Racing cyclists shave their legs.

By tradition, after the awarding ceremony, Formula 1 racers open Champagne.

The championship fight would come down to the penultimate race of the season, the .

Neither driver was allowed to start the race, and the team folded before the next Grand Prix.

Starting in Venice and finishing in Rome, 22 teams competed over 21 stages.

In the beginning it was only a local affair and the organizers quickly found themselves in financial troubles.

The car itself did not have any Fairlane or Torino nameplates on its exterior or interior, although 1969 NASCAR entrants were labeled Torino Cobras.

They're not all experienced racers, but people looking for excitement and adventure, and an achievable path towards world class events.

In the Engineering Aptitude Test , administered to all new Williams drivers, Rosberg achieved the highest score in the team's history.

The rest of the field was made up of local machinery, which included four E.R.A.s and two Altas, in British racing green.

Since then the two have not spoken and Rossi seemed to resolve to use the incident to apply psychological pressure on Gibernau.

In 1977 the Trofeo Europa Alfasud was set up, in which the best drivers from each country competed.

As special stage rallying spread around the world Scandinavian drivers were challenged by drivers from Italy, Germany, Britain, Spain and elsewhere.

Furthermore, from the Brazilian Grand Prix onwards, all drivers could only do 12 laps each in both qualifying sessions.

I mean, our politicians should be forced to wear decals on their suits like NASCAR drivers are.

However, according to Scully, they could not get a single one because they were all concerned about the way we were portraying NASCAR.

Racers were also blamed for starting a wildfire that caused a panic on a train running between Dakar and Bamako, where three more people were killed.

With three laps left the gap was 2.75 seconds, however,the two hour time limit was reached and the race was stopped, with Lauda winning.

Audi was not able to improve on their times from the second qualifying session, and settled for fifth, sixth, and seventh places on the grid.

Rossi and his chief engineer, Jeremy Burgess, insisted that they were doing nothing more than what many others had done before when faced with a dirty track.

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Although almost all teams used two drivers in the early decades, some Le Mans drivers such as Pierre Levegh and Eddie Hall attempted to run the race solo, hoping to save time by not having to change drivers.

When it resumed in 1940 during war time, it was dubbed the Grand Prix of Brescia, and held on a short course in the plains of northern Italy that was lapped nine times.

Communist bloc riders tended to dominate the event, but there were exceptions Briton Ian Steel won the 1952 race, and the British League of Racing Cyclists team also won the team competition the first time that both classifications had gone to the same nation.

The Evolution however was replaced in late 2001 by the firm's first World Rally Car, named simply the Lancer Evolution WRC, which was driven by Makinen, Freddy Loix, Alister McRae and Francois Delecour with relatively limited success, until Mitsubishi took a sabbatical from the championship at the end of 2002.