Penske recently purchased the old Matsushita air conditioning plant in Mooresville, NC and reconditioned it to consolidate his racing empire.

* Blues ( Vénetoi ), a political faction and associated chariot racing team in the Byzantine empire

The book carries a disclaimer in which Remarque says it has been necessary for him to take minor liberties with some of the procedures and formalities of racing.

All the cars established a good racing pedigree for the firm, but the DB4 was the key to establishing the company's reputation, which was cemented by the famous DB5 in 1963.

Pace continued sponsoring racing events, and now sponsored all Aston Martin Owners Club events, taking a Tickford-engined Nimrod Group C car owned by AMOC President Viscount Downe, which came third in the Manufacturers Championship in both 1982 and 1983.

At 17: 30, Nelson hailed one of his two leading ships, HMS Zealous under Captain Samuel Hood, which had been racing Goliath to be the first to fire on the French.

For example, the Union Cycliste Internationale, the governing body of international cycle sport ( which sanctions races such as the Tour de France ), decided in the late 1990s to create additional rules which prohibit racing bicycles weighing less than 6. 8 kilograms ( 14. 96 pounds ).

" The tagline was heard in a cameo for the Pixar film Cars, in which Tom and Ray voiced anthropomorphized vehicles ( Rusty and Dusty Rust-Eze, respectively a 1963 Dodge Dart V1. 0 and 1963 Dodge A100 van, as Lightning McQueen's racing sponsors ) with personalities similar to their own on-air personae.

The 1988 season saw Earnhardt racing with a new sponsor, GM Goodwrench, which replaced Wrangler Jeans.

Drag racing is a competition in which specially prepared automobiles or motorcycles compete, usually two at a time, to be the first to cross a set finish line.

The term first past the post ( abbreviated FPTP or FPP ) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point ( the " post ") on the track ( in this case a plurality of votes ), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose ( that is, the payoff is " winner-takes-all ").

Because he was prohibited by contract from racing for four years, the Scuderia briefly became Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari, which ostensibly produced machine tools and aircraft accessories.

* In 1996, Mattel's Hot Wheels brand released a two-car pack entitled Home Improvement based on the show which featured Tim's 1933 Ford Convertible and the Dixie Chopper racing mower ( with a mini-figure Tim as the rider ) as well as a mini-figure of Al and a Binford tool box.

Jetsprint or sprint boat racing is a form of racing sport in which jetboats with a crew of two race individually against the clock through twisting series of channels in less than a metre of water.

In 1962 he established his own Brabham marque with fellow Australian Ron Tauranac, which became the largest manufacturer of customer racing cars in the world in the 1960s.

Brabham retired to Australia after the 1970 Formula One season, where he bought a farm and maintained various business interests, which included the Engine Developments racing engine manufacturer and several garages.

He bought and modified a series of racing cars from the Cooper Car Company, a prolific British constructor, and from 1953 concentrated on this form of racing, in which drivers compete on closed tarmac circuits.

At that time, almost all racing cars had their engines mounted at the front but Coopers were different, having the engine placed behind the driver, which improved their handling.

Brabham and Tauranac set up a company called Motor Racing Developments Ltd. ( MRD ), which initially produced customer racing cars, while Brabham himself continued to race for Cooper.

In addition to the deafness caused by years of motor racing without adequate ear protection, his eyesight is reduced due to macular degeneration and he has kidney disease for which by 2009 he was receiving dialysis three times a week.

From there, Clark went on to Paris, France, where in 1863, a group of racing enthusiasts had formed the French Jockey Club and had organized the Grand Prix de Paris, which at the time was the greatest race in France.

Frames were placed close together which is an enduring feature of thin planked ships, still used today on some lightweight wooden racing craft such as those designed by Bruce Farr.

The smaller is the Bugatti Circuit ( named after Ettore Bugatti, founder of the car company bearing his name ), a relatively short permanent circuit which is used for racing throughout the year.

The longer and more famous Circuit de la Sarthe is composed partly of public roads, which are closed to the public when the track is in use for racing, and has been host to the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car race since 1923.

By the turn of the century, cycling clubs flourished on both sides of the Atlantic, and touring and racing became widely popular.

Cheney began racing motocross and became one Britain's best riders, along with his travelling companion Les Archer, who went on to become European champion.

Such racing began in 1906 and, in the second half of the 20th century, became the most popular kind of racing internationally.

Don Aronow became involved in powerboat endurance racing in the early 1960s.

There he became part of the Cooper Car Company's racing team, building as well as racing cars.

After successfully running the midget at some hillclimbing events in 1951, Brabham became interested in road racing.

* Team Lotus, a Malaysian Formula One racing team that began racing in 2010 as Lotus Racing and became the Caterham F1 Team at the end of the 2011 season

After a historic race between Ransom Olds and Alexander Winton in 1903, the beach became a mecca for racing enthusiasts and 15 records were set on what became the Daytona Beach road course between 1905 and 1935.

After World War II, racing recommenced in the 1950s and the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring again became the main venue for the German Grand Prix as part of the Formula One World Championship ( with the exception of 1959, when it was held on the AVUS in Berlin ).

This later became known as restrictor plate racing.

Both Gardens were prominent cycling venues, which gave rise to the track cycle racing that ultimately carried their name — and thereby became an indirect tribute to James Madison.

Lauda became a racing driver despite his family's disapproval.

As the walls lost their military importance, they became a pedestrian promenade which encircled the old town, although they were used for a number of years in the 20th century for racing cars.

Newman was an avid auto racing enthusiast, and first became interested in motorsports (" the first thing that I ever found I had any grace in ") while training at the Watkins Glen Racing School for the filming of Winning, a 1969 film.

During the 1976 auto racing season, Paul Newman became interested in forming a professional auto racing team and contacted Bill Freeman from Santa Barbara.

In Britain 2-litre sports cars were initially popular ( the Bristol engine being readily available and cheap ), subsequently 1100 cc sports racers became a very popular category for young drivers ( effectively supplanting 500 cc F3 ), with Lola, Lotus, Cooper and others being very competitive, although at the other end of the scale in the early to mid 1960s the national sports racing scene also attracted sophisticated GTs and later a crop of large-engined " big bangers " the technology of which largely gave rise to Can-Am but soon died out.

In Germany, domestic production based racing was largely dominated by BMW, Porsche and Mercedes-Benz, although sports car / GT racing gradually became eclipsed by touring cars and the initially sports car based Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft gradually evolved into the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft.