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  • . Knowing the cars it's not hard to guess which drivers are behind the wheel.



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  • . After a brief career as a driver and mechanic, funded by his work as a traveling grocery salesman, Williams founded Frank Williams Racing Cars in ; he ran drivers, Richard Burton, Tetsu Ikuzawa and for several years in and .



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  • . Eventually he decided that in order to race he would make money preparing cars for one of his friends, Piers Courage, the heir to the Courage brewing family.
  • . The team ran cars in F1 and F2 and Frank began to think about being a constructor once again and did a deal with the Politoys company to build cars for him.
  • . At the end of 1974, however, Marlboro decided to put all of its money behind McLaren and in 1975 Williams struggled although finally the cars were called Williams-Fords.
  • . The FW07 was to be one of the great cars of the modern F1 era but ironically it was Regazzoni who gave Williams its first win at the British GP that year.



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  • . Five cars of the FW06 type had been constructed, the last time it was used, was in Long Beach 1979 bringing Jones a fine third place.


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  • . to support his racing, he 'wheeled and dealed' in second-hand racing cars.
  • . A superb win for Ralf Schumacher at Sepang, the second round of the championship, offered hope, but after that the red cars merely headed off into the distance.
  • . Juan Pablo's determined win in Monaco - resulting in a standing ovation in the press room - began a sequence of six races in which the white and blue cars finished either first or second.
  • . Let's face it had the nose been successful, pretty soon all the other cars would have been sporting something similar.

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  • . Early Days The Williams is now ranked as one of the elite 'first division' teams in F1, but this has only been achieved by hard, dedicated work from relatively humble beginings Frank Williams only enjoyed limited personal success as a racing driver but in 1969 he entered F1 racing with little money and a burning desire for success Williams bought a Brabham BT26A and privately entered it under the name of Frank Williams (Racing Cars) Limited.
  • . Williams carried on with privately entered March racing cars but with little success during the early 1970s and in 1976 Williams entered a partnership with the Canadian businessman Walter Wolf but this was short lived.
  • . The success in the 1980s was a combination of the design skills of Patrick Head, the sponsorship deals and business acumen of Williams himself and excellent engine suppliers - particularly Honda which made Williams cars invincible in 1986 and 1987, but after disagreements Honda withdrew as engine supplier at the end of 1987, and for the 1988 season Williams used John Judd's engines.


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  • . Filed Under: June 17th, 2006 11:57 PM The, organizers for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, have announced that from 2010, all of the top class cars that race at Le Mans will have to run with a roof (the LMP2 category will still be able to run open-topped).
  • . The top class of cars at the French is currently the LMP1 category.
  • . The ACO has long wanted its cars to resemble real street cars–going so far as to recommend to the development team at Chevrolet to make the center console of the C6.R more like the street model–and this move is no surprise.
  • . + Filed Under:, June 17th, 2006 11:10 PM Why would Aston Martin’s managing director put together the program for the DBR9 race cars at Le Mans and then avoid the race? Our man Jim McCraw, who’s been in and around the Aston pits during the race, found out: “While Aston Martin is here in force, with two factory cars and two privateers, Dr.
  • . Also present were some 20 cars representative of racers that Sir Stirling steered over the years—including Lotuses, Ferraris, Maseratis and Vanwalls.


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  • . As the technical regulators played with the rules in an effort to halt the increasing power output, the design team had produced a completely new car which was to be regarded as one of the classic racing cars of its era.
  • . The attraction for BMW, and also the reason why the team has never sought a stock market listing, is that every single penny generated by Williams is spent on making the cars go faster.


