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• Ted Horn
  ...a serious accident at the age of eighteen. The resolution held for three years, after which he began racing again. More serious accidents did not break h ...e entered that year. Further success came his way in the three subsequent years, giving him the [[American Championship Car Racing|National Championship]]
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• Car Information and Photos by Marque: S
  ! colspan=1 |'''Years in Business''' | [[Sighinolfi]] || 1940's - || || <font color=red>'''R'''</font>
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• Motorcycle Information and Photos by Marque: A
  ! colspan=1 |'''Years in Business''' | [[Aermoto]] || 1938 - 1940 || ||<font color=blue>'''S'''</font>
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• Henry Banks
  ...early European race-driver. Henry began competing in 1932, when he was 19-years-old, and became successful in the midget cars. ...napolis 500]] in 1936. He also drove as a relief driver in 1937, 1939, and 1940, with a 21st place finish in 1938.
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• Temperino
  ...ylinder engine, also emerging in 1908. This entered production a couple of years later as the 8-10HP with a 800cc engine (still V2 air-cooled) and productio ...1920's, and in 1925 ceased producing cars. The UK company continued until 1940.
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• Clemente Biondetti
  ...ndurance racing, driving to victory in the Mille Miglia for three straight years from 1947 through 1949 and the [[Targa Florio]] in 1948 and 1949. He won mo ...e was forced him to retire in 1954. He died early the following year at 57 years old.
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• Felice Nazzaro
  '''Felice Nazzaro''' ([[Turin]], [[Italy]], [[1881]] - [[March 21]], [[1940]]) was an [[italy|Italian]] [[racecar]] driver. He won the [[French Grand P ...utting no less than 3 hours between himself and the runner-up! A couple of years later an improved model, the Nizzaro Tipo 3 was released. The company organ
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• Motorcycle Information and Photos by Marque: P
  ! colspan=1 |'''Years in Business''' |[[Premoli]] || 1935 - 1940 || [[Varese]] || <font color=green>'''M'''</font>
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• Giuseppe Farina
  |Years:||1950 - 1955 ...driver at the outbreak of [[World War II]], and it would be another eight years before he would win a major race.
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• Fiat 29-40 HP
  | Production Years || 1907-1908 | Width || 1740/1940
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• Ferrari 125
  ...Although preceded by [[Enzo Ferrari]]'s [[Auto Avio Costruzioni 815]] of 1940, the 125 S was the first vehicle to bear the Ferrari name when it debuted o ...azing discovery of an old stamping that could very well read 01C. For many years it was covered by a layer of aluminum, which featured the 010I stamp. It wa
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• Chet Miller
  ![[1940 Indianapolis 500|1940]] ...hampionship from 1950 through 1960. Drivers competing at Indy during those years were credited with World Championship points and participation. Chet Miller
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• Car Information and Photos by Marque: M
  ! colspan=1 |'''Years in Business''' | [[Maserati]] || 1940 - || [[Modena]] ||<font color=red>'''R'''</font>
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• Bandini 1100
  ...importer italoamericano, I bought one, at the end of [[years 1940 | forty years]], rigorously painted red, which led to [[New York]] to run it in the categ
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• Di Blasi
  ...perform the necessary calculations to air navigation, which he achieved in 1940. Over the years this moped was then subject to continuous updates. His job opportunities ar
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• Grand Prix de la Marne
  ...he most prestigious events in racing, including during the [[Formula One]] years. ! 1940 - 1946
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• City car
  ...was the American-made [[Crosley]], a four passenger vehicle from the late 1940's. While many cars of the [[1960s]] are small enough to be considered city In addition, in the last few years some "true" city cars were released, like the '''[[Fiat Panda]]''' (2003),
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• Intermeccanica
  [[Image:Kubelwagen.jpg|right|thumb|250px|'''1940 Intermeccanica Kubelwagen''']] ...Intermeccanica developed the &laquo;Indra&raquo; (1971), followed by a few years assembling the [[Squire]] car.
