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19 car makers beginning with C
Scandinavian World Rally champions by nation
Drivers classfied in multiple positions for the 1955 Argentina GP
The word for tyre in 14 languages
10 names of cars on film and TV
7 facts about Enzo Ferrari
- Finished second in the 1920 Targa Florio.
- Always wrote with a purple-tip pen.
- Described the F40 as "so fast you'll sh*t yourself".
- Pretended not to be able to speak English.
- Called his first car Auto Avio Costruzione (in 1940) because his contract with former employer Alfa Romeo forbade from putting his own name on a car.
- Regarded Tazio Nuvolari and Gilles Villeneuve as the greatest drivers he ever employed.
- Attended just one more