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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.
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* 1942 – Frank Williams, English founder and team principal of the WilliamsF1 Formula One racing team
* Adrian Sutil ( born 1983 ), German Formula One racing driver
* 1963 – Mike Gascoyne, British engineer, designer of Formula One cars
: See also: Aston Martin Racing, List of Formula One constructors
** British American Racing, a Formula One constructor
* Bernie Ecclestone was involved in a political scandal when it transpired he had given the Labour Party a million pound donation-which raised eyebrows when the incoming Labour government changed its policy to allow Formula One to continue being sponsored by tobacco manufacturers.
Motor Racing Developments Ltd., commonly known as Brabham (), was a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team.
Founded in 1960 by two Australians, driver Jack Brabham and designer Ron Tauranac, the team won four drivers ' and two constructors ' world championships in its 30-year Formula One history.
The team won two more Formula One drivers ' championships in the 1980s with Brazilian Nelson Piquet.
British businessman Bernie Ecclestone owned Brabham during most of the 1970s and 1980s, and later became responsible for administering the commercial aspects of Formula One.
In 2009, an unsuccessful attempt was made by a German organisation to enter the 2010 Formula One season using the Brabham name.
There he started driving for the Cooper Car Company works team and by 1958 had progressed with them to Formula One, the highest category of open wheel racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ), motor sport's world governing body.
In 1959 and 1960, Brabham won the Formula One world drivers ' championship in Cooper's revolutionary mid-engined cars.
By the 1961 Formula One season, the Lotus and Ferrari teams had developed the mid-engined approach further than Cooper.
Motor Racing Developments initially concentrated on making money by building cars for sale to customers in lower formulae, so the new car for the Formula One team was not ready until partway through the 1962 Formula One season.
The Brabham BT3, the first Brabham Formula One design.
The FIA doubled the Formula One engine capacity limit to 3 litres for the 1966 season and suitable engines were scarce.
Brabham used engines from Australian engineering firm Repco, which had never produced a Formula One engine before, based on aluminium V8 engine blocks from the defunct American Oldsmobile F85 road car project, and other off the shelf parts.
At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.
Jack Brabham won his third title in 1966, becoming the only driver to win the Formula One World Championship in a car carrying his own name ( cf Surtees, Hill and Fittipaldi Automotive ).
Graham Hill took his final Formula One win in the unique " lobster claw ". Tauranac signed double world champion Graham Hill and young Australian Tim Schenken to drive for the 1971 season.
Although Hill, no longer a front-runner since his 1969 accident, took his final Formula One win in the non-championship BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone, the team scored only seven championship points.
Formula and version
The same year, Brabham entered the famous Indianapolis 500 oval race for the first time in a modified version of the Formula One Cooper.
A downsized version of the Formula One Stock Car Racing, these cars are powered by the 2 litre Ford ' Pinto ' engine.
The company also produces the Antica Formula brand, a bitter, fuller-flavored version of vermouth.
Minardi left the lower division at the end of 1984, although in 1986 a modified version of their final Formula Two car, the 283, was entered without success in two rounds of the Formula 3000 championship which had replaced Formula Two in 1985.
Cosworth began its association with Lotus Cars by work on the longer stroke version of the Kent, which had a capacity of and was used in the Lotus 7. and units were developed in 1963 for use in Formula B and sports car racing, and a twin overhead camshaft version was developed to power the Lotus Cortina.
There was even a one-off version built by Cosworth employees Paul Squires and Phil Kidsley ; fitted with a Lysholm supercharger it was installed in a Brabham BT28 Formula 3 chassis and competed in the British Hill Climb Championship as the Brabham-Lysholm.
For the 1966 Formula One season with new rules, the Ferrari 312 of Surtees consisted of a 3. 0 L version of the 3. 3 L V12 which they had previously used in Ferrari P sports car racers, mounted in the back of a rather heavy F1 chassis.
In the 1967 Formula One season, the team fired Dragoni and replaced him with Franco Lini ; Chris Amon partnered Bandini to drive a somewhat improved version of the 1966 car.
Though part of the Quick Lock Formula Alliance ( QLF ), engineers at Rosenberger independently designed the SnapN in order to correct the performance issues of QLF ’ s version of the quick lock N connector, QN.
After winning his fifth United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis in 2006, Formula One driver Michael Schumacher holds the record for most victories between the three major events ( Indianapolis 500, Brickyard 400 and the F1 USGP ), with all taking place on the Formula One version of the road course.
Local Tasman cars were declining as well and after originally opting a 2. 0 litre version of Tasman to be the future of the Australia Grand Prix, the overwhelming support for the already well established Formula 5000 saw natural selection force CAMS ' hand.
The 1980 extravaganza held at Jane's Calder Park Raceway saw a combined field of Formula One and Formula 5000 padded out with the Australised version of Formula Atlantic cars, Formula Pacific.
MicroProse also released Geoff Crammond's Formula One Grand Prix to adulation in 1991 ( the Amiga and Atari ST versions were released first, and the DOS version followed in early 1992 ).
In 1995, Dale and Chall published a new version of their formula with an upgraded word list, the New Dale – Chall Readability Formula.
* Brazil: the first version under the title Corrida De Formula B (" Run of the Formula B / Racing Formula B ") aired on Tupi in 1979, the second version was produced under the title Jogo Do Mais Ou Menos (" Game of More or Less ") but this time airing on SBT in 1996, both versions were hosted by Silvio Santos.
Formula and Tipo
Ferrari entered the 2. 0 L 4-cyl Ferrari Tipo 500, which went on to win almost every race in which it competed in the 1952 Formula One season with drivers Ascari, Giuseppe Farina, and Piero Taruffi ; Ascari took the World Championship after winning six consecutive races.
The 1954 Formula One season brought new rules for 2. 5 L engines ; Ferrari's new car, designated the Ferrari Tipo 625, could barely compete against Fangio with the Maserati and then the Mercedes-Benz W196 which appeared in July.
Chiti, a former Alfa Romeo Formula One chief engineer, formed Motori Moderni to make turbocharged V6 engines for Minardi, known as the Tipo 615-90.
Formula and 125
The following year, 1994, was a very busy year for the 19-year-old Colombian, as it saw him race in three separate series: the Sudam 125 Karting ( he won the title ), USA Barber Saab ( finished third in points, won two races ), and Formula N in Mexico ( a series in which he won the title ).
In 2007, the change in regulations introduced the KF1, 125 cc karts equipped with electric starter, clutch and rpm limiter set at 16, 000 rpm, to replace Formula A.
Peter Whitehead is notable as the first person to whom Enzo Ferrari ever sold a Formula One car: a Ferrari 125 and for being the first driver to win a motor race on the Mount Panorama Circuit.
As a reward, he was invited to join his compatriots Juan Manuel Fangio and José Froilán González on a trip to Europe, during which he finished fourth in the 1950 Circuit des Nations in Geneva driving a Ferrari 125 Formula One car.
* Formula C ( karting ), a defunct 125 cc karting class
: See also the Ferrari 125 F1, a Formula One race car sharing the same engine
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