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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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• Fiat Nuova 500
  ...Lounge and Sport. Customers can choose also between 15 interior trims, 9 wheel options, 19 decals and 12 body colours. There are over 500,000 different pe ...e lighter than the engines they replace, performance will be improved. The big plus about these engines is not the added performance, but the extra fuel e
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• Auto Club Speedway
  ...eedway was opened. In addition to NASCAR, the raceway has also hosted open-wheel events from both [[CART]] and the [[Indy Racing League]]. ...ide of the back strech of the track at a high rate of speed. His blue open wheel car was smashed literally into pieces.
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• Alfa Romeo 8C
  ...the two seater sports cars it was used in the world's first genuine [[Open wheel car|single-seat]] Grand Prix racing car, the [[Alfa Romeo P3|Monoposto 'Tip ...ed the exploit of winning the 1935 German GP at the [[Nürburgring]] at the wheel of a 3.2 Tipo B against the more powerful Mercedes and Auto Union. The bloc
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• Fiat Grande Punto
  ...lightly slower than the Mark 1 GT on a straight line, but was considered a big improvement in handling. ...Punto, the [[Super 2000]] Punto Abarth, was unveiled in 2005. It is [[four-wheel drive]] and powered by a 2.0 L 16 valve engine capable of producing 28
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• Formula One
  ...tor racing|Grand Prix racing]], is the highest class of single-seat [[open-wheel]] [[formula racing|formula]] [[auto racing]]. It consists of a series of ra ...qualifying trim). These cars were and still are the most powerful [[open-wheel]] circuit racing cars ever. To reduce engine power output and thus speeds,
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• ATS
  ...me-molybdenum tubular chassis with a fully independent suspension and four-wheel disc brakes, the resulting car was essentially a thinly veiled racing car, ...s, leading radius arms, coil springs and tubular shock absorbers, and four-wheel Dunlop hydraulic disc brakes, mounted in-board at the rear. Wheelbase: 98.5
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• Fiat Punto
  ...g model). The 1.8 HGT accelerates 0-60 in 8.0 seconds. It was considered a big improvement in handling over the Mark 1 GT. ...Punto, the Super 2000 Punto [[Abarth]], was unveiled in 2005. It is [[four-wheel drive]] and powered by a 2.0 L 16 valve engine capable of producing 28
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• Verona
  ...r tourist sights. By 1308, under the rule of [[Cangrande I della Scala]] (“Big Dog”), Verona dominated all of the [[Veneto]] and was an anti-[[Papal]] s ...n air of harmonious elegance. The huge [[Rose Window]] is decorated as a [[Wheel of Fortune]]. The lintels above the portal have carvings of the months of t
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• Damon Hill
  ...in Formula 3, where he won four races, Hill ascended another tier of open wheel racing by joining Mooncraft in the International [[Formula 3000]] champions In August 2006, Hill was back behind wheel of a single-seater race car, when he took a 600bhp [[Grand Prix Masters]] m
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• Bicycle
  ...ven]] [[human-powered transport|human-powered vehicle]] with two [[bicycle wheel|wheels]] attached to a [[bicycle frame|frame]], one behind the other. First ...s so that the rider could push more firmly, and further enlarged the front wheel to increase the potential for speed. With tires of solid rubber, his machin
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• Junior
  ...rfect and smooth operation. For the tourist, who does not want to make the big tourism, cars need a robust and simple that not having a speed that it has ...e year, where he would surely come to a better placement if a failure of a wheel had not eliminated *.
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• Ferrari 250
  ...ime, but its light weight and impressive output (up to 280 hp) made a big difference. The Ferrari V12 weighed hundreds of pounds less than its chief ...ng to California socialite Sandra Ilene West. Mrs. West was buried at the wheel of her car following a 1977 drug overdose. Her instructions specified that
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• 1995 Formula One season
  ...elgian Grand Prix]], where the two championship contenders fought wheel-to-wheel for extended periods. ...with [[Franck Lagorce]] the teams test driver. The announcement came as a big shock to Suzuki and his Japanese backers, who believed he had secured the L
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• Watkins Glen International
  ...starter for the races, "Tex" Hopkins. Wearing a lavender suit, clenching a big cigar in his mouth, and giving the job everything he had, Hopkins was the m After a 25 year layoff, major-league open wheel racing returned to the track as one of three road courses on the 2005 [[Ind
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• Tazio Nuvolari
  Nuvolari had a big accident in May during practice for the Tripoli Grand Prix and it is allege ...e inventor, according to Enzo Ferrari) of the [[Drifting (motorsport)|four-wheel drift]] technique. The technique was later utilised by drivers such as [[St
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• History of Formula One
  ...other potentially revolutionary car obsolete. The front-engined [[4WD|four-wheel drive]] [[Ferguson Research Ltd.|Ferguson]] P99 raced in British Formula On ...he choice to design an incredibly heavy and complex [[H engine|H-16]]. The big winner was Jack Brabham, whose eponymous racing team took victory two years
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• Le Mans 24 hours races
  These years were dominated by the big ''Bentley Blowers'', driven by the ''Bentley Boys''. After 70 years, this m ...helby test driver Ken Miles managed to win in Daytona and Sebring with the big block Ford. Ford sent no less than eight Mark II to the Sarthe, entered by
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• Juan Pablo Montoya
  ...[[CART]] driver. He has enjoyed great success, most famously in top [[open wheel racing]] series. He currently drives the #42 [[Target Corporation|Target]] ...e world. He is the only driver to have won the premier North American open-wheel [[CART]] title, the [[Indianapolis 500]] and the [[Rolex 24 at Daytona|24 H
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• List of James Bond vehicles
  ...pecial modified car performed the [[stunt]] with a lower stance and larger wheel wells (just as the Astro Spiral [[AMC Javelin|Javelin]] stunt cars that per | [[Cadillac Fleetwood]] "[[Pimpmobile]]" || [[Mr. Big (James Bond)|Mr. Big]] ||
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