against the clock to complete an uphill course. ...eed Hill Climb|Shelsley Walsh]], in [[Worcestershire]], [[England]] is the world's oldest continuously-staged motorsport event still staged on its original

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Ferrari D50 F1
|Drivers || {{flagiconITA}} [[Alberto Ascari]] {{flagiconITA}} [[Lui |Drivers champ || 1 ({{F1|1956}}: [[Juan Manuel Fangio|Fangio]])</smal

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René Arnoux
...the inaugural season of the [[Grand Prix Masters]] formula for retired F1 drivers. ...which he should have ceded the win to Prost, who was better placed in the championship. Arnoux replied that no orders had been given before the race and that he w

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Formula Ford
...ld. It is an entry-level series to motor racing, in which in the past many drivers aspired to one day reach [[Formula One]] (today [[Kart racing|karting]] is ...built racecars for many years. Many [[Formula Ford 1600]] series exist for drivers of the older Kent powered cars.

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Piero Taruffi
...hip]] on a [[Norton (motorcycle)|Norton]]. He participated in numerous non-championship Formula One races. He won the [[1957]] [[Mille Miglia]], the last competiti an average speed of 87.6 miles per hour. Taruffi set a world record for 50 miles in an auto of 22 cubic centimeter cylinder displacement

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Stirling Moss
...egarded as the greatest driver never to win the Formula One Drivers' World Championship. He came second four times in a row from [[1955]] to [[1958]]. ...overall, as many as 62 in a single year, in 84 different cars. Like many drivers of the era, he competed in several formulas - sometimes at the same time.[[

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Al Unser Jr.
...Junior was racing sprint cars. After high school, he was already in the [[World of Outlaws]] series of sprint car racing. He soon moved into road racing, w ...ernational Race of Champions|IROC]] championship in [[1986]], winning that championship with two victories in four races. At the age of 24, Unser was the youngest

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Alfa Romeo 177
Drivers = [[Bruno Giacomelli]] [[Vittorio Brambilla]]| ...a Romeo's return to Formula One, 28 years after winning the World Drivers' Championship titles in 1950 and 1951.

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Jimmy Vasser
...ories in the series. Vasser was the last American to win the [[Champ Car]] championship. ...ement to drive the 3rd [[KV Racing Technology]] car in the final Champ Car World Series event at the [[2008 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach]].

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Ferrari 412T
| Drivers || 27. [[Jean Alesi]] 28. [[Gerhard Berger]] | [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]] || 0

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List of Formula One Champions
...chael Schumacher]] and [[Scuderia Ferrari]] have each won their respective World Championships a record number of times.]] ...ers' Championship''' or '''WDC''') and constructor ('''World Constructors' Championship''' or '''WCC'''), as determined by a pointscoring system based on results o

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Luigi Villoresi
...[Coppa Ciano]], finishing third and went on to capture the Italian driving championship in the 1100 cc sports car class. The following year he and his brother purc ...rows]]. In 1939 he won the [[South African Grand Prix]] but the onset of [[World War II]] interrupted his racing career. At war's end, he returned to race f

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Clay Regazzoni
...Jacky Ickx]] and the late [[Jochen Rindt]], who posthumously won the world championship that year. ...rtnership that generated 15 wins, two constructors titles, and one drivers championship (Lauda in 1975).

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List of Formula One drivers who never qualified for a race
...ion between Formula One and World Championship races|FIA Formula One World Championship race]] since [[1950 Formula One season|1950]], yet failed to [[Formula One Many of these drivers have profiles at [http://www.f1rejects.com F1Rejects.com]

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François Cévert
...]], [[1973]]) was one of the most colorful [[List of racing drivers|racing drivers]] of the early 1970s. In the tumultuous, tragic arena that was [[Formula On After winning the French Formula 3 Championship in [[1968]], Cévert joined the Tecno Formula 2 team and finished third ove

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Scuderia Centro Sud
They were notable for entering a total of 49 World Championship rounds, with cars such as the [[Maserati]] [[Maserati 250F|250F]], various ==List of drivers entered by Scuderia Centro Sud==

