Search results

• John Elkann
  ...-term heir. Like his grandfather, John Elkann joined the Fiat board at the age of 22. ...nluigi Gabetti who had been chairman of IFIL. As "Jaki" Elkann is 29 years old, di Montezemolo is 56, and Gabetti is 79, Elkann is expected to become head
  1 KB (225 words) - 22:31, 26 September 2009
• Chanoch Nissany
  ...d a driver is still mentally committed and trains hard, Chanoch is not too old to achieve good results.{{fact}} He began his career in the [[2002]] [[Form
  3 KB (465 words) - 08:43, 8 October 2009
• Antique car
  ...tique car''' is generally defined as a [[automobile|car]] over 25 years of age, this being the definition used by the [[Antique Automobile Club of America ...fe of modern cars and an even greater increment on those cars now 25 years old; therefore, a car that's reached 25 is a rare survivor, and probably not ec
  5 KB (792 words) - 09:25, 7 October 2009
• Whitney Willard Straight
  ...ckerman Straight]] and heiress [[Dorothy Payne Whitney]]. He was six years old when his father died in [[France]] of [[influenza]] during the [[Spanish fl Flying was his passion, and while 16 years old, still too young for a pilot's licence he had already achieved over 60 hour
  5 KB (693 words) - 09:00, 8 October 2009
• Hermann Lang
  ...ce he entered and before long decided to compete in the sidecar class. At age twenty-two, he won the German sidecar mountain race championship. ...the Mercedes Grand Prix racing team in [[Argentina]] in 1951. In 1952, at age 43, he teamed up with [[Fritz Reiss]] to capture the [[24 hours of Le Mans]
  5 KB (779 words) - 18:25, 14 November 2010
• Lance Reventlow
  ...and Grant divorced on July 11, 1945 and two days later the then nine-year-old was abducted by his biological father and taken to [[Canada]] but later ret In 1948, at age 12, Reventlow was introduced to the world of [[Grand Prix motor racing]] wh
  4 KB (669 words) - 23:25, 2 October 2009
• Jean-Pierre Wimille
  ...developed his fascination with racing cars at a young age. He was 22 years old when he made his Grand Prix debut, driving a [[Bugatti]] 37A at the [[1930]
  4 KB (611 words) - 08:14, 8 October 2009
• Omer
  ...ng on holiday in France when I heard the unmistakable sound of a number of old motorcycles pulling into the village square. I ran up to see what was happe ...ed it was recently imported from Italy, unrestored, and with the patina of age and neglect a hundred youthful owners had bestowed on it for 40 years. Woul
  6 KB (1,027 words) - 20:22, 11 April 2011
• Philippe de Rothschild
  ...von Weissweiller (1872-1926). At the outbreak of [[World War I]], 12-year-old Philippe was sent to the safety of the family's vineyard in the village of ...ho revolutionized winemaking in the 20th century. He was only twenty years old when he took over the operations of the [[Château Mouton Rothschild]] vine
  10 KB (1,561 words) - 18:31, 25 September 2009
• TM
  ...ir lives in direct contact with the world of motorcycles. At just 12 years old, already working in car and motorcycle workshops, [[Flenghi]] in particular
  5 KB (854 words) - 12:37, 20 April 2010
• Grasstrack
  Riders can start in Grasstrack racing at a young age (6 years old in the UK). Junior Grasstrack clubs cater for riders with [[motocross]] bik
  6 KB (969 words) - 08:53, 7 October 2009
• Briggs and Stratton
  ...state ignition]] system, introduced by B&S in [[1981]], eliminated the age-old [[Contact breaker|points]] and [[heat exchanger|condenser]] setup that had
  6 KB (905 words) - 08:43, 8 October 2009
• Dani Pedrosa
  ...h he used to race with his friends. Pedrosa experienced real racing at the age of 11, when he entered the Spanish Minibike Championship and ended his debu ...six podium finishes. A week after winning the championship, eighteen year old Pedrosa broke both of his ankles in a practice crash at Phillip Island (Aus
  20 KB (2,708 words) - 12:15, 8 October 2009
• Lada
  ...to invest adequately in product and service development. By the 1990's the age of the basic Riva design was showing more than ever. Not even sub-£5,000 p ...mechanical design. But many budget-conscious buyers simply stuck with the old Riva, which many would argue was actually a better car (despite its ancient
  6 KB (944 words) - 12:02, 8 October 2009
• Giuseppe Campari
  ...participation in competitive [[hillclimbing]] events. In 1914 the 21-year-old rookie showed his abilities with a fourth place finish at the [[Targa Flori ...i]]. Campari won his second French Grand Prix driving for Maserati, but at age 41 was ready to retire at the end of the season. The [[Italian Grand Prix]]
  6 KB (926 words) - 10:25, 23 October 2009
• Italian wine
  ...as created for the "new" wines of Italy, those that had broken the strict, old wine laws but were wines of great quality. Before the IGT was created, qua ...y yield is elegant, dark, and full of raisinated fruits. Some Amarones can age for 40+ years.
