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The number used in the title is now a telephone number for a driving school in Scotland but at the time GUN used it, was a number you could call to hear band members give out news on the band and leave messages for them.

California Soul

A Diplo remix appears on Volume 4 of the Verve Remixed compilation series; this version was used in a late summer 2011 commercial for Target and was featured in the video game, Driver: San Francisco.

DPPA

Driver's Privacy Protection Act, a 1994 federal U.S. law concerning privacy of DMV information

Driver, Northern Territory

Fry Court in Driver was named after Mr Charles Fry, a teamster who arrived with George Goyder's survey expedition in 1869 to found the colony of Port Darwin.

Driver's license

Cook Islands driving licences are issued at police headquarters on Rarotonga, on production of a valid licence from the visitor's home country.

U.S. state driver's licenses can be exchanged from the 15 states below during the first year of legal residence in France: Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.

In Hong Kong, a driving license in Hong Kong carries the same number as the holder's ID card, but has no photograph.

Driver's license in the United States

Texas was expected to also implement an enhanced driver's license program, but the program has been blocked by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, despite a state law authorizing the Texas Department of Public Safety to issue EDLs and a ruling by the state attorney general, Greg Abbott, that Texas' production of EDLs would comply with federal requirements.

In 1899 Chicago and New York City were the first locales to require testing before being allowed to operate a motor vehicle.

Driver's Privacy Protection Act

The Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994, Title XXX of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, is a United States federal statute governing the privacy and disclosure of personal information gathered by state Departments of Motor Vehicles.

Electoral division of Drysdale

It covers 12 km², encompassing north-western suburban areas of Palmerston including the CBD and the suburbs of Driver, Durack, Gray and Yarrawonga.

Gimte

The village of Gimte includes a hotel, a restaurant, a kiosk, a driving school, a bakery and a grocery.

Hudson Hornet

The Hudson Hornet was featured in the video games, Driver: San Francisco and Forza Motorsport 4 as a part of July Car Pack.

Rebecca Schaeffer

The Driver's Privacy Protection Act was enacted in 1994, which prevents the DMV from releasing private addresses.

Ruf CTR

The Ruf CTR is also a playable/drivable car in the video game "Driver: San Francisco".

Secret Machines

The song "Nowhere Again", from the their debut album, was used in promotional spots for American during its launch, and appeared in the 2006 videogame Driver: Parallel Lines.

Smash It Up

The song has appeared in the console-based game Driver: Parallel Lines as a track in the 1978 era.

Sound Mirrors

The song "Everything is Under Control" is used as a track in Driver: San Francisco

Theresa Saldana

Following her long recovery, Saldana founded the Victims for Victims organization and participated in lobbying for the 1990 anti-stalking law and the 1994 Driver's Privacy Protection Act, both of which came into being partly as a consequence of the attack.

Tribulations

The song is featured in the 2005 video game Project Gotham Racing 3, the 2006 video game Driver: Parallel Lines, and in the episode of The Office "Night Out", when Michael and Dwight visit Ryan in a club in New York City.

Wahnwegen

A series of independent businesses can be found in the village: a grocer’s shop, a butcher’s shop, two inns, a bank branch, the postal agency, a hairdresser’s, a concert artists’ agency, a driving school, an agency for a department store business, a haulage company and two distilleries.

Zero4 Champ RR

Besides the story mode, the player can either challenge computer opponents or the best time on the battery backup to a drag racing showdown with all the rules of drag racing (including flying starts) Before the player can start his career, he must go to driving school and pass a test based on his proficiency with gear shifting and speed control.

ZZz

The song "O.F.G." was used in the soundtrack of the video game Driver: Parallel Lines.

The song "Soul" is featured in the soundtrack of the video game Driver: San Francisco in 2011.


1984 Australian Sports Car Championship

Queensland based owner/driver Bap Romano won the series driving his Romano WE84 Cosworth from 1982 champion Chris Clearihan (driving the Kaditcha-Chevrolet that Peter Hopwood used to win the 1983 Championship) and Andrew Roberts driving a self designed Roberts S2 Ford.

