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• Wheel-driven land speed record
  ...d speed record''' differs from the [[land speed record|absolute land speed record]] in requiring that the vehicle be [[drive wheel|wheel-driven]]; thus, [[je ...rit of America]]''. Since then, no wheel-driven car has held the absolute record.
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• Henry Segrave
  ...was famous for setting three [[land speed record]]s and the [[water speed record]]. He was the first person to hold both the land and water speed records si ...lot. Major Segrave bragged that he would drive a car at over 200 miles per hour (320 km/h). People thought that the war had made him mad.
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• Track cycling
  ...organisation that runs recumbent races, including the human-powered speed record. ...'s position on the bike have also led to dramatic improvements in the hour record, but have also been a source of controversy (see [[Graeme Obree]]).
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• Malcolm Campbell
  ...the world speed record on [[Land Speed Record|land]] and on [[Water speed record|water]] at various times during the [[1920s]] and [[1930s]] using vehicles ==Land speed record==
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• Arctic Circle Raceway
  |Official lap record for motorbikes || 1.30.993. set by Oddgeir Havnen sun 08/04/2002 |Unofficial lap record for motorbikes || 1.28.928. set by [[Kai Børre Andersen]] on sun 06/17/200
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• W12
  ...covered at an average speed of 295.24 km/h (185.45 mph), breaking the old record by 12 km/h (7.5 mph). Production of the W12 Coupe was considered but is cur
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• Legnano Bike
  ...by the Legnano fans is that of Fausto Coppi setting the new record of the hour at the [[Vigorelli]] arena in [[Milan]], under enemy bombings. And of cours ...at the Olympics. Afterwards Baldini manages to break Coppi's record of the hour while riding a Legnano bike, a very special model with an extremely low wei
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• Sandown Raceway
  |Record time || 1.10.8251 |Record driver || [[Marcos Ambrose]]
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• Piero Taruffi
  ...o Leon and another 21 minutes off the Leon to [[Durango, Durango|Durango]] record. In the process he climbed from 12th to 3rd position. ...racing season. It was 14 years old at the time. He averaged 64.4 miles per hour in a [[Lancia]] 3,300.
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• Hydroplane racing
  ...tween 130 and 160 mph. The boats are from 20' up to 26'. The current speed record holder is Greg Hopp, son of Jerry Hopp, with a speed of 166. Unlimited Ligh ...epower to 50 horsepower with speeds from 30 miles per hour to 90 miles per hour. In the C Stock Class, the Yamato Motor Company engines used in [[kyōtei]
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• Paris-Brest-Paris
  ...generally prohibited except at designated checkpoints. There is a ninety hour time limit for the event, and the clock runs continuously. Many riders slee ...ours 22 minutes. Both riders had a number of flats that took as long as an hour to repair, but still enjoyed an obvious advantage over riders on solid tire
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• Georges Boillot
  ...ing close to breaking the 100 mile-an-hour barrier when he set a new speed record of 99.860 mph. Much faster than any other driver, Boillot would most likely
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• Milano-Torino
  ...the race when he won in 1999 at a speed of 45.75 kilometres per hour. The record for the most wins in Milano-Torino stands to the Italian [[Costante Girarde
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• Land speed record
  ...ight|[[ThrustSSC]], driven by [[Andy Green]], holds the current land speed record]] ...ord|motorcycle]]s fall into another, separate, class. The current absolute record holder is ''[[ThrustSSC]]'', a twin [[turbofan]]-powered car which achieved
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• Ron Haslam
  ==Career record== ...lso runner-up in the 1982 TT Formula One World series. He is a world speed record holder, after his efforts on the 500 Elf on a private, banked circuit in Fr
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• Coordinated Universal Time
  * Relating to the calculation of the hour: ...if a UTC clock is a drag one by changing your local computer clock: if UTC hour varies, it is a drag UTC clock.
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• Miller Motorsports Park
  |Record time || 2:18.128 |Record driver || [[Timo Bernhard]]
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• Al Unser
  ...ur. His quick pit stops were a factor in the victory. That season he won a record 10 times on oval, road and dirt tracks to capture the [[United States Auto ...o he tied Foyt as the winningest Indy 500 driver and broke brother Bobby's record as the oldest Indy winner.
