Notable British cars of this era included the 1959 Mini — designed by Alec Issigonis for the British Motor Corporation, and Malcolm Sayer's 1961 E-type Jaguar.

Notable entrants included drum and bass legend and James Bond villain, Goldie, in an Aston Martin V8 ; ' It-girl ' Tara Palmer-Tomkinson in a Jaguar XK8 ; Great Train Robber Bruce Reynolds in a Bentley ; the indie band Placebo in a Lagonda ; the Happy Mondays all crammed into a 2 + 2 Jaguar ; and Maximillion Cooper in the famous Bentley Arnage 1WO.

Still during the 1960s British manufacturers sought professional help from the Italians, Giovanni Michelotti, Ercole Spada and Pininfarina. Notable British contributions to automobile designs were Morris Mini by Alec Issigonis, Several Jaguar Cars by Sir William Lyons, Aston Martin DB Series, and several cars from Triumph and MG. Ford Europe based in Great Britain is notable for Ford Sierra, a creation of Uwe Bahnsen, Robert Lutz, and Patrick le Quément.

Notable sports figures from Roanoke County include Tiki Barber, Ronde Barber, and J. J. Redick, all of whom attended and graduated from Cave Spring High School in Southwest Roanoke County.

Notable soccer players, such as Arne Larsen Økland, Geirmund Brendesæter and Gunnar Meling, started their careers in Bremnes IL, one of the local sports clubs.

Notable spectator sports events where events regularly sell out well in advance and are broadcast to large audiences include the K-League, Nippon Professional Baseball, Korea Professional Baseball, J.

Notable sports personalities born in Blackburn include: rock climber John Sumner in 1936 ; and England rugby union players Will Greenwood in 1972 and Iain Balshaw in 1979.

Notable professional sports players from Delta are Jeff Francis ( MLB ), Justin Morneau ( MLB ), Brent Seabrook ( NHL ), Troy Brouwer ( NHL ) and Mitch Berger ( NFL ).

Notable examples include the traditional black uniform worn by association football referees, or the vertical black and white stripes worn by referees in many North American sports.

Notable alumni from Willamette include a range of people involved in business, government, education, sports, art and entertainment.

Notable sports clubs in Velika Gorica include the football clubs HNK Gorica and NK Udarnik, a men's handball club HRK Gorica, a women's volleyball club OK Azena and a men's basketball club KK Gorica.

At its peak, the newspaper achieved a circulation of 35, 000. Notable contributors to its pages included Robert Minor and Fred Ellis ( cartoonists ), Lester Rodney ( sports editor ), David Karr, Richard Wright, John L. Spivak, Peter Fryer, Woody Guthrie and Louis Budenz.

Notable Marist graduates include Timothy G. Brier, ' 69, co-Founder of Priceline. com ; Christopher McCann ' 83, President of 1-800FLOWERS. com ; Ian O ' Connor ' 86, a New York Times best-selling author and national sports columnist ; Bill O ' Reilly ' 71, political commentator and host of The O ' Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel ; and Rik Smits ' 88, NBA All-Star and 2nd pick in the 1988 NBA Draft.

Notable sports figures in Ohio State history may be inducted into the Ohio State Varsity O Hall of Fame.

Notable traditional sports used to be played were tiqa, ulutoa, veisaga, and veisolo.

Notable drivers ( Winston Cup race winners, Rookies of the Year, & renowned drivers from other championships such as IndyCars or sports cars ) are highlighted in bold.

The prestige of Porsche, BMW, Ferrari, Lotus, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, and Aston Martin derives in part from success in sports car racing and the World Sportscar Championship.

In the 1950s, sports car racing was regarded as almost as important as Grand Prix competition, with major marques like Ferrari, Maserati, Jaguar and Aston Martin investing much effort in their works programmes and supplying cars to customers ; sports racers lost their close relationship to road-going sports cars in the 1950s and the major races were contested by dedicated competition cars such as the Jaguar C and D types, the Mercedes 300SLR, Maserati 300S, Aston Martin DBR1 and assorted Ferraris including the first Testa Rossas.

A " Fastback 2 + 2 " model traded the conventional trunk space for increased interior volume as well as giving exterior lines similar to those of the second series of the Corvette Sting Ray and European sports cars such as the Jaguar E-Type.

Although the prototype XJ13 was built in the mid-1960s it was never raced, and the famous race was then left for many years, until in the mid-1980s when Tom Walkinshaw's TWR team started designing and preparing Jaguar V12-engined sports prototypes for European sports car races.

