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• Ronnie Bucknum
  |Nationality || {{flagiconUSA}} American '''Ronnie Bucknum''' ([[April 5]], [[1936]] - [[April 23]], [[1992]]) was an American racecar driver.
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• Air racing
  ...ring a race, killing himself and two people in a nearby house. In 1947, an All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race (AWTAR) dubbed the "[[Powder Puff Derby]]" ...early contests in the United States, but, after [[1960]], all air races in American soil were suspended. Three years later, [[Bill Stead]], a former champion a
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• Classic Racing
  ...[[Manx Grand Prix]], held on the [[Isle of Man]], is considered by Classic racers worldwide as the ultimate classic racing event. This involves three or mor ...on]] (AHRMA)[http://www.ahrma.org/] who organise Classic Racing events for all types of Classic bikes.
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• Legend car racing
  ...' is a style of race cars. They are 5/8-scale replicas of [[United States|American]] [[automobiles]] from the [[1930s]] and [[1940s]] once raced in the [[NASC ...ery tight specifications to ensure cars are quite similar with each other. All cars utilize the same parts, engine, tires. The only variable (in theory) i
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• Street racing
  ...hat are often illegally closed by the race organizers. (Professional drag racers who race on sanctioned drag strips often object to the use of the term ''[[ Street racers, known natively as '''hashiriya''' (走り屋), can also occur on [[express
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• Ferrari 512 S
  ..., KG Salzburg and [[Martini Racing]], received all direct factory support. All those cars were real works cars. And even the privateers like AAW Shell Rac .... So they were to be replaced at several occasions by former Ferrari works racers. One of them was [[John Surtees]] who quit Ferrari in 1966 after a violent
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• Dirt speedway racing
  ...and West and [[Stock car racing|stock cars]] in the South. The open wheel racers were built for racing, and the stock cars were ordinary automobiles modifie Nearly all tracks are oval and less than a mile in length with most being 1/2 mile or
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• Ferrari 166
  ...6MM Barchetta as number six in their list of the ten "Greatest Ferraris of all time". ...e first Ferraris, and shared the tubular frame that was characteristic for all of the company's sports cars of the 1940s and 1950s. Suspension was equally
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• Ferrari P
  Sports car racers followed in 1963. Although these cars shared their names (based on engine d ...n the endurance classic. About 32 models were built in 1964 and 1965, with all but the first few powered by 3.3 L 320 hp (238 kW) engines,
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• Ferrari 512
  ...ory cars, there were the private cars of [[Scuderia Filipinetti]], [[North American Racing Team|NART]], [[Ecurie Francorchamps|Écurie Francorchamps]], [[Scude ...errari had won the [[12 hours of Sebring]], while Porsche 917 and 908 took all other nine wins of the championship season. The modified 512M had proven to
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• List of international Formula One colors
  ...pect this. Many [[concept car]]s follow the color scheme, and many amateur racers prefer them as well. ...lue underframe||Blue|| [[Briggs Cunningham|Cunningham]], [[Ford]], [[North American Racing Team|NART]], [[Carroll Shelby|Shelby]], [[Chaparral Cars|Chaparral]]
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• Grand Prix motorcycle racing
  ...through the 1950s and most of the 1960s, [[four-stroke]] engines dominated all classes. In the 1960s, [[two-stroke]] engines began to take root in the sm ...oke cycle|two-stroke]] or [[four stroke cycle|four-stroke]]. Consequently, all machines were two-strokes, due to the greater power output for a given engi
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• Road America
  *[[American Le Mans Series]] - August 20, 2006 ...y cars at Turn Eight at Road America.JPG|thumb|right|Retired [[Champ Car]] racers going around turn eight at the Kohler International Challenge]]
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• Supercross
  ...ioned and governed by motorcycle associations. The main being either the [[American Motorcyclist Association]] who is the oldest and most prodigious cycle raci ...he second most popular form of motorsport (behind [[NASCAR]] racing). The American Motorcyclist Association awards three Supercross Championship Champs each y
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• Motorcycle Racing
  ...sses all [[sport]]ing aspects of [[motorcycling]]. The disciplines are not all "races" or timed-speed events, as several disciplines test a competitor's v ...opposed to the noticeable touching of the bent knee to the tarmac of road racers).
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• Demolition Derby
  ...n, serious injuries are rare but they do happen. To make the event safer, all [[glass]] is removed from the vehicle, and deliberately ramming the driver' ...nts. Competitors have traditionally used junked full-size [[United States|American]] [[sedan]]s, especially those from the [[1960s]] and [[1970s|70s]], which
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• Ferrari 250 LM
  32 total 250 LM chassis were built from 1963 to 1965, with all but the first chassis (s/n 5149, the Paris Auto Show car with a 250 P engin ...factory prototypes. Notably, a 250 LM (chassis 5893) entered by the North American Racing Team won the 1965 24 Hours of Le Mans driven by Jochen Rindt and Mas
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• CanAm
  The '''Canadian-American Challenge Cup''' or '''CanAm''', was an [[Sports Car Club of America|SCCA]] Can Am started out as a race series for Group 7 sports racers with two races in Canada (Can) and four races in the US (Am). The series wa
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• Automobile racing
  ...ak of any driver's racing career. In North America, the cars used in the [[American Championship Car Racing|National Championship]] (currently [[Champcars]] an ...ke production cars but are in fact purpose-built racing machines which are all very similar in specifications. Early stock cars were much closer to produc
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• Lamborghini Gallardo
  |Platform:||[[mid-engine]] [[all wheel drive|AWD]] ...l to use in bad weather than many other supercars, thanks to rear-biased [[all-wheel drive]]. Although corporate owner [[Audi]] is renowned for its [[Quat
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