Auto Racing

Ferrari began racing in Formula 1 in 1950, the inaugural season.

Basically, how fast your car is is what determines what class you run in, when it comes to bracket racing. They wikk have brackets from, say, 14.99 and slower, 12.50 to 13.99, 10.99, to 12.49, and so on. In class racing you build a car to compete in a certain class, by the rules governed by NHRA, in their official rule book.

Talladega Superspeedway has the steepest banking in the turns. Turns 1 and 2 have 33 degrees of banking. Turn 3 is 32.4 degrees and turn 4 is 32.5 degrees.

Most of the weight of the dragster (or rail job, or whatever) has been located at the rear so that the rear wheels get the most traction that they can. Since there is relatively little weight on the front wheels, they can be lighter duty than, say, a stock motor vehicle. A narrow wheel and hub will serve for the light load, and a narrow tire inflated to a high pressure has a low rolling friction compared to an ordinary auto tire. The hub bearings can be light duty and low friction as well, all adding up to lower rolling resistance and lower elapsed times for the dragster.

The F1 Singapore Grand Prix is held in the evening because to satisfy the European audience ,which is a big territory for F1 (so the race would be broadcasted live in the afternoon through out Europe) and also Bernie Ecclestone wants to experiment with evening races with the potential to add more evening races in the future, Australian GP for an example.

Nowadays a driver definitely needs a drafting partner at Talladega and Daytona if they want to succeed. Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. are the two current winningest drivers at Talladega.

The last four seasons have been dominated by the drivers of Richard Childress Racing and Roush Fenway Racing (this includes the 2013 victory of David Ragan running RFR equipment provided to Front Row Motorsports).

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The last British driver to win the Formula 1 drivers championship was Jenson Button in 2009. Lewis Hamilton won in 2008. The last British winner before that was Damon Hill in 1996. See http://www.formula1.com/teams_and_drivers/hall_of_fame/ for the complete history.

I should add I have 18 races added to my list. The races I have already listed are...

-Indy 500

-Pikes Peak Hill Climb

-24 Hours of Le Mans

-Monaco Grand Prix

-Daytona 500

-Dakar Rally

-Monte Carlo Rally

-Isle of Man Tourist Trophy

-British Grand Prix (auto)

-Wales Rally GP

-Italian Grand Prix

-Baja 1000

-Safari Rally

-Rally Finland

-German Grand Prix

-Belgien Grand Prix

-Bathurst 1000

-Rally Sweden

...any others you think should be added?

That is difficult to answer. Jeremy has more supercross and motocross wins and titles, however Travis has not just focused on these 2 areas. Travis has competed and been successful in freestyle, X-Games, rally cars as well as running the Enduro at Erzberg, Supermoto and the Baja desert race.

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Broncos are favored. In what is expected to be a high scoring duel, the Broncos have been favored by up to a touchdown by odds makers in weeks leading up to the game. This spread narrowed to 4 several days before and tightened to 1 point before the game began.

Formula One has been going on since 1950. Giuseppe Farina was the first Formula One drivers Champion and he drove an Alfa Romeo. Earlier only a few races were held every year but as the sport gained popularity the number of races increased every year.

Plenty, from how much horsepower one engine can have to how much down force can a car handle at a certain speed and fuel mileage of course. A lot of races come down to figuring out how much fuel to take on the last pit, or if the car has enough to stay out and not pit. Don't forget the engineering that goes along with setting up a car, and the math involved in making (creating )a NASCAR car.

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The McLaren F1 GTR, it finished 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 13th.

The car that won was chassis #01R sponsored by Uneo Clinic.

Yes and no. Drivers are not required to pay for a seat directly. Teams choose and hire their drivers themselves.

Some drivers are chosen based purely on talent and offered a salary by the team, others are chosen based on a mix of talent and cash/sponsorship money they bring to the team.

Many teams will opt for a less talented driver that brings money with them to help fund the team, where as some teams pay their drivers millions of dollars per year.

All drivers have to pay for a superlicense in order to be eligible to drive in Formula 1. This superlicense costs $12,800, plus $1,280 for each championship point earned the previous year., meaning some drivers have to pay over $1million for a superlicense while others only have to pay $12,800!

Very good question, i know plenty of car racers and car lovers who wouldn't be able to start an f1 experience car on the first try.

This is how it goes:

First, a huge 'Prod' like is plonked/plugged in quickly into the back of the car, where the gearbox is usually, with the driver being already in the car, he ignite the engine, and start clutching and revving the engine.

This is very hard to do, usually with normal drivers the car will just stall.

Once a Formula One car's engine is started its need to move becomes very urgent. As they are designed to operate at high speed (where there is a good supply of cooling air flowing over surfaces) modern Formula One cars have very little in the way of cooling - and the heat created by running engines while stationary puts enormous strain on the mechanical parts of the car.

It depends on several things. The most important is the driver: the more he wins, the higher the price he or she can demand to sponsor the car. And the more popular a driver is, the higher the price demanded. Then there are full-season and part-season deals, "hood sponsorship" and "associate sponsorship" deals, whether the driver is going to star in commercials or just have the company's logo on the car (and where)...sponsor management is complex enough that the big racing shops have large staffs who serve the needs of their sponsors.

The 1992 Hooters 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway was run in front of an estimated crowd of 165,000, with Racing-Reference.info putting the crowd at 162,500. The track brought in temporary bleachers to accomodate the crowd that had built to see Richard Petty's final ride and a five-way compeition for the championship entering the season's final event.

On the circuit de la Sarthe near the town of Le Mans in France.

In a heads-up (even start) race that would be where the winning car had a slower Elapsed Time than the losing car. This occurs when the winning car and driver leave the starting line sooner then the losing car and even though it took longer to reach the finish line (from the time it left the start to the time it reached the finish) it got there first and won as a result of the better start. In a handicap (uneven start) race such as a bracket race, the same thing occurs additionally taking into account the differences between the handicap times (or dial-ins) and the actual Elapsed Times: The time between the green light coming on (the GO signal) and the car actually leaving the starting line is called the "Reaction Time" and most tracks measure this and supply the information to the driver at the conclusion of the race, on an "Elapsed Time slip" or "ET slip" (the info is printed on a slip of paper). If a driver looks at the results, and sees that he won even with a slower Elapsed Time, he will also see that he had a shorter reaction time. If the difference between 2 drivers' Reaction Times is greater than the difference between their Elapsed Times, the winning driver can claim that he had a "Hole-Shot Win". He won because he had a better Reaction Time even though his car was "slower"... By the way: The expression used to explain why the losing (although "faster") car lost is "He got Treed." For instance you can say: "I treed that duck with a hole shot..."Awesome!

Jacques Villenueve had eleven in a row from the start of the season (and there was only 16 races!)

He might have had another one after that too but I forget...

your time (number of seconds) it took for you to reach the quarter mile