Following that, the RX-7 won its class in the IMSA 24 Hours of Daytona race ten years in a row, starting in 1982.

* Ian Briggs, " Endurance Racing 1982 – 1991 " – the Group C and IMSA GTP years, race by race.

For 1982, with the evolved NRA / C2, Nimrod Racing would turn to the IMSA GT Championship in North America due to EMKA Racing taking over Aston Martin's factory-backed efforts in Europe with their own car.

* IMSA GT Championship ( 1971, 1974, 1982 – 1986 )

A Lola T600 IMSA GT Championship # The GTP Era | IMSA Grand Touring Prototype from 1982.

After Group 5 was discontinued by FIA after 1982, the 935 continued to race in IMSA's GTP category, usually entered by smaller privateer names, who were not permitted by IMSA regulations to race the new Group C Porsche 956 because of the footbox location relative to the front axle ( footbox was ahead, in violation of the IMSA rule where it must be behind the front axle ).

With the appearance of GTP cars in 1982, the 935 was still competitive through 1983 with its last IMSA victory in the 1984 12hrs of Sebring.

Klaus Ludwig drove the Roush-Zakspeed Ford Mustang Turbo during the 1981 and 1982 IMSA GT Championship | Camel GT race seasons. In the late 1970s, Zakspeed was the official Ford team in the German Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft ( DRM ) series, a predecessor of the current DTM.

Klaus Ludwig drove the Roush-Zakspeed Ford Mustang Turbo during the 1981 and 1982 IMSA GT Championship | Camel GT race seasons. Roush worked at Ford after graduating in 1966, and left in 1970 to pursue his own company.

Jock Taylor ( March 9, 1954-August 15, 1982 ) was a Scottish World Champion motorcycle sidecar racer.

In 1992, reminiscent of the resurgence which greeted Trebelhorn's arrival in 1987, the Brewers rallied behind the leadership of rookie manager Phil Garner and posted their best record since their World Series year in 1982, finishing the season 92 – 70 and in second place, four games behind that year's eventual World Champion Toronto Blue Jays.

In 2003, the Brewers hired Doug Melvin as General Manager, who in turn brought in Ned Yost, coach with the Atlanta Braves and a former member of the 1982 American League Champion Brewers, as manager.

* KKS Lech Poznań – men's football team ( Polish Champion: 1983, 1984, 1990, 1992, 1993, 2010 ; Polish Cup winner 1982, 1984, 1988, 2004, 2009 ; Polish SuperCup winner 1990, 1992, 2004, 2009 )

" In August 1976, a month after his second divorce from Taylor, Burton married model Susan Hunt, the former wife of Formula 1 Champion James Hunt ; the marriage ended in divorce in 1982.

1982: Bellanca Aircraft assets sold to Viking Aviation and Champion Aircraft.

* Andy Souwer ( 1982 ), kickboxer, two time K-1 World MAX Champion, reigning three time Shootboxing World Tournament Champion, born 1982

* Golden Fleece-won 1982 Epsom Derby, undefeated Champion Three-Year-Old Colt in England & Ireland

Hearns moved up in weight and won the WBC Super Welterweight ( 154 lb ) title from boxing legend and three-time world champion Wilfred Benítez ( 44-1-1 ) in New Orleans in December 1982, and defended that title against European Champion Luigi Minchillo ( 42-1 ) ( W 12 ), Roberto Durán ( KO 2 ), no. 1 contender Fred Hutchings ( 29-1 ) ( KO 3 ) and # 1 contender Mark Medal ( 26-2 ) ( TKO 8 ).

** Chu Mu-yen 朱木炎 ( 1982 -; Hakka pronunciation: Chu Muk Yen ), Gold medalist, Taekwondo, 2004 Athens Olympics ; Champion, World Taekwondo Championships, 2003

A biopic, Champion details the life of Duk Koo Kim, South Korea's most popular boxer, who, in his rise to international fame, faced the reigning lightweight champion Ray Mancini at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 13, 1982.

Norton additionally worked as a television and radio sports commentator and appeared in popular TV series, such as jailbird " Jackhammer " Jackson in " Pros and Cons ", an early first-season episode of The A-Team ( filmed 1982, broadcast 1983 ), and as boxer Bo Keeler in the fourth season Knight Rider episode " Redemption of a Champion " ( 1986 ).

There had also been a previous Champion of Champions edition of the show around 1985, featuring the winners from the previous four years: John McAllister ( 1981 ), John Webley ( 1982 ), Chris Topham ( 1983 ) and Paul Smith ( 1984 ).

As of November 2011 three times World Drivers ' Champion Alain Prost from France remains the only driver to win the AGP in both World Championship and domestic formats winning the Australian Drivers ' Championship 1982 race before winning in Adelaide in 1986 and 1988.

1982 World Champion Keke Rosberg held the all-time Formula 1 qualifying lap record for 16 years after posting fastest time for the 1985 British Grand Prix with an average speed of 258. 983 km / h ( 160. 92 mph ).

