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3 unusual facts about CART


Chaparral Cars

With the formation of CART Hall decided to field a car for Unser in that series.

Hall would wind up getting 13 wins and 2 championships in USAC and CART sanction Indy car races.

In the 2009 Monterey Sports Car Championships, Gil de Ferran painted his Acura ARX-02a to resemble a Chaparral in tribute to Jim Hall, for whose team de Ferran drove in his first two seasons in CART, and also to commemorate de Ferran's final professional race.


Adrián Fernández

He had six top ten finishes, including his first career CART victory at Toronto.

Antoni Gościński

He still needed medical care, so his friend hid Dr. Goscinski’s body on a cart of corpses headed to be cremated at the main camp of Mauthausen.

Barbara Niedernhuber

In The Simpsons episode "The Bart of War", Milhouse mentions he feels "like luge silver medalist Barbara Niedernhuber" while riding Flanders' video cart.

Broadcast Electronics

Founded in 1959 in Silver Spring, Maryland, BE initially manufactured only endless loop cartridge "cart" machines for audio.

Can-Am

The series peaked in the early 80s but as the CART Indycar series and IMSA's GTP championship grew in stature it faded.

Cart with Black Ox

Cart with Black Ox is an oil painting created in 1884 by Vincent van Gogh.

Cart with Red and White Ox

Cart with Red and White Ox is an oil painting created in 1884 by Vincent van Gogh.

Centre for Appropriate Rural Development

The Centre for Appropriate Rural Development (CART) is a community based sustainable development project based in Sicambeini Village, near Port St. Johns, South Africa.

Chaparral Cars

At the Indianapolis 500 Hall, along with fellow CART boardmen Roger Penske, Pat Patrick, Teddy Mayer, Ted Field, and Robert Fletcher were not allowed to compete in the race due to the race being part of the USAC National Championship.

Charles Thomas Kennedy

He then returned to Edinburgh, but was fatally injured in 1907, when a horse bolted in Leith Walk, and its cart threatened the lives of passers-by.

Chiswick Eyot

Chiswick Eyot was used during the industrial revolution mostly for the growing of grass and osiers (basket willows, used for basketry, furniture, cart-making, as well as cattle fodder).

Claude Bourbonnais

Claude Bourbonnais (born June 24, 1965, L'Île-Perrot, Quebec), is a former driver in the Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, and CART Championship Car series.

Clément-Stirling

Adolphe Clément was a director of Panhard-Levassor, and when the factory could not meet the production requirements for circa 500 units of the 1898 'voiture légère' ('dog cart') model, he undertook manufacture under licence at his factory in Levallois-Perret.

Cornwall Furnace, Alabama

Evangelist Samuel Porter Jones worked at the furnace some time after the Civil War operating an ox cart.

Deng Zhengjia

One netizen cited by the South China Morning Post compared Deng's death to the case of Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian vegetable vendor whose cart was seized by police in 2010.

Emerson Indy 250

The first running was a CART series race held on Saturday May 24, 1997, the day before the rival Indy Racing League's Indianapolis 500.

Food cart

A 2001 report in The Oregonian stated Portland was home to 175 carts, with fierce competition for the four cart spaces available since 1987 in the South Park Blocks.

Golf cart

According to the study, published in the July 2008 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, there were an estimated 148,000 golf cart-related injuries between 1990 and 2006, ranging from an estimated 5,770 cases in 1990 to approximately 13,411 cases in 2006.

Gracia Mendes Nasi

Once in Antwerp, Dona Gracia and her staff gave them instructions and the money to travel by cart and foot over the Alps to the great port city of Venice, where arrangements were made to transport them by ship to the Ottoman Empire Greece and Turkey in the East.

Greenhorn on the Frontier

It is set in 1770s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, just before the American Revolutionary War, and tells the story of nineteen-year-old Harry Warrilow and his twenty-three-year-old sister, Sukey, who move their few possessions by hand cart to start their own farm on the Western Pennsylvania frontier.

Henry McKenney

He chose land where the north-south and east-west ox cart paths crossed, in order to build a general store with his half-brother John Christian Schultz.

Holy Cross Church, Kaunas

The church and the monastery were closed in 1845 and since when were used as a store house for carts and harness.

Horse harness

Similar to cart harness but without breeching, used for dragged loads such as plows, harrows, canal boats or logs.