2008 Icelandic lorry driver protests

The 2008 Icelandic lorry driver protests were protests started by lorry drivers in Iceland through March−April 2008.

A Place for Lovers

It stars Faye Dunaway as a terminally ill American fashion designer in Venice, Italy who has a whirlwind affair with a race car driver (played by Marcello Mastroianni).

Albert L. Vreeland

He attended the public schools and was employed as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross in 1918 and 1919.

Andy Santerre

Santerre made a Busch Series start in 1996 while earning points a Busch North driver, when he drove the #35 Ford for Mike Laughlin Jr. at Daytona.

Aric Almirola

Hendrick Motorsports named Almirola a standby driver for the No. 48 team in case Jimmie Johnson needed to leave for the birth of his daughter.

BMW M12

The Megatron programme ended as a result of a change of Formula One engine rules which banned turbocharged engines at the end of 1988, with American driver Eddie Cheever achieving the old BMW engine's last podium finish with third place in the 1988 Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

Chris Hodgetts

Chris Hodgetts (born 6 December 1950 in Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire) is a British former racing driver.

Diran Noubar

In 2009, Diran followed Portuguese ex-F1 and current WTCC driver Tiago Monteiro around the world for a whole year, shooting an extraordinary movie titled "Tiago Monteiro, The Man In Every Shot".

Eddy Waller

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Rawhide Geraghty in "The Truth About Rawhide Geraghty" (1959); Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp rides shotgun for the retiring 69-year-old Wells Fargo stagecoach driver Rawhide Geraghty on his last run from Tucumcari, New Mexico Territory, to Amarillo, Texas.

Eric England

Eric Gordon England (1891–1976), British aviator, racing driver and engineer

Ferrari 512

Starting the season, former Ferrari work's driver Pedro Rodríguez had been lost to Porsche's JWA Gulf Racing of John Wyer, and to BRM in F1, while another former work's racer, Chris Amon was now involved in F1 with March, just like Mario Andretti.

Gaspare Mutolo

The stakes were high, Mutolo was probably the most important possible pentito since the defection of Francesco Marino Mannoia in 1989: he had been a cellmate and driver of Totò Riina.

Haiku Studios

A 3D racing game, "Demon Driver", and "Moreau", believed to be a tie-in of the 1996 movie "The Island of Dr. Moreau" (starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer), were in development when the company went out of business in 1997.

Holden Dealer Racing Team

While the team did not feature strongly in the results due to mechanical woes, the team's second car driven by leading Australian Rally Championship driver Barry Ferguson finished 12th outright, while the 3rd car driven by triple Australian Grand Prix winner Doug Whiteford finished 14th.

Honey Nut Cheerios

Historically, Honey Nut Cheerios has participated in much the same promotional advertising as the original brand, while collaborating with the field of NASCAR and especially driver Bill Lester, in promoting healthy diets.

How to be an Alien

The second part, "How to be a Particular Alien", describes particular occupations from Bloomsbury intellectual to bus driver, finishing with how to be a naturalised citizen, which includes the eating of porridge for breakfast, and alleging that you like it.

Jacky Imbert

He also became a trotting driver with his friend Alain Delon in 1968, and in 1973 he became the French champion.

James Blackburn

Bunkie Blackburn (James Ronald Blackburn, 1936–2006), NASCAR driver

Jean de Pourtales

Jean de Pourtales (born August 19, 1965) is a French racing driver from Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Jean Ragnotti

Jean "Jeannot" Ragnotti (born 29 August 1945 in Pernes-les-Fontaines, Vaucluse), is a French former rally driver for Renault in the World Rally Championship.

Jen Horsey

Since 2005, she has earned four division podium finishes, including two wins, in five appearances as a co-driver at the Targa Newfoundland rally.

Kraft Foods Banbury

In Spring 2010, a truckload of Kenco Coffee was stolen by a driver who conned his way into the plant.

Leonel Pernía

He is the son of former footballer and racing driver Vicente Pernía, and brother of Spanish international footballer Mariano Pernía.

