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Art Ingels

In 1956, while he was a race car builder at Kurtis Kraft, a famous builder of Indy race cars during the 1950s, he assembled the first Go-Kart in history out of scrap metal and a surplus West Bend Company two-stroke cycle engine.

Burn 'Em Up O'Connor

Burn 'Em Up O'Connor is a 1939 race car film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Dennis O'Keefe, Cecilia Parker, Nat Pendleton and Harry Carey.

Ferdinando Monfardini

Ferdinando Monfardini (born 20 November 1984 in Isola della Scala) is an Italian race car driver.

Ferrari 360

The Ferrari 360 GT is a race version of the 360 Modena developed by the Ferrari Corse Clienti department in Maranello, in collaboration with Michelotto Automobili to compete in the FIA N-GT class.

Gina-Maria Adenauer

Gina Maria Adenauer (born 16 August 1985 in Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a female race car driver from Germany.

Giovanni Anapoli

Giovanni Anapoli is a race car driver born in Montecchio Precalcino, Italy on 23 August 1974.

Hutchens device

The Hutchens device is a device for protecting race car drivers in the event of an accident by controlling head movement, reducing head and neck injuries due to whiplash.

Iradj Alexander

Iradj Alexander (born September 17, 1975 in Locarno) is a race car driver.

Juan Cruz Álvarez

Juan Cruz Álvarez (born November 20, 1985 in Arrecifes, Argentina) is a race car driver.

Jürgen Alzen

Jürgen Alzen (born 26 November 1962 in Kirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a race car driver from Germany.

Ken Allemann

Ken Allemann is a Karting and race car driver born in Moutier, Switzerland.

Kurt Mollekens

Kurt Mollekens (born 8 March 1973 in Bonheiden) is a Belgian race car driver and team owner.

Laurent Rédon

Laurent Rédon (born 5 August 1973) is a former race car driver from Loire, France.

Max Angelelli

Massimiliano Angelelli (born 15 December 1966 in Bologna) is an Italian race car driver.

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'.

Peter Elleray

Peter Elleray (born 30 June 1958) is an English engineer and race car designer particularly known for designing the Bentley Speed 8 race car.

Raider Snowmobiles

Leisure Vehicles, Inc. was founded by Bob Bracey, who had assisted in developing the legendary Ford Mark IV Le Mans race cars a few years earlier, while an engineer at Kar Kraft.

Tommy Kristoffersson

Tommy Kristoffersson (born 1 May 1959 in Arvika) is a Swedish race car driver.


see also

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).

À propos de Nice

The camera concentrates on people; workers performing their daily chores and wealthy persons walking in the boulevards, sailing, playing games and relaxing at the Promenade des Anglais, as well as race car drivers competing in Grand Prix motor racing.

Adrian Carrio

Adrian "Ace" Carrio (born January 12, 1989) is an American race car driver from Monument, Colorado.

Ahmad Al Harthy

In 2011 Al Harthy returned to the Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain Championship but prior to the start of the season he made headlines and history on the streets of his home city of Muscat by conducting passenger rides in a Porsche 911 GT3 race car.

Always Tomorrow: The Portrait of an American Business

In 2012, Red Bull Racing used a sample from the film's dialog in the promotional debut video for their RB8 Formula One race car.

Anthony Foyt

A. J. Foyt IV (born 1984), U.S. race car driver who commonly goes by the name "Anthony" to differentiate himself from his grandfather

Biccari

Ralph DePalma (Biccari, 1882 - South Pasadena, 1956), American race car driver

Birkin Cars

The founder and owner of the company is John Watson, a descended relative of pioneering race car driver Tim Birkin.

BNP Paribas Showdown

The tribute featured a speech by former president Bill Clinton, and appearances by figure skaters Sarah Hughes and Nancy Kerrigan, race car driver Janet Guthrie, Billie Jean King's long time double's partner Rosie Casals and other prominent women in sports.

Bob Kennett

Bob Kennett is the father of New Zealand race car drivers Brady Kennett and George P. Burdell, but Bob raced strictly in the United States.

Bubby

Bubby Jones (born 1941), former race car driver and member of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame

Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker House

It commemorates the early life of Eddie Rickenbacker, who at various times in his life was a flying ace, Medal of Honor recipient, race car driver and a pioneer in air transportation.

Castello Cavalcanti

Starring Jason Schwartzman as an unsuccessful race car driver who crashes his car in an Italian village, the 8-minute film was filmed at Cinecittà in Rome, Italy and financed by Prada.

Chris Cord

Chris Cord (born July 15, 1940) is a race car driver and is a grandson of Errett Lobban Cord, the founder of the Cord Corporation which also ran Cord Automobile.