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1987 World Touring Car Championship season
...7 World Touring Car Championship season''' was the 1st [[World Touring Car Championship]] season. It commenced on March 22, 1987 and ended on November 15 after ele == Drivers and teams ==

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Cristiano da Matta
...to racing]] driver, winner of the American [[Champ Car World Series|CART]] Championship in 2002, and former [[Toyota F1|Toyota]] [[Formula One]] driver. ...4]], he continued his successful ways, winning the [[Formula 3]] Brazilian championship. In [[1996]], da Matta participated in the [[Formula 3000]] series in [[Gr

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Jackie Stewart
...ebut in [[1965 South African Grand Prix|South Africa]] he scored his first Championship point. Before the end of the year he won his first race at [[1965 Italian G ...]] in a Renault F1 became champion, he was the only driver to have won the championship driving a [[France|French]] car. For the 1970 season, Matra insisted on usi

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Juan Manuel Fangio
.... After surpassing Fangio's long standing record for total number of World Championship titles, [[Michael Schumacher]] said - ''"Fangio is on a level much higher t ...and he was Argentine National Champion in 1940 and 1941. The outbreak of [[World War II]] halted his rise, and he could not begin racing in [[Europe]] until

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Luigi Fagioli
...intscoring systems]] for more information). Number without parentheses are Championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored. ...essful for Fagioli but his relationship with the German team manger and co-drivers was extremely difficult. In his very first race for Mercedes, one their car

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Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips
...ecured one [[pole position]], achieved six podia, and scored a total of 56 championship points. ...e [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|Formula One World Drivers Championship]] that year. At the [[Italian Grand Prix]] at [[Autodromo Nazionale Monza|M

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2005 World Touring Car Championship season
...mmenced on April 10, 2005 and ended on November 20 after twenty races. The championship was open to Touring Cars complying with FIA [[Super 2000]] regulations. == Drivers and teams ==

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Malanca
Mario '''Malanca''' began his entrepreneurial adventure in the world of mechanical parts production in his workshop [[Bologna]] and wheel hubs f ...d to racing in the [[1985]], participating (with little luck) in the world championship [[Class 250]] with the pilot [[Stefano Caracchi]].

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Andrea Moda Formula
|Drivers || [[Alex Caffi]] [[Enrico Bertaggia]] [[Roberto Moren |Test drivers || ''none''

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Alberto Ascari
...ers' Champions|World Champion]]. He is one of only two Italian Formula One World Champions in the history of the sport. == Formula One/World Championship career ==

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Ferrari F2002
Previous to the inroduction of the F2002 had used their championship winning Ferrari F2001. However the F2002 was not only a development of this ...basic concept and design of gearbox and although this had been used to win drivers and constructors titles from 1999 onwards the technical team pushed ahead w

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Elio de Angelis
...abham]] - another famous name now disappeared - as a replacement for twice World Champion [[Nelson Piquet]] (Piquet had left for the [[WilliamsF1|Williams]] ...ept the drivers entertained for an entire evening in the midst of the 1982 drivers' strike.

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History of Ferrari
...ounder and is today one of the most successful sports car companies in the world. ...xperience with their new car, though, and also taken the [[World Sportscar Championship]] where Ferrari was only 4th.

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Las Vegas Grand Prix
...''Las Vegas Grand Prix''' was a car race which was a [[Formula One]] World Championship event in 1981 and [[1982]]. ...ain on the drivers' necks. When [[Nelson Piquet]] clinched his first World Championship by finishing fifth in 1981, it took him fifteen minutes to recover from hea

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Volpini
|Drivers || {{flagiconItaly}} [[Luigi Piotti]] |Drivers champ || 0

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Karl Wendlinger
...ord]] - Austrian Karl Wendlinger found himself in the German [[Formula 3]] Championship in [[1988]]. After managing tenth place in that inagural season, Wendlinger ...know - Schumacher and Frentzen went on to become top-level [[Formula One]] drivers, with Michael, arguably transpiring into perhaps the best ever Grand Prix d

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Denny Hulme
...([[June 18]], [[1936]] - [[October 4]], [[1992]]) was the 1967 Formula One World Champion, whilst driving for the Brabham team. Hulme, later went on to race ...g the Championship that year resulting in a one-two finish in the European Championship.

