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| Brabham Racing Organisation |
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Brabham |
Motor Racing Developments Ltd., commonly known as Brabham (pronounced /ˈbræbəm/), was a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team. Founded in 1960 by two Australians, driver Jack Brabham and designer Ron Tauranac, the team won four...
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Circuit Park Zandvoort is a motorsport race track located in Burgemeester van Alphenstraat 108, 2041 KP in the dunes north of the town of Zandvoort, in the Netherlands, near the North Sea coast line.
Although there were plans for races at Zandvoort...
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| Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit |
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The Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit is a street circuit around Albert Park Lake, only a couple of kilometres south of central Melbourne. It is used once a year as a racetrack for the Australian Grand Prix and associated support races.
The circuit...
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| Ford Motor Company |
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The Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is an American multinational corporation based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury...
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| Ferrari S.p.A. |
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Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in...
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| Jack Brabham |
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Sir John Arthur "Jack" Brabham, AO, OBE (born 2 April 1926) is an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in 1959, 1960 and 1966. He was a founder of the Brabham racing team and race car constructor that bore his name.
Brabham...
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| Michael Schumacher |
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Michael Schumacher (German pronunciation: [ˈmɪçaʔeːl ˈʃuːmaxɐ] ( listen)) (born 3 January 1969, in Hürth-Hermülheim, West Germany) is a German former Formula One driver and seven-time Formula One world drivers' champion, and current advisor for...
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| McLaren |
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McLaren Racing Limited, trading as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, is a Formula One team based in Woking, Surrey, UK. Founded in 1963 by New Zealander Bruce McLaren, McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed in the...
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| Nürburgring |
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Nurburgring |
The Nürburgring is a motorsport race track around the village of Nürburg, Germany. It features a modern Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old North loop track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle...
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| Williams F1 |
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Williams Grand Prix Engineering |
Williams, the trading name of Williams Grand Prix Engineering Ltd., is a Formula One (F1) motor racing team and constructor. It was founded and run by Sir Frank Williams and Patrick Head. The team was formed in 1977 after two earlier and, compared...
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| Alain Prost |
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Alain Marie Pascal Prost, OBE, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (born 24 February 1955 in Lorette, Loire) is a French racing driver. A four-time Formula One Drivers' Champion Prost won more titles than any driver save Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael...
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| Tazio Nuvolari |
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Tazio Giorgio Nuvolari (November 16, 1892 – August 11, 1953) was an Italian motorcycle and racecar driver, known as Il Mantovano Volante (The Flying Mantuan) or Nivola. He was the 1932 European Champion in Grand Prix motor racing. Dr Ferdinand...
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| Riccardo Patrese |
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Riccardo Gabriele Patrese (born 17 April 1954) is an Italian former racing driver, who raced in Formula One from 1977 to 1993. He became the first Formula One driver to achieve 200 Grand Prix starts when he appeared at the 1990 British Grand Prix,...
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| Minardi |
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Minardi was an automobile racing team and constructor founded in 1979 by Giancarlo Minardi. It competed in the Formula One World Championship from 1985 until 2005 with little success, nevertheless acquiring a loyal following of fans. In 2001, to...
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| Niki Lauda |
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (born February 22, 1949 in Vienna) is an Austrian aviator, entrepreneur, former Formula One (F1) racing driver and three-time F1 World Champion. He has founded and run two airlines and was manager of the Jaguar Formula...
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| Jochen Rindt |
Karl Jochen Rindt (April 18, 1942 Mainz, Germany - September 5, 1970 Monza, Italy) was a German racing driver that represented Austria over his entire career. He is the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (in...
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| Circuit Paul Ricard |
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The Paul Ricard Circuit is a motorsport race track built at Le Castellet, near Marseille, France, in 1969 with finance from the eccentric drinks magnate Paul Ricard, who created what essentially became Pernod Ricard. Ricard built the circuit with...
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| Juan Manuel Fangio |
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Juan Manuel Fangio (Balcarce, 24 June 1911 - Buenos Aires, 17 July 1995), nicknamed "El Chueco" ("knock-kneed") or "El Maestro" ("The Master"), was a race car driver from Argentina, who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing. He won five...
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| Manfred Winkelhock |
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Manfred Winkelhock (6 October 1951 - 12 August 1985) was a German racing driver. Born in Waiblingen, he was the brother of Joachim Winkelhock and father of Markus Winkelhock, both also racing drivers.
Manfred Winkelhock became famous when he flipped...
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| Peugeot |
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Peugeot (pronounced /ˈpɜ:ˌʒoʊ/ (PəR-zhoh)) is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest European carmaker.
Peugeot's roots go back to 19th-century coffee mill and bicycle manufacturing. The Peugeot company and family...
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| Mika Häkkinen |
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Mika Hakkinen |
Mika Pauli Häkkinen ( pronunciation (help·info)) (born September 28, 1968 in Vantaa in the Helsinki metropolitan area) is a Finnish racing driver and two-time Formula One World Champion. Seven-times world champion and rival Michael Schumacher has...
