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• Branca
  ...tion as Buscate.jpg|thumb|right|250px|'''Moretti Branca under construction in Buscate''' [http://www.VeloceToday.com <small>source</small>] ]] == 1952 -1978 ==
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• Elmeca-Gilera
  == 1976 - 1978 == ...he production of a series of new models for the races, in 1974. Meanwhile, in 1973, the marque '''Elmec''' was born and the basis for the merger of the t
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• Suzuka 8 Hours
  ...oad Race)'' is an endurance motorcycle race held at the [[Suzuka Circuit]] in [[Japan]] each year. As the name implies, the race runs for eight hours co The race began in 1978 as a race for prototype [[Isle of Man TT|Tourist Trophy]] Formula One (TT-F
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• Mugello Circuit
  ...''' ({{lang|it|''Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello''}}) is a race track in the [[Mugello region]] of [[Italy]] near [[Florence]]. Its length is 5.245 ...21 September 2008. However, the race had to be cancelled due to the delay in building the new chassis for the new race cars.
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• Grand Prix of Rome
  ...'''1947-present:''' Gran Premio di Roma)'' was an [[automobile race]] held in [[Rome]], [[Italy]] from 1925 until 1991. ...rand Prix was run to [[Formula One]] rules, but neither event was included in the World Championship.
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• United States Grand Prix West
  ...Beach, California|Long Beach]], [[California]], as a [[Formula 5000]] race in 1975 and a [[Formula One]] world championship event from 1976 to 1983. Afte ...ng right-hander) down Shoreline Drive along the harbor. In the final event in [[1983]], [[John Watson (racing driver)|John Watson]] won from 22nd place o
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• 1978 Monaco Grand Prix
  ...]] [[Monaco Grand Prix]]''' was a [[Formula One]] race held on [[7 May]] [[1978]] at [[Circuit de Monaco|Monaco]]. |Year of race || 1978
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• Malaysian Grand Prix
  ...his was to distinguish it from the [[United States Grand Prix West]], held in [[Long Beach, California]] from [[1976]] through [[1983]]. ...n Senna]] overcame a tire puncture to win his first of five American races in six years.
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• Maserati Kyalami
  |Length || 181 in (4598 mm) |Width || 72.8 in (1848 mm)
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• Maserati Bora
  | Production || 1971-1978 (Bora 4.7)<br>289 produced ...oupe]] powered by a [[V8 engine]] mounted amidships. Produced from 1971 to 1978, it had a top speed of 174 - 177 mph.
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• Lancia Montecarlo
  |Class || [[Sports car]] ...[[MR layout|mid-engined]] [[sports car]] which was produced by [[Lancia]] in [[Italy]] from 1975 to 1982.
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• Pininfarina
  ...ta "Pinin" Farina]] (Following the company, his surname became Pininfarina in 1961, as a result of combining his nickname and surname). ...r 3,000 people in subsidiary company offices throughout Europe, as well as in Morocco and China.
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• Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet
  ...Internacional [[Nelson Piquet]]''' {do Rio de Janeiro}") is a race course in [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]] which hosted the [[Brazilian Grand Prix]] 10 The circuit was built in [[1978]] on reclaimed [[marshland]], thus the course is quite flat with little ele
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• De Tomaso Deauville
  |Wheelbase || 2770 mm (109.1 in) |Length || 4851 mm (191 in)
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• Alfa Romeo 177
  ...]]. (The car's name is derived from the fact that the design was commenced in 1977). ...Formula One, 28 years after winning the World Drivers' Championship titles in 1950 and 1951.
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• Ferrari 312
  ...fferent [[Ferrari]] race cars which have 3 litre 12-cylinder engines, both in V12 and 180° flat boxer shape. ...e are their 1966 to 1980 [[Formula One]] cars, and also their 1969 to 1973 sports prototypes of the [[Ferrari P]] series, using modified engines.
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• Covini
  | Class || [[Sports car]] | Wheelbase || 108.3&nbsp;in (2750&nbsp;mm)
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• Oran Park Raceway
  ...to racing|motor racing]] circuit at [[Narellan, New South Wales|Narellan]] in southwestern [[Sydney]], [[Australia]]. Most of the circuit is visible from ...[[Frank Matich]]'s outright time set in a 2.6 litre [[Lotus Cars|Lotus]] [[Sports Car]].
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• Countach
  |Class:||[[Sports car]] ...t pioneer but did popularise the wedge-shaped, sharply angled look popular in many high performance cars since.
