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6 unusual facts about Road racing


Centaur Film Company

The "Nestor Film Company" name appears on 184 films (1910 to 1920) - Pictures released by Universal Film Manufacturing Company : Santa Monica Road Race (1912)

Chad Hord

Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR) formed in 1998 and it immediately displayed SODA as the main sanctioning body in Midwestern off-road racing.

The main sanctioning body for the Midwestern United States changed several times throughout his career; he raced in Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR), World Series of Off-Road Racing (WSORR) and Traxxas TORC Series (TORC).

Patricia Alcivar

Patricia Alcivar aka "Patty Boom Boom Alcivar"(born December 12, 1977) is a professional boxer, competitive road and adventure racer, model and commercial/fitness actress.

Stadium truck

Their appearance most closely resembles that of full scale trophy trucks and short-course trucks.

World Series of Off-Road Racing

WSORR events were shown tape delayed on American television on Speed Channel and on Motors TV in Europe.


Alain Chevallier

During the 1970s and 1980s, Chevallier designed and built road racing motorcycles using Yamaha engines and campaigned them in the Grand Prix world championships.

Arnaud Vincent

Arnaud Vincent (born on November 30, 1974 in Laxou, Meurthe-et-Moselle) is a French former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

August Auinger

August "Gustl" Auinger (born on 3 May 1955 in Lambach) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Austria.

Checkered Flag or Crash

Checkered Flag or Crash is a 1977 film about off-road racing through the Philippines jungle, starring Joe Don Baker and Susan Sarandon and featuring Larry Hagman, Alan Vint and Parnelli Jones.

Chris Blais

Christopher Blais (born 3 January 1981) is an off-road racing rider from Apple Valley, California.

Dave Ekins

Dave Ekins (born 1932 in Los Angeles, California) is an American off-road racing pioneer having set the first Tijuana to La Paz timed run in under 40 hours aboard a Honda CL72 Scrambler in 1962.

Ed Pearlman

Ed Pearlman is a cofounder (together with Don Francisco) of the National Off-Road Racing Association (1966), the first exclusively off-road racing organization, and its first president.

F-1 Hero MD

Autopolis, Fuji Speedway, an oval training course, and a treacherous road course originally designed by the programmers of the video game used in the Japanese version.

Fabrizio Pirovano

Fabrizio Pirovano (born February 1, 1960) is an Italian former motorcycle road racer from Biassono.

Gary Nixon

Nixon was also known for his partnership with legendary tuner Erv Kanemoto when they won the 1973 U.S. National Road Racing Championship for Kawasaki.

Gregorio Lavilla

Gregorio Lavilla (born September 29, 1974 in Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant, Tarragona, Spain) is a professional motorcycle road racer.

Holme Moss

It has often been used for domestic competition in British road racing and mountain biking.

Lotus Mark III

In 1951, Chapman began to focus on a car for road racing, rather than trials, to compete in the 750 Motor Club formula, which used the Austin 7 as a basis.

Sébastien Gimbert

Sébastien Gimbert (born September 9, 1977, in Le Puy-en-Velay, France) is a professional motorcycle road racer.

Union Mills

Union Mills village is situated between the second and third milestones of the Snaefell Mountain Course road-racing circuit and is part of both the Isle of Man TT course used since 1911 and the Manx Grand Prix since 1923.


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Alberto Rodríguez

Alberto Rodríguez Oliver (born 1982), Spanish professional road racing cyclist

Barregarrow

Located between the twelfth and thirteenth milestones on the famous TT course, the crossroads is a landmark on the famous road racing course.

Beñat

Beñat Intxausti (b. 1986) Basque professional road racing cyclist from Spain

Canardo

Mariano Cañardo (1906–1987), Spanish professional road racing cyclist

Carlos Torrent

In road racing, he won the Vuelta a La Rioja in 2002, as well as one stage at Portuguese Grand Prix (2000), GP International MR Cortez-Mitsubishi (2004), Vuelta a Castilla y León (2005) and Vuelta a Burgos (2006).

Clark Natwick

Clark Natwick competed in several road racing events; he won Mt. Hamilton Road Race racing with Greg LeMond

Dundrod

Dundrod Circuit is home to the famous Dundrod Motorcycle Road Racing Circuit set high in the hills overlooking Belfast.