Following his success in the Novice 250cc roadrace class, Kawasaki hired him to compete in the 1982 AMA Superbike Championship as a teammate to the then defending National Champion Eddie Lawson.

Toivonen's team mates were Ari Vatanen, who had won the previous year's championship ( with Richards as his co-driver ), the 1980 and 1982 world champion Walter Röhrl and Jimmy McRae, the previous year's British Rally Champion and father of future rally star Colin McRae.

* Dave LaPoint – retired Major League Baseball pitcher and 1982 World Series Champion

He has published numerous other books, five relating to snooker: Successful Snooker ( 1982 ), Frame and Fortune ( 1982 ), Steve Davis: Snooker Champion ( 1983 ), Matchroom Snooker ( 1988 ) and The Official Matchroom 1990 ; two relating to chess in 1995 with David Norwood: Steve Davis Plays Chess and Grandmaster Meets Chess Amateur.

* Roy Kidd-( Football / Baseball ) Eighth winningest coach in college football history, two time NCAA National Champion ( 1979 and 1982 ).

* 1982 Washington ( AIAW Champion )

* Jeany Spark ( born 1982 ), British actress

* 1982: Plug It ( Gramavision )

They recorded and self-financed their first album, a raw blast of rock power entitled Plug It In in 1982 and achieved a hit single in Ireland with the most pop-oriented song on the album, " Needle in the Groove ".

* Plug It In ( 1982 )

* The Challenge ( 1982 )

* 1982 ; The Miraculous Qur ' an: A Challenge to Science and Mathematics

Initially, he worked as the martial arts coordinator for the films The Challenge ( 1982 ) starring Scott Glenn and Toshirô Mifune, and Never Say Never Again ( 1983 ) starring Sean Connery and A View to a Kill.

* VELUX 5 Oceans Race – formerly known as the BOC Challenge and later the Around Alone, this race started in 1982 with 17 entries.

* 1982 The Challenge

* 1982 – 83: Northern Premier League Challenge Cup winner – Burton Albion

The first match televised live was the rugby league Challenge Cup final replay between Hull FC & Widnes played on 19 May 1982.

The 1982 Challenge Cup Final Replay between Widnes and Hull FC was played there.

The 1982 – 89 series were repeated on terrestrial television several times, and during the 1990s appeared on the Challenge satellite and cable channel, as well as Sky Travel.

In 1982, Hull, crushed by Widnes in the Premiership final, avenged the defeat with an 18 – 9 Challenge Cup replay win.

Leigh have been Rugby League Champions twice, in 1906 and 1982, and won the Challenge Cup twice, in 1921 and 1971.

The following people were born in Walton: Samuel Croxall ( c. 1690-1752 ), noted for his edition of Aesop's Fables ; George Brydges Rodney ( 1718-1792 ), remembered for his victory over the French at the Battle of the Saintes in 1782 ; writer Susan Ertz ( 1894-1985 ), who observed that ' Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon '; aircraft designer John Carver Meadows Frost ( 1915-1979 ), who pioneered supersonic British experimental aircraft ; Tony Walton, set and costume designer, in 1934 ; Dame Julie Andrews, actress, singer and author, in 1935 ; Nick Lowe, singer-songwriter, musician and producer, in 1949 ; Ian Rank-Broadley, sculptor and designer of previous British coinage, in 1952 ; Luke Haines, musician in The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof, Black Box Recorder and The Servants, in 1967 ; Danny Sapsford, tennis player, in 1969 ; Sean Emmett, Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, in 1970 ; Gail Trimble, student and contestant on University Challenge, in 1982.

After that he appeared in a gothic horror film The Keep, action films like Wild Geese II ( 1985 ) opposite Laurence Olivier, Silverado ( 1985 ), The Challenge ( 1982 ) and drama films like The Right Stuff ( 1983 ), TV film Countdown to Looking Glass ( 1984 ), The River ( 1984 ) and Off Limits ( 1988 ) as he alternately played good guys and bad guys during the 1980s.

* The Challenge ( 1982 )

Monsoon lost the match and stayed true to his word, retiring several weeks later and returning just four times: wrestling a match in 1982 as a substitute for André the Giant, taking part in Big John Studd's " Body Slam Challenge " in 1983, a six-man tag team match at Madison Square Garden, and participating in a special " old timers " battle royal in 1987 which was won by Lou Thesz.

Challenge of L ' Arche, 1982, Jean Vanier

* DEC's PC Challenge 1982, This corporate documentary produced by Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) chronicles DECs two year odyssey to bring three personal computers, the Professional 325 ( PRO-325 ), the Professional 350 ( PRO-350 ), and the Rainbow 100 to market a year after IBM launched their personal computer.

Peter Karl Jehle ( born 22 January 1982 in Schaan ) is a Liechtensteiner footballer who plays for FC Vaduz in the Swiss Challenge League, as a goalkeeper.

He served under Samuel Doe as Justice Minister from 1982 to 1983, and he has served as Liberia's ambassador to the United Nations .< ref >" Winston Tubman Throws Out a Challenge ".