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Ted Allery started racing on motorcycles and competed at Brooklands in the late 1920s. He was killed there in 1930 while acting as a riding mechanic for Colonel Rabagliati in a Talbot 90.
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1949
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Count Carlo Felice
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Count Carlo Felice Trossi was an Italian aristocrat and a great sportsman who loved speed whether in boats, airplanes or racing cars. He was an early financial supporter of the Scuderia Ferrari and in 1932 became its President.
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100 years ago
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1967
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Schwitzer has a permanent place in history of Indyanapolis as the winner of the first auto race there in 1909, 21½ months before the inaugural Indy 500. He drove a Stoddard-Dayton at an average speed of 57.43 miles per hour over the still unpaved oval.
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1996
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Top mechanic and crew chief for the likes of Isaac, Bobby Allison, Buddy Baker, Cale Yarborough, Neil Bonnett, Dave Marcis, Geoff Bodine and Tim Richmond, Hyde's cars won 56 Winston Cup races.
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2001
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21-04-08
AC Cars to be manufactured in Michigan, USA. AC Cars announced today that it will be manufacturing certain derivatives of its heritage product in the USA. |
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15-04-08
RM Auctions will offer an exciting line-up of important Ferrari sports and racing cars when they return to Maranello, Italy on May 18th for the much-anticipated Ferrari Leggenda e Passione auction event. |
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