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• Tom Kristensen
  ...im an eighth victory, making him the most winning driver at the Le Mans 24 hour race with 8 wins. ==Racing record==
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• Ollearo
  |Maximum speed || 90 kilometers per hour, average 65 km per hour ...w of Fine Arts in Turin in the winter of 1922. They built a [[scooter]] in record time with sophisticated engineering, was presented mounted on a bicycle fra
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• Oran Park Raceway
  ...Australian Grand Prix]]<br>[[Superbike World Championship]]<br>[[Castrol 6 Hour]] | Record time || 1:01.6718
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• Sprint car racing
  ...on some tracks. This speed often also makes it very dangerous. The safety record of sprint car racing in recent years has been greatly improved by the use o
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• Formula One racing
  ...a three-part knockout format, with multiple cars on track. The qualifying hour is split into three 15-minute sessions, with seven-minute breaks in between ..., a ''pre-qualifying'' session was introduced for the teams with the worst record over the previous 6 months, including all new teams. Only the four fastest
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• Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
  |Record time:||1'45.108 |Record driver:||[[Kimi Räikkönen]]
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• Jim Clark
  |Record || from January 1968 - May 1973 |Record || from September 1967 - May 1989
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• Indianapolis Motor Speedway
  ...or the fifth time, [[Formula One]] driver [[Michael Schumacher]] holds the record for most victories at the '''Indianapolis Motor Speedway''' between the '50 ...s called the "junk formula" to allow more entries during the depression. A record of 42 cars started the 1933 500. From 1934 onward, 33 drivers started the 5
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• Emanuele Pirro
  ...rmer [[Formula One]] driver and five time [[24 Hours of Le Mans|Le Mans 24 hour]] winner. ...powered car. Pirro was driving the [[Audi R10]] Diesel when it completed a record 380 laps of the La Sarthe circuit. The team repeated the feat the following
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• Silverstone Circuit
  |Record time || 1'18.739 |Record driver || [[Michael Schumacher]]
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• Tourist Trophy
  ...). Record holders include the late [[David Jefferies]] who set a then lap record of 127.29 mph (204.81 km/h) in 2002. This was surpassed by [[John McGuinne
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• Gilera
  ...shed the new World-wide Record of the hour (to 274,181 Km/h, [[established record]] in [[1937]]) and conquered the bay one in the European Championship of [[
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• Daytona International Speedway
  ...'''Driver'''!!'''Car Make'''!!'''Time'''!!'''Average Speed<br>([[Miles per hour|mph]])'''
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• Watkins Glen International
  |Record time || 1:29.1919 |Record driver || [[Hélio Castroneves]]
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• Nuerburgring
  |Record time:||1'29.468 |Record driver:||[[Michael Schumacher]]
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• Jacky Ickx
  ...[[Hans Herrmann]]/Larrouse and the Ford GT-40 of Ickx/Oliver. In the last hour, Ickx and Herrmann continuously leapfrogged each other, the Porsche being f In later years, Ickx won a record 6 times at the 24h race at Le Mans, becoming known as "Monsieur Le Mans". I
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• Ancillotti
  ...d in all of Europe, that the English importer invited the Ancillotti to a "Record Day. It took place on runways of an old military airport of the RAF at Elvi ...th standing start (29" 343 average speed 12 kmh), exit speed of 176 km per hour.
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• Auto Club Speedway
  |Record time || 241.426 [[miles per hour]] |Record driver || [[Gil de Ferran]]
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• 24 Hours of Le Mans
  ...to test a car and driver's ability to be quick, but also to last over a 24-hour period. ...p increase efficiency and reliability. Cars which could not last the first hour without having to replace lost fluids were disqualified.
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• Pinarello
  ...o d'Italia's, an Olympic victory, a world time trial championship, an hour record, and many other international victories.
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• Ludovico Scarfiotti
  ...1963. Their factory Ferrari achieved an average speed of 117.99 miles per hour over a distance of 2,832 miles. The victory was worth almost $20,000 in ...years to win the Grand Prix of Italy when he drove his Ferrari to a track record speed of
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• Martin Brundle
  ...th a record points haul, and won the 1990 [[24 hours of Le Mans|Le Mans 24 hour]] Race for [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]].
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• Culture
  ...ncorporates multiple regional styles of folk music as well as a burgeoning record industry that supports a wide variety of [[rock and roll|rock]], [[pop musi ...ariations on a few melodic [[phrases]], and a single song can last over an hour.
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• Milwaukee Mile
  ...and set the first track record with a 72 second, 50 mph lap. There were 24-hour endurance races in 1907 and 1908. Louis Disbrow won the first 100 mile even ...ldfield]]'s success at The Mile helped make him a legend. He set the track record in 1905 and raised his speed in 1910 to 70.159 mph in his "Blitzen Benz". I
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• Motorcycle Racing
  ''Main article'' [[Motorcycle land speed record]] ...d record for that class or type of bike for their name to be placed on the record books. See&mdash;[http://www.biker.co.nz/Reviews.asp?id=122] for an example
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• Stanguellini
  ...Watkins Glen when owned by Briggs Cunningham. It later held the land speed record for a 750cc car. ...er installed a Mercury outboard in the Stanguellini and won the land speed record for a 750cc car at Daytona Beach. The car was then sold or traded to Herm B
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• 24 Hours Nürburgring
  Just like the [[VLN]] series with its 4 hour races, the 24h race is mainly aimed at amateurs, in order to fill a startin ...m''Jürgen Alzen Motorsport'' was only one lap down and have beaten the old record, too. They used a conventional gear box and a privately built 3.8L 500PS en
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• Belgian Grand Prix
  ...new [[24 hours of Le Mans]] in France, the [[SPA 24 Hours]], a similar 24 hour endurance race, was run at the Spa track. ...52nd Grand Prix at Spa in [[2001]], surpassing [[Alain Prost]]'s all-time record of 51 wins. Schumacher also won his seventh World Drivers' Championship tit
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• Horsepower
  ...led a [[dynamometer]] car coupled behind the locomotive keeps a continuous record of the [[drawbar]] pull exerted, and the speed. From these, the power gene ...ead. Watt determined that a horse could turn a mill wheel 144 times in an hour (or 2.4 times a minute). The wheel was 12 feet in radius, thus in a minute
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• Diesel engine
  ...often used when an engine is shut down for extended periods (more than an hour) in cold weather to reduce startup time and engine wear. ...ypes of racing where these drawbacks are less severe, such as [[land speed record]] racing. [http://www.cumminsracing.com/ Diesel engined dragsters] even exi
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• Culture of Italy
  ...ncorporates multiple regional styles of folk music as well as a burgeoning record industry that supports a wide variety of [[rock and roll|rock]], [[pop musi ...ariations on a few melodic [[phrases]], and a single song can last over an hour.
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