  16 KB (2,471 words) - 15:51, 3 October 2009
• Wheel
  ...with the other technological advances that gave rise to the early [[Bronze Age]]. Note that this implies the passage of several wheel-less millennia even ...he difficult relief, wheeled vehicles were forbidden in [[history of Tibet|old Tibet]].
  13 KB (1,944 words) - 12:16, 8 October 2009
• Mike Hailwood
  ...ung Hailwood was raised in relative affluence. He began riding at an early age, starting on a minibike as a small boy. He learned to ride in an eight-acre ...d the following year at the Isle of Man TT before retiring for good at the age of 39. He retired with 76 Grand Prix victories, 14 Isle of Man TT wins and
  12 KB (1,661 words) - 08:31, 8 October 2009
• Ferrari 348
  ...ound some turns when all 4 tires were not identical in tire-model and tire-age. Its "break away" characteristic was then abrupt and difficult to catch onc
  6 KB (876 words) - 07:45, 14 October 2009
• Chiribiri
  ...ring and [[automobile manufacturer]] in [[Turin]] in 1910 when the 45 year old [[Venice|Venetian]] Antonio 'Papa' Chiribiri founded ''Fabrica Torinese Vel * [http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/gpw2.htm The Golden Age by Leif Snelllman]
  7 KB (1,082 words) - 07:47, 10 April 2011
• Motobi
  [[Giuseppe Benelli]] passed away in 1957 at the age of 78, leaving his sons, Marco and Luigi, to grapple with the task of keep ...r all, I still had all the jigs and patterns from when I built them in the old days, so restarting production didn't entail much preparation."He also has
  16 KB (2,640 words) - 11:43, 21 July 2012
• Ferdinand Porsche
  .... He got a recommendation for a job at [[Bela Egger]] in [[Vienna]] at the age of 18. After work, he sneaked into university classes; he never received an ...bombings of Stuttgart. The company started building the Porsche 356 in the old saw mill in Gmünd and 49 were built, entirely by hand.
  9 KB (1,290 words) - 10:25, 27 September 2009
• Ferrari 212
  ...i. Amazingly, Markowski had purchased the first 340 America, at the tender age of fifteen. ...p on the same 340 America which Markowski would purchase as a fifteen year old enthusiast. In rapid succession, Marzotto had Fontana put a shooting brake
  11 KB (1,668 words) - 11:02, 4 May 2010
• Ferrari 250 GTO
  ...he last front-engined cars to be truly competitive at such a level. In the age before vintage racing, the 250GTO faced the same fate as any other racing c ...sirability. There was also something of a paradigm shift; instead of being old but lovable racing cars, well-heeled collectors ([[Ralph Lauren]] among the
  8 KB (1,288 words) - 13:44, 5 July 2010
• Casey Stoner
  Stoner's family moved him to [[England]] at a young age to further his racing career outside of Australia. He contested the nationa ...s forced to miss much of the latter half of the pre-season testing when an old dirt bike shoulder injury flared up. However, after surgery he was cleared
  14 KB (2,363 words) - 12:15, 8 October 2009
• Gilles Villeneuve
  ...One]] racing driver. An enthusiast of cars and fast driving from an early age, he started his professional career in [[snowmobile]] racing in his native ...27 years old and took two years off his age to avoid being considered too old to make it at the highest level of motorsports.