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Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours
...us L'école de pilotage Winfield racing school, which provided such notable drivers as [[François Cevert]] and [[Jacques Laffite]]. However, come the 1980s, t ===[[World Touring Car Championship]]===

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2006 World Touring Car Championship season
...ommenced on April 2, 2006 and ended on November 19 after twenty races. The championship was open to Super 2000, Diesel 2000 and Super Production Cars. == Drivers and teams ==

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Rubens Barrichello
...licated the following year in the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Formula 3]] Championship, beating a young [[Briton]] named [[David Coulthard]]. He very nearly join ...table sixth in the [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|Drivers' Championship]].

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Circuito da Boavista
...h line. First a grand prix event in [[1958]], the course of Boavista took drivers at amazing speeds across tramlines, past small houses, and over [[cobblesto ...eventually win the [[list of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|drivers championship]] by 1 point over Moss.

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Hermann Lang
...sidecar class. At age twenty-two, he won the German sidecar mountain race championship. ...llaha Lake course in [[Libya]] which was then the fastest racetrack in the world. Lang dominated the event, winning it for three straight years. That year h

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Minardi M02
! Drivers ! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]

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Tony Bettenhausen
...[[racing driver]], who won the [[American Championship Car Racing|National Championship]] in [[1951]] and [[1958]]. ...Automobile Association|AAA]] and [[United States Automobile Club|USAC]] [[Championship Car]] series, racing in the 1941 and 1946-1961 seasons with 121 starts, inc

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Minardi M198
! Drivers ! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]

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Accossato motorcycle
...competition victories have always marked its history. Like the Enduro 1985 world champion, [[Pier Franco Murglia]], the 1983 and 1984 European champion, Pie * 1 time world champion

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Baconin Borzacchini
...g in a garage, training as a repairman. After service in the army during [[World War I]], he began racing motorcycles before turning to automobile competiti ...1932 season finishing second overall to Nuvolari for the European Drivers Championship. When Alfa Romeo decided to withdraw from racing after the 1932 season and

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Giuseppe Campari
[[Image:Piloti Alfa Romeo 1.JPG|thumb|250px|The racecar drivers Giuseppe Campari (2nd from left), [[Achille Varzi]] (3rd) and [[Tazio Nuvol ...[[Targa Florio]]. Unfortunately, his career was just getting going when [[World War I]] broke out and European racing came to a halt.

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12 Hours of Sebring
...nishing at night. For many years Sebring was part of the [[World Sportscar Championship]]. The race has a rich history, as legendary drivers such as [[Mario Andretti]], [[Briggs Cunningham]], [[Juan Manuel Fangio]],

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Ferrari F2001
! Drivers ! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]

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Circuit Mont-Tremblant
...d Series]] [[Formula One]] [[American Le Mans Series]] [[Atlantic Championship]] ...ars, both near identical Lola T70s, launched themselves into the air. Both drivers emerged unhurt but were unable to compete in the race. The Canadian winters

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Nino Vaccarella
...peating in 1971 and again in 1975, when it was no more a [[World Sportscar Championship]] event. He also drove the big V12-powered [[Ferrari 512]]S in a heroic yet ...1]]. He scored no championship points. He also participated in several non-Championship Formula One races.

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Renzo Zorzi
==Complete Formula One World Championship results== [[Category:Italian racecar drivers]]

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1000km Nürburgring
The first event that counted towards the [[World Sportscar Championship]] was won by [[Alberto Ascari]] and [[Giuseppe Farina]] in a [[Ferrari]]. ...p;km, then discontinued overall due to the demise of the [[World Sportscar Championship]].