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• Nino Farina
  |Years:||1950 - 1955 ...driver at the outbreak of [[World War II]], and it would be another eight years before he would win a major race.
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• René Dreyfus
  ...[[August 16]], [[1993]]) was a French driver who raced automobiles for 14 years in the [[1920]]s and [[1930]]s, the Golden Era of [[Grand Prix motor racing ...to win three consecutive [[French Riviera]] championships in the next five years. In [[1929]] he entered his first professional race, the inaugural [[Grand
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• International Motorsports Hall of Fame
  ...rson must be retired from their specialty in motorsports for at least five years unless approved on special means (age or worthy of special early induction) !Active years
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• Whitney Willard Straight
  ...ard Dickerman Straight]] and heiress [[Dorothy Payne Whitney]]. He was six years old when his father died in [[France]] of [[influenza]] during the [[Spanis Flying was his passion, and while 16 years old, still too young for a pilot's licence he had already achieved over 60
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• Zuri Metzgete
  ...t the longest continued existence of any of cyclings major races. For many years the event was held in early May, not an ideal date as the majority of the t ...at an average speed of 42.228 km/h, a record speed which stood for over 50 years. Spaniard Juan Antonio Flecha won the 2004 edition of the race in a record
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• Ferrari 125 S
  ...Although preceded by [[Enzo Ferrari]]'s [[Auto Avio Costruzioni 815]] of 1940, the 125 S was the first vehicle to bear the Ferrari name when it debuted o ...azing discovery of an old stamping that could very well read 01C. For many years it was covered by a layer of aluminum, which featured the 010I stamp. It wa
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• Enzo Ferrari
  ...ft, but a contract clause restricted him from racing or designing for four years. ...pany supplying parts to other racing teams. But in the [[Mille Miglia]] of 1940 the company manufactured two cars to compete, driven by [[Alberto Ascari]]
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• Ferrari Colombo engine
  ...homegrown engine would be a V12, and the same basic design would last many years, with development continuing long after original designer Colombo had been
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• Supercharger
  ...[[naturally-aspirated]] engine, has made something of a comeback in recent years due largely to the increased quality of the alloys and machining used in mo For the early years of the war this was simply how it was and this led to the seemingly odd fac
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• Paris-Brussels
  Before 1926, the race was always over 400km, but this has reduced over the years with 2004 being 225km, although as recently as 1987 the distance was 309km ...rg]], [[Mont Saint Roch]] and the [[Keperenberg]]. The race ended for many years in the [[Anderlecht]] district of [[Brussels]] outside the Constant Vanden
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• Milan-San Remo
  In the early years the main difficulty of the race was the [[Passo del Turchino]], but when cy ...stayed away. He credited his win to the lesson learned from the previous years' failed attempt, which was won by sprinter extraordinaire [[Mario Cipollini
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• Luigi Villoresi
  |Years || F1 1950 - 1956} ...rallies at the age of twenty-two with a [[Lancia|Lancia Lambda]] and a few years later acquired a [[Fiat|Fiat Balilla]] with which he and his brother Emilio
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• Swiss Grand Prix
  ...and Prix''' was the premier [[auto race]] of [[Switzerland]]. In its later years it was a [[Formula One]] race. ! 1946<br>-<br>1940
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• Pinarello
  ...aking of the Pinarello began in Catena di Villorba, towards the end of the 1940's. The roots of Pinarello can be traced back to the beginning of WW II. Thi ...hat boosted the fame and substance of the Pinarello reputation. After many years of team affiliations in the professional field, this was an instant and sen
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• Benelli
  Two years after that, using a version specially designed for competitions, Tonino the ...er [[supercharged]] 250cc racing bike. This was intended to compete in the 1940 season, building on Benelli's success in the [[1939 Isle of Man TT]]. With
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• Gianni Agnelli
