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• Targa Florio
  ...[[Mille Miglia]] had been established yet. [[Grand Prix motor racing|Grand Prix]] races were still isolated events, not a series like today's F1. ...r. In 1926, [[Eliska Junkova]], one of the great female drivers in [[Grand Prix motor racing]] history, became the first woman to ever compete in the race.
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• Ferrari P
  ...car did not arrive until the [[1967]] [[Ferrari Dino|Dino]], and it was [[1971]] before a Ferrari V12 was placed behind a road-going driver in the [[Ferra ...nded that the 250 LM be homological for racing as a [[Grand tourer|Group 3 Grand Touring Car]], however in April 1964 the [[FIA]] refused to do so as Ferrar
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• Hillclimbing
  ...Daniel Rouveyran]] (1969), [[Hervé Bayard]] (1970) and [[Jimmy Mieusset]] (1971, 1972, 1973 and 1974). The best-known Course de Côte are [[Mont Ventoux]] ...us German racer [[Hans Stuck]] in 1938, driving a 600 bhp Auto Union Grand Prix car. Stuck stormed through the 7 km gravel course in 2'56". Despite several
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• List of Formula One drivers
  ...nt color="#505050">'''mid-gray'''</font>. Drivers who have entered a Grand Prix solely for the purpose of Friday testing (introduced in [[2003 Formula One This page is accurate up to and including the [[2007 Brazilian Grand Prix]] ([[October 21]], [[2007]])
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• 24 Hours of Le Mans
  ...own of [[Le Mans]], [[Sarthe]], [[France]]. Commonly known as the '''Grand Prix of Endurance''', it is organised by the [[Automobile Club de l'Ouest]] (ACO At a time when [[Grand Prix motor racing|Grand Prix]] racing was occurring throughout Europe, Le Mans was envisioned as a diffe
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• Serenissima
  The McLaren-Serenissima headed for the [[Grand Prix of Belgium]] on June 12th. In practice, the engine blew when its bearings f ...lans were made to enter the car in the next Siracusa and Monte Carlo Grand Prix. The new car had a short test at the Aerodrome of Modena, where it was driv
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• Paris-Tours
  ...constantly changed, at this time the race was sometimes known as the Grand Prix d'Automne and sometimes by the names of the start and finish towns. For man ...sprint, as a thanks for his help earlier in the season. An almost unknown German, [[Erik Zabel]] took his first big victory at Paris-Tours in 1994, Zabel we
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• History of Formula One
  [[Formula One]] has its roots in the European [[Grand Prix motor racing]] (''q.v.'' for pre-1947 history) of the 1920s and 1930s. Howe ...anned. The first race under the new regulations was the [[1946 Turin Grand Prix]] held on [[1 September]], the race being won by [[Achille Varzi]] in an [[
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• 24 Hours Nürburgring
  ...ége and Liége-Sofia-Liège rallies was held on the Nürburgring from 1965 to 1971. ...e VLN races, the 24h is officially an international event, with bilingual (German and English) organization, paper work etc. For each car, an entry fee of 45
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• 1000km Nürburgring
  Since 1984, the 1000&nbsp;km races were run on the new, much shorter ''Grand-Prix-Strecke'', while the [[24 Hours Nürburgring]] stayed on the legendary long | [[World Sportscar Championship]]<br>German Sportscar Championship
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• Alfa Romeo
  ...an advanced Grand Prix car was designed and built, the [[Alfa Romeo Grand Prix|GP1914]] which featured a four cylinder, double overhead camshafts, four va ...rix car]], which won Alfa Romeo the inaugural world championship for Grand Prix cars in 1925. For Alfa road cars Jano developed a series of small-to-mediu
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• Max Mosley
  ...an der Traun]] in Germany for two years, where he learned to speak fluent German. On his return to England he was educated at [[Millfield]] boarding school. ...'' Mosley, recalling March's first F1 race, the [[1970 South African Grand Prix]]''
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• Maserati
  ...nning of the 20th century. Alfieri, Bindo and Ernesto built 2-litre Grand Prix cars for [[Diatto]]. In [[1926]], Diatto suspended the production of race ...e company, however. Racing successes continued, even against the giants of German racing, [[Audi|Auto Union]] and [[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]]. In 1939, a [[Ma
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• Wankel engine
  ...gine''' is a type of [[internal combustion engine]], invented by [[Germany|German]] engineer [[Felix Wankel]], which uses a [[rotary combustion engine|rotor] ...rctic Cat]] produced snowmobiles powered by 303cc Wankel rotary engines in 1971 and 1972. [[John Deere]] Inc, in the US, had a major research effort in ro
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• Moto Guzzi
  ...motorcycle racing World Champions|World Championships]], 6 [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions|Constructor's Championships]] and 11 [[Is ...competitors [[Gilera]] and [[Mondial]]) from racing after the [[1957 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1957 season]] &mdash; citing escalating costs and
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• Le Mans 24 Hours
  ...r's signal, the drivers could start their engines and start the race. In [[1971]], a full rolling start was introduced, as in [[Indianapolis 500]]. This ne The cars were reaching impressive speed in the straight: in [[1971]], during night practice, a Porsche 917 LH was clocked at a top speed of 38
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• Le Mans 24 hours races
  ...&nbsp;L)- and the Colotti gearbox that proved unreliable was replaced by a German-made [[ZF Friedrichshafen|ZF]]. ...d [[Brian Redman]] was still out after a crash in the [[1968 Belgian Grand Prix]] at Spa.
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