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• Wankel engine
  ...ize, as an overheated piston engine is likely to do; this is a substantial safety benefit in aircraft use. ...eel race cars with Mazda Wankel engines, adaptable to both oval tracks and road courses, on several levels of competition. Since 1991, the professionally o
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• Gilles Villeneuve
  ...ues and Melanie. During his early career Villeneuve took his family on the road with him in a motorhome during the racing season, a habit which he continue ...s said that on the track he was scrupulously fair and did not put anyone's safety other than his own in jeopardy and those who worked with him usually referr
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• History of Formula One
  ...Prix at Spa did not take place as the drivers boycotted the circuit after safety upgrades were not installed as demanded. Stewart won the 1969 title easily Safety issues finally helped resolve the dispute; after nearly 50 years, the power
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• Fiat Panda
  ...ually phased out across [[Europe]], due to tightening emissions and [[NCAP|safety legislation]]. The car remained in production in Italy until May 2003. Its ...success, being considered less reliable and too low to be employed in off road duty.
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• Juan Pablo Montoya
  ...r ovals and high speed tracks, but was less well suited to street and most road circuits. Toyota’s engines were not yet reliable and often failed the tea ...were exactly the same and that the track required less attention than the road courses in the CART series and in European racing.
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• Alain Prost
  ...e won five of the sixteen Grand Prix during the season. He also won on the road at the [[1985 San Marino Grand Prix|San Marino Grand Prix]], but was disqua ...liamsF1|Williams]] team called his teammate Piquet in to change tyres as a safety precaution, handing the race victory — and Championship — to Prost, who
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• Scuderia Ferrari
  ...orld Championship and announced his retirement, and died months later in a road accident. ...m]] team. During the summer of 1968, Ferrari worked out a deal to sell his road car business to [[Fiat]] for $11 million; the transaction took place in ear
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• Le Mans 24 hours races
  [[Brian Redman]] recalls that "it was incredibly unstable, using all the road at speed." Many thought that the 4.5 L engine was too much for the fra ...track to his GT40 instead of running, then entered his car and locked the safety belt carefully before starting last.
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• Monaco Grand Prix
  ...ole position, and led from the start. On lap 25, he went up an escape road to avoid hitting a slow backmarker. Rejoining in fifth place, Hill set seve ...ting Grand Prix, it would not be permitted to be added to the schedule for safety reasons. Even in 1929, 'La Vie Automobile' magazine offered the opinion tha
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• Australian Grand Prix
  ...four times between 1938 and 1958. Another notable venue in the 1950s was a road circuit at [[Albert Park and Lake|Albert Park]] in [[Melbourne]], on two oc ...ook his first Australian win in an accident-marred race that featured four safety car periods.
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• Hybrid vehicles
  ...to the wheels. Also, mechanical brakes need to be fitted to the wheels for safety reasons. ....7 kW) when running 60 mph (95 km/h) on level roads ( one term for this is Road-Horsepower ). It is very inefficient to run a large spark-ignition (''i.e.'
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• Quantum of Solace
  ...tant contact lenses that enabled them to open their eyes as they fell. For safety, they only shot for thirty seconds at a time. ...ms, retired after ''Casino Royale''. [[Dennis Gassner]], who worked on ''[[Road to Perdition]]'' (2002) and ''[[The Golden Compass (film)|The Golden Compas
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• Prague
  ...leted in 2020) so it's hoped that things will get better. Unless there are road works, there are only seldom traffic jams on Czech highways, with the excep ...more dangerous than it really is. If you observe basic rules of sanity and safety (ie. don't provoke drunken people; don't wear your purse in back pocket of
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• Vienna
  ...own', or city center, is the first district. It is encircled by the 'Ring' road, which is also the location of many famous old buildings. Districts 2-9 are gathered within the Gürtel ('belt') Road; there, you can find the Prater (amusement) park, the hip quarters of the s
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