Indo-Jamaican

The labourers were given one suit of clothing, agricultural tools and cooking pots on their arrival, divided into groups of 20 or 40 and sent, first by mule cart and in later years on overcrowded freight trains to the plantations in Portland, St. Thomas, St. Mary, Clarendon and Westmoreland.

John J. Anderson

John began writing the "Apple Cart" column in Creative Computing magazine in January 1983 following another Apple // legend, David Lubar who left the magazine to work for a video game company in California.

Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart

There is also speculation as to its relationship to the German Lanzelet by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, which features the Queen's abduction but not her affair with Lancelot, and may derive from a version of the story that predates Knight of the Cart.

Las Vegas Grand Prix

Caesars Palace Grand Prix, a Formula 1 race from 1981-1982 and CART race from 1983-1984

Lionel Sadleir-Jackson

On 21 May 1932 he was driving near Peronne when he encountered a farm cart in the road and swerved too vigorously to avoid it, leaving the road and colliding with an electric pylon which severed the left front wheel and threw the car over.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

Ohki portrays the eyepatch-wearing Retsudo in the final two installments, Baby Cart in the Land of Demons and White Heaven and Hell.

Monorail Espresso

On December 1, 1980, proprietor Chuck set up an espresso cart at Westlake Center under the Seattle Center Monorail as an experiment to see whether there was a market for espresso sold on the street rather than in a traditional coffeehouse.

Motorized shopping cart

In the Kevin James comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop, a man is pulled over for speeding on a motorized shopping cart.

NASCAR in Australia

The Australian NASCARs were supporters of the Gold Coast Indy 300 run by CART on the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit during the early years when CAMS sanctioned categories ignored the race meeting, for until 1992 this was NASCAR's only opportunity to race away from its home circuit at Calder Park.

Obelix and Co.

Laurel and Hardy make an appearance as Roman legionaries when they are ordered to unload the menhirs from Obelix's cart.

PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin

PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin, 532 U.S. 661 (2001), was a United States Supreme Court case in which disabled golfer Casey Martin asserted that the PGA Tour could not lawfully deny him the option to ride in a golf cart between shots.

PPI Motorsports

In 1996, they began the CART season with Jeff Krosnoff driving, but he died in a tragic accident during the Toronto street race.

Ranchview High School

Each A/V cart includes a media projector, its own computer, a DVD player, a VCR, various equipment, and an overhead camera to replace traditional overhead projectors.

Rick DeLorto

He attempted to race in two CART Championship Car races in the fall of 1982 (during their split with USAC) at the Milwaukee Mile and Road America but failed to make the field in both races.

Roger Rager

Roger Rager (born September 3, 1948 in Lincoln, Nebraska), is a former driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series.

Saat Rang Ke Sapne

His vengeance is satisfied every year when he asks his employee and close friend, Mahipal (Arvind Swamy) to run a bullock-cart race, and defeat his sister's in-laws, and every year Mahipal wins.

Sarsden Halt railway station

A cart weighbridge was built in 1913 and a crossing-keeper's house in 1930.

T-Rac

During a preseason game with the New Orleans Saints in 2006, a golf cart driven by T-Rac hit Saints quarterback Adrian McPherson.

The Honourable Wally Norman

The town of Lobethal provided the hotel, Mount Barker provided the meatworks and the St Francis de Sales College, and Nairne hosted the main street for the billy-cart race shown near the beginning of the movie.

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Perrin pushes a huge Louis Vuitton steamer trunk in an airport luggage cart, talking softly to Christine inside.

Tony George

George made a bid for certain assets of the company, while a trio of CART owners (Gerald Forsythe, Paul Gentilozzi, and Kevin Kalkhoven), along with Dan Pettit, also made a bid, calling their group the Open Wheel Racing Series (OWRS).

U.S. 500

While the Indianapolis 500 had continued to be sanctioned by the United States Auto Club (USAC) since the formation of CART in 1979, CART teams and drivers represented the vast majority of the Indy field, and USAC had taken steps to ensure that the technical specifications for Indy did not preclude CART teams from participating.

VisionAire 500K

The plans, however, were scrapped when USAC entered into a joint sanctioning effort with CART, and the 1980 calendar was reorganized.

Wally Dallenbach

Wally Dallenbach, Sr., long-time participant in CART as a driver and then as an administrator


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