  ...]], although he never practiced law. He joined a tank [[regiment]] in June 1940 when Italy entered [[World War II]]. He fought at the Russian front, being ...f which Rockefeller was chairman; Agnelli sat on this committee for thirty years. He was also a member of a syndicate with Rockefeller that for a time in th
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• Gilco
  At only 17 years Gilberto Colombo began working with his father for the development of facil '''1940'''
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• Luigi Chinetti
  | Years || 24hLM 1932 - 1935, 24hLM 1937 - 1939, 24hLM 1949 - 1953 ...o the United States of America with Dreyfus from the Ferrari team, for the 1940 [[Indy 500]]. He remained in the U.S. during the war, working for the Itali
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• List of Le Mans 24h winners
  ...e exception of 1936, where the race was not run due to worker strikes, and 1940 to 1948, due to [[World War II]]. Records for wins are also listed. ! 1948<br>to<br>1940
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• Ducati Singles
  ...Engineer Fabio Taglioni developed a [[desmodromic]] valve system in these years, a system that opens ''and'' closes the valves mechanically, without the ne ...une 1, 1935, the cornerstone of a factory in Borgo Panigale was laid. By [[1940]], the company was engaged in the manufacture of electronic equipment for t
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• Gino Bartali
  | Amateur years || 1931-1934 | Pro years || 1935-1952<br />
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• Mille Miglia
  ...ts cars like [[Alfa Romeo]], [[Ferrari]] (which debuted as a marque in the 1940 event), [[Maserati]] and also [[Porsche]] famous. ...fter an accident in 1938 killed a number of spectators. When it resumed in 1940 during war time, it was dubbed the Grand Prix of Brescia, and held on a 100
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• Alfa Romeo 158/159 Alfetta
  ...at the [[Coppa Acerbo]], [[Coppa Ciano]] and [[Tripoli Grand Prix]] in May 1940. Soon World War II stopped development of the car for six years. After the war the engine was developed further to push out 254&nbsp;bhp in
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• Pescara Grand Prix
  ...Premio di Pescara''). The race was run between 1924 and 1961 and over the years was held to a variety of vehicle class regulations and durations. In F1 195 ...uto Union]] would come to eclipse all their rivals for the subsequent five years. Although the race was again won by two Italian drivers during this time, i
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• Touring
  ...ed and has an extensive automotive design- and prototyping program for the years to come. It represents the continuation of a long and rich tradition of Ita * 1940 [[Auto Avio Costruzioni 815]]
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• Maserati 4CLT/50
  ...Championship in 1950. In the immediate post-war period, and the first two years of the Formula One category, the 4CLT was the car of choice for many privat ...tailed international competition. Villoresi took the 4CL to victory in the 1940 [[Targa Florio]], but with entry restricted to [[Axis powers of World War I
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• Mike Hailwood
  ! Active years ...hael Bailey Hailwood [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]]''' ([[April 2]] [[1940]] &ndash; [[March 23]] [[1981]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Grand P
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• Ronde van Vlaanderen
  ...rg and the Côte de Trieu, which were unavailable through roadworks in past years and the first ascent of the Eikenmolen. Spectators try to watch the Ronde p * [[1940]] - [[Achiel Buysse]] -- {{flagiconBEL}}
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• Maserati
  ...of [[Ferrari]] (a company in which [[Fiat]] has a majority stake) for some years. ...s sold their shares in the company to the [[Adolfo Orsi]] family, who in [[1940]] relocated the company headquarters to their hometown of [[Modena]], where
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• Grand Prix motor racing
  == The Pre-WW II years == ...all but three of the official Championship Grands Prix races run in those years. The cars by this time were single-seaters (the riding mechanic vanished in
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• Lancia Artena
  ...orinese]] in two periods, from [[the 1931]] to [[the 1936]] and from [[the 1940]] to [[the 1942]]. ...ep. The production seems to stop at the beginnig of [[the 1936]], but four years after, when by now also [[Italy]] is in order to enter in [[second war mond
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• Indianapolis Motor Speedway
  ...ther than the 500-mile that would be held on the grounds for seventy-eight years. ...ree-time winners, with Shaw also being the first back-to-back winner (1939-1940).
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