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• Fiat 124 Sport Spider
  ...m along with a shorter wheelbase. Fiat designed and manufactured the Coupé in-house while the Spider's [[monocoque]] was designed and produced by Italia ...bber timing belts, an innovation that would come into nearly universal use in the decades after its introduction.
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• Luigi Colani
  ...ustrial designer]] whose father came from [[Madulain]] near [[St. Moritz]] in [[Switzerland]] and mother from [[Poland]]. ...been built, "a whole host of futuristic concepts that will have us living in pods and driving cars so flat that leg amputation is the only option."
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• Lamborghini Countach
  |Class:||[[Sports car]] ...t pioneer but did popularise the wedge-shaped, sharply angled look popular in many high performance cars since.
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• AMA Superbike
  ...ake Zemke]] (98) leading [[Ben Bostrom]] (155) and [[Miguel Duhamel]] (17) in an AMA Superbike race at [[Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca]]]] ...have started when the AMA first organized road racing in the United States in 1934.
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• Canadian Grand Prix
  ...1961-1977<br/>[[Mont-Tremblant]] 1968-1970<br/>[[Circuit Île Notre-Dame]] 1978-1981<br/>'''[[Circuit Gilles Villeneuve]] (1982-)''' ...]] the Canadian Grand Prix moved to its current home on [[Île Notre-Dame]] in [[Montreal]].
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• Austrian Grand Prix
  The first event, in [[1964]], was held at a [[race track]] on the [[Zeltweg Airfield]]. The rac ...o located near [[Zeltweg]]). These events were moderately successful, but in [[1987]], this track was also deemed too dangerous, by FIA standards, where
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• Lancia Stratos
  |Class || [[Sports car|Sports]]/[[Rally car]] ...allying|rally]] car during the 1970s and early 1980s. It started a new era in rallying as it was the first car designed from scratch for this kind of com
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• Ferrari 512 S
  ...[[1970]] and [[1971]], then withdrawn from competition following a change in the regulations. ...;cc. However, in the specific case of [[Le Mans]] racing cars, regulations in those days restricted maximum displacement to 5.0&nbsp;L (the Ferrari 512 r
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• Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza
  [[Image:2june2006 309.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Photo of Army Parade in [[Rome]], [[2 june]] [[2006]], [[Republic Day]]. NOCS special groups]] ...he Anti-Terrorist Bureau to improve its capabilities. This change resulted in the formation of [[SISMI]] (military intelligence), [[SISDE]] (civilian int
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• Bertone
  ...cia]], [[Lamborghini]], [[Mercedes Benz]] and [[Volvo Cars]] among others. In addition the Bertone studio were responsible for two of the later designs o ...ompany is based in [[Turin]]. It was founded as '''Carrozzeria Bertone''' in [[1912]] by [[Giovanni Bertone]], with designer [[Nuccio Bertone]] taking o
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• V6
  ...ine|V]]" configuration. It is the second most common engine configuration in modern cars after the [[straight-4]]; it shares with that engine a compactn ...ia Aurelia]], other manufacturers took note and soon other V6 engines were in use. The design really took off after the 1962 introduction of the [[Buick
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• Ground effect
  ...car design, which has been exploited to create [[downforce]], particularly in racing cars. This has been the successor to the earlier dominant aerodynami ...[[1960s]] 'wings', or inverted [[airfoil|aerofoil]]s, were routinely used in the design of racing cars to increase downforce, but this is ''not'' ground
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• Dallara
  ...rmula 3]] since 1993. Dallara also is the chassis used by almost all teams in the [[Indy Racing League]] and all teams of [[GP2 Series]]. ...ampionship ever since. Dallara had a brief involvement in [[Formula 3000]] in the mid 1980s.
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• Run flat tires
  ...at sports cars with little room for spare tires and jacks. They have grown in popularity for other vehicles, such as high-end luxury cars, because of the costing double the price of sports tires.
