* 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

The SCCA began sanctioning professional racing in 1963, when the United States Road Racing Championship was formed.

Paul and Bill began a long and successful partnership with the Newman Freeman Racing team in the Can-Am series which culminated in the Can-Am Team Championship trophy in 1979.

Nabisco began a marketing program in 2008, advertising the use of Oreo cookies in a game called DSRL, which stands for " Double Stuf Racing League.

KTM began in motorsports with Motocross Racing.

GNCC Racing began around 1980 and includes hare scramble and enduro type races.

Twelve years after Davis retired, the modern era of female jockeys began as Kathy Kusner successfully sued the Maryland Racing Commission for a jockey's license in 1968 under the Civil Rights Act.

Racing began shortly after the production of the automobile.

He began driving in NASCAR in 1974 and earned his first victory in 1977 at the Capital City 400 in Richmond, Virginia driving for Harry Hyde / Jim Stacy Racing.

On July 5, during the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona, Tony began feeling ill and turned the car over to former Joe Gibbs Racing teammate J. J. Yeley, who finished 20th after getting involved in two wrecks in the last 5 laps.

While there were games prior that had used three dimensional environments, such as Virtua Racing and Star Fox, it was in this era that many game designers began to move traditionally 2D and pseudo-3D genres into 3D.

Development of Jet Force Gemini began in 1997, with Lead Programmer Paul Mountain, who had previously worked on Diddy Kong Racing.

Busch has also driven for Penske Racing and Roush Fenway Racing in his Sprint Cup career, which began in 2001.

Perhaps the most fruitful of all his associations with upcoming engineers began in 1990 when Williams hired Adrian Newey, recently sacked as technical director of Leyton House Racing.

Pep Boys began sponsoring NASCAR two-time Daytona 500 champion driver Sterling Marlin's No. 14 car owned by Ginn Racing in 2007.

The Cotillion, which has been held since thoroughbred racing began in Pennsylvania in 1969 at the old Liberty Bell Park in Northeast Philadelphia, is a ( Eight and a half furlong ) race, is held ( as of 2010 ) on the first Saturday in October as part of a fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity with races featuring female jockeys called " Parx Racing Ladies Day at the Races "

1996: Dale Jarrett and his Robert Yates Racing crew began the tradition of the winning driver and crew kissing the row of bricks at the start-finish line., which has carried over to the Indianapolis 500.

The 2006 season began tragically for Rice at the season-opening race at Homestead-Miami Speedway when teammate Paul Dana of Rahal Letterman Racing team was killed in the final practice session.

Shortly after being removed from the CART Board of Directors, George announced the creation of the Indy Racing League, which began racing in 1996.

( see Indy Racing League ) The IRL was founded in 1994 and began racing in 1996 claiming to offer a cost-effective, all-oval alternative to the PPG CART Indycar World Series.

Yoong began a campaign in Formula Renault with Startline Racing in 1996 along with sponsorship from Malaysian tyre manufacturer, Silverstone tyres.

Jarrett began 1990 without a ride before taking over the # 21 Citgo Ford Thunderbird for Wood Brothers Racing at the Valleydale Meats 500, replacing the injured Neil Bonnett.

He began working with fabrication when he was hired by Willet Brown and Tom Lee to rework Don Lee Racing Team's midget car bodies.

He was soon bored by this and entered the Jim Russell Racing School at Le Circuit Mont Tremblant to gain a racing licence.

The popularity of the series soon after its premiere on the ABC promoted international syndication, and it can now be seen in North America on, Horse Racing TV and Connecticut Public Television, in Canada on YTV, and in the UK on Pop Girl.

San Lorenzo soon became one of the top clubs in Buenos Aires ; ever since the start of professionalism in 1931, it was counted in the top five ( cinco grandes ) together with Boca Juniors, Independiente, River Plate and Racing.

He soon signed to drive the # 27 Pfizer / Viagra Pontiac for Eel River Racing.

was granted a release from RPM and he soon joined Penske Racing.

The team struggled the early portion of the season, but soon found momentum and battled with Roush Fenway Racing driver Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. for the Nationwide Series points lead.

* Las Vegas, the 3rd race of the 2001 season, was noted for the fact that Mike Skinner, Earnhardt's teammate at Richard Childress Racing, took over Earnhardt's slot in the No Bull 5 million dollar eligibility for this race since Earnhardt had qualified for the No Bull 5 prize after his final victory in the 2000 Winston 500 at Talladega.

In 1981 McLaren merged with Ron Dennis ' Project Four Racing ; Dennis took over as team principal and shortly after organised a buyout of the original McLaren shareholders to take full control of the team.

Villarreal CF, Sporting de Gijón and Racing de Santander were relegated to 2012 – 13 Segunda División the previous season: Villarreal were relegated after twelve years in La Liga, Sporting de Gijón returns to Segunda División after four-year tenure in La Liga, while Racing de Santander ended ten consecutive seasons in La Liga, the longest period in its history.

The 1935 winner of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing was named Omaha, and after traveling the world the horse eventually retired to a farm south of the city.

* Grand Prix motorcycle Road Racing, known commonly as MotoGP after its premier class.

The team ceased operations after the Sprint Cup Series ' 2011 season but Red Bull continued their support of the Braatz Racing # 8 ( Assumed Red Bull Racing Team's # 4 after 5 race owner points period )

Together, the Derby ; the Preakness Stakes, held two weeks later at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland ; and the Belmont Stakes, held three weeks after the Preakness at Belmont Park on Long Island, form the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing for three-year-olds.

The club became first widely known in Spain in 1995 – 96, while still playing at the third level, for its extraordinary run in the Spanish Cup, eliminating three top flight clubs ( Real Sociedad, Racing de Santander and Sporting de Gijón ) and only being knocked out in the quarter-finals by FC Barcelona, after taking the lead.

Racing Club de Narbonne Méditerannée ( also known as RC Narbonne ) is a French rugby union club that played the 2007-08 season in the second-level Rugby Pro D2, after finishing at the bottom of the 2006-07 Top 14 table.

The Preakness Stakes, a race in the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, was named after a race horse from Wayne's Preakness Stables, who won the Dinner-Stakes race at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland, sponsored by the Maryland Jockey Club on October 25, 1870.

On October 31, 2005, Penske Racing announced after the 2006 IRL season, they would consolidate IRL and NASCAR operations at the team's Mooresville, North Carolina facility ; with the flooding in Pennsylvania in 2006, the team's operations were moved to Mooresville earlier than expected.

In early 2008, the two series were unified to create a single open wheel championship after a 12-year split being run under Indy Racing League / IMS control ( now IZOD INDYCAR SERIES ).

He later took the Minardi brand into the Champ Car World Series after his purchase of a portion of CTE-HVM Racing which he renamed Minardi Team USA for 2007.

In the 1987 – 88 season, Depor struggled and only avoided relegation after Vicente Celeiro scored a goal during added time against Racing de Santander in the last game of the season.

Racing correspondent Richard Baerlein, after watching the colt win by 10 lengths famously advised race-goers that " at 8-1, Shergar for the Derby, now is the time to bet like men.

It was at this time that the European Cup competition was established, after the English press declared Wolves " Champions of the World " following their victories against such top European and World sides as South Africa, Racing, Spartak Moscow, and Honvéd in some of football's first live televised games.

The very next year, Team Penske made its return to the Indianapolis 500 after a five year absence and was joined by Ganassi, Walker Racing and Michael Andretti, driving for Team Kool Green in a separate effort headed by Kim Green, known as Team Motorola.

There is also an annual British Universities Sailing Association Team Racing Championship, contested by 32 teams after several rounds of regional qualifiers.