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Intercontinental Formula was an open wheel, single seater motor-racing formula introduced in 1961 as an alternative to Formula One. As its name implies it was hoped to encourage participation from the United States and Europe, but ultimately the handful of races which ran under the formula all took place in Great Britain, and only for one year.
Formula Continental is a single seater, open wheel racing class in motorsports. [1] It replaced Formula C as a Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) racing class. Most Formula Continental cars are Formula Ford 2000 (FF2000) models, which is a flat bottomed, steel tube frame open wheel car with smaller wings and a 2-liter engine derived from the ...
The international Formula One series and American racing IndyCars employ ground effects in their engineering and designs. Similarly, they are also employed in other racing series to some extent; however, across Europe, many series employ regulations (or complete bans) to limit its effectiveness on safety grounds.
Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of open-wheeled auto racing series administered by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. [1] The "formula" in the name alludes to a series of rules set by the FIA to which all participants and vehicles are required to conform.
Coldest race (air temperature) 5 °C 1978 Canadian Grand Prix [41] Hottest race (air temperature) 42.5 °C 2005 Bahrain Grand Prix [42] Highest Grand Prix attendance (race weekend) 520,000 1995 Australian Grand Prix [43] Highest Grand Prix attendance (race) 250,000 2000 United States Grand Prix [44] Lowest Grand Prix attendance (race weekend ...
For 1969 the series was renamed to the SCCA Continental Championship, [1] with the Formula A cars now contesting a separate feature race at each championship event and the Formula B & C cars competing in their own race for separate points. [3] The championship received substantial sponsorship from L&M Cigarettes for 1970. [4]
The Mercedes-Benz W196 (sometimes written as the Mercedes-Benz W 196 R [1]) was a Formula One racing car produced by Mercedes-Benz for the 1954 and 1955 F1 seasons. Successor to the W194, in the hands of Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss it won 9 of 12 races entered and captured the only two world championships in which it competed.
The BRM P25 was a Formula One racing car raced from 1956 to 1960 and the second car produced by the British Racing Motors consortium. After the failure of the complex BRM V16, the P25's design emphasized simplicity. The car was fitted with a 2.5-litre straight-4 engine, producing some 275 horsepower.