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• Seat belt
  ...x-point harnesses''' became popular after [[Dale Earnhardt]] died during a NASCAR race. Earnhardt was wearing a five-point harness when he crashed and died. ...nfluenced the development of [[risk compensation]] theory, which says that drivers adjust their behaviour in response to the increased sense of personal safet
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• Touring car racing
  ...cuit, sponsored, legal form of [[street racing]] performed by professional drivers. ...ASCAR vehicles are based on a shared, custom, design. In the early days of NASCAR, stock cars were in fact built from production cars, whereas some current t
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• Indy Racing League
  ...n racing in [[1996 in IRL|1996]]. It was created with a breakaway group of drivers from [[Champ Car|CART]], which had sancationed Indy car racing since [[1979 ...of mostly unknown drivers, even in the Indy 500. Eventually the caliber of drivers improved and IRL began to draw teams from CART, contributing to the latter'
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• Juan Pablo Montoya
  ...20]], [[1975]], in [[Bogotá]], [[Colombia]]) is a [[race car driver]] in [[NASCAR]] and a former [[Formula One]] and [[CART]] driver. He has enjoyed great su ...Indianapolis 500 race winner; Montoya is currently one of only two active drivers (along with [[Jacques Villeneuve]]) who has won two legs of the [[Triple Cr
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• Rick Mears
  ...y virtue of staying at the front of the field and taking the lead as other drivers dropped out with mechanical problems. Three wins and four seconds in the el He is the brother of [[Roger Mears]] and the uncle of [[NASCAR]] driver [[Casey Mears]].
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• Champcars
  ===Dominance by non-US drivers=== ...n [[Emerson Fittipaldi]] won the series title in 1989, however, additional drivers from South America and Europe joined the series.
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• Buddy Lazier
  ...[Panther Racing]], placing fifth in the race, ahead of Panther's 2 regular drivers [[Tomáš Enge]] and [[Tomas Scheckter]] in a race that many believe may ha ...e [[2007 Indianapolis 500]]. Without a permanent ride, Lazier drove in a [[NASCAR]] [[Craftsman Truck Series]] race with [[Billy Ballew Motorsports]] at [[La
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• Formula 2
  ...("small car") racing and provided a means for amateur or less experienced drivers and smaller marques to prove themselves. By the outbreak of war, the rules ...ension. Less happily, [[Jim Clark]], regarded as one of the greatest race drivers of all time, was killed in a Formula Two race early in 1968, at the [[Hocke
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• Kart racing
  ...ses still use direct drive engines, the reasoning being that at this level drivers should be good enough to stay on the track during the race and hence not ne ...n extended period, from 30 minutes up to 24 hours or more, for one or more drivers. In general, consistency, reliability, and pit strategy is of greater impo
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• Mario Andretti
  ...Championship Car Racing|IndyCar]], [[World Sportscar Championship]] and [[NASCAR]] (the other being [[Dan Gurney]]). He also won races in [[midget car racin ...g with [[Juan Pablo Montoya]], the only driver to have won a race in the [[NASCAR]] [[Sprint Cup Series]], Formula One, and an Indianapolis 500. No American
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• Formula One
  ...One World Champions|World Championships]], one for drivers and one for [[#Drivers and constructors|constructors]]. The cars race at speeds often in excess of ...ld War II]], but due to the suspension of racing during the war, the World Drivers Championship was not formalised until 1947, and was first run in 1950. A ch
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• Paul Newman
  ...the 2007 film ''[[Dale (film)|Dale]]'', about the life of the legendary [[NASCAR]] driver [[Dale Earnhardt]], which turned out to be Newman's final film pe ...team [[Newman Wachs Racing]]. Newman also owned a car [[NASCAR Sprint Cup|NASCAR Winston Cup]] before selling it to [[Penske Racing]], where it now serves a
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• 2007 Formula One season
  [[Image:Kimi Raikkonen 2007 2b.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Kimi Räikkönen]], 2007 World Drivers' Champion]] ==Teams and drivers==
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• 2006 Formula One season
  ...[[March 12]], [[2006]] included 18 races, and ended on [[October 22]]. The Drivers' Championship was won by [[Fernando Alonso]] of [[Renault F1]] for the seco ...tween Alonso and Schumacher, who each won seven races. Renault and Ferrari drivers dominated the field, victorious in all but one race, and the four second-pl
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