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• List of Formula One records
  ...n|1950]]. '''Bold''' entries indicate the record-holder is still competing in Formula One. ...[List of Formula One driver records#Most wins in first championship season|In first season]]{{·}} [[List of Formula One driver records#Youngest winners|
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• Alfa Romeo Alfasud
  It was built at a new factory at [[Pomigliano d'Arco]] in southern Italy, hence the car's name, ''Alfa Sud'' (Alfa South) and develop It was shown at the [[Turin]] Motor Show in 1971 and was immediately praised by journalists for its styling (by [[Giorg
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• Ferrari 512
  ...ng a change in the regulations, and some 512 in private hands were entered in [[CanAm]] and [[Interserie]] races. ...orts car championship and [[24 hours of Le Mans]] racing cars, regulations in those days restricted maximum displacement to 5.0&nbsp;L. The Ferrari 512 d
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• Niki Lauda
  | Video || '''Lauder in an Brabham-[[Alfa Romeo]] BT46 at [[Zolder]]''' '''Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda''' (born February 22, 1949 in [[Vienna]]) is an [[Austria]]n [[aviator]], [[entrepreneur]], former [[Form
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• Puma Rome
  ...uma" at the price of 1,300,000 lire with motor preparation or 440,000 lire in mounting kit. A copy of the Buggy "Puma" in 1974 was the protagonist of the film "Altrimenti ci arrabbiamo" played by B
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• Omer
  ...[Reggio Emilia]]. It was an [[Italian]] brand that in 1968 began producing sports [[mopeds]] with a 48 cc ''FB [[Minarelli]]'' two stroke engine. ...when it stopped I saw the Moto Morini decal on the tank. Now I’ve owned a 1978 Moto Morini 31/2 from new but I didn’t know they’d made anything this s
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• Formula 2
  ...pe of [[formula racing]]. It was replaced by [[Formula 3000]] in 1985, but in 2009 the [[Formula Two]] name returns. The 2009 FIA Formula Two Championshi ...o racing, the high performance nature of the cars and the expense involved in the series has always meant a need for a path to reach this peak. For much
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• Ronde van Vlaanderen
  ...''Tour of Flanders'') is a [[Road bicycle racing|road cycling race]] held in [[Flanders]], [[Belgium]]. It is held every spring, exactly one week befor ...]] [[Steffen Wesemann]] climbing the Muur ''(wall)'' of [[Geraardsbergen]] in the 2004 edition of the Ronde van Vlaanderen.]]
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• American Championship Car Racing
  ...is 500]] has been a round of the National Championship since its inception in 1911. ...|AAA]]). AAA introduced the first championship for racing cars as early as in 1905 but it was cancelled after a couple of serious incidents. Barney Oldfi
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• Mike Hailwood
  ...g one of the few men to compete at the Grand Prix level on motorcycles and in auto racing. ...ted at [[Pangbourne College]], but left early and worked for a short time in the family business before his father sent him to work at Triumph motorcycl
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• Hatchback
  ...y doors and the hatch) or five-door (four entry doors and the hatch) cars. In Europe, [[city car]]s, [[supermini car|superminis]], and [[small family car ...ertical, to reduce the car's footprint. This is an important consideration in countries where small streets and traffic congestion are factors. Hatchback
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• Maserati Quattroporte
  In the early 1960s, Maserati's reputation was at a high. With growing sales, P It was equipped with a 4.1&nbsp;L (4136&nbsp;cc/252&nbsp;in³) [[V8 engine]], producing 256&nbsp;hp ([[horsepower#hp (SAE)|SAE]]) (191&
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• Tourist Trophy
  Motor racing began on the Isle of Man in 1904 with the Gordon Bennett car trials. ...he TT race series the most significant motor-cycle road-racing competition in the world.
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• Thierry Boutsen
  ...[[WilliamsF1|Williams]], [[Ligier]] and [[Jordan Grand Prix|Jordan]] teams in [[Formula One]]. ...Michele Alboreto]]. In 1981 he moved to [[Formula 2]] and was again second in the championship, this time behind [[Geoff Lees]]. The 1981 24 Hours of Le
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• Osella
  |colspan=2|'''Osella PA27 in Action''' ...mula One]] team based in Volpiano near [[Turin]], Italy. They participated in 132 [[Grand Prix]]s between 1980 and 1990. They achieved two point finishes
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• 1000km Nürburgring
  ...[Endurance racing]] and [[Sports car racing]] event on the [[Nürburgring]] in Germany, organized by the [[ADAC]] since 1953. ...the race was not held in the following two years. It became quite popular in the 1960s and 1970s though, and even more so after [[Formula One]] decided
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• List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions
  ...World Champions '''[[Grand Prix motorcycle racing]]''', from 1949 to 2005, in order of year and [[engine displacement]]. ...rld Champions''', from [[1949 in sports|1949]] to [[2007 in sports|2007]], in order of year and [[engine displacement]].
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