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• Sebring Raceway
  ...known as the "safety pin". Gendebien Bend was also reprofiled to slow the cars' entry to the Ullman straight. ...tions are quite rough and often, sparks fly from the undercarriages of the cars as they traverse them. Much of the track has intentionally been left with
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• 1000km Spa
  ...' is an [[Endurance racing|endurance race]] for [[Sports car racing|sports cars]] held at [[Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps]] in Belgium. ...4h race for touring cars and GTs is held, and an endurance race for sports cars and GTs. The 500km race at Spa counted towards the [[World Sportscar Champi
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• 2006 World Touring Car Championship season
  ...The championship was open to Super 2000, Diesel 2000 and Super Production Cars. FIA World Touring Car Championship [http://www.fiawtcc.com]
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• Lada
  ...terior, massive boot and low asking price. Many Lada owners swore by their cars. After introduction of the Riva range in 1980, sales through the 1980's wer ...ided to withdraw from the UK and most other western European markets. Lada cars maintained a presence in a number of African, Caribbean and Latin American
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• Toranosuke Takagi
  Takagi was heavily influenced by his father, a [[Touring car]] driver. In the early [[1980s]] he began racing [[kart]]s, competing i ...e again, taking part ownership of the Cerumo team and running one of their cars in his own name (Takagi Planning with CERUMO). Takagi also was one of the
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• Denny Hulme
  ...ing - instead becoming a hero in CanAm and subsequently Australian Touring Cars. Hulme's untimely death, caused by a heart attack whilst driving a BMW M3 d ...led Scot, Tom Walkinshaw. Racing for his Austin Rover team in the European Touring Car Championship.
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• Mille Miglia
  ...anamericana]], the ''MM'' made ''[[Gran Turismo]]'' (Grand Touring) sports cars like [[Alfa Romeo]], [[Ferrari]] (which debuted as a marque in the 1940 eve .../Jenkinson car, #722, left Brescia at 7:22 AM (see below), while the first cars had started at 9 PM the previous day. In the early days of the race even wi
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• Motorcycle Museums
  * The Allen Vintage Motorcycle Museum - A good sampling of classic racing and touring motorcycles from the 1950s to the current models. Located near Boston. * Moskow Museum Of Antique Cars And Motorcycles - The site describes the dangerous struggle of what we cons
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• Bugatti Royale
  ...more than the entire engine of the contemporary [[Bugatti Type 40|Type 40 touring car]]. It had [[multi-valve|3 valves per cylinder]] driven by a [[single ov ...e is the ultimate status symbol-one of the biggest, rarest, most desirable cars in the world.
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• Grand-Am
  ...of the [[Ferrari 360]], the new Ferrari 430, and historic [[Ferrari]] race cars. ...Series, two classes compete for victories - Daytona Prototypes and [[Grand Touring]].
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• Formula 3000
  ...[[Formula Two]] had become too expensive, and was dominated by works-run cars with factory engines; the hope was that Formula 3000 would offer quicker, c ...the mid-90s, F3000 was a virtual Reynard monopoly, although [[Lola Racing Cars|Lola]] did eventually return with a promising car and the Japanese [[Footwo
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• Karl Wendlinger
  Since then, he has competed successfully in [[sports car]]s and [[touring car]]s, winning the [[FIA GT]] championship (with [[Olivier Beretta]]) in 1
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• Ivan Capelli
  ...nship, still with Genoa Racing, and also raced a [[BMW]] in the [[European Touring Car Championship]]. He also raced a couple of times in F1 with the [[Automo ...h]] V8 normally-aspirated engine. Capelli also continued with BMW touring cars for the [[Schnitzer]] team, as the March budget was tight (so tight in fact
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• Ferrari 250 GTO
  ...red to be the quintessential Ferrari model, and one of the greatest sports cars - indeed, one of the greatest automobiles - of all time. ...ands for "Gran Turismo Omologato", [[Italian language|Italian]] for "Grand Touring Homologated."
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• Macau Grand Prix
  ...acturers, has officially become the final two races of the [[FIA]] [[World Touring Car Championship]] (WTCC). ...005 the race has officially become the final two rounds of [[FIA]] [[World Touring Car Championship]].
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• Bugatti Automobiles SAS
  ...-chairman, [[Ferdinand Piëch]], Volkswagen purchased the rights to produce cars under the Bugatti [[marque]] in 1998. This followed the purchase of [[Lamb ...how]] in 1998. It was followed by the four-door [[Bugatti EB 218|EB 218]] touring [[sedan (car)|sedan]], introduced at the [[Salon International de l'Auto|Ge
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• Bugatti Type 57
  ...rom the [[Bugatti Type 59|Type 59]] [[Grand Prix motor racing|Grand Prix]] cars, producing 135 hp (100 kW). Top speed was 95 mph (153  The most celebrated sports-touring model produced by Bugatti, the succes of the Type 57 is revealed by the pro
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• Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari
  ...|| [[Formula One]]; [[Superbike racing|SBK]]; [[GP2 Series|GP2]]; [[Touring car racing|WTCC]]; [[Italy|Italian]] [[Grand tourer|GT]] ...In [[1973]] and [[1974]] two [[chicane]]s were added in order to slow the cars. A third [[chicane]] was added in [[1981]]. However, the circuit was subj
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• OSCA
  ...ttle thereafter. At the [[Italian GP]] in September OSCA entered two works cars for Franco Rol but the car was a long way off the pace of the [[Alfa Romeos ...nge in the regulations for the [[World Championship]] in 1954 rendered the cars obsolete and it was not until a new 1.5-liter F2 began in 1957 that OSCA re
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• Jim Clark
  ...as sufficiently impressed to give Clark a run in one of his Formula Junior cars, and the rest, as they say is history. ...competing in the [[Australasia]] based [[Tasman]] series, run for older F1 cars, and was series champion in 1965, 1967 and 1968 driving for Lotus. He won 1
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