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• Suspension (vehicle)
  ...[[car handling|handling]] and [[brake|braking]] for good active safety and driving pleasure, and keeping vehicle occupants comfortable and reasonably well iso === Wheel rate ===
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• Champcar
  A Champ Car is a single seater (commonly called [[open wheel]]) [[racing car]]. For much of their history Champ Cars have been similar t ...e '''[[American Automobile Association]] (AAA)''' established the national driving championship and became the first sanctioning body for auto racing in the U
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• Buddy Lazier
  ...]] in [[Vail, Colorado]]) is an [[United States of America|American]] open-wheel [[racecar]] driver. He won the 1996 [[Indianapolis 500]] and has finished i ...olis 500]] for in 1991.[[Image:BuddyLazier1991.jpg|thumb|left|Buddy Lazier driving at [[Laguna Seca]] in 1991]]Buddy was one of the drivers in the first IRL r
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• Four-wheel-drive
  ...l (mechanics)|differential]] and uses [[traction control]] to recover from wheel spin.]] ...heeled [[vehicle]] with a [[Powertrain|drivetrain]] that allows all four [[wheel]]s to receive power from the [[engine]] simultaneously. In the [[United Sta
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• Alfa Romeo in motorsport
  [[Image:Alfa 158 farina.jpg|250px|thumb|right|[[Giuseppe Farina]] driving an [[Alfa Romeo 158/159 Alfetta|Alfa Romeo 158]].]] ...as also supplied engines to [[Formula Three]] cars. [[Piercarlo Ghinzani]] driving Euroracing March 793 with 2 litre Alfa engine won straight away its first s
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• Bandini formula junior
  [[Image: Texas, _race_f._junior.jpg|250px|thumb|A Bandini driving a recent race in the speedway Texan]] *** as a wheel independent multilink with lower triangle, [[shock]] hydraulic telescopic i
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• Nardi
  ...ansversely-mounted and coupled to a five-speed [[gearbox]], but unusually, driving the front wheels. Weighing only 672lb, it proved capable of 180km/h. This w ...s, crankshafts, camshafts. It has become best known for the Nardi steering wheel, introduced in 1951 in
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• Alfa Romeo Alfetta
  ...at the rear. The Alfetta was renewed in 1979 with a revised frontend, new wheel rims and new lights, as well as a Diesel version. |'''Alfetta ([[Driving on the left or right|RHD]])'''||1972-78||align="right" |2,011
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• Ferrari 512
  ...carella, Nino - Ferrari 512 S - 1970-05-31.jpg|thumb|330px|Nino Vaccarella driving Ferrari 512S Spyder (chassis #1042) at the 1970 [[1000km Nürburgring]], fi ...a 1 drivers under contract in the previous years, with the sports car aces driving for Porsche, Ferrari could barely find qualified drivers for its entries. B
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• History of the automobile
  ...owered vehicle was able to travel on [[wheel]]s on land and via a [[paddle wheel]] in the water. ...ric hybrids]], [[multi-valve]] engines, [[overhead cam]]shafts, and [[four-wheel drive]], were attempted and discarded at this time.
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• Alex Zanardi
  ...[Toronto]], [[Canada]]. In [[2003]], Zanardi was not only back behind the wheel, he was also ''racing'' again, with the aid of hand-operated [[brake]] and ...pressively in seventh. In [[2004]], Zanardi returned to racing full-time, driving for [[BMW]] in the [[FIA]] [[Europe|European]] [[Touring Car]] Championship
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• ATS
  ...ities involved with ATS included 1962 World Driving Champion [[Phil Hill]] driving for the racing team, while a number of other famous drivers were engaged in ...me-molybdenum tubular chassis with a fully independent suspension and four-wheel disc brakes, the resulting car was essentially a thinly veiled racing car,
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• Alfa Romeo 164
  ...se of the company by [[Fiat]]), and was most notably the first large front wheel drive Alfa. The 164 was essential to Fiat's plan to relaunch Alfa Romeo as Despite some purists fear of loss of character due to the adoption of [[front wheel drive]] for the first time in an Alfa top line saloon, the car proved itsel
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• Countach
  ...engine was claimed to be able to push the car to over 200 mph, but in real driving, anything over 180 would stress the engine greatly. ...new LP400S model was introduced. This car had wider tires with glass-fibre wheel arch extensions, which gave the car the fundamental look it kept until the
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• Ferrari 512 S
  ...a, Nino - Ferrari 512 S - 1970-05-31.jpg|thumb|right|330px|Nino Vaccarella driving Ferrari 512 at Nürburgring 1970]] In total 12 different drivers were seen in 1970 at the wheel of a factory 512S. Of them the promising Ignazio Giunti did nine of the ten
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• Motorsport
  [[Image:Mors.jpg||thumb|340px|Fernand Gabriel driving a Mors in Paris-Madrid 1903]] Single-seater ([[open-wheel]]) racing is perhaps the most well-known form of motorsport, with cars desi
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• Mika Salo
  ...2nd to him. During the months following the 1990 season, Salo was caught [[driving under the influence]] in the UK. Subsequently the chance of him gaining an His first post-F1 race came at the 2003 [[12 Hours of Sebring]], driving the UK-entered [[Audi R8 (race car)|Audi R8]], the same car he was supposed
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• World Rally Championship
  ...cylinder cars, but feature [[turbocharger]]s, [[anti-lag]] systems, [[four-wheel-drive]], [[sequential gearbox]]es, aerodynamic parts and other enhancements ...ing purposes with immediate success, other manufacturers started their all-wheel-drive projects. Group B regulations were introduced in the [[1982 World Ral
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• Ayrton Senna
  ...acing. Encouraged by his father, a racing enthusiast, Senna got behind the wheel of his first kart at the age of four. He entered [[karting]] competition at ...winning from pole position thanks to an impressive display of wet-weather driving in treacherous conditions which even saw second-place man (and later World
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• Kart racing
  ...ons, a more flexible chassis is better for some karts. For other classes / driving styles, there will be stiffening bars on the kart which are done up tightly ...es 3 or 4 inches from the ground depending on the corner, chassis setup or driving style. Recreational karts have fixed gearing, which in part, determines the
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