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• Watkins Glen International
  '''[[NASCAR]] [[Sprint Cup Series]]'''<br>[[Centurion Boats at the Glen]] '''NASCAR [[Nationwide Series]]'''<br>[[Zippo 200]]
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• Automobile racing
  ...ich employs a small, low-cost machine on small tracks. Many of today's top drivers started their careers in karts. ...-road areas run on a point-to-point format where participants and their co-drivers “rally” to a set of points, leaving in regular intervals from start poi
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• Jacques Villeneuve
  ...[[Champ Car]] championships and the [[Indianapolis 500]], one of only two drivers to accomplish all three feats (the other being [[Emerson Fittipaldi]]). ...l Schumacher]]. He finished the [[season (sport)|season]] runner-up in the drivers championship to Hill, having taken the title battle down the wire at [[1996
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• Al Unser
  His father [[Jerry Unser]] and two uncles, Louis and Joe, were also drivers. Beginning in [[1926]] they competed in the [[Pikes Peak International Hill In [[1987]], Penske's slate of drivers included Mears, Ongais and [[Danny Sullivan]]. Unser was dropped.
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• Motor racing
  ...ich employs a small, low-cost machine on small tracks. Many of today's top drivers started their careers in karts. ...-road areas run on a point-to-point format where participants and their co-drivers “rally” to a set of points, leaving in regular intervals from start poi
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• 24 Hours of Daytona
  ...t is held on a 3.56-mile combined road course, utilizing portions of the [[NASCAR]] tri-oval and an infield road course. Since its inception, it has been hel ...ank'' (now [[SunTrust]]) which in turn replaced [[Pepsi]] in 1984. Winning drivers of all classes receive a steel [[Rolex Cosmograph]] watch.
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• Grand-Am
  ...rs. Among the corporation’s investors are several of the key people behind NASCAR’s success, but Grand American offers an entirely different product that f ...Daytona|Rolex 24 At Daytona]] and a 250-mile sprint on the same weekend as NASCAR's [[Pepsi 400]].
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• Indianapolis 500
  ...ich they did from 1913 to 1919. However, after [[World War I]], the native drivers and manufacturers regained their dominance of the race, with the engineer [ ...ng been a part of the [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|World Drivers' Championship]] between 1950 and 1960, [[Ferrari]] made a discreet appearan
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• Race car
  ...ich employs a small, low-cost machine on small tracks. Many of today's top drivers started their careers in karts. ...-road areas run on a point-to-point format where participants and their co-drivers “rally” to a set of points, leaving in regular intervals from start poi
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• Jim Clark
  His first Drivers' [[World Championship]] came driving the Lotus 25 in [[1963]], winning seve ...ilar-powered [[Porsche 718]] and the more powerful cars from Ferrari, with drivers like [[Phil Hill]], [[Dan Gurney]] and [[Willy Mairesse]] at the wheel, and
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• Seat belt
  ...x-point harnesses''' became popular after [[Dale Earnhardt]] died during a NASCAR race. Earnhardt was wearing a five-point harness when he crashed and died. ...nfluenced the development of [[risk compensation]] theory, which says that drivers adjust their behaviour in response to the increased sense of personal safet
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• Touring car racing
  ...cuit, sponsored, legal form of [[street racing]] performed by professional drivers. ...ASCAR vehicles are based on a shared, custom, design. In the early days of NASCAR, stock cars were in fact built from production cars, whereas some current t
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• Indy Racing League
  ...n racing in [[1996 in IRL|1996]]. It was created with a breakaway group of drivers from [[Champ Car|CART]], which had sancationed Indy car racing since [[1979 ...of mostly unknown drivers, even in the Indy 500. Eventually the caliber of drivers improved and IRL began to draw teams from CART, contributing to the latter'
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• Juan Pablo Montoya
  ...20]], [[1975]], in [[Bogotá]], [[Colombia]]) is a [[race car driver]] in [[NASCAR]] and a former [[Formula One]] and [[CART]] driver. He has enjoyed great su ...Indianapolis 500 race winner; Montoya is currently one of only two active drivers (along with [[Jacques Villeneuve]]) who has won two legs of the [[Triple Cr
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• Rick Mears
  ...y virtue of staying at the front of the field and taking the lead as other drivers dropped out with mechanical problems. Three wins and four seconds in the el He is the brother of [[Roger Mears]] and the uncle of [[NASCAR]] driver [[Casey Mears]].
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• Champcars
  ===Dominance by non-US drivers=== ...n [[Emerson Fittipaldi]] won the series title in 1989, however, additional drivers from South America and Europe joined the series.
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• Buddy Lazier
  ...[Panther Racing]], placing fifth in the race, ahead of Panther's 2 regular drivers [[Tomáš Enge]] and [[Tomas Scheckter]] in a race that many believe may ha ...e [[2007 Indianapolis 500]]. Without a permanent ride, Lazier drove in a [[NASCAR]] [[Craftsman Truck Series]] race with [[Billy Ballew Motorsports]] at [[La
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• Formula 2
  ...("small car") racing and provided a means for amateur or less experienced drivers and smaller marques to prove themselves. By the outbreak of war, the rules ...ension. Less happily, [[Jim Clark]], regarded as one of the greatest race drivers of all time, was killed in a Formula Two race early in 1968, at the [[Hocke
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• Kart racing
  ...ses still use direct drive engines, the reasoning being that at this level drivers should be good enough to stay on the track during the race and hence not ne ...n extended period, from 30 minutes up to 24 hours or more, for one or more drivers. In general, consistency, reliability, and pit strategy is of greater impo
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• Mario Andretti
  ...Championship Car Racing|IndyCar]], [[World Sportscar Championship]] and [[NASCAR]] (the other being [[Dan Gurney]]). He also won races in [[midget car racin ...g with [[Juan Pablo Montoya]], the only driver to have won a race in the [[NASCAR]] [[Sprint Cup Series]], Formula One, and an Indianapolis 500. No American
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