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An undercover cop races cars while he tries to catch crooks. High Gear: 1933 Drama After a friend's death, an auto racer takes a job driving a taxi. Roaring Roads: 1935 Comedy A rich boy craving excitement tries racing and encounters gangsters. Death Drives Through: 1935 Drama British driver falls in love with woman whose father disapproves ...
In 1963, Ford Motor Company Vice President Lee Iacocca proposes to Henry Ford II to boost their car sales by purchasing Ferrari, dominant in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.Owner Enzo Ferrari uses Ford's offer to secure a deal with Fiat that allows him to retain ownership of the firm's racing team, Scuderia Ferrari, and insults Ford and his whole company.
According to historian Richard Hough, "It is obviously impossible to distinguish between the designers of sports cars and Grand Prix machines during the pre-1914 period. The late Georges Faroux contended that sports-car racing was not born until the first 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 1923, and while as a joint-creator of that race he may have been prejudiced in his opinion, it is certainly true ...
Clarkson travels to Chongqing, China, to review the Hongqi L5, before Hammond and May join him to test out three different second-hand western luxury cars they purchase — May buys a Mercedes–Benz S600, Hammond buys a Cadillac STS, and Clarkson buys a BMW 750iL — putting them through a series of tests regarding handling, luxury, durability ...
Legends car based on Ford coupé 1934 U.S. Legends 2016 Dirt Nationals at 141 Speedway Racing on Beaver Dam Raceway dirt track. Legends car racing is a style of auto racing designed primarily to promote exciting racing and to keep costs down (as of 2022, a brand-new Legends car could be purchased in the USA for $17,500 USD [1]).
4.1 Bat-and-ball games (safe haven sports) 4.2 Billiards. 4.2.1 Cue sports. ... Touring car racing; Truck racing; Vintage racing; Wheelstand competition; Motorcycle.
Despite the name of the series, most of the events are a total of 12–16 hours of racing split across two days. Race sessions are usually mid-morning to early evening on both days, except for the occasional 24-hour contest that runs mid-day on Saturday straight through the night to mid-day Sunday.
A sports prototype, sometimes referred to simply as a prototype, is a type of race car that is used in high-level categories of sports car racing.They are purpose-built auto-sports race cars, as opposed to production-car based or street-legal, low-volume homologation specials – thus entirely not intended for consumer purchase, or production beyond the fabrication of the (nearly) unique cars ...