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AGV Sports Group

AGV Sports Group has sponsored riders including road racers Devin Battley, Troy Bayliss, Randy Mamola, Loris Capirossi, Kurtis Roberts, Ben Bostrom, Eric Bostrom, Roland Sands, Miguel Duhamel, and Mat Mladin.

Alexandra Carter

Her other roles include Amara Aquilla/Magma from X-Men Evolution, Rosy from Hamtaro, Nana from Meltylancer, Nicole from Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, the maniacal Yagami from Maison Ikkoku, Paradice from Ōban Star-Racers, Momiji the Red Priestess from InuYasha, Kumomo from Mirmo!, Tray from The Uglydoll Show, and Twist from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

Andy Patterson

Racers Stu Thomsen, Scott Clark and Freestylers Mike Dominquez and Woody Itson can be seen in the audience at the bottom.

Aquasco Speedway

Richard Petty, Shirley Muldowney, Don Prudhomme, Bunny Burkett are among some of the great drag racers who raced on the now defunct speedway.

Arai Helmet

Several prominent MotoGP racers use Arai including Nicky Hayden and Dani Pedrosa.

Arsenio Laurel

He was among the first champion racers in the early years of organized auto racing in the Philippines, driving his 1954 Studebaker on the oval of the Santa Ana Hippodrome in Manila (when the horses were not running).

Australian Motor Racing Championships

Thundersports was made up of a category called Future Racers, championed by Peter Brock and Ross Palmer of PROCAR fame it had never taken off and CAMS had refused to sanction the category as it was broadly very similar to the Aussie Racing Cars class.

Australian Sailing magazine

The readership includes owners and crew of the 100 ft maxis, keelboat racers, dinghy and sailboard racers.

Brandon Nozaki Miller

As part of his progress and to challenge the stigma surrounding electrics when he first came into the sport, he made a point to show that production electrics were ready for everyone be they racers or not by competing in events like Pikes Peak, TTXGP, Mike Cooks Bonneville Landspeed shootout, and even competed in M1GP which held the first US electric only club racing series.

Brian Scott

One of his early career highlights came at the 360 Nationals at Skagit Speedway in Alger, Washington, when he competed against an elite field of dirt racers and brought home an impressive second place finish.

Broadspeed

Team Broadspeed successfully campaigned Mini Cooper and Ford Anglia racers - and manufactured the 1966 Broadspeed GT Coupe based on a Mark 1 mini.

Chevrolet small-block engine

Soon after being introduced, it quickly gained popularity among stock car racers, becoming known as the "Mighty Mouse" motor, after the popular cartoon character of the time, with the simpler "Mouse" becoming much more common as time went on.

Christophe Lévêque

Single question interview asked of Lévêque and four other professional racers including Randy Stumpfhauser, Michelle Cairns, Neal Wood, and Jamie Lilly.

E. Pierce Marshall

Teamed with SCCA racers Dave Faust and Kirby Goodman, Marshall drove a Chevrolet Malibu with the 9C1 Police Patrol Package and a 350 cubic inch LT-1 Z-28 Chevrolet Camaro engine, finishing 13th in a field of 47 competitors, completing the run from Darien, Connecticut to Redondo Beach, California in 36 hours, 51 minutes.

Eastern Bluebird

Bluebirds of all ages (including adults) are threatened by rat snakes, racers and American kestrels.

Ferrari 250 TR 61 Spyder Fantuzzi

The 250 TR lines of 1960 and 1961 were dominant racers - Olivier Gendebien took Le Mans again those two years, with Paul Frère in 1960 and Phil Hill in 1961.

Frank Stoddard

In 2005, Frank Stoddard reunited with a lifelong friend of his; one of the world's greatest road course racers; Boris Said who was driving for NASCAR on part-time schedules mostly on road course races.

Gendron, Inc.

Catalogs from the 1950s and early 1960s show playground equipment and hand car racers with the trade name Howdy Doody.

George Eyston

In 1935, he was one of the first British racers to travel to the Bonneville salt flats of Utah, with his 24 & 48 hour record-setting car Speed of the Wind.

Graham Coaker

During this time he became friendly with fellow racers Max Mosley and Alan Rees, and racing car designer Robin Herd.

Jamie Lilly

42 Single-question interview asked of Lilly and four other professional racers including Randy Stumpfhauser, Christophe Lévêque, Neal Wood, and Michelle Cairns.

