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• Alfa Romeo Tipo 33
  The '''Alfa Romeo Tipo 33''' was a [[sports car racing|sports racing]] [[prototype]] raced by the [[Alfa Romeo in motorsport|Alfa Romeo] Alfa Romeo started development of Tipo 33 in early 1960s, first car being built in 1965. First version was sent to 1963 established
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• Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione
  |Class || [[Sports car]] |Similar || [[Audi R8 (road car)|Audi R8]]<br>[[Ferrari F430]]<br>[[Maserati GranTurismo]]
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• Luigi Fagioli
  |Races || 7 ...[[June 9]], [[1898]] - [[June 20]], [[1952]]) was an Italian champion race car driver.
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• Ferrari 512 S
  : ''This article is about the 1969-1971 race car. For road cars designated '''512 BB / 512 BBi''' and '''512 TR / F512M''' s ...a [[sports car racing|sports car]], related to the [[Ferrari P]] series of sports prototypes. It was raced in [[1970]] and [[1971]], then withdrawn from comp
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• Diatto
  ...]. These were actually licenced products from the latter company.The first car was the 20-25[[HP]] which used a 3770cc four cylinder engine, followed the ...t cars continued to be developed and produced. The [[Tipo]] 10 was a small car with a 1018cc four-cylinder engine, whilst the Tipo 30 was built under lice
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• Ferrari 458 Italia
  ...l drive layout|mid-engined]] [[sports car]] produced by the Italian sports car manufacturer [[Ferrari]]. The 458 Italia replaces the [[Ferrari F430]]. In Ferrari's first official announcement of the car, the 458 Italia was described as the successor to the F430 but arising from
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• Ermini
  ...Ermini named "Pasquino" was one of the most representative Italian, sports car manufactures of '40 and '50 years.(the cause of his premature death is stil ...ng years he had opportunities to compete, sometimes driving his customer's car like: the Consuma's Cup in 1935, he drove an Alfa Romeo to the Parma-Poggio
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• Mosport Park
  ...major race in [[1961]], the [[Player's 200]], a [[sports car racing|sports car race]] bringing drivers from the world over to rural [[Ontario]]. [[Stirli ...e Stirling Moss, [[Gilles Villeneuve]], [[Bruce McLaren]] and even [[stock car]] king [[Richard Petty]], have raced at Mosport. No fewer than 16 [[Formul
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• Ground effect
  ...round effect''' is term applied to a series of aerodynamic effects used in car design, which has been exploited to create [[downforce]], particularly in r ...car so that incoming air is accelerated through a narrow slot between the car and the ground, lowering pressure by [[Bernoulli's principle]].
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• Ferrari 512
  ...and some 512 in private hands were entered in [[CanAm]] and [[Interserie]] races. ...of 3000 resp. 4380&nbsp;cc. However, in the specific case of world sports car championship and [[24 hours of Le Mans]] racing cars, regulations in those
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• Race car
  ...t over the line was [[Émile Levassor]] but he was disqualified because his car was not a required four-seater. ...]], the French automobile club ACF staged a number of major international races, usually from or to Paris, connecting with another major city in Europe or
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• Sertum
  ...0-cylinder valve in the head. Also picks up two gold medals at the Six Day races in [[1947]] in [[Czechoslovakia]]. Between 1947 and 1948 is two 250, the car''VL-valve 4''side''and''Sports Monotubo from Piglio sport. The VL-4 will be used successfully in Regularit
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• Oran Park Raceway
  ...Matich]]'s outright time set in a 2.6 litre [[Lotus Cars|Lotus]] [[Sports Car]]. ...the second and last running of this endurance race. Endurance touring car races would continue at Oran Park well into the 1980s and apart from the Sandown
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• FIA GT Championship
  The '''FIA GT Championship''' is a [[sports car racing]] series organized by the [[Stéphane Ratel Organisations]] (SRO) at ...o qualify. Both types may undergo significant modifications from the road car they are based on, but GT1 allows the use of exotic materials, better [[aer
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• EuroBrun
  ...[Walter Brun]], who ran the [[Brun Motorsport]] [[sports car racing|sports car]] team. ...events (Modena missing out four times, and being excluded from another two races for technical infringements, and Larrauri failing seven times), and Modena'
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• Ferdinand Porsche
  ...on engine]] powering wheel-mounted [[electric motor]]s. They presented the car on the [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|1900 World Exhibition]] in [[Paris]] ...amlined, 85 [[horsepower]] (63 kW) car won the first three places, and the car is still better known by the nickname "Prince Henry" than by its name "Mode
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• 1000km Nürburgring
  The '''ADAC 1000km Nürburgring''' is an [[Endurance racing]] and [[Sports car racing]] event on the [[Nürburgring]] in Germany, organized by the [[ADAC] ...rburgring]] stayed on the legendary long track. In 1991, the 1000&nbsp;km races were first shortened to 480&nbsp;km, then discontinued overall due to the d
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• Bugatti Type 35
  ...ped radiator, and is regarded by many as the most-beautiful pre-war racing car. ...k. Bugatti organized the [[Targa Florio]] as a special spotlight for this car, and it claimed victory there for five consecutive years, from [[1925]] thr
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• Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/3
  The '''Alfa Romeo Tipo 33''' was a [[sports car racing]] prototype raced by the [[Alfa Romeo]] factory team between 1967 an ...s also used in the 1980s for the unrelated road car, [[Alfa Romeo 33 (road car)]].
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• Jean-Pierre Wimille
  Born in [[Paris, France]] to a father who loved motor sports and was employed as the motoring correspondent for the Petit Parisien newsp ...d [[French Grand Prix]]. Jean-Pierre Wimille died at the wheel of a racing car during practice runs for the 1949 [[Buenos Aires]] Grand Prix.
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