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• Non-synchronous transmission
  ...names for various vehicle parts. Changing from the [[Locomobile]], a 1906 race-car to what is now called the [[automobile]], advertisers used design wordi ...n see either [[jake brake]], or [[engine brake]]. Many other circumstances face operators of non-synchronous transmissions. Safety and operator skills need
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• Grand Prix motor racing
  ...began in France as far back as 1894. It quickly evolved from a simple road race from one town to the next, to endurance tests for car and driver. Innovatio ...n Bennett Cup in Auto Racing|Gordon Bennett Cup]] in [[Europe]], an annual race that attracted international competitors. Each country was allowed to enter
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• Laverda
  ...acing them in distance and endurance events like the ''Milan-Trento'' road race, ''Giro d'Italia'' and the ''Cavalcata delle Dolomiti'', eventually winning ...prototype stage, the machines proved their reliability by finishing every race they entered, eventually taking some victories. Just like the Tractors and
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• Ghinzani
  ...al goal was to pass on his enormous experience to young drivers wishing to face [[motorsport]] competitions in a professional way and with a winning attitu ! Race
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• Indianapolis 500
  |First race || [[1911]] |First IRL race || [[1996]]
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• Maserati 250F
  | Race victories || 8 <br> [[1954 Argentine Grand Prix ]], J.M. Fangio,<br> [[195 ...x|German Grand Prix]] at the [[Nürburgring]] (Aug. 4, 1957), and his final race at the [[1957 French Grand Prix|French Grand Prix]].
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• Ducati V-twin
  In 1971 race results were spoilt by a run of gearbox and ignition problems. Phil Read's ...red the reversed head layout found in the later Paso where the inlet ports face each other. It produced 74 bhp at 12,000&nbsp;rpm, not a big increase. MV c
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• Toro Rosso STR2
  ...so STR2 2007 London.jpg|left|thumb|250px|A STR2 at the 2007 [[Red Bull Air Race]] [[London]].]] ...st have a gearbox that lasts for four races: if one fails, the driver will face a penalty of five places on the starting grid.
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• Moonraker (film)
  ...is attacked once again by Chang, who is subsequently thrown out of a clock face during the fight. With this intelligence, Bond "pushes the panic button" fo ...tely finds after encountering Jaws again in a death-defying [[speedboat]] race, and then a bout with Drax's pet [[boa]]. Captured again, Bond and Dr. Good
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• Motorcycle
  Motorbikes face three common stability problems: ...0cc two cycle facing off against a 750cc-900cc four cycle in a street drag race, with a better than fair chance of winning. Two cycle motorcycles were disc
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• Gino Bartali
  :[[Italian National Road Race Championships|Italian National Road Race Championship]] (1935, 1937, 1940, 1952) ...e France victory in 1948 gave him the largest gap between victories in the race.
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• Anzani
  ...e right collarbone, 18 of the left, 32 broken ribs, and 60 stitches to his face and head. Once, according to family history, he was given up for dead in Pa ...icago, USA, said "Only the clumsy get themselves killed" before starting a race at the Parc des Princes in Paris.
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• Nigel Mansell
  | First race || [[1980 Austrian Grand Prix]] | Last race || [[1995 Spanish Grand Prix]]
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• Michael Schumacher
  |First race || [[1991 Belgian Grand Prix]] ...many Formula One records, including those for most drivers championships, race victories, fastest laps, pole positions, and most races won in a single sea
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• Siena
  The Etruscans were an advanced people who changed the face of central Italy through their use of [[irrigation]] to reclaim previously The ''Palio delle contrade'' is a horse race held twice each year, in which the horse and rider represent one of the sev
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• Fiat 8V
  ...ified with an aluminum roof and revised windows which were appended to the face-lifted lower steel bodywork. The cars which received this treatment became ...by carozzeria '''Vignale'''. It looks like a show car but it is actually a race car which is still entered in events like the [[Mille Miglia]] in Italy.
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• Moonraker
  ...ately finds after encountering Jaws yet again in a death-defying speedboat race, and then a bout with Drax's pet [[boa]]. Captured, yet again, Bond and Dr. ...afe again for human life; these people would be the seed for a "new master race".
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• Paris-Roubaix
  ...e || The Hell of the North<br>Queen of the Classics<br>The Easter race<br>A Sunday in Hell | Type || Monument one-day race
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• Tractor
  ...dern, [[precision farming]] techniques. The [[spin-off]]s from the [[space race]] have actually facilitated [[automation]] in plowing and the use of driver ...ly attached, the machine usually has a seat that can swivel to the rear to face the [[hoe]] controls. Removable [[hoe (equipment)|backhoe]] attachments alm
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• 2007 Formula One season
  ...r [[Kimi Räikkönen]] by one point at the [[2007_Brazilian_Grand_Prix|final race of the season]], making Raikkonen the third Finnish driver to take the titl ==Formula One 2007 race schedule==
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