Damien Faulkner

Damien Faulkner (born 15 February 1977) is an Irish race car driver from Moville County Donegal.

David Donohue

David Donohue (born January 5, 1967 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American race car driver currently active in the Grand-Am's Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype class for Action Express.

Delia Scala

During the mid-1950s she gained much publicity for her relationship with Formula One race car driver Eugenio Castellotti.

Edfor

The other Edfor "Especial V8" race car is still owned by Axel Walter in Germany.

Jack Panella

His clients included Larry Holmes, the former world's heavyweight boxing champion, and the late Al Loquasto, a former champion professional race car driver.

Jason Hedlesky

Jason Hedlesky (born February 20, 1974, Clinton, Michigan) is a former American race car driver.

Jean Rondeau

Jean Rondeau (Le Mans, France, 13 May 1946 – Champagné, France, 27 December 1985) was a French race car driver and constructor, who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1980, in a car bearing his own name, an achievement which remains unique in the history of the race.

Jensen MotorSport

Frankie Muniz was already a well known celebrity having starred in the FOX television show Malcolm in the Middle, and contracted Jensen MotorSport for development as a professional race car driver over a 2-year term.

Jerry Covington

Jerry has built motorcycles for celebrities such as comedian Carlos Mencia, musician Sammy Hagar, and race car driver Billy Boat.

Jörg Bergmeister

Jörg Bergmeister (born 13 February 1976, in Leverkusen) is a race car driver from Germany.

Kevin Whitesides

Kevin Whitesides (born May 1, 1964) is an American race car driver who competed in the Formula Super Vee and attempted rookie orientation for the 1989 Indianapolis 500.

Kieran Dynes

Kieran Dynes, born in Clonmore Dungannon, Northern Ireland, is a race car driver currently competing in the European Late model(NASCAR) series, he has also raced in the NASCAR nationwide series and the ARCA remax series in the United States.

Lotus Eleven

Several class victories at Le Mans and Sebring followed, and the Eleven became Lotus' most successful race car design.

Lucas Wolfe

Not to be confused with German race car driver Lucas Wolf

Masaaki Sakai

Due to business commitments he gave up racing in 2002 and gave his Alfa Romeo race car to Masahiko Kondō who is also a singer and race enthusiast.

Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR

For the other 25 road cars, each was built by AMG at the Affalterbach factory between winter of 1998 and summer of 1999 and differed only slightly from the race car.

Mount Meridian, Indiana

Mainly used as a test track, it holds races, practices and special events for all types of motor vehicles, including motorcycles, Porsche, Dodge Viper, and professional race car drivers of all types and levels.

Myron Cottrell

Myron Cottrell’s brother, John Cottrell, bought a 1999 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Nascar Busch Series race car and modified it to make it street legal.

Nissan RB engine

This was when Nismo was going through the process of designing the R32 GT-R to be a Group A race car.

Norbert Singer

Singer was then given the task of developing the Porsche 911 road car for racing, and in doing so he created eventually what is by far the most successful customer race car that Porsche ever produced: the Porsche 935 won at the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans outright, a remarkable feat for a modified 15 year old road car design.

Open-source car

ANDRE cars, Inverter - an open source race car designed by Andre Brown (a former student of open source pioneer & RepRap founder Adrian Bowyer) in partnership with Reynard: design released under a CC-BY-NC-SA license

Penbay International Circuit

Irish driver Gary Thompson helped officially open Taiwan's all-new circuit by driving a Minardi F1 two seater race car around the track.

Ralph Moody

He built his first Model T Ford race car in 1935, and ran it on nights and weekends.

Rick Miaskiewicz

Rick Miaskiewicz (born March 22, 1953) is a former American race car driver from Pittsburgh.

Rockwell Automation Headquarters and Allen-Bradley Clock Tower

The tower made an appearance on the NASCAR Busch Series race car of Mike Bliss in 2004.

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.

Team IntaRacing

The team was owned by Daniel Tzvetkoff and Sam Sciacca who are associated with major sponsor IntaBill, and technical support from Triple 8 Race Engineering, from whom the team acquired a Ford BF Falcon race car to utilise in their debut season.

Tim Fedewa

Timothy "Tim" Fedewa (born May 9, 1967 in Holt, Michigan) is a NASCAR driver and son of former race car driver Butch Fedewa.

Tobias Blättler

Tobias Blättler, born 11 October 1981, in Lucerne, Switzerland, is a professional race car driver.

Troy Ruttman

Troy Ruttman (born March 11, 1930 in Mooreland, Oklahoma – May 19, 1997) was an American race car driver.

Volvo C30

In the 2011 World Touring Car Championship season, the Polestar Racing team used Volvo C30 DRIVe as their race car.