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Cagiva
...shing third in the [[1994 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1994]] world championship. The home debut in this championship in the far exhausting [[1985]] with the model 650 Elefant, led by [[Hubert

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Jim Clark
...tland|Scottish]] [[Formula One]] (F1) [[Auto racing|racing driver]]. Twice World Champion, he was the dominant driver of his era. ...2 saw Clark battling [[Graham Hill]] who drove for [[BRM]] for the [[World Championship]] in Chapman's brilliant [[Lotus 25]], but in the final race an oil leak ca

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Rex Mays
...shed second, he returned the next year and finished second again. However, World War II suspended racing until 1946, denying Mays of what likely would have [[Category:Indy 500 drivers|Mays, Rex]]

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James Hunt
...une]] [[1993]]) was an [[England|English]] racing driver and [[Formula 1]] world champion and subsequently a [[commentator]]. His brother David Hunt also la ...signed Hunt with McLaren for the next season - he was one of the cheapest World Champions ever ([[Keke Rosberg]] in 1982 similarly found a drive at the las

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Patrick Tambay
...gural season of the [[Grand Prix Masters]] formula for retired Formula One drivers, and continues in the series in 2007. ...n 1989, he drove a [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]] in the [[Sports-Prototype World Championship]] and went on to finish fourth in the [[24 hours of Le Mans|Le Mans 24 Hour

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Alfa Romeo Tipo 33
.... These cars took part for [[World Sportscar Championship|Sport Cars World Championship]], [[Interserie]] and [[CanAm]] series. A small number of road going cars w ...original T33 proved unreliable and uncompetitive in the [[World Sportscar Championship]], its best result a 5th at the [[1000km Nürburgring|Nürburgring 1000]],

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Minardi M01
! Drivers ! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]

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Rick Mears
...American racing. For 1978 Mears was offered a ride in nine of the eighteen championship races, including the Indianapolis 500. ...ins and four seconds in the eleven CART-eligible races won Mears his first championship. His worst finish in the season was fifth. In 1980 the [[ground effect]] Ch

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Monza
...Superbike racing|SBK]]; [[GP2]]; [[Formula Three|F3]]; [[World Touring Car Championship|WTCC]] ...of [[Milan]]. It is one of the most historic motor racing circuits in the world.

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Hans Stuck
...Grands Prix). There was no [[European Championship (auto racing)|European Championship]] for the circuit races that year, or he would have won it. Wins in a numbe ...because of injuries suffered in accidents, that year the European Mountain Championship fell to his famous team-mate, [[Bernd Rosemeyer]]. [[1937]] was equally lea

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Ferrari F310
| Drivers || 1./5. [[Michael Schumacher]] 2./6. [[Eddie Irvine]] | [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]] || 0

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Carlos Reutemann
...ed "Lole", was an [[Argentina|Argentine]] [[Formula One]] [[List of racing drivers|racing driver]] from [[1972]] through [[1982]], and then became a prominent ...ments in his career. In [[1981]], he finished second in the World Driver's Championship by one point when he was overtaken in the last race of the season.

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Vittorio Brambilla
He returned to racing in 1968, in [[Formula 3]] and won the Italian championship in 1972; by the time he was already racing [[Formula 2]], where he won seve ...n the City of [[Enna]] Cup, the 5th 1973 event in the European automaker's championship for 2,000 cc cars.

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Champcar
...," has been the name for a class of [[automobile|car]]s used in [[American Championship Car Racing]] for many decades. ...acle rather than lap-times with the so-called 'push-to-pass' system giving drivers an increased amount of power for a limited duration during the race. Anothe

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Chanoch Nissany
...}} He began his career in the [[2002]] [[Formula 2000]] Hungarian National Championship, and was runner-up in his first season. Since then he has progressed, via [ ...s made his mark, if in the wrong manner, on the [[Formula One|Grand Prix]] world.