A Jaguar-badged version of the HB was briefly used in sports car racing, fitted to the extremely successful Jaguar XJR-14.

cop Jack Traven, who rips the door off a Jaguar sports car then leaps to the open door of a speeding bus, his feet scraping against the ground.

The automotive industry in the United Kingdom is now best known for premium and sports car marques including Aston Martin, Bentley, Daimler, Jaguar, Lagonda, Land Rover, Lotus, McLaren, MG, Mini, Morgan and Rolls-Royce.

Lex Davison, who for several years would experiment with sports car engines in smaller Formula 2 chassis, took his first of four victories in a Jaguar engined Formula 2 HWM in 1954, while the previous year Whiteford won his third and final Grand Prix as for the first time racing cars thundered around the streets surrounding the Albert Park Lake in inner Melbourne.

He then had a couple of years in the British Touring Car Championship with Nissan, before returning to sports cars in 1995, driving a Porsche at Daytona and a Jaguar XJ220 at Le Mans.

The problem of providing a rigid structure to an open-topped sports car was resolved by Barry Bilbie, Healey's chassis designer, who adapted the idea provided by the Jaguar ' D-type ', with rear suspension forces routed through the bodyshell's floor pan.

The Jaguar E-Type ( a. k. a. Jaguar XK-E ) is a British sports car, manufactured by Jaguar Cars Ltd between 1961 and 1974.

The Jaguar XK150 is a sports car produced by Jaguar between 1957 and 1961.

For instance, the rear view mirrors of the " Series 2 " CX were found on many British sports cars, like the Lotus Esprit and the Jaguar XJ220.

Several famous marques used A-type overdrives, including Jaguar, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Austin-Healey, Jensen, Bristol, AC, Armstrong Siddeley and Triumph's TR sports car range, until the end of TR5 & TR250 production in 1969.

After brief stints with the now-defunct Haas Lola and Arrows F1 teams, in 1989 Brawn moved to the Jaguar sports car racing division, and was lead designer on the Jaguar XJR-14 which won the 1991 World Sportscar Championship.

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.

Sports car racing has intermittently been popular in Japan – in the 1960s small-capacity sports racers and even a local version of the Group 7 cars as raced in Can-Am were popular ; a healthy local sports prototype championship ran until the early 1990s and now the Super GT series provides high-budget exposure to manufacturers, with many international drivers appearing.

* Clubmans – a long-lived British formula which featured sophisticated, quick but economical front-engined / rear wheel drive sports racers well into the 1990s.

* Anthony Pritchard, " Sports Racing Cars " – profiles of 25 sports racers through history.

Borgward introduced a line of 1500 cc sports racers in the late 1950s, with the 16-valve engine from these becoming a successful Formula Two power unit ( which was also used by some F1 privateers in 1961 ).

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.

The Popular Front organized in 1937 the Million Franc Race, to induce automobile manufacturers to develop race cars capable of competing with the German Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union racers of the time, which were backed by the Nazi government as part of its sports policy.

The SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge racing series, run by the Sports Car Club of America, and the Grand American Road Racing Association, respectively, utilize modified production-based cars, sports cars, and touring cars, similar in spirit to the original Trans-Am racers.

The populace at large is distracted by mass sports race games, with racers like the arrogant but talented Blurr becoming celebrities.

In 1968 Barnard was recruited by Lola in Huntingdon as a junior designer and began working on many of the chassis manufacturer's projects, including Formula Vee racers and numerous sports cars.

The first of five annual races began in May 1950 and was entered by racers from all over the world representing virtually every motor sport: Formula One, sports cars, rallying, stock cars, endurance racing, hill climbing, and drag racing.

As well as constructing their own sports racers, JBW also prepared and entered Cooper single-seater racing cars for Naylor to drive in Formula Two and occasional Formula One events.

Can-Am started out as a race series for Group 7 sports racers with two races in Canada ( Can ) and four races in the United States of America ( Am ).

SCCA sports car racing was becoming more popular with European constructors and drivers, and the United States Road Racing Championship for large-capacity sports racers eventually gave rise to the Group 7 Can-Am series.

A mysterious group of urban street racers known as the Midnight Club race for pride, power, and glory in sleekly customized, enhanced sports cars.

Around 1964-1966 Elva made a very successful series of Mk 8 sports racers mostly with 1. 8 litre BMW engines ( modified from the 1. 6 litre by Nerus ) and some with 1. 15 litre Holbay-Ford engines.

This is particularly relevant in motocross where racers line up in alongside each other rather than behind each other in tarmac-based sports.