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• Ron Haslam
  ...d racing|road racer]] who has been racing for over 30 years, winning three World titles, four British championships and ridden in almost 110 GPs. ...Flying kilometre, the Standing Start mile and Standing Start 10 kilometre records
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• Minarelli
  ...orld championships. Among the titles from this period are some world speed records still unbeaten.
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• Parmalat
  ...ons include almost 140 production centers. Over 36,000 workers around the world collect Parmalat pay packets, and 5,000 Italian [[dairy]] [[farm]]s are dep ...as an eight billion [[euro]] hole was discovered in Parmalat's accounting records.
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• Alberto Ascari
  ...ers' Champions|World Champion]]. He is one of only two Italian Formula One World Champions in the history of the sport. == Formula One/World Championship career ==
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• Oran Park Raceway
  ...|| [[V8 Supercar]]<br>[[Australian Grand Prix]]<br>[[Superbike World Championship]]<br>[[Castrol 6 Hour]] ...8 and 1989, Oran Park played host to Australia's rounds of the [[Superbike World Championship]].
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• List of Formula One driver records
  ...rmula One#Distinction between Formula One and World Championship races|FIA World Championships]], since [[1950 Formula One season|1950]]. Drivers who compet !style="background:darkred"|'''Driver records'''
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• Austrian Grand Prix
  == Records == Only includes World Championship events
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• Barber Motorsports Park
  ...cles and racecars. It is considered the largest motorsports museum in the world.{{Fact|date=December 2007}} The racecars includes Lotus and other internati ==Track records==
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• Hellé Nice
  ...d Prix race at the racetrack in [[Montlhéry]] in the process setting a new world land speed record for women. Capitalizing on her fame, the following year s ...cle and a month later, racing in Europe came to a halt with the onset of [[World War II]]. In 1943, in the middle of the [[Germany|German]] occupation of Fr
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• Motorcycle Museums
  ...um in New York broke all attendance records with this show of fifty of the world's finest and rarest bikes. Introduction, good pictures and descriptions. ...e most significant bikes in the history of motorcycle production, from the world's first motorized bike, the Michaux-perreaux Steam velocipede (1868-71), to
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• Narain Karthikeyan
  ...x|Jordan]] team. He is often given the title of "The Fastest Indian in the World". ...is season also included two pole positions, three fastest laps and two lap records, helping him to 6th in the championship out of 30 drivers. He also competed
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• Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez
  ...pionship race. The following year the [[Mexican Grand Prix]] became a full World Championship event. The circuit remained part of the F1 calendar through 1 | [[1980 CART World Series season|1980]]
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• Milwaukee Mile
  ...on]], [[United States Automobile Club|USAC]], [[NASCAR]], CART/[[Champ Car World Series]]), and the [[Indy Racing League]]. There have also been many races ==Records==
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• Moto Morini
  ...cles, and at the age of sixteen, opened a workshop. This was just before [[World War I]] broke out. During the war he was with the 8th Motorcycles Unit, sta .... (These records were not bettered for twenty years.) In 1933 he set a new world speed record for 175&nbsp;cc motorcycles of 162&nbsp;km/h.
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• Tourist Trophy
  ...ace series the most significant motor-cycle road-racing competition in the world. ...1976 the race was part of the [[Grand Prix motorcycle racing|Motorcycling World Championship]] and was the home of the British Grand Prix until 1976. The m
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• Aermacchi
  ...s mainly known for aircraft and motorcycle manufacturing. After the end of World War II, the company changed its name to ''Società Commerciale Aeronautica' ...by 75 cm ₃, which, ridden by [[Massimo Pasolini]], received the world speed record at the [[flying kilometer]], reaching 167.208 km/h on the [[Au
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• Luigi Colani
  ...everything angular? I am going to pursue Galileo Galilei's philosophy: my world is also round.'' &mdash;&nbsp;Luigi Colani ;1959: The world's first monocoque sports car: [[BMW]] 700
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• Columbus
  ...and highly motivated, Angelo Luigi brought the company through the Second World War and the revival, constantly developping his technological equipment, ma ...Columbus placed its experience at the service of Moser for its Time Trial records, then passing through Oersted to Rominger. MAX (1987) was the first tube-se
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• Cabi-Cattaneo
  ...ive applications. His design and manufacturing skills were demonstrated in World War One, with the extensive use of his unique designs in Italian Air Force ...eronautical development". Eng. Guido, his son, holder of several motorboat records, has been a most valuable technician as well, and, following his father's t
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• Ferdinand Porsche
  ...[[Daimler]] and [[Panhard]] provided enough power to win additional speed records. In [[1905]], Porsche won the [[Poetting prize]] as Austria's outstanding a ...rdinand, the crown prince of Austria whose assassination sparked off the I World War.
