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    annual 24-hour automobile endurance race organised by the automotive group Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and held on the Circuit de la Sarthe race...
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    single-seaters). As Group 7 were ineligible for FIA championship events, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) opened its entry list to Group 3, 4 and 6. The FIA mandated...
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    2010 win". Motor Sport. Spurring 2010, p.2 Spurring 2010, p.171 Moity 1974, p.172 Armstrong, Douglas – English editor (1966) Automobile Year #13 1965-66...
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    120 others in the deadliest accident in motor racing history. The Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) again lifted the replenishment window (just changed...
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    Olivier Gendebien (category Ecurie Nationale Belge Formula One drivers)
    children, Gendebien's wife pressured him to get out of the dangerous sport of automobile racing where more than two dozen of his competitors had died at the...
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    twice before this victory. Significant changes occurred with the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) regulations this year. The FIA had issued its revamped...
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    2012. Retrieved 30 November 2010. "Rule Britannia! PM's New Jaguar : Automobiles De Luxe | The Great Marques". Automobilesdeluxe.tv. 19 May 2010. Archived...
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  • "Willy Mairesse". Motor Sport Magazine. 2017-06-12. Retrieved 2018-02-03. Parker 2016, p.207 Automobile Year 1968, p.196 Automobile Year 1968, p.195 "Profile:...
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    race as a battle between brute force and science (per the July 1954 "Motor Sport" article). In the high technology corner, with its sleek, aerodynamic bodywork...
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    Jackie Stewart (category Scottish male sport shooters)
    brother Jimmy was a racing driver with a local reputation who drove for Ecurie Ecosse and competed in the 1953 British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Stewart...
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    retirement from racing, de Graffenried managed his car dealership in Lausanne, featuring Alfa Romeo, Rolls-Royce and Ferrari automobiles. He also acted as stunt...
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    worked around in the previous year. For its part, race-organisers, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) increased the maximum continuous driving stint up from...
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    could not change by more than 5%. With the new fuel-tank sizes, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) dropped the minimum distance between fuel refills but...
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    same categories (based on engine capacity) were kept, although the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) added an extra class at the top end – for over 5.0L...
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    1946 Turin Grand Prix (category Italian sport stubs)
    des Automobile Clubs Reconnus (AIACR) on 24 June 1946, in the same meeting that officially changed their name to the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile...
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    McLaren entered round 4 as "Löwenbräu Team McLaren". FIA Year Book of Automobile Sport 1979. Patrick Stephens Ltd. white p. 44. ISBN 0-85059-320-4. Glick...
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  • Brabham (redirect from Ecurie Vitesse)
    motor sport was governed directly by the Commission Sportive Internationale (CSI) and from 1978 by the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA)...
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    standard. Recognising the growing interest in touring car racing, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) opened the entry list to Group 2 Special Touring Cars...
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    it a target for Allied bombing). So it was four years before the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) was in a position to revive the great race. Assisted...
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    victory in the C2 class in his Spice-Fiero, finishing sixth overall over the Écurie Écosse, who in turn won the Index for Energy Efficiency. The twelve classified...
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    5-litre engine, to get it homologated for Group 4. This year the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) brought the start-time forward to 2pm, to allow time...
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    List of 24 Hours of Le Mans fatalities (category Sport deaths in France)
    the Wayback Machine "Motorsport Memorial -". Retrieved 20 January 2016. Automobile Year 1986/87 "Motorsport Memorial -". Retrieved 20 January 2016. "Historic...
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    Dutch driver Carel Godin de Beaufort crashed his famous orange Porsche 718. He was rushed to hospital but would pass away two days later. Honda made...
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    manufacturers to utilise that technology. For the race itself, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) allowed an increase of a driver's stint to a maximum...
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    April 1966, prospective spectators at the British Automobile Racing Club's Oulton Park 200 were turned away, as the circuit was covered in snow. Good Friday...
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    at Monaco, with local hero Carel Godin de Beaufort getting a drive in one of the Porsches, entered by his Ecurie Maarsbergen. Ferrari monopolised the front...
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    Jack Brabham (category Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees)
    Brabham was persuaded by Dean Delamont, competitions manager of the Royal Automobile Club in the United Kingdom, to try a season of racing in Europe, then...
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    prize. By the start of the season, FISA (Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile) had dropped its abrupt regulation changes for the World Championship...
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    and shredded tyre. The mechanics set to work changing the tyre and pulling away some of the dangling bodywork. Having lost a lot of time, Moss and his co-driver...
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    rod of Levegh's car broke, taking it out of the race. This year the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) decreed that mudguards now had to be integral with the...
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