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Paton
...nship. The Paton proved as the most viable alternatives for the unofficial drivers (in practice all, Agostini less) along with [[Lint]] (designed by Lino Tont ...ture continues: In [[2000]] the Paton can participate in five races of the World, as "wild card", and [[Paolo Tessari]], can earn a point, thanks to 15th pl

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Alfa Romeo 158/159 Alfetta
Drivers = (GP) [[Emilio Villoresi]] [[Achille Varzi]] [[Giuseppe ...igi Fagioli]], it dominated the first two seasons of the Formula One World Championship.

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Maserati 4CLT/50
| Drivers || {{flagiconUK}} [[Johnnie Wakefield]] {{flagiconITA}} [[L | Drivers || {{flagiconITA}} [[Luigi Villoresi]] {{flagiconUK}} [[Reg

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Riccardo Patrese
...the inaugural season of the [[Grand Prix Masters]] formula for retired F1 drivers. ...Monaco Grand Prix|Monaco Grand Prix]] when the team were forced to change drivers mid-season. Later that year team-leader [[Jackie Oliver]] left Shadow to f

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Mark Blundell
...racing, taking pole, and finishing fourth overall. With 1986 came another championship in FF2000, this time the European title. ...aren for Blundell, this time, in a race seat. Teamed with future two-time world champion [[Mika Häkkinen]], Blundell recorded five points finishes and onc

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Ferrari 312T
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Alex Zanardi
|Caption || Zanardi in 2007, as a [[World Touring Car Championship|WTCC]] driver ..., he went on to score two more wins that season, en route to second in the championship. By the end of 1991 he had also been blooded in Formula One: two starts for

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Ferrari F2007
Drivers = 5. [[Felipe Massa]] 6. [[Kimi Räikkönen]] | ...6]] to finish as runners-up to [[Renault F1|Renault]] in the constructors' championship. The wheelbase is 85mm longer, with the extra length added between the cock

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Ronnie Peterson
...er-up to [[Jackie Stewart]] in [[1971 Formula One season|that year's World Championship]]. Peterson stayed at March until [[1973]], when he signed for [[Lotus Cars ...Peterson's life was not, however, seen to be in any danger. The injured drivers were taken to hospital in [[Milan]] and, after a major cleanup job, the rac

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Sam Hornish, Jr.
* First start: Jan. 29, 2000 ([[Walt Disney World Speedway]]) * Won IndyCar Series championship for Pennzoil [[Panther Racing]] in dramatic fashion, defeating [[Helio Cast

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Fernando Alonso
...] he won the [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|World Driver's Championship]] title at the age of 24 years and 59 days, thus breaking [[Emerson Fittipa ...cher's natural successor, sharing some of his attributes. He is one of the drivers capable of being on the pace every lap in a race and having the ability of

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Argentine Grand Prix
The '''Argentine Grand Prix''' was a round of the [[Formula One]] championship, held intermittently from {{F1|1953}} to {{F1|1998}}. Although it is no lon ...feat. The race was won by [[list of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|world champion]] [[Jackie Stewart]]. The [[Grand Prix motor racing|Grand Prix]]

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American Championship Car Racing
...tor racing championship, for specific information on the current Champ Car World Series and the Indy Racing League see [[Champ Car]] and [[Indy Racing Leagu [[Image:indy_500.jpg|300px|thumb|right|1994 Indianapolis 500, a National Championship race]]

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Pescara Grand Prix
...till holds the record as having the longest circuit length ever used for a Championship event. ...olds the record as the longest circuit to ever to host a Formula One World Championship event, with the [[Nürburgring]] Nordschleife coming second at ~23 km.

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Touring car racing
...cuit, sponsored, legal form of [[street racing]] performed by professional drivers. ...Touring Car Championship|BTCC]] and the now-defunct [[Japanese Touring Car Championship|JTCC]] distinguish themselves from sports car racing by featuring [[front-w

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FIA GT Championship
...the behest of the [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile]] (FIA). The championship is mostly concentrated in Europe, but throughout the years has visited othe ...in '''FIA GT3 European Cup''', a support series in some rounds of the main championship.