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• ...pionship race. The following year the [[Mexican Grand Prix]] became a full World Championship event. The circuit remained part of the F1 calendar through 1 | [[1980 CART World Series season|1980]]
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• Panamerican Highway
  ...cording to ''[[Guinness World Records]]'', the Pan-American Highway is the world's longest "motorable road". However, because of the [[Darién Gap]], it is ...ted States and the Panama Canal). Both of these sections were built during World War II as a means of supply of remote areas without danger of attack by [[U
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• Clay Regazzoni
  ...ate [[Jacky Ickx]] and the late [[Jochen Rindt]], who posthumously won the world championship that year.
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• Jim Clark
  ...tland|Scottish]] [[Formula One]] (F1) [[Auto racing|racing driver]]. Twice World Champion, he was the dominant driver of his era. ...e. 1962 saw Clark battling [[Graham Hill]] who drove for [[BRM]] for the [[World Championship]] in Chapman's brilliant [[Lotus 25]], but in the final race a
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• Auto Club Speedway
  ...ionwide Series]]'''<br>[[Stater Brothers 300]]<br>[[Ameriquest 300|Camping World 300]] presented by RVs.com<br>'''NASCAR [[Craftsman Truck Series]]'''<br>[[ ...r fastest lap at {{convert|241.426|mi/h|km/h|3|abbr=on}}. This was also a world speed record for the fastest lap of a closed course.
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• World Rally Championship
  ! colspan=2 |'''World Rally Championship''' | Current season || 2009 World Rally Championship season
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• Pasta
  ...homogeneous compounds made up of flour and water. The [[Jerusalem Talmud]] records that ''itrium'', a kind of boiled dough, was common in Palestine from the 3 As pasta is introduced elsewhere in the world, it has been incorporated into a number of local cuisines that may have sig
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• Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
  ...opularly referred to as the Corkscrew, is considered one of the motorsport world's most challenging turns, due to the drop in elevation as well as its blind ...renamed 'Rainey Curve' in honor of 500cc [[Grand Prix motorcycle racing]] World Champion [[Wayne Rainey]], a resident of nearby [[Salinas, California]]. Al
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• Bugatti Type 35
  ...ix]] World Championship in [[1926]] after winning 351 races and setting 47 records in the two prior years. At its height, Type 35s averaged 14 race wins per
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• Daytona International Speedway
  |Nickname ||The World Center of Racing ==Records==
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• Ferrari 250 LM
  The 250 LM was successfully raced around the world by both factory-supported and privateer racers. Unlike the 250/275/330 P ca ...g events. 250 LMs typically sell for more than $10 million USD and auction records for this model have been repeatedly broken in the past 10 years.
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• Watkins Glen International
  '''[[Indy Racing League|IRL]] [[Firestone Indy Lights]]'''<br>[[Camping World Watkins Glen Grand Prix]] '''Sportscar Vintage Racing Association'''<br>[[SCCA]] [[SPEED World Challenge]]<br>Zippo U.S. Vintage Grand Prix
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• List of Le Mans 24h winners
  The '''[[24 Hours of Le Mans]]''' (''24 heures du Mans'') is the world's oldest [[Sports car racing|sports car]] [[endurance race]] and one of the ...not run due to worker strikes, and 1940 to 1948, due to [[World War II]]. Records for wins are also listed.
