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• Martin Brundle
  ...th a record points haul, and won the 1990 [[24 hours of Le Mans|Le Mans 24 hour]] Race for [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]].
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• Culture
  ...ncorporates multiple regional styles of folk music as well as a burgeoning record industry that supports a wide variety of [[rock and roll|rock]], [[pop musi ...ariations on a few melodic [[phrases]], and a single song can last over an hour.
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• Milwaukee Mile
  ...and set the first track record with a 72 second, 50 mph lap. There were 24-hour endurance races in 1907 and 1908. Louis Disbrow won the first 100 mile even ...ldfield]]'s success at The Mile helped make him a legend. He set the track record in 1905 and raised his speed in 1910 to 70.159 mph in his "Blitzen Benz". I
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• Motorcycle Racing
  ''Main article'' [[Motorcycle land speed record]] ...d record for that class or type of bike for their name to be placed on the record books. See—[http://www.biker.co.nz/Reviews.asp?id=122] for an example
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• Stanguellini
  ...Watkins Glen when owned by Briggs Cunningham. It later held the land speed record for a 750cc car. ...er installed a Mercury outboard in the Stanguellini and won the land speed record for a 750cc car at Daytona Beach. The car was then sold or traded to Herm B
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• 24 Hours Nürburgring
  Just like the [[VLN]] series with its 4 hour races, the 24h race is mainly aimed at amateurs, in order to fill a startin ...m''Jürgen Alzen Motorsport'' was only one lap down and have beaten the old record, too. They used a conventional gear box and a privately built 3.8L 500PS en
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• Belgian Grand Prix
  ...new [[24 hours of Le Mans]] in France, the [[SPA 24 Hours]], a similar 24 hour endurance race, was run at the Spa track. ...52nd Grand Prix at Spa in [[2001]], surpassing [[Alain Prost]]'s all-time record of 51 wins. Schumacher also won his seventh World Drivers' Championship tit
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• Horsepower
  ...led a [[dynamometer]] car coupled behind the locomotive keeps a continuous record of the [[drawbar]] pull exerted, and the speed. From these, the power gene ...ead. Watt determined that a horse could turn a mill wheel 144 times in an hour (or 2.4 times a minute). The wheel was 12 feet in radius, thus in a minute
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• Diesel engine
  ...often used when an engine is shut down for extended periods (more than an hour) in cold weather to reduce startup time and engine wear. ...ypes of racing where these drawbacks are less severe, such as [[land speed record]] racing. [http://www.cumminsracing.com/ Diesel engined dragsters] even exi
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• Culture of Italy
  ...ncorporates multiple regional styles of folk music as well as a burgeoning record industry that supports a wide variety of [[rock and roll|rock]], [[pop musi ...ariations on a few melodic [[phrases]], and a single song can last over an hour.
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• Chris Amon
  ...966 Amon continued to race for McLaren in CanAm, but, with an unimpressive record of only two points from twenty Grand Prix starts, he failed to secure a ful ...[Gulf]] [[Ford GT40]] Mark II at the 1966 [[24 heures du Mans|Le Mans]] 24-hour race, spearheading a formation finish. He subsequently received an invitati
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• Le Mans 24 Hours
  ...alone and looked like the winner but made a shifting mistake in the final hour which handed victory to a [[Mercedes-Benz]] 300 SLR. The most successful marque in the history of the 24 hour race is [[Porsche]], with 16 overall victories (including seven in a row, f
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• World Rally Championship
  ...accelerate from 0-60 [[Miles per hour|mph]] (96 [[Kilometres per hour|km/h]]) in 2.3 seconds, on a gravel road. However, the season soon too ...elica GT-Four]]. Kankkunen moved to Toyota for the 1993 season and won his record fourth title, with Toyota taking its first manufacturers' crown. Frenchman
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• Indianapolis 500
  ...in both naturally-aspirated and supercharged form, and winning a likewise record-holding 18 consecutive years between 1947 and 1964. For 2005 the start of Indianapolis was pushed back one hour from noon to 1 p.m. [[Eastern Daylight Time]] to improve national televisio
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• Road bicycle racing
  ...ave been forgotten; for example in [[Athens]] in 1896, they attempted a 12-hour race, and in [[London]], in 1908, one of the events was a [[sprint]] for 60 At the time, ''Cycling Record'' wrote that he set off "as fast as lightning," overtook the favourite, Fra
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• Monaco Grand Prix
  ...behind Ayrton Senna's [[McLaren]]-Honda. Mansell, on fresh tyres, set lap record almost two seconds quicker than Senna's and closed from 5.2 to 1.9 seconds ...th win at the [[1993 Monaco Grand Prix|1993 race]], breaking Graham Hill's record for most wins at the Monaco Grand Prix, [[Damon Hill]] commented that "If m
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• Targa Florio
  ...Cagno]] won the inaugural 1906 race in nine hours, averaging 30 miles per hour (50 km/h). ...s not possible on the tight and twisty roads. [[Helmut Marko]] set the lap record 1972 in an [[Alfa Romeo T33]] at 33'41 min or an average of 128,253 km/h. T
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• Michael Schumacher
  ...cond faster than anyone else to catch up with the McLaren. He also set the record of being the only driver to win a race from the pit lane which he did in th ...broke into tears when asked about his feelings on equaling Ayrton Senna's record of 41 race wins.
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• Le Mans 24 hours races
  ...nto the top three coming from 32nd during the night and establishing a lap record at 131.375 mph (211.4 km/h). Just before 05:30 Phil brought the l ...Linge]]; the roadster was equipped with three 35 mm movie cameras to record the race for Steve Mac Queen's movie "Le Mans".
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