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Maserati SpA |
Maserati is an Italian car manufacturer established on December 1, 1914, in Bologna. The company's headquarters are now in Modena, and its emblem is a trident. It has been owned by the Italian car giant Fiat S.p.A. since 1993. Inside the Fiat Group,...
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| Jacques Villeneuve |
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Jacques Joseph Charles Villeneuve, OQ (French pronunciation: [ʒak vilnœv]) (born April 9, 1971 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec) is a Canadian automobile racing driver. He is the son of Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve, and is the namesake of...
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| Damon Hill |
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Damon Graham Devereux Hill OBE (born 17 September 1960) is a retired British racing driver from England. In 1996 Hill won the Formula One World Championship; as the son of the late Graham Hill, he is the only son of a world champion to win the title...
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| Gilles Villeneuve |
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Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve, better known as Gilles Villeneuve, (French pronunciation: [ʒil vilnœv]) (January 18, 1950 – May 8, 1982) was a Canadian racing driver. An enthusiast of cars and fast driving from an early age, he started his...
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| Mike Hawthorn |
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John Michael Hawthorn (10 April 1929 - 22 January 1959) was a racing driver, born in Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, and educated at Ardingly College, West Sussex.
Mike Hawthorn made his competition debut driving his 1934 Riley Ulster Imp, KV 9475,...
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| Ayrton Senna |
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Ayrton Senna da Silva, (pronounced [aˈiɾtõ ˈsenɐ da ˈsiwvɐ] (help·info), São Paulo, March 21, 1960, – Bologna Italy May 1, 1994) was a Brazilian racing driver and three-time Formula One world champion. He was killed in a crash while leading the...
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| Jacky Ickx |
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Jacques Bernard "Jacky" Ickx (last name pronounced "Ix" or "Icks") (born January 1, 1945 in Brussels) is a Belgian former racing driver who achieved 25 podium finishes in Formula One and six wins in the 24 hours of Le Mans.
Jacky Ickx was introduced...
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For the related Formula One team, see Equipe Ligier
Ligier is a French automobile maker created by former racing driver and rugby player Guy Ligier.
The firm entered the automobile business with the Ligier JS2, a mid-engined sports car for the road...
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| Juan Pablo Montoya |
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Juan Montoya |
Juan Pablo Montoya Roldán (born September 20, 1975) is a race car driver in NASCAR and a former Formula One and CART driver. He has enjoyed great success, most famously in top open wheel racing series. He currently drives the #42 Target Chevrolet...
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| Scuderia Ferrari |
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Scuderia Ferrari is the name for the Gestione Sportiva, the division of the Ferrari automobile company concerned with racing. The racing team has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929. Currently the team races in...
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The Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungs-Straße, better known as AVUS, was a motor racing circuit in the south-western districts of Berlin, Germany, between Charlottenburg and Nikolassee.
Nowadays, it is an important part of the public highway system, as...
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| Jim Clark |
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Jim (or Jimmy) Clark OBE (4 March 1936 – 7 April 1968) was a British Formula One racing driver from Scotland.
He was the dominant driver of his era, winning two World Championships, in 1963 and 1965. At the time of his death, he had won more Grand...
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| David Coulthard |
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David Marshall Coulthard, often called DC, (born 27 March 1971 in Dumfries and raised nearby in Twynholm, both in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) is a British former Formula One racing driver from Scotland. By virtue of a long career he has amassed...
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| Nelson Piquet |
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Nelson Piquet Souto Maior (born August 17, 1952), known as Nelson Piquet, is a Brazilian former racing driver who was Formula One world champion in 1981, 1983 and 1987. He is one of eight drivers to win three or more world championships, the others...
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| John Surtees |
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John Surtees, OBE (born 11 February 1934 in Tatsfield, Surrey) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver from England. He remains the only person to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels. He is also the...
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| Indianapolis Motor Speedway |
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway National Historic Landmark |
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, located in Speedway, Indiana (an enclave suburb of Indianapolis) in the United States, is the home of the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race.
It has existed since 1909, and is the original Speedway, the first racing facility...
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| Nigel Mansell |
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Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE (born 8 August, 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire) is a British racing driver from England who won both the Formula One World Championship (1992) and CART World Series (1993). Mansell was the reigning F1...
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| Keke Rosberg |
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Keijo Erik Rosberg ( pronunciation (help·info)) (born December 6, 1948 in Solna, Stockholm County, Sweden), nicknamed "Keke", is a Finnish former racing driver and winner of the 1982 Formula One World Championship. He was the first Finnish driver to...
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| Kimi Räikkönen |
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Kimi Raikkonen |
Kimi-Matias Räikkönen (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkimi ˈmɑtiɑs ˈræikːønen]; born October 17, 1979 in Espoo), nicknamed Iceman, is a Finnish racing and rally driver. After nine seasons racing in Formula One, in which he took the 2007 Formula One World...