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Formula 3000
...the final preparatory step for drivers hoping to enter the [[Formula One]] championship. [[Formula Two]] had become too expensive, and was dominated by works-run ...ces, and the weight distribution was not ideal. The first few years of the championship saw March establishing a superiority over Ralt and Lola - there was little

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Dirt track racing
...ormed on [[Oval racing|oval tracks]]. It began in the United States before World War I and became widespread during the 1920s and 30s. Two different types o ...ar drivers slide their car's backend around through a corner. The multiple drivers show the car angle at different points in a corner.]]

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2007 World Touring Car Championship season
...07 World Touring Car Championship season''' is the 4th [[World Touring Car Championship]] season. Scheduled to begin on [[March 11]], it will end on [[November 16] ==Drivers and teams==

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CanAm
==Notable drivers and technology== Notable drivers in the original Can Am series included virtually every acclaimed driver of

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Motorsport
...and can include [[motorboat racing]] and [[air racing]]. It is one of the world's most popular [[spectator sport]]s and perhaps the most thoroughly [[comme ...America, the cars used in the [[American Championship Car Racing|National Championship]] (currently [[Champcars]] and the [[Indy Racing League]]) have traditional

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Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/3
...original T33 proved unreliable and uncompetitive in the [[World Sportscar Championship]], its best result a 5th at the [[1000km Nürburgring|Nürburgring 1000]], ...3.0 L class with Schütz and Bianchi. However, in most races, the Alfa drivers were outclassed by their Porsche rivals which used bigger engines. In 1968,

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Eddie Irvine
1999 was his most successful season: He won four races, taking the Drivers' Championship to the last race, finishing a close second to [[McLaren]] driver [[Mika Hä ...ll as a tendency to get involved in accidents in 1994 meant that the final championship standings did not mirror his speed. Irvine recorded his first podium finis

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World Rally Championship
! colspan=2 |'''World Rally Championship''' | Current season || 2009 World Rally Championship season

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Auto racing
...and can include [[motorboat racing]] and [[air racing]]. It is one of the world's most popular [[spectator sport]]s and perhaps the most thoroughly [[comme ...America, the cars used in the [[American Championship Car Racing|National Championship]] (currently [[Champcars]] and the [[Indy Racing League]]) have traditional

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Ferrari 126 C
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GP2
| Drivers || 34 (2008) ...ces at [[Formula One]] race weekends to boost the series' profile, to give drivers experience on the Grand Prix environment, and to take advantage of the infr

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Japanese Grand Prix
...end of the schedule which means that this event has seen a great number of Championship crowns being won and lost. ...with five of those events (1976, 1996, 1998-1999 and 2003) being last race Championship deciders.

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Phil Hill
...nd the only American-born driver to win the [[Formula One]] World Drivers' Championship. Hill was described as a "thoughtful, gentle man" and once said, "I'm in th ...45-47 but left early to pursue auto racing, working as a mechanic on other drivers' cars. Hill began racing cars at an early age, going to [[England]] as a [[

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Oran Park Raceway
...|| [[V8 Supercar]] [[Australian Grand Prix]] [[Superbike World Championship]] [[Castrol 6 Hour]] ...ries]], [[Australian Drivers' Championship]] and [[Australian Sports Sedan Championship]]. The [[Australian Grand Prix]] was held at Oran Park in 1974 and 1977. In

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Macau Grand Prix
...r and motorcycle races are held. Every year more than three hundred racing drivers and riders gather for the annual event. ...st demanding circuits in the world. Many current or former [[Formula One]] drivers have participated in the event early in their careers and some of them have

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1996 Formula One season
...th [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]] [[Formula One]] World Championship season. It commenced on [[March 10]], [[1996]], and ended on [[October 13]] [[Damon Hill]] took his solitary World Championship two years after being pipped by a point by [[Michael Schumacher]], beating

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Ferrari 512
...eers. From 1972 onwards, the 512 (as the 917) was withdrawn from the world championship following a change in the regulations, and some 512 in private hands were e ...3000 resp. 4380 cc. However, in the specific case of world sports car championship and [[24 hours of Le Mans]] racing cars, regulations in those days restrict