  29 KB (4,430 words) - 20:19, 4 November 2009
• Automobile racing
  ...Raceway.JPG|thumb|250px|right|One of the most famous NASCAR tracks was the old [[Riverside International Raceway]] in [[Riverside, California]].]] ...Prix took up the sport at around the age of eight, with some testing from age three. Several former motorcycle champions have also taken up the sport, no
  17 KB (2,615 words) - 21:45, 26 September 2009
• Automobile safety
  ...ally at risk. In the workplace, 45% of all fatal injuries to workers under age 18 between 1992 and 2000 in the United States resulted from transportation ...ls and jurisdictions recommend or require that children under a particular age, height, and/or weight ride in a [[child seat]] and/or in the back seat, as
  22 KB (3,293 words) - 22:58, 15 November 2009
• Motor racing
  ...Raceway.JPG|thumb|250px|right|One of the most famous NASCAR tracks was the old [[Riverside International Raceway]] in [[Riverside, California]].]] ...Prix took up the sport at around the age of eight, with some testing from age three. Several former motorcycle champions have also taken up the sport, no
  17 KB (2,720 words) - 08:27, 8 October 2009
• Luciano Pavarotti
  ...iovanni Martinelli]], [[Tito Schipa]] and [[Enrico Caruso]]. At around the age of nine he began singing with his father in a small local church choir. Als ...y, the agreement being that Pavarotti would have free room and board until age 30, after which time, if he had not succeeded, he would earn a living by an
  24 KB (3,757 words) - 18:52, 25 September 2009
• Capriolo
  ...other changes. At this time Aero Caproni decided also to take part at the age sport races for to give promotional support at commercial bike. Born a spec ...ctober the engineer Giovanni Caproni disappear at the age of only 71 years old and the Aero Caproni, given to Trentino region, has a societary reorganizat
  23 KB (3,832 words) - 09:44, 14 April 2011
• Castagna
  ...the era. The motorcar becomes the unquestionable symbol of the industrial age that characterised the end of the 19th Century. ...is present at one of the most important international trade fairs, and the old facility situated in via della [[Chiusa]] is totally refurbished in line wi
  11 KB (1,750 words) - 10:44, 18 December 2009
• Phil Hill
  ...g as a mechanic on other drivers' cars. Hill began racing cars at an early age, going to [[England]] as a [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]] trainee in 1949 and sign ...d retrospective articles on historic cars and races. He shared his "grand old man" status at R&T with '60s racing rival [[Paul Frère]], who also died in
  18 KB (2,494 words) - 09:50, 6 November 2009
• Tazio Nuvolari
  ...olari started out in [[Motorcycle sport|motorcycle racing]] in 1920 at the age of 27. In 1925 he captured the [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing Europ Nuvolari gained his license for motorcycle racing in 1915 at the age of 23. His motorcycling career was postponed, however, by the outbreak of [
  26 KB (3,975 words) - 09:47, 23 October 2009
• Race car
  ...Raceway.JPG|thumb|250px|right|One of the most famous NASCAR tracks was the old [[Riverside International Raceway]] in [[Riverside, California]].]] ...Prix took up the sport at around the age of eight, with some testing from age three. Several former motorcycle champions have also taken up the sport, no
  20 KB (3,085 words) - 20:44, 2 October 2009
• Ancient Rome
  ...rs usually began seeking husbands for their daughters when they reached an age between twelve and fourteen. The husband was almost always older than the b ...ut [[Greek language|Greek]] and Roman literature and grammar in school. At age 16, some students went on to [[rhetoric]] school. Poorer people did not go
  37 KB (5,640 words) - 08:03, 1 October 2009
• History of Naples
  ...e [[Greek language]]). The original Parthenope came to be called, simply, "old city"--''Palaepolis''. The two separate cities grew into a single unit in t ...name; he paved other roads, strengthened and expanded the walls, restored old buildings, and erected new buildings and fortresses, essentially turning th
  18 KB (2,855 words) - 08:25, 8 October 2009
• Octopussy
  ...e, as he was 55 years old at the time of filming, and many felt he was too old to play James Bond. He originally announced that he would retire, but retu
