But Mr Porsche, a racing-car engineer, hated the Russian climate and returned to Germany.
Its engine, positioned in racing-car style behind the driver's seat, was a Ford, so spares were easily available and relatively cheap.
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They started another racing-car company, this one with the awful mouthful of a name, Officina Specializzata Costruzione Automobili Fratelli Maserati , or what came to be known as OSCA .
Three doctors, two state representatives, a county commissioner, an alderman, a former pilot, a construction chief, an economist, a labour lawyer and a businessman endorsed by racing-car drivers: these were just the Democratic candidates for Mr Emanuel's perch in the fifth congressional district of Illinois.
Unlike teams in some other big sports, those in stock-car racing see little of the broadcast revenues.
Hornby issued a profits warning in January after sales of its train and slot-car racing sets were hit.
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In its day, this 340hp with V12 engine was the top dog of sports-car racing (Carroll Shelby himself drove one).
In Daytona Beach, an Atlantic resort best known for its drag-car racing, estate agents are advertising lists of foreclosed properties for sale.
Something like stock-car racing, by contrast, is dangerous, but not unavoidably so.
The side-car racing at Druridge Bay and seriously dangerous water battles on the River Wansbeck in the Morpeth regatta would surely be banned today.
This machine aims to put the "stock" back into stock-car racing.
"You can see the drivers struggling after a few laps with the graining, especially on the soft compound, " said Giancarlo Fisichella, a 13-year F1 veteran who switched to sports-car racing in 2009.
Rowling appeared on the same day as Sienna Miller, the actress, and Max Mosely, a former car-racing administrator.
He started out by designing the console for a car-racing game, and then by conceiving the look of the attackers for a knockoff of Space Invaders called Space Fever.
In addition to offering canal-side camping and houseboat rentals, John and Paula host pontoon excursions to the lakes, and have a wide range of activities on their property, including pottery, painting and radio-controlled car racing.
If you are a NASCAR aficionado, a car-racing-celebrity-Paul-Newman fan, or simply an investor scouting for undervalued investment vehicles, take a ride with the shares of International Speedway (ISCA), which operates 13 motorsports entertainment facilities nationwide, generating some 90% of revenues from its widely popular NASCAR racing events.
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So Button graduated to car racing as a 17-year-old in 1998 in the British Formula Ford championship.
The Newtown-emblazoned car of Swan Racing was unveiled by NASCAR chairman Brian France in a news conference at Daytona, part of a one-race arrangement for the team.
He is trying the same re-branding technique with the open-wheel racing series, which reunified with Champ Car in 2008.
This owner, operator and promoter of auto raceways has hitched its bumper to a phenom--the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.
This includes high speed racing, performing hand brake turns in car parks, or off-road riding on motorbikes.
Several of my colleagues over the years who were retired business executives or selected stock car racing as their sport of choice for its down-to-earth appeal.
The Finn, who has not topped the podium in five races, did his best to keep his car on the racing line but qualified in a distant sixth - more than a second adrift of Hamilton.
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"I've seen no evidence at all, none, that having four-car teams has affected in any way negatively the quality of racing, " Gillett says.
The car companies briefly threatened to set up a rival motor-racing competition, but relented after Kirch promised to keep the races on free television, and not shift them to its pay channels.
According to Car Collector's Carey, the market for top-end collectible racing cars, especially Ferraris, is healthy, and steadily growing.
Project integration and other modifications to enable the car to run safely on the salt were handled by A-Salt Racing and Advanced Product Engineering, based in Camarillo, California.
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The car will be called the Cunningham C-7, after America's postwar racing legend, Briggs Cunningham Jr.
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