Brabham cars also competed in the Indianapolis 500 and in Formula 5000 racing.

It is the only team to have competed in the Formula One World Championship continuously since its inception in 1950.

Hackman competed in Sports Car Club of America races driving an open wheeled Formula Ford in the late seventies.

Geoff was an Indycar and sportscar racer who won five North American sportscar championships as well as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, while David competed in Formula One for the Brabham team and has also won the Le Mans race as well as three Japanese and North American sportscar titles.

** Team Lotus, a British Formula One racing team that competed between 1954 and 1994

** Pacific Team Lotus, the successor team that resulted from a merger with Pacific and competed in Formula One in 1995

Funded by Weber, he competed in the German Formula 3 series, winning the title in 1990.

In 1991, he competed in one race in the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship, finishing second.

McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed and won in the Indianapolis 500 and Canadian-American Challenge Cup ( Can-Am ).

Alfa Romeo has competed successfully in many different categories of motorsport, including Grand Prix motor racing, Formula One, sportscar racing, touring car racing and rallies.

It competed in the Formula One World Championship from 1985 until 2005 with little success, nevertheless acquiring a loyal following of fans.

The Minardi team first competed under that name in the 1980 European Formula Two championship.

Pirelli previously competed in Formula One from -,-and -.

Turbine cars were deemed illegal before the following year's race, so Lotus chief Colin Chapman developed the car for use in Formula One and an updated 56B competed in half a dozen Formula One races in 1971.

* Jordan Grand Prix, which competed in Formula 1 from 1991-2005

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.

Alongside his Formula One testing duties for Williams, he competed again in F3000 and took the title in a close contest with Nick Heidfeld who was driving for McLaren's F3000 team.

The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing.

It is the oldest surviving team in Grand Prix racing, having competed since 1932, and statistically the most successful Formula One team in history with a record of 15 drivers ' championships.

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.

Within Formula One, two teams have had their base of operations in Banbury, the former Simtek team which competed in the 1994 and 1995 F1 World Championships was based on the Wildmere Industrial Estate, whilst the current Virgin Racing team has it's manufacturing and production facility sited on Thorpe Way Industrial Estate, utilising the building formerly owned by Ascari Cars, a luxury sports car manufacturer.

After nine seasons racing in Formula One, in which he took the Formula One World Drivers ' Championship, he competed in the World Rally Championship from 2010 – 2011.

In 1999, Räikkönen placed second in the European Formula Super A championship, and also competed in the Formula Ford Euro Cup.

The large Fords competed with the also locally built Vauxhall Wyvern and Velox and, later the Australian Holden.

The big Fords from England were now offered alongside the Australian-sourced Ford Falcon and also competed with the Vauxhall Victor and Velox, Holden, and Australia's Chrysler Valiant.

He also competed in Formula Holden for three years, debuting in 1994 and leaving the category in 1996.

The 380 continued the MMAL tradition of producing front-wheel drive sedans for the Australian market, and along with the Toyota Aurion, competed against the rear-wheel drive Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore vehicles.

The Fairlane and LTD competed in the marketplace with the Holden Brougham ( 1968 – 1971 ), the Statesman ( 1971 – 1984 ) and later with the Holden Statesman and Caprice ( 1990 – 2007 ).

A fourth match was played, against a " United Australian XI ", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches ; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the 1882 – 83 series.

Two-time Australian V8 Supercar Champion Marcos Ambrose has competed the Sprint Cup Series events since 2007.

* Leonard Cook ( born 20 April 1912, date of death unknown ) was an Australian boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Cars from all three classes would contest the Australian Touring Car Championship as well as non-championship Australian touring car events such as the Bathurst 1000 ; but for the purposes of race classification and points allocation, cars competed in two classes:

In 1862 it competed in what may be the earliest challenge trophy competition, was a foundation member of the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) ( 1877 ), one of two associations and governing bodies formed in the same year and in 1897 it became a foundation member of the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) competition which later became the national Australian Football League ( AFL ).

Palmer first competed in 1960, when he came second to the little-known Australian Kel Nagle, but he won the two following years.

Flack never competed for Australia again, but joined the Australian Olympic Committee ( AOC ) and was involved as a representative for Australia at the first International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) Congress.

Immediately after the second series of Pop Idol, the same set was used to host World Idol, in which winners of various Idol series around the world, including original Pop Idol winner Will Young, American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson and Australian Idol winner Guy Sebastian, competed in a one-off competition, complete with a large judging panel featuring one judge from each country ( Simon Cowell officially representing American Idol, with Pete Waterman the " official " UK judge ).

Lane, from Manly, New South Wales, was the first Australian to represent his country in swimming at the Olympic Games, although he was actually a part of the British team when he competed at the 1900 Paris Games and won two gold medals.

From 2006 to 2010, they competed in the expanded Super 14 competition as one of four Australian sides.

Date-Krumm competed at the Australian Open in Melbourne, the first time since her comeback that she has had direct acceptance into a Grand Slam main draw.

In the off-season, she competed on the ALPG Tour ( Australian Ladies Professional Golf Tour ) from 1988 to 1995.

To date only English and Australian sides have competed in the World Club Challenge.

The domestic competition was competed by ten clubs: eight that had previously competed in the Australian Rugby League, and two new teams.

At the Australian Open she competed in the first round in 1992 and reached the second round in 1999.

Tasmania Football Club, nicknamed The Devils, was an Australian rules football club which competed in the Victorian Football League in Australia.

Nauru has competed internationally in Australian rules football at the Arafura Games, Australian Football International Cup and Barassi International Youth Tournament.

Alan Hamilton the Australian Porsche distributor at the time owned one of these cars and competed and won the 1977 Australian Sports Car Championship and in 1980 the same car won the title with Allan Moffat behind the wheel

Australian athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games since 1896.