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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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]
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• 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
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• 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]
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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]]
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• 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.
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• 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]].
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• 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
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• 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]
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