Edward Ziegler

Edi Ziegler (born 1930), German road racing cyclist, from Bavaria, who won bronze medal in men's individual road race at 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki; professional rider during 1957–59

Gary Ellis

Some other top pros like Tinker Juarez who in addition to a 12 year BMX career went on to have a 20 year Mountain Bike Racing (MTB) and Road Racing careers has been fortunate to have remained remarkably injury free.

Georget

Léon Georget (1879–1949), French road racing cyclist, brother of Émile

Émile Georget (1881–1960), French road racing cyclist, brother of Léon

Helmut Dähne

He entered off-road contests from 1965 to 1971, starting road racing in 1968 with a hillclimbing win at Sudelfeld in the Bavarian Alps.

Hinault

Bernard Hinault (born 1954), a French former road racing cyclist

Jarit Johnson

Brother of NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson and a former NASCAR competitios, he currently competes in off-road racing, driving in the TORC: The Off Road Championship series.

Jarosław Marycz

In 2009, Marycz was leading the European U-23 road racing championships in a breakaway near the end of the race, but was caught 20 meters from the finish line by Kris Boeckmans, finishing second.

Jim Trueman

The facility became one of the most popular road racing tracks in the United States, hosting also IMSA, Grand-Am, IROC, SCCA, motorcycle racing, vintage events, and various other races.

Joe Eubanks

As one of the first competitors to compete in a NASCAR road racing event, Eubanks finished second to Al Keller who was driving a 1951 Hudson Hornet automobile.

José Manuel Ponce

This was the first time a Mexican American competed in this endurance race known to many as the Nürburgring of off road racing in Germany.

Jurgen van den Goorbergh

In 2006 and 2007 van den Goorbergh did not join a road racing team, but tested MotoGP tyres for Michelin.

Kenji Kimihara

He was very successful on the Japanese road racing circuit, winning the Tokyo International Marathon and Lake Biwa Marathon in both 1963 and 1964, and registering four wins at the Beppu-Ōita Marathon between 1967 and 1973.

Kristian House

After representing Britain in road and track world championships, he concentrated on road-racing in 2006 and won 10 races in Europe and Tasmania.

Lejarreta

Marino Lejarreta (born 1957), Spanish professional road racing cyclist

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.

Motobécane

For a time in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the company competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing claiming several victories in the 125cc class and finishing second in the 1980 125cc road racing world championship.

North West 200

The North West 200 features in Jester Interactive's PlayStation 2 title TT Superbikes: Real Road Racing Championship released at the end of May 2008.

Robert Graeme Galbraith

His other great interests included cycling, where he was a member of a road-racing club, and Jazz music of which he remained a dedicated and lifelong fan.

Ross Edgar

In December 2012 it was announced that Edgar had signed for the IG-Sigma Sport cycling team for the 2013 season, adding road racing commitments to his existing membership of the Great Britain track cycling programme.

Shane Watts

Known for his unpredictability and disregard to injury, many call Watts the "Travis Pastrana" of off-road racing.

Stellar Stone

Stellar Stone developed a total of eight known games—three drag racing games (Taxi Racer, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and Midnight Race Club: Supercharged!), a puzzle game (Total Mahjongg and Shanghai), a hunting game (Remington Big Buck Trophy Hunt), a pinball game (Total Pinball), and two real-time strategy games based on the American Civil War (Gettysburg: Civil War Battles and Ultimate Civil War Battles: Robert E. Lee vs. Ulysses S. Grant).

Ten Speed

Road bicycle - 10-speed is a 1970s American term describing road racing bicycles (using a derailleur) with 10 total gearing combinations, or speeds.

Test Drive Off-Road

GameSpot said for the PlayStation version, "Test Drive: Off Road is an acceptable entry in the suddenly crowded field of off-road racing games."

United States Classic Racing Association

At this time all road racing events are held at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire.

Vaitkus

Tomas Vaitkus (born 1982), Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist

Vildósola

Gus Vildósola (born 1953), Mexican off-road racing driver and businessman

Vink

Michael Vink (born 1991), a New Zealand road racing cyclist for Trek-Livestrong

Yanik Silver

The club has scuba dived off Iceland's Silfra Ravine, been off-road racing with Jesse James, annually spend a week at Richard Branson's Necker Island, had simulation dogfights in Word War II-era planes, and featured sessions with Tony Hawk, John Paul DeJoria, James, and Branson.

Zubeldia

Haimar Zubeldia (born 1977), Spanish professional road racing cyclist