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24 Hours of Daytona
...ank'' (now [[SunTrust]]) which in turn replaced [[Pepsi]] in 1984. Winning drivers of all classes receive a steel [[Rolex Cosmograph]] watch. ...uced, the Daytona Continental, which counted towards the [[World Sportscar Championship]]. The first Continental was won by [[Dan Gurney]], driving a 2.7L Coventry

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Mount Panorama Circuit
...med because of the crashes it has seen, Hell Corner is the first bend that drivers meet on their way up the Mountain. It is a 90 degree left hand turn. ...ill towards Griffins Bend. V8 Supercars reach speeds up to 250 [[km/h]] as drivers race over the crest immediately prior to braking for Griffins Bend.

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1998 Formula One season
...th [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]] [[Formula One]] World Championship season. It commenced on [[March 8]], [[1998]], and ended on [[November 1]] ==Drivers and constructors==

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Lancia
...[[Vincenzo Lancia]] and his friend Claudio Fogolin, both being Fiat racing drivers, as Lancia & C. The first Lancia automobile the "[[Lancia Alfa-12HP|tipo 51 ...ari]], where [[Juan Manuel Fangio]] won the [[1956 Formula One season|1956 championship]] with a Lancia-Ferrari car.

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Takuma Sato
...full seasons in British Formula 3, finishing third in 2000 and winning the championship in 2001, winning 16 races in the two years, plus international races at [[S ...ce in the [[list of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|constructors championship]].

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Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
...fast, hilly and twisty nature. Spa is a favourite circuit of many racing drivers and fans. ...sta Kink''' was one of the most fearsome sections on any race track in the world, requiring skill and bravery in equal measure to get it right. After a long

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Toro Rosso STR1
! Drivers ! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]

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John Surtees
...mula One]] driver from [[England]]. He remains the only person to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels. He is also the ambassador of th ...ponsored ride aboard the Nortons. He finished the year by beating reigning world champion Duke at [[Silverstone Circuit|Silverstone]] and then at [[Brands H

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Mika Häkkinen
...tus]] Euroseries championship before winning the [[British Formula Three]] championship and coming close to winning the 1990 [[Macau Grand Prix]] but missing out d ...ix|Hungary]]. Häkkinen finished the season in eighth place in the Drivers' Championship, with almost six times as many points as during the previous season.

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Lancia LC2
...[1983 World Sportscar Championship season|1983]] to [[1986 World Sportscar Championship season|1986]], although it continued to be used by privateer teams until 19 ...-new car to replace the open-cockpit LC1s that were no longer eligable for championship points. The Group C regulations required cars to meet certain fuel economy

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Antonio Ascari
His racing career was interrupted by [[World War II]], after which he began racing in Grand Prix with [[Maserati]]. His ...hared a 2nd place at F1's first race in [[Monza]]. He was only 5th in the championship standings however. He won his first F1 race the following season on the [[

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Ludovico Scarfiotti
...g in 12 World Championship races. He won 1 race, and scored a total of 17 championship points. A motor sports competitor for a decade, Scarfiotti won the European [[Enzo Ferrari]] named Scarfiotti to the Ferrari Formula 1 team of drivers

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Turkish Grand Prix
...of gravity) for 4 seconds. It is actually 4 corners joined together. Many drivers have found this a very tricky corner of the circuit. ...]], an event which had a significant bearing on their battle for the World Championship headed towards its culmination.

