It is used in race cars including F1, IndyCar, World Rally and even most club racing, motorcycles, automatic transmissions and in some diesel locomotives with mechanical transmissions.

The most well-known cars made before World War II, bearing model names F1 through F8 ( F for Front ), had front-wheel drive and a transversely mounted two-cylinder engine.

Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ).

Schumacher is a seven-time World Champion and is widely regarded as the greatest F1 driver of all time on his performance records alone.

* F1 Powerboat World Championship

In the 2008 World Final, held at Ipswich, Andy Smith raced to victory becoming the 2008 BriSCA F1 Stock Car World Champion for the second time in his career, taking the crown from brother Stuart Smith Jnr.

Michael Schumacher, the most titled F1 driver, won five F1 World Championships during the decade and finally retired in 2006, yet eventually confirming his come-back to F1 for 2010.

Patrese entered 257 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix and started 256 races making him the third most experienced F1 driver in history, after Rubens Barrichello and Michael Schumacher.

Baumgartner was also the first Hungarian to score a point in a World Championship F1 race.

Andreas Nikolaus " Niki " Lauda ( born February 22, 1949 ) is an Austrian former Formula One racing driver and three-time F1 World Champion.

Their drivers included Keke Rosberg ( who later became World Champion on the Williams Saudia F1 Team ), Elliott Forbes-Robinson, Randolph Townsend, Mike Brockman, Howdy Holmes, Teo Fabi, Patrick Depailler, Danny Sullivan, Bobby Rahal, Johnny Parson Jr., among others.

* Red Bull Racing – a Formula One team based in Milton Keynes, England, World Constructor's Championship winner of 2010 and 2011, and produced the car for the 2010 and 2011 F1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel.

* Jack Newtown, a nickname of F1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve

Villeneuve also appeared in a Canadian commercial alongside Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter and countryman Donovan Bailey shortly after winning his 1997 F1 World Driver's title.

Hill became the fourth driver in nine years to win the World Drivers ' Championship and not drive for Williams the following season following in the footsteps of Nelson Piquet ( WDC-drove for Lotus ), Nigel Mansell ( WDC-1993 competed in the US based Champ Car World Series instead of F1 ) and Alain Prost ( 1993 WDC-Retired ).

On the 7 October 2012, Hill will be driving his father Graham Hill's BRM in celebration of winning the 1962 F1 World Championship, where Graham became the first British driver to win the Drivers ' World Championship with a British team.

The DFV has recently been given a new lease of life thanks to the interest in Classic F1 racing, which was given a World Championship status by the FIA in 2004.

Montoya has also become a crossover race winner by winning races ( starting in each case in his rookie year ) in Formula One, CART, IndyCar, Grand-AM and NASCAR equalling in that respect Mario Andretti's caliber of success ( except for the F1 World Championship ); And shares honors as well with Dan Gurney in being IndyCar / F1 / NASCAR race winner.

To date, no other Canadian has won the Indianapolis 500 or the F1 Drivers ' title.

The 1968 F1 Drivers ' Championship was subsequently won by his Lotus teammate Graham Hill, who pulled the heartbroken team together and held off Jackie Stewart for the crown, which he later dedicated to Clark.

Later in 1991 Brawn returned to F1 as technical director of the Benetton team, helping it win consecutive World Drivers ' Championships in 1994 and 1995 with Michael Schumacher, and to take the World Constructors ' Championship in 1995.

Alain Prost won the Drivers ' title for McLaren ( racing ) | McLaren-Honda Racing F1 | Honda on 76 points.

Drivers who retired from F1 racing at the end on 1986 were Patrick Tambay as well as 1980 World Champion Alan Jones and 1982 champion Keke Rosberg while injuries suffered at the British Grand Prix forced the retirement of Jacques Laffite.

It featured the 1980 World Championship of Drivers and the 1980 International Cup for F1 Constructors which were contested concurrently from January 13 to October 5 over a fourteen race series.

The following drivers and constructors contested the 1980 World Championship of Drivers and the 1980 International Cup for F1 Constructors.

It featured the 1979 World Championship of F1 Drivers and the 1979 International Cup for F1 Constructors which were contested concurrently over a fifteen round series which commenced on January 21, 1979, and ended on October 7.

Canadian Gilles Villeneuve placed second in the 1979 World Championship of F1 Drivers behind Ferrari teammate Jody Scheckter

The following drivers and constructors contested the 1979 World Championship of F1 Drivers and the 1979 International Cup for F1 Constructors.

Austrian Niki Lauda won the 1975 World Championship of F1 Drivers

Emerson Fittipaldi ( McLaren M23 Ford ) placed second in the 1975 World Championship of F1 Drivers

It featured the 1975 World Championship of F1 Drivers and the 1975 International Cup for F1 Manufacturers which were contested concurrently from January 12 to October 5 over fourteen races.

The following drivers and constructors and contested the 1975 World Championship of F1 Drivers and the 1975 International Cup for F1 Manufacturers.

It featured the 1974 World Championship of F1 Drivers and the 1974 International Cup for F1 Manufacturers, contested concurrently over a fifteen race series which commenced on 13 January and ended on 6 October.

Emerson Fittipaldi ( McLaren M23 Ford Motor Company | Ford ) won the 1974 World Championship of F1 Drivers

It featured the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for F1 Manufacturers, which were contested concurrently over a fifteen race series that commenced on 28 January and ended on 7 October.

Two wins in Mexico and Portugal gave Patrese his most competitive F1 season thus far and a respectable third place behind Championship contenders Mansell and Ayrton Senna.

European Aviation sponsored Tyrrell in 1997 ; the same year, Stoddart entered his numerous F1 cars in an F1 Historical Championship ; he established his own team, European Formula Racing, whose driver Nigel Greensall won the championship in 1997 and 1998.

Major success came in 1963 with the Lotus 25, which — with Jim Clark driving — won Lotus its first F1 World Constructors Championship.

Classic Team Lotus continues to maintain Lotus F1 cars and run them in the FIA Historic Formula One Championship and it preserves the Team Lotus archive and Works Collection of cars, under the management of Colin Chapman ’ s son, Clive.

A Formula One version of the Tipo 125, the Ferrari 125 F1 was developed in 1948 and entered in several Grand Prix, at the time a World Championship had not yet been established.

The annual Norwegian Grand Prix for F1 Powerboat World Championship | F1 Powerboat Racing is held at Arendal

The track ’ s reputation improved so much the 500-Mile Race became part of the Formula One World Championship for 11 years ( 1950 – 1960 ), even though none of the Indy drivers raced in Formula One and only Ferrari's Alberto Ascari of the F1 drivers at the time raced in the 500.

After one more year in the sport, he left the Ferrari F1 team to drive a Citroën C4 WRC for the Citroën Junior Team in the World Rally Championship for 2010.

With Clark driving the legendary Lotus 25, Team Lotus won its first F1 World Championship in 1963.

He won his first World Championship F1 race the following season on the Nürburgring circuit and added a win at Monza, finishing runner up in the championship to Juan Manuel Fangio.

Hulme's debut season in the Cam-Am series heralded no points, but the year after, in the year of his F1 Championship win, he came home second in the series, behind team leader Bruce McLaren.