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• Formula One tires
  ===Records=== !colspan=2|World Championships
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• Ancillotti
  Shortly after the 2nd world war he opens his own workshop in space reclaimed in the cloisters of the ex The special, ridden by Alberto, conquers two world records in the category that remained unchallenged for many years. The record for t
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• Indianapolis 500
  ...o try to win the event, which they did from 1913 to 1919. However, after [[World War I]], the native drivers and manufacturers regained their dominance of t ...ed until [[1919]] when the name "Liberty Sweepstakes" was used following [[World War I]] in [[1919]] only. The race went back to "International Sweepstakes
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• OMC
  ...co, broke up the company, sold the machines, fired the workers and let the records lost or destroyed and go technique. ...d and the bureaucracy, the loss of valuable technical files, followed by [[World War II]], Bruzzese asked of every opportunity to start over. During his imp
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• Ferrari 488
  ...d specific torque output of {{convert|194.8|Nm|0|abbr=on}} per litre, both records for a Ferrari car. ...r to the 458 Italia. It was launched on 3 February 2015, in advance of its world première at the March 2015 [[Geneva Motor Show]].
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• All wheel drive
  ...Ford, became the best-known four-wheel drive vehicle in the world during [[World War II]]. [[Willys]] (since 1950 owner of the Jeep name) introduced the [[ ...eone in 1972. This model eventually became the best-selling 4WD car in the world. [[Audi]] introduced the first permanently all-wheel driven high volume roa
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• Pizza
  ...A|['pit.tsa]}} - from the [[Latin]] verb '''pìnsere''', ''to press'') is a world-popular dish of [[Italy|Italian]] origin, made with an [[oven]]-baked, flat ...lian cuisine]], the dish has become popular in many different parts of the world. A shop or restaurant where pizzas are made and sold is called a “pizzeri
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• Gilco
  ...petitions Columbus gaining brand recognition in the international sporting world. Among these, the first victory of the World Cup awarded in 1980 by [[Antonio Gorostegui]] hull with a Star of Fools.
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• Jonghi
  ...designed by [[Remondini]] and driven by [[George Monneret]], achieved the world record speed with a performance of 170,840km/h that was added to the previo ...that '''Prester-Jonghi''' could finally surf in calm waters, but then came World War II . During the [[Nazism|Nazi]] occupation of France, the brothers were
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• Jacques Villeneuve
  ...at the [[1996 European Grand Prix|Nürburgring]] where he held off reigning world champion [[Michael Schumacher]]. He finished the [[season (sport)|season]] ...einz-Harald Frentzen]]. In just his second season in Formula One he became world champion by claiming 7 wins, 10 poles, 8 podiums, and 81 points. He clinche
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• Michael Schumacher
  ...eason. Schumacher is the only German to have won the [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|drivers' championship]]. ...ite what Jordan believed was a binding contract. Schumacher went on to win world championships in 1994 and 1995 with the Anglo-Italian team before joining t
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• Indianapolis Motor Speedway
  ...ckyard,<br>The Greatest Race Course in the World,<br>Racing Capital of the World''' ...tator capacity of over 400,000, it is the largest sporting facility in the world, and generally recognized as among the most famous and prestigious in [[mot
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• ...ently driving for [[Scuderia Ferrari]]. He is the reigning [[Formula One]] World Drivers' Champion. ...ecame the highest paid driver in the sport, securing his first Formula One World Drivers' Championship from [[Lewis Hamilton]] and [[Fernando Alonso]] in a
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• Jacky Ickx
  ...ican Grand Prix Jacky finished second and became runner-up in the driver's world championship. He then decided to leave Brabham to return to Ferrari because ...the new and superior 956 model, though, which carried him to two title as world-champion of endurance racing, in 1982 and 1983.
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• Rimini
  Crisis in the [[Roman Republic|Roman]] world was marked by destruction caused by invasions and wars, but also by the tes ...i in honor of three civilians hanged by the retreating Nazis at the end of World War II), which was where markets and tournaments were held, underwent vario
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• Verona
  ...ion|Etruscans]], the Eugaei or [[Raetii]] tribes, but the first historical records of its existence are from the [[4th century BC]]. Verona was already an im ...e year [[2000]], the entire center of Verona was designated a [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]].
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