Keiichi Tsuchiya

In the movie series Shuto Kousoku Trial, he advised street racers to leave the illegal racing scene if they want to become involved with professional racing.

Konami Krazy Racers

Konami Krazy Racers makes use of a variety of characters and concepts from several of Konami's franchises, including Castlevania, Metal Gear, and Gradius.

Lego Racers

The Lego Racers Ferrari sets allow you to create your own Ferrari races.

Lou Marsh

One of the most successful sea flea racers in Toronto was future Toronto Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard.

Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Women's singles

After three runs, there were three East German racers Ortrun Enderlein, Anna-Maria Müller and Angela Knösel in the top 4, but were disqualified when the FIL determined that they had been heating their runners, a banned practice.

Marlboro Motor Raceway

Motorsports entrepreneur Roger Penske got his start at Marlboro and many other greats in oval and road racing made their way to "The Grand Lady of the East" to test their stock cars and grand prix racers on its challenging curves and intimidating straights.

Million Franc Race

The Million Franc Race, or ‘Prix du Million’, was an effort in 1937 by the French Popular Front to induce French automobile manufacturers to develop race cars capable of competing with the incredibly advanced German Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union racers of the time, which were backed by the Nazi government in a (largely successful) attempt to dominate the sport, in order to 'prove the superiority of the Aryan race'.

Moser Cicli

Francesco Moser began building racing bicycles after his retirement, as did many Italian bicycle racers, in a small workshop in Trento, Italy.

NASTAR

The 2006 Championship was held in Steamboat Springs and included 1,337 racers of ages 3 to 86, from 44 U.S. states and Canada.

Nolan Helmets

In the past, other important motorcycle racers like Ricardo Tormo used Nolan helmets too.

Norton Manx

The major 1954 upgrade to the Manx was to have been a laid-down engine design, with lower centre of gravity – along the lines of the Moto Guzzi and Benelli racers.

Opera window

These windows were usually non-functional; however, in the case of the AMC Matador coupe NASCAR racers, the small windows that came with the Barcelona II trim package actually helped to clean up the aerodynamics when such windows were open to the wind under racing conditions.

Paola, Kansas

Justice Brothers, automobile racers & founders of Justice Brothers Car Care Products.

Penny Racers

Choro-Q - Japanese toy line released in the US as Penny Racers

Peter McLeod

McLeod began his racing career in 1980 at the relatively old age of 32, progressing immediately into touring car racing where in just three seasons to become one of Australia's fastest privately entered touring car racers, and usually had the fastest Mazda RX-7's behind Allan Moffat's factory supported team (though with reportedly more horsepower than Moffat's cars).

ProSlide Technology

The first ProSlide Racer opened in 1994 at ProSlide's Mont Cascades Waterpark in Cantley, Quebec; over 200 Racers have been installed in the years since.

Randy Stumpfhauser

Single question interview asked of Stumpfhauser and four other profession racers including Christophe Lévêque, Michelle Cairns, Neal Wood, and Jamie Lilly.

Roberto Visentini

In 1986, he then won his first and sole Giro by defeating racers such as Saronni, Francesco Moser and Greg LeMond.

Sofuoğlu family

The three brothers Bahattin, Sinan and Kenan Sofuoğlu have been some of the most successful Turkish motorcycle racers.

Stoneham Mountain Resort

In 1993 the mountain hosted a slalom event of the alpine skiing World Cup, won by one of the most dominant alpine ski racers in history, Alberto Tomba of Italy.

Summit Racing Equipment

Team Summit Legends (former Team Summit racers and friends of the company) include the following friends of Summit Racing Equipment: Don Garlits, Frank Hawley, Jim Oddy, Connie Kalitta, Kenny Bernstein, Bob Chandler, John Lingenfelter and the late Scott Kalitta.

Supermarine S.6

The two S.6 racers were entered into the 1929 Schneider Trophy at Calshot, England.

Supermarine S.6B

Although the British team faced no competitors, the RAF High Speed Flight brought six Supermarine Schneider racers to Calshot Spit on Southampton Water for training and practice.

Supersonic Racers

Supersonic Racers (Dare Devil Derby 3D in North America and Japan) is a racing video game developed by Supersonic Software and published by Mindscape, Inc. for the PlayStation.

Tulsa Tough

Saint Francis Tulsa Tough attracts professional and amateur racers from across the country racing criterium style races on three different venues in the streets of Downtown Tulsa and along the Arkansas River.


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