"The Swedish" - Ewy Rosqvist and Ursula Wirth

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"The Swedish" - Ewy Rosqvist and Ursula Wirth

"The Swedish" - Ewy Rosqvist and Ursula Wirth

The Historical Argentine Grand Prix VIII that by this time and ended in the city of San Luis, reminded me of old racing anthology, where these same cars racing exciting books were followed by huge numbers of fans who followed the various alternatives the race was through the radio, the only way [...]

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The Grand Prix of Italy seen in Modena Design

The Grand Prix of Italy seen in Modena Design

Every year, when it reaches the second Sunday of September, very early in the morning, they are to reach Modena Design, located at 2270 Figueroa Alcorta Avenue in the Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires, a group of "Tifossis "(for which he does not, in automotive jargon is called" Tifossi "to [...]

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The Story of "Babs" and Thomas Parry-Pilot

The Story of "Babs" and Thomas Parry-Pilot

John Parry-Thomas (1885-1927) John Godfrey Parry-Thomas, whom everyone called "Tommy" was the son of a clergyman and was born in Wrexham (Wales) in April 1885. Tommy was fascinated by and studied mechanical engineering at the University of London. After performing numerous works became chief engineer at the Leyland engine [...]

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Lohner-Porsche: The First "Hybrid" of History

Lohner-Porsche: The First "Hybrid" of History

While the Toyota Prius hybrid was the first car to be manufactured in series, which occurred in 1997 in Japan, (see previous note in this blog), it was the first hybrid car in history, that honor went to Lohner -Porsche, built in 1900 by the brilliant German engineer Ferdinand Porsche, author [...]

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Vijay Mallya: Force India The Creator

Vijay Mallya: Force India The Creator

He was born on December 18, 1955 in Bantwal, Karnataka, India, in 1983 when he was 28, his father Vittal died unexpectedly of a heart attack during a party and suddenly becomes the heir of the third-largest liquor largest in the world, "United Breweries" and before long, [...]

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Formula 1 ... Music

Formula 1 ... Music

YVES GIRAUD-CABANTOUS was born on October 8, 1904, in Saint-Gaudens, France. He died on March 30, 1973, in Paris, France. Born with the name of Yves Giraud, but acquired a second name when his father died and his mother remarried a doctor. In his childhood he had the ambition of [...]

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A tribute to the National Sport Motorsports ... after.

A tribute to the National Sport Motorsports ... after.

This is a heartfelt tribute from the sport automovilismoBlog next in importance to racing in our country ... Argentina, land of excellent football players and the odd runner touched for years in Europe, with names such as ... Juan Manuel, Jose Froilan Carlos Alberto, Oscar, Onofre, "Bitito" Nasif, Clem, George, Paul, Robert, Alexander, [...]

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Rally: An 8 year old champion of the future?

Rally: An 8 year old champion of the future?

From the first Swedish Rally Championship in 1950 and won by Swede Per-Fredrik Cederbaum, until the last run in 2010 and won by Finland's Mikko Hirvonen, there were 58 winners, all Swedish or Finnish, except in 2004 when he won Sébastien Loeb and in 2005 he won the Norwegian Peter Solberg. With this [...]

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Boxes: As time evolved

Boxes: As time evolved

In the route following graph then you can see how profoundly changed over time the simple "garages" to become pristine "boxes", more like operating rooms to cubicles full of parts, tires and toolboxes, often with dirt floors or something just a little more robust, where [...]

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An ex - Formula 1 driver ran the 2010 Dakar

An ex - Formula 1 driver ran the 2010 Dakar

For those who follow Formula 1 racing more or less closely, they may not sound too known the name of Johannes Lammers, but if I name better known by his nickname, which is Jan ... ah ... now I may they sound more known ... of course ... it was the Dutchman who ran at the time of [...]

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