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Jacques Villeneuve
...[[Champ Car]] championships and the [[Indianapolis 500]], one of only two drivers to accomplish all three feats (the other being [[Emerson Fittipaldi]]). ...0 (running 505 [[miles]] due to a 2-lap penalty) on his way to winning the championship. Villeneuve is the last Indycar champion to win the title before the 1996 C

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List of Formula One driver records
...p races|FIA World Championships]], since [[1950 Formula One season|1950]]. Drivers who competed in the [[2007 Formula One season]] are highlighted in '''bold' ...•}} [[#Oldest drivers to enter a race|Oldest to enter a race]] | [[#Oldest drivers to start a race|Oldest to start a race]]

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Bernd Rosemeyer
...the USA) made him popular not only in Germany. He won the European Driving Championship in 1936. His marriage to young flying ace [[Elly Beinhorn]] added even more ...rn in November 1937 but just ten weeks later Bernd Snr was killed during a world speed record attempt on the [[Autobahn]] between [[Frankfurt]] and [[Darmst

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List of Formula One records
...rmula One#Distinction between Formula One and World Championship races|FIA World Championships]], since [[1950 Formula One season|1950]]. '''Bold''' entries ...iver to enter a race|enter]] | [[List of Formula One driver records#Oldest drivers to start a race|start]] a race

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Peter Collins
...], [[1952]]. He won 3 races, achieved 8 podiums, and scored a total of 47 championship points. In common with many British drivers of the immediate postwar period, Collins cut his racing teeth in the frenet

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Mike Hailwood
! [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|Championships]] ...[[Great Milton]] in [[Oxfordshire]], His father, who also raced in the pre-World War II era, owned a large motorcycle distributorship and young Hailwood was

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Ferrari 312
...and Prix]] at Monza which helped Ferrari finish second in the Constructors Championship. ...fatal crash, another bad crash, no GP win and only 5th in the Constructors Championship marked a bad year for the Italians. In addition, the new [[Ford Cosworth]]

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British Grand Prix
...ian]] Grands Prix are the oldest continuously staged [[Formula One]] world championship Grands Prix. ...p in 1950 (in which it was the first race of the first ever official World Championship) and every year since 1987; it alternated with [[Brands Hatch]] between 196

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Grand Prix motor racing
...roads there were frequent accidents with the resulting fatalities of both drivers and spectators. ...affairs, with a few countries setting up races of their own, but no formal championship tying them together. The rules varied from country to country and race to

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Alfa Romeo 1750 Drophead
...chassis design. Much experience gained in development of his [[AIACR World Championship]]-winning [[Alfa Romeo P2]] Grand Prix car of 1924-30 was built into this p ...– the P2 grand prix race car that conquered the inaugural Automobile World Championship, the predecessor to today’s [[Formula 1]] – Jano was effectively given

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Alfa Romeo in Formula One
| Drivers || [[Nino Farina]] [[Juan Manuel Fangio]] | Drivers champ || 2 ([[1950 Formula One season|1950]], [[1951 Formula One season

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Valentino Rossi
...e racing|motorcycle racer]] and multiple [[Grand Prix motorcycles|MotoGP]] World Champion. ...ck-to-back championships by winning the [[2004]] and [[2005]] MotoGP World Championship after leaving Honda to join [[Yamaha Motor Corporation|Yamaha]].

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United States Grand Prix
...can Grand Prize''. The race later became part of the [[Formula One]] World Championship. ...race formed part of the [[United States Automobile Club|USAC]] Road Racing Championship and the American [[Chuck Daigh]] won in a [[Scarab (constructor)|Scarab]],

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Bathurst 1000
...nd Holden marques, [[Steven Richards]] and [[Tony Longhurst]] are the only drivers to have won at Bathurst for both. ...]] and [[Larry Perkins|Perkins]] have shared some of their victories as co-drivers with [[Peter Brock]].

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Brazilian Grand Prix
...guese language|Portuguese]]: Grande Prêmio do Brasil) is a [[Formula One]] championship race which occurs at the [[Autódromo José Carlos Pace]] in [[Interlagos]] ...ce. In {{F1|2005}}, for the first time, the Brazilian GP decided the World Championship, won by [[Fernando Alonso]]. On October 22, 2006, [[Felipe Massa]] won the

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Ralf Schumacher
...man]] racing driver, and the younger brother of seven-time [[Formula One]] World Champion [[Michael Schumacher]]. His own [[Formula One]] career spanned 11 ...rg Grand Prix later in the season. Schumacher finished 11th in the drivers championship standings with 13 points, behind Fisichella.

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