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  • . Ruseel explains, "you've got two different divisions, 'tin tops' which is your saloon type cars like we drive on the road, and 'open wheelers' which are formula type cars, which is what I wanted to drive." "Formula Ford was big in Australia.
  • . They're scaled down F1 cars, they've got a restricted engine and a lot smaller wheels, but it's a breeding ground to teach you about car control and being competitive.
  • . I thought you'd go over there and win races (as I did) and Frank Williams or McLaren or Renault would ring up and say 'hey Russ come down and test one of our cars'.
  • . I rubbed people up the wrong way, and more importantly rubbed a few cars up the wrong way as well! But that was the European style of racing.
  • . You had to keep winning races and roll with the punches or they'd step all over you." I rubbed people up the wrong way, and more importantly rubbed a few cars up the wrong way as well! "I suppose I came back to Australia with that sort of attitude.

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    Formula for success

  • . To me the cars look as if they’re going around on rails.
  • . So from a purely ‘excitement to watch’ point of view, I personally prefer Moto GP and rally cars.” A keen motorcyclist, Patrick arrived at the interview on a scooter – “the best thing to get about London on”.
  • . Perhaps surprisingly for a man who has spent his life trying to make cars go as fast as possible, he isn’t interested in road cars.
  • . I actually don’t have a great deal of interest in road cars.
  • . They include Colin Chapman, the founder of Lotus Cars, and Nick Worth, who was chief designer for the Benetton Formula 1 team before becoming consultant engineer to the sport’s governing body the FIA (Federation Internationale de l’Automobile).


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  • . Experience the F1 season, discover the rules, schedules, how the cars are equipped, what the flags mean, and much more.
  • . Jeremy Walton weaves together the tale of BMW's engineering know-how, daredevil drivers, inimitable team leaders, and the cars they championed and drove to the winner's circle.
  • . Behind BMW's envied reputation and the whirling-propeller badge are such legends as the prewar BMW 328 sports cars and the 1990s 200 m.p.h.


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  • . Maserati ran their own works team in 1954 starting with two cars before expanding to a five car outfit led by Jean Behra in 1955, Moss in 1956 and Fangio in 1957.
  • . Charles and his son John had been producing rear-engined Formula 3 cars since the late 1940s and the T48 was essentially a Formula 2 car.
  • . Cars Sprout Wings In May 1968 Colin Chapman arrived in Monaco with a few changes to his championship winning Lotus 49.
  • . All cars have their performance dictated primarily by the amount of friction generated between its tyres and the road.
  • . By the Canadian race that year every single one of the 20 cars on the grid had grown wings of one size or another.
  • . Cars are fitted with 'data-bursters' that fire engine, brake, steering and other information to the pits every time the car cross the line, thus allowing technicians to monitor a car's fuel consumption, oil pressure or even how likely it is that the car will succumb to component failure.


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  • . Jonathan Palmer European Formula Two Championship 1985 Derek Bell MBE World Endurance Championship 1986 Frank Williams CBE Williams - F1 Constructors' World Championship 1987 Sidney Offord For Outstanding Service - BARC Executive Director for 15 years 1987 Jaguar Cars World Sports Prototype Championship 1988 Ron Dennis McLaren - F1 Constructors' World Championship Martin Brundle World Sports Prototype Championship 1990 Nigel Mansell Equalling highest number of Grand Prix wins by an English driver 1992 Nigel Mansell OBE FIA F1 World Championship of Drivers Patrick Head and For design of FIA F1 Constructors' World Adrian Newey Championship-winning Williams Renault FW14B Derek Warwick FIA Sportscar World Championship 1996 Murray Walker For his outstanding contribution to motor racing Damon Hill FIA F1 World Championship of Drivers 1998 Ken Tyrrell In recognition of a lifetimes involvement in British Motorsport 2002 Gerry Marshall In recognition of his outstanding contribution to British Motorsport 2006 Andy Priaulx In recognition of his 2005 World Touring Car Championship success BARC Championship Winners - 2005 Season The 2005 BARC Champions and other Award winners are: Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship Matt NEAL Elf Renault Clio Cup Jonathan ADAM MaX 5 Championship Martyn BYFORD BARC Westfield Sportscar Championship i.a.w.

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