He was so impressive that Ken Tyrell invited him to join his Formula Three team.
His breakthrough came in 1963 when he was asked to test drive a Formula Three car by a customer at his father's Jaguar garage.
De Villota joined Britain-based Marussia in July after a career which has included spells in Spanish Formula Three, the Euroseries 3000 and the Daytona 24 Hours.
The Englishman has won on the streets of the Principality in both Formula Three and GP2, but in an F1 car the track is one of motor racing's greatest challenges.
DiResta, from Bathgate in West Lothian, has been signed up for next season by McLaren's Formula One engine partner Mercedes, with which he will compete in the Formula Three Euroseries.
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De Villota was recruited by UK-based Marussia -- formerly known as Virgin Racing -- in March, having driven in Spanish Formula Three, the Euroseries 3000 and the Daytona 24 Hours.
He had to undergo surgery to his left arm after an accident while driving in the Formula Three discipline in 2003 and also suffered a spectacular crash in the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix.
During his career he won 27 of 99 Formula One races and three times won the Formula One world championship.
There followed a three-year spell with Brabham prior to Dennis working on a number of projects in Formula Two and Three for a decade.
You have the career mode where you can drive through three seasons of Formula 1, starting with a team at the back of the grid and strive to win the Drivers Championship for one of the leading teams.
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His formula might be summed up by three Ds: depart, default and devalue.
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Do you really think Facebook , which faces some serious challenges, is going to grow almost three times faster than Formula One?
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Formula One engines are being reduced from three litre V10s to 2.4 litre V8s in 2006.
Steve Jobs had a simple formula, introduce a major innovation every three years.
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Based on the formula, which involves adding up the three items, the annual total cost of ownership is 0.76% per year.
Toyota is said to be testing three different designs for a Formula One car at its base in Cologne under the management of project leader Alain Decortanze and former rally driver Uwe Anderson.
Until they can develop a strong enough battery, a process he predicts will take three to five years, Formula E drivers will simply switch cars during pit stops so the depleted battery can be recharged.
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These courses are offered in one- to three-day sessions in actual Formula One cars.
There could be one, two or even three-year periods where this formula doesn't work.
So, in other words, over the last 22 years, there have been one-year periods, two-year periods and an occasional three-year period where the formula has not beaten the market.
For the next three years Mateschitz tinkered with the drink formula and developed a marketing strategy.
And at three months, 79% of the formula group was exclusively breast-feeding, significantly more than the 42% of moms in the group originally instructed to breast-feed.
So in this case, if you have a long-term horizon over the last three, five, 10 years, this formula has done amazingly well.
In traditional plans, benefits are calculated using a formula based on the worker's salary in his last three or five years of service and his years with the company.
Greenblatt found that the formula will thus sometimes underperform the market for two, or even three years.
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The governors of the three states abandoned their latest attempt to agree on a formula for sharing the water last month, leaving matters in the Corps's hands.
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The EU and America will try to improve access to their markets in not one but three different ways, blending these measures by some secret formula they do not see fit to divulge.
Jaguar entered Formula One in 2000 after Ford took over the Stewart team founded by three-times world champion Jackie Stewart in 1997.
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The three-time champion, revered as one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers of all time, died when he crashed his Williams in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
She was happy to finally swear off the three daily pumping sessions that allowed her to keep her baby off formula after her maternity leave ended.
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