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| BMW Sauber |
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BMW Sauber F1 was a Formula One team based in Hinwil, Switzerland and Munich, Germany. The team was formed at the end of 2005 as a result of a takeover of the existing Sauber Formula One team by German car manufacturer BMW after their partnership...
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| Renault F1 |
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Renault F1 is the Renault company's Formula One racing team. Renault has a long though intermittent history of involvement in motor racing, including Ferenc Szisz winning the first French Grand Prix, usually regarded as marking the birth of Grand...
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| Fernando Alonso |
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Fernando Alonso Díaz (born July 29, 1981 in Oviedo, Spain) is a Spanish Formula One racing driver and a two-time World Champion, who will be racing in 2010 for Scuderia Ferrari.
On 25 September 2005, he won the Formula One World Driver's...
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| British American Racing |
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British American Racing was a Formula One constructor that competed in the sport from 1999 to 2005. BAR began by acquiring Tyrrell, and used Supertec engines for their first year. Subsequently they formed a partnership with Honda which lasted for...
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| Emerson Fittipaldi |
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Emerson Fittipaldi (born December 12, 1946 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a highly successful Brazilian automobile racing driver, winning championships in both Formula One and CART, and the Indianapolis 500 twice.
Emerson Fittipaldi is the youngest son of...
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| Jody Scheckter |
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Jody David Scheckter (born January 29, 1950) is a South African former auto racing driver, the 1979 Formula One World Drivers Champion.
Scheckter was born in East London, South Africa and educated at Selborne College.
He rapidly ascended to the...
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| Colin Chapman |
Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman CBE (19 May 1928 - 16 December 1982) was an influential British designer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry. In 1952 he founded the sports car company Lotus Cars. He studied structural engineering at...
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| Alberto Ascari |
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Alberto Ascari (July 13, 1918 – May 26, 1955) was an Italian racing driver and twice Formula One World Champion. He is one of only two Italian Formula One World Champions in the history of the sport, and the only one winning his two championships in...
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| Graham Hill |
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Norman Graham Hill (15 February 1929 – 29 November 1975) was a British racing driver and two-time Formula One World Champion. He was born in Hampstead, London.
Graham Hill is the only driver to win the so-called Triple Crown of Motorsport.
After...
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| Stirling Moss |
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Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss OBE (born 17 September 1929 in London) is a retired racing driver from England. His success in a variety of categories placed him among the world's elite – he is often called "the greatest driver never to win the World...
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| Pierre Levegh |
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Pierre Eugène Alfred Bouillin (22 December 1905, Paris – 11 June 1955, Le Mans) was a French sportsman and racecar driver. He took the racing name Pierre Levegh in memory of his uncle, a pioneering driver who died in 1904. Levegh is mainly...
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| Fuji Speedway |
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Fuji Speedway (富士スピードウェイ, Fuji Supīdowei) is a race track standing in the foothills of Mount Fuji, in Oyama, Suntō District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was built in the early 1960s and hosted the first Formula One race in Japan in 1976. In the...
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| Rubens Barrichello |
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Rubens Gonçalves "Rubinho" Barrichello (born May 23, 1972 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver. Driving for the Brawn GP team, Barrichello finished third in the 2009 championship. He will race for WilliamsF1 in 2010.
Barrichello...
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| Alan Jones |
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Alan Stanley Jones MBE (born 2 November 1946 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian former Formula One driver. He was the first driver to win a Formula One World Championship with the Williams team, becoming the 1980 World Drivers' Champion....
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| Denny Hulme |
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Denis Clive "Denny" Hulme OBE (18 June 1936–4 October 1992) was a New Zealand car racer, the 1967 Formula One World Champion for the Brabham team.
Hulme later went on to race for McLaren in Formula One, the Canadian-American Challenge Cup series ...
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| Mario Andretti |
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Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940) is a retired American automobile racing driver, one of the most successful Americans in the history of the sport. He is one of only two drivers to win races in Formula One, IndyCar, World Sportscar...
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| James Hunt |
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James Simon Wallis Hunt (29 August 1947 – 15 June 1993) was a British racing driver from England who won the Formula One World Championship in 1976. After retiring from driving, Hunt became a media commentator and businessman.
Beginning his racing...
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| Jackie Stewart |
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Sir John Young "Jackie" Stewart, OBE (born 11 June, 1939 in Milton, West Dunbartonshire), better known as Jackie, and nicknamed The Flying Scot, is a Scottish former racing driver. He competed in Formula One between 1965 and 1973, winning three...
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| Ralf Schumacher |
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Ralf Schumacher (born 30 June 1975 in Hürth-Hermülheim near Cologne) is a German racing driver, and the younger brother of seven-time Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher. His own Formula One career spanned 11 seasons from 1997 to 2007,...
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| Yamaha Motor Company |
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Yamaha Motor Company Ltd. |
Yamaha Motor Company Limited (ヤマハ発動機株式会社, Yamaha Hatsudōki Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 7272), a Japanese motorized vehicle-producing company. Yahama Motor is part of the Yamaha Corporation and its headquarter is located in Iwata, Shizuoka. Along with...
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