Luc Chikhani

Luc Chikhani is a French oral and maxillofacial surgeon who is best known for rebuilding the face of Trevor Rees-Jones, the former bodyguard of Dodi Fayed, after the car crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul.

Mac Dre

The driver crashed and was able to get to a phone to call 911, but Hicks was pronounced dead at the scene from a bullet wound.

Marcos Ambrose

NASCAR did not clear Ambrose to race the NCTS' first three races, as they were held on intermediate to high-speed ovals, and like fellow Wood Brothers/JTG Racing driver Bobby East, Ambrose was not cleared to start in the faster races.

Mark Philo

An inquiry into the crash, which also resulted in the death of the driver of another car, found that it was caused by Philo driving whilst intoxicated by alcohol.

Marwan al-Shehhi

That day, Atta and Jarrah were together, about 30 miles to the north, visiting a Department of Motor Vehicles office in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, to get Florida driver's licenses.

Masaaki Sakai

Sakai is known in Japan as a car enthusiast and regularly took part in the annual Mille Miglia race in Italy with his wife as a co-driver.

McIver railway station

The station was opened on 1 September 1989 and named after Ken McIver, a long serving steam engine driver and Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for Northam and Avon from 1968 until 1986.

Mickey Curtis

Apart from his entertainment career he has also been a racecar driver and owns a motorcycle shop in Meguro, Tokyo.

Nadhmi Auchi

Auchi and AAO have also led and sponsored high level delegations made up of Arab, British and French dignitaries, religious and political figures pressing for the release of hostages in Baghdad, including securing the release of two French journalists, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot and their Syrian driver in 2004.

New York State Route 149

The road was shut down for the accident, where the driver of the tanker was taken to Glens Falls Hospital.

Nicola Marozzo

Nicola Marozzo (born March 1, 1965) is a former Italian racing driver from Zumpano,near Cosenza.

Nissan Juke

A Nissan Juke driven by stunt-driver Terry Grant claimed a Guinness World Record when it was driven round the Goodwood Hill Course on two wheels in 2 minutes 55 seconds.

Philip Schram

He worked with Fleurette Morel, the daughter of race driver André Morel, on telling her father’s story through a multi-dimensional concept not seen previously in the market.

Red Bull X2010

The driver who performed the virtual shakedown test of the car was Red Bull Racing driver Sebastian Vettel.

Roland Ratzenberger

But he got onto the grid for the next round at the TI Circuit in Aida, Japan, as his experience of the track from his touring car days meant he was the only driver in the race who had driven at the venue before.

Ron Tauranac

Following Brabham's retirement as a driver at the end of the 1970 season, Tauranac briefly owned and managed the Brabham team through 1971, but sold it the following year to Bernie Ecclestone.

Savenaca Siwatibau

The son of Isaac Driver and Adi Asenaca Mairara, Siwatibau was born on 4 November 1940 in Tukavesi Village in Buca Bay, Cakaudrove Province, but grew up in Buca, the village of his mother, who was of chiefly rank.

Siata

The car rose to prominence after actor and race car driver Steve McQueen purchased model BS523 from Los Angeles based Siata importer Ernie McCaffe in the mid-1950s.

Steve Saleen

In 1995, Saleen formed a race team with comedian Tim Allen and fellow race driver Bob Bondurant, called Saleen/Allen "RRR" Speedlab (the name "RRR" was a play on Allen's "arr arr arr" grunt which had become his trademark in both stand-up comedy and on his television show, Home Improvement).

Trevor Dwyer-Lynch

Born and raised in Moss Side and Salford, trained in Drama and Performing Arts at City College Manchester in 1990, Dwyer-Lynch has appeared in numerous television and theatre productions, merging both serious roles—such as "Gloucester" in Shakespeare's King Lear—to his best known comedic nice guy role in Coronation Street as Patrick Tussell the taxi-driver working for Steve McDonald (2002–2005).

Uvais Mohamed Imitiyas

Imtiyas was an Auto rickshaw driver from an impoverished background who contested local government elections on an independent ticket.

Vildósola

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