Formula One

As of 2009, he earns twelve million dollars every year. That's 4 times his 2008 salary.

Norman Graham Hill (15 February 1929 - 29 November 1975) was a British racing driver and two-time Formula One World Champion. He was born in Hampstead, London. He was a citizen of the United Kingdom by nationality. He drove for a team called BRM - British Racing Motors. 1962 was the only year they won the world championship but that year they won both the drivers and constructors championship.

yes currently but in the old days as in the 50's and 60's there was a 3 hour time limit

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if FOTA win the argument then no if the FIA win then probably

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The 2008 Formula One season was the 59th FIA Formula One World Championship season. It began on 16 March and ended on 2 November with eighteen Grand Prix races. Lewis Hamilton won the driver's title while Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro won the constructors' title The following drivers won during the 2008 season · Lewis Hamilton · Kimi Raikkonen · Felipe Massa · Robert Kubica · Heikki Kovaleinen · Sebastian Vettel · Fernando Alonso

The 2013 Formula 1 season starts on 17 March 2013 in Melbourne.

Lewis scored a total of 98 points during the 2008 season. He drove for Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, a UK based racing team. He won 5 out of the 18 races last year. He was on the podium 10 times that year. He beat Ferrari's Felipe Massa who had 97 points at the end of the season. It was tightly fought contest where Lewis won the title during the last round in Brazil, Interlagos circuit.

2010 - TBC

2009 - Jenson Button

2008 - Lewis Hamilton

2007 - Kimi Raikkonen

2006 - Fernando Alonso

Shell is a sponsor for the Scuderia Ferrai team. Scuderia Ferrari was founded in 1929, and raced for Alfa Romeo until 1939. Ferrari first competed in F1 in 1948 (the team's first F1 car was the Tipo 125 F1), making it the oldest team left in the championship and statistically the most successful one (with a record of 15 drivers' championships and 16 constructors' championships won). The team's numerous and ardent Italian fans are known as tifosi, though the team also has a vibrant international following.

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Nacional, more properly known as Banco Nacional, was a Brazilian bank that was taken over by Unibanco in 1995.

Michael Schumacher in 2004, he did 1:24.125

they drive diffrent cars such as Camry's and stuff like that

0, he spun off in Brazil, was eliminated in a start collision at the Pacific Grand Prix (hit by Mika Häkkinen and then by Nicola Larini, the Larini contact broke Senna's right front suspension), and then the fatal shunt at Imola (probably murdered by his own team, Williams).

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No. He is married. So he has a wife, not a girlfriend.

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Formula One cars use semi-automatic sequential gearboxes with six or seven forward gears and one reverse gear. The driver initiates gear changes using paddles mounted on the back of the steering wheel and electro-hydraulics perform the actual change as well as throttle control. Clutch control is also performed electro-hydraulically except from and to a standstill when the driver must operate the clutch using a lever mounted on the back of the steering wheel. By regulation the cars use rear wheel drive. A modern F1 clutch is a multi-plate carbon design with a diameter of less than four inches (100 mm) , weighing less than 2.20 lb (1.00 kg) and handling 900 hp (670 kW) or so . Continuously variable transmissions have long been banned, thus creating contention in the introduction of the new seamless shift gearbox, a type of dual-clutch transmission which nearly eliminates the brief power interruption during a gear change. The ultimate advantage of this is said to be from five to ten seconds over a complete race distance, which is a significant gain when races are sometimes only won by three seconds or less. As of the 2007[update] race season, most of the top teams are using seamless shift transmissions. Shift times are around .05 seconds for the 2007 season.

F1 cars are lighter, have more downforce, and are tuned more toward the acceleration spectrum of the engine's performance. NASCAR, on the other hand, has heavier cars that are designed to run at the redline for the majority of the race.

F1 tracks tend to be road courses with an even distribution of right and left turns. NASCAR tracks are primarily (but not exclusively) ovals which, contrary to popular belief, are not all the same and range from short ovals to tri-ovals to quad ovals. Due to the gradual nature of a NASCAR curve and the fact that the car is nearly always running top speed in close proximity, stock cars tend to be fairly unpredictable in corners. The cars themselves are very heavy, have limited downforce, and are constantly being pushed and pulled around by the air flow off the other cars.

In simplest terms, think of F1 like thoroughbred horse racing, except rather than the typical oval tracks they're on a road course. NASCAR, by comparison, would be like running the same race on the traditional oval track, but replacing the horses with Brahma bulls.

John DeLorean founded Grand Prix of America (GPA) as chairman with his younger brother, Jack, as president about the time he resigned from General Motors in 1972-1973. The concept was seven-tenths single seat formula cars driven against the clock on a paved road racing layout track with both left and right turns. The cars started from a standstill and once one lap was completed, came to a stop, and the driver handed a ticket to the attendant between laps. The business plan was to sell franchises for tracks around the world.

The company was originally located in Troy Michigan along with its first track.

The company was primarily financed by wealthy individuals including at least one well-known entertainment personalities.

Unlike go kart tracks open to the general public, the GPA cars had fiberglass formula car style bodies, and featured independent front suspension and 10" dia. wheels, and were powered by Wankel rotary gasoline motors originally designed for snowmobiles. The cars used a centrifugal clutch with a continuously variable ratio speed-sensitive belt drive mechanism, also used in snowmobiles at the time.

The cars would hit a top speed of about 35 miles per hour on the tight course, and a lap, electronically timed, would be under a minute. A one lap ticket cost $1.00.

The custom designed timing system used photoelectric beams to automatically record lap times, and although the cars were not engaged in wheel-to-wheel racing, the timing system would support multiple cars on the track at the same time, pacing the starting times to spread out the cars.

The original twenty or so vehicles were designed and built by Antares Engineering, an engineering services firm founded by Don Gates and Mike Pocobello, both formerly with Chevrolet Engineering.

After the initial vehicles were delivered, Herb Adams joined GPA from Pontiac Motor Division as head of automotive programs. A run of about 300 additional vehicles was outsourced to Outboard Marine Corporation who manufactured them at a riding lawnmower production facility in Oshkosh, WI.

The company relocated its headquarters to Newport Beach, CA and built a track there. The company also may have built additional tracks in Dallas, TX and Phoenix, AZ.

GPA's plan to sell franchises was unsuccessful, and the company shut down in about 1974.

Malibu Grand Prix bought vehicles from the bankrupt company, hired several former employees of GPA including the timing systems designer, and is operating tracks today (2011) using the basic GPA vehicle design, although they no longer use Wankel rotary engines.

Gilles Villeneuve's last race was the Belgian Grand Prixheld at Circuit Zolder on May 9, 1982. He died during final qualifying when he attempted to drive around the slower car of Jochen Mass. After his car went airborne and landed, he was then thrown out of the car into the catch fence. Gilles died later that evening.

The sport of auto racing.