  18 KB (2,857 words) - 23:18, 3 November 2009
• Motorcycle speedway
  ...al Championship'' This competition is for Swedish riders under 21 years of age. 36 riders are drawn into two Semi-Finals, with the four lowest-ranked ride ...ding a Danish passport, a valid DMU licence, and who are under 21 years of age on [[1 January]] in the year of the competition. Riders wishing to compete
  34 KB (5,397 words) - 08:53, 7 October 2009
• Cinema of Italy
  ...ty, with a heavy dose of formal [[morality]] reflecting the culture of the age; the genre was called of ''Telefoni Bianchi'' (white telephones), by the co ...The sad, bitter '''[[Umberto D.]]''' ([[1952]]), the touching story of an old poor man with his little dog, that life forces to beg for alms against his
  13 KB (1,899 words) - 15:06, 23 January 2011
• Mario Andretti
  ...do not wikilink to it --> in [[Ancona, Italy]] when he was thirteen years old. He had a fond childhood memory of watching a stretch of the [[Mille Miglia ...car on oval [[dirt track racing|dirt tracks]] near Nazareth in 1959 in the old [[Hudson Motor Car|Hudson]]. They did not tell their parents that they were
  83 KB (11,983 words) - 13:02, 11 May 2010
• Damon Hill
  ...ely late: he began [[motorcycle racing|racing motorcycles]] in 1983 at the age of 23. The following year he won the 350 cc Clubman's cup at [[Brands ...h of his father in a plane crash in 1975 when Damon was only 15 years old left the Hill family in drastically changed circumstances; Hill worked as a
  37 KB (5,569 words) - 23:18, 2 October 2009
• Alain Prost
  ...he [[McLaren]] Formula One team in [[1980 Formula One season|1980]] at the age of 25. He finished in the points on his Formula One debut and took his firs ...r or a professional footballer before he discovered [[kart racing]] at the age of 14 while on a family holiday. This new sport quickly became his career o
  60 KB (8,909 words) - 11:41, 8 October 2009
• Car classification
  ...educing visibility for other road users) and may help access for the [[old age|elderly]] or [[disability|disabled]]. They also offer more seats and increa
  15 KB (2,077 words) - 10:50, 8 October 2009
• Michele Alboreto
  At the age of 24, Alboreto made his [[Formula One]] debut at the [[1981 San Marino Gra ..., and finishing in fifth position during the race did not help the 32-year-old's cause. He also finished 3rd at the next race in Mexico.
  61 KB (8,703 words) - 08:18, 28 October 2009
• Casino Royale (2006 film)
  ...have one for him to read so he turned it down. By August 2005, the 37-year-old Daniel Craig was still considered by many to be in the running and by some ...Craig will mark the first time that 007 is portrayed by an actor under the age of 40 since 1969's ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)|On Her Majest
  38 KB (6,030 words) - 17:53, 10 March 2010
• A View to a Kill
  ...an into 007 and the two retired to a nearby spa where they reminisce about old times. Pola snuck out on Bond, and to her dismay, she took the wrong audio ...reflecting on the issue of his age, “Looking back I realised I did look as old as I felt”.
  21 KB (3,467 words) - 23:31, 3 November 2009
• Siata
  ...nd [[Jack Brown]] enough for all his help with the car. Although really an old hot rodder at heart his patience wisdom and depth of knowledge of all thing ...arly 1980s--one of those evocative photos of the era, depicting that great age of barn finds. Photo Dave Dubrul
  16 KB (2,726 words) - 23:22, 7 February 2011
• Alfa Romeo P3
  ...fter lap. He was eventually pursued by Phillipe Étancelin driving his year-old [[Maserati 8CM]] until a mid-race accident sidelined the charging [[Maserat ...matched for well over a half-century – winning his first grand prix at the age of 23 years, 314 days.
  24 KB (3,787 words) - 21:43, 24 March 2010
• ...nship. He also competed that year in the Formula Ford Euro Cup, and by the age of twenty, he had won the [[British Formula Renault Championship|British Fo ...all season. McLaren also announced that they would see out the season with old MP4-17D chassis and would not bring out the MP4-18 as had been announced ea
  56 KB (8,794 words) - 10:32, 19 June 2016

View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)