These two are racecars of the 1960's, I included them because the HSV-010 GT is listed there, which will never be intended for production. As for reliable sources, its not easy unless somebody have a good knowledge in Japanese and have access to magazines there as these cars are not known outside Japan. I provided you photos of the cars as pictures are worth a thousands words.
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Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of
open-wheeledauto racing defined by the
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. The "formula" in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must conform. The F1 world championship season consists of a series of races, known as
Grands Prix, held usually on purpose-built
circuits, and in a few cases on closed city streets. Drivers are awarded points based on their position in each race, and the driver who accumulates the most points over each calendar year is crowned that year's
World Champion. As of the
2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, there have been 820 FIA
World Championship races since its first event, the
1950 British Grand Prix.
Seven-time champion
Michael Schumacher holds the record for the most championships, while his 91 wins, 154 podium finishes and 68 pole positions are also records.
Rubens Barrichello has entered more Grands Prix than anyone else—288 times in total—as well as having made an unsurpassed 284 race starts. The
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Hi Donnie. I just recently saw you were in the project, so I added you to the list of participants (where you can put your initials if you care). Schluum is working on the List of uncategorized articles and Intelligentsium on the Portal. Until we get our first Cleanup listing and clarify the Project tags issue, I think the best you can do now is take a look at the
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We ask somebody else to possibly automate all the rest of it.
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Actually I am not the nominator, although I did support the PROD although I did my best to add sources to make this list more encyclopaedic. Worth asking you this, do you follow sports, if so, then ever thought how common rivalries are in sports, hence my point, plus are we going to add every rivalries that most of these will fade to insignificance in 5/10 years time.
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Donnie, you make a good point about Rivalry criteria, and that's something that could be improved in this list. Indeed I am a avid Sports fans and understand the conceptual problem that the term Rivalry can cause if it not well defined in the context of this article. You did mis-characterize my statement above in your deletion debate comments. The comment above does not, as you suggest, say that because the article is old it shouldn't be deleted. It says, I think very clearly, that its long term existance and history of many contributors should give it the benefit of an AfD instead of a no-discussion-PROD. The removal of a PROD should not imply that the remover automatically is in favor of keeping the article, merely that the article deserves a broader debate on its further existance--
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Grand Prix 2, sometimes known as "GP2" and sold in the
American market as Grand Prix II, is a
racing simulator released by
MicroProse in
1996. It was made under an official FIA license that featured the
Formula One1994 season, with all of the circuits, teams, drivers and cars. The cars were painted with liveries reflecting the races that did not allow tobacco and beer sponsors (i.e.
1994 French Grand Prix).
It had 3D texture mapping and
SVGA graphics, as well as an early but realistic physics
engine. A large community of GP2 enthusiasts formed quickly and still exists today. Grand Prix 2 is recognized as one of the definitive racing simulations of its era.
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The 2008 Hungarian Grand Prix (formally the XXIII ING Magyar Nagydíj) was a
Formula One motor race held on August 3, 2008, at
Hungaroring in
Mogyoród, near
Budapest,
Hungary. It was the 11th race of the
2008 Formula One season. Contested over 70 laps, the race was won by
Heikki Kovalainen for the
McLaren team, from a second position start.
Timo Glock finished second in a
Toyota car, with
Kimi Räikkönen third in a
Ferrari. It marked Kovalainen's first Formula One victory, which made him the sport's 100th driver to win a World Championship race, and Glock's first podium finish.
Much of the race, however, was dominated by a duel between
Lewis Hamilton and
Felipe Massa, who drove for McLaren and Ferrari respectively. Hamilton started from
pole position on the starting grid but was beaten at the first corner by Massa, who passed him around the outside. The two championship protagonists commenced a battle for the lead that was resolved when Hamilton suffered a
puncture just over half-way through the race, giving Massa a comfortable lead. The Ferrari's engine, however, failed with three laps of the race remaining, allowing Kovalainen to take the win.
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Senna began his motorsport career in
karting and moved up the ranks to win the
British Formula 3 championship in 1983. Making his Formula One debut with
Toleman in
1984, he moved to
Lotus-Renault the following
year, and won six Grands Prix over the next three seasons. In
1988 he joined Frenchman
Alain Prost at
McLaren-
Honda. Between them, Senna and Prost won fifteen out of the sixteen Grands Prix which took place that season, with Senna winning his first
World Championship, a title he would go on to win again in
1990 and
1991. McLaren's performance declined in
1992, as the
Williams-
Renault combination began to dominate the sport, although Senna won five races to finish as runner-up in
1993. He moved to Williams in
1994, but suffered a
fatal accident at the third race of the season at the
Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Italy.
Senna is regarded as one of the greatest drivers in the history of Formula One. In 2009, a poll of 217 current and former
Formula One drivers chose Senna as their greatest Formula One driver, in a survey conducted by British magazine
Autosport. He was recognised for his qualifying speed over one lap and from
1989 until
2006 held the record for most
pole positions. He was among the most talented drivers in extremely rain-affected conditions, as shown by his performances in the
1984 Monaco Grand Prix, the
1985 Portuguese Grand Prix, and the
1993 European Grand Prix. He also holds the record for most victories at the prestigious
Monaco Grand Prix (6) and is the third most successful driver of all time in terms of
race wins. However, Senna courted controversy throughout his career, particularly during his turbulent rivalry with
Alain Prost, which was marked by two championship-deciding collisions at the
1989 and
1990 Japanese Grands Prix.
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Bruce McLaren, current Start-Class article.
Bruce Leslie McLaren (30 August 1937 – 2 June 1970), born in
Auckland,
New Zealand, was a race-car designer, driver, engineer and inventor.
His name lives on in the
McLaren team which has been one of the most successful in
Formula One championship history, with McLaren cars and drivers winning a total of 20 world championships. McLaren cars totally dominated
CanAm sports car racing with 56 wins, a considerable number of them with him behind the wheel, between 1967 and 1972 (and five constructors’ championships), and have won three
Indianapolis 500 races, as well as
24 Hours of Le Mans and
12 Hours of Sebring.
As a nine year old, McLaren contracted
Perthes disease in his hip which left his left leg shorter than the right. He spent two years in traction, but later often had a slight limp.
Les and Ruth McLaren, his parents, owned a service station and workshop in
Remuera,
Auckland. Bruce spent all of his free hours hanging around the workshop. The McLaren family homestead is located in Ngaruawahia in the Northern Waikato region and still stands today.
Michael Schumacher (6th, + 5.712) was given a 20-second penalty after the race for passing Fernando Alonso under neutralised safety car conditions, under which the race finished.