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1 He finished 3’30” ahead of Georges Lemaître (________), followed by Doriot (Peugeot) at 16’30”, René Panhard (Panhard) at 33’30’’ and Émile Levassor (Panhard) at 55’30”.

2 A large proportion of professional racing drivers began in karts, often from a very young age, such as Michael Schumacher and ________.

3 After 25 years away from the sport, former ________ champion Jonathan Palmer reopened the F2 category again, most drivers have graduated from the Formula Palmer Audi series.

4 Brooklands seems to have been the inspiration for the ________, which opened in 1909.

5 The major touring car championships conducted worldwide are the V8 Supercars (Australia), ________, Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM), and the World Touring Car Championship.

6 Other events around the world include the Targa Newfoundland based in Canada, Targa West based in ________, Targa New Zealand and other smaller events.

7 It is one of the world's most watched television ________.

8 For the worst accident in racing history see ________.

9 The most famous championship is the BriSCA ________ stock cars.

10 The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series conducts races across ________ and the NASCAR Corona Series conducts races across Mexico.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the auto racing division of Sigma Automotive (later known as SARD) became the first Japanese team to compete in the 1973 24 Hours of Le Mans?
  • the 1966 Holman Moody Ford Fairlane was the basis for NASCAR racecars until NASCAR's newly redesigned Car of Tomorrow?
  • the 1895 Chicago Times-Herald race, won by Charles Duryea's Motorized Wagon (pictured), was the first auto race in the United States?
  • the 1948 British Grand Prix (pictured) was the first motor racing meeting ever held on the Silverstone Circuit, which until then had been an aerodrome?
  • the Howmet TX (pictured) earned the first win for a gas turbine racing car in 1968, before earning three more victories and setting six FIA land speed records?
  • the WF01, the first racing car built by Embassy Racing, was named after team founder Jonathan France's recently born son?
  • the Toyota 7 was the first sports prototype racing car built by Toyota Motor Corporation, debuting at the 1968 Japanese Grand Prix?
  • from 1996 to 2001, racers driving the Riley & Scott Mk III (pictured) sports prototype won a total of eight Drivers Championships in four different sports car racing series?
  • British auto racing team CR Scuderia won races in all three series it participated in during 2008 as well as two championships?
  • racecar driver Stan Fox barely survived a crash in the 1995 Indy 500, but later died in a head-on collision on New Zealand's North Island?
  • motorsport illustrator Michael Turner designed the original Formula One McLaren team logo?
  • Dauer Sportwagen converted Porsche 962C racing cars into street-legal road cars, then converted them back into race cars in order to exploit a rulebook loophole and win the 1994 24 Hours of Le Mans?
  • Luigi Fagioli had one of auto racing's most famous rivalries with Louis Chiron in the 1930s?
  • Rajo Jack, one of the first African-American racecar drivers, pretended to be Portuguese to avoid racism?
  • Nicole Manske of Speed Channel and auto racer Danica Patrick were on the same cheerleading squad at their high school in Rockton, Illinois?
  • motorsport announcer Ken Squier coined the phrase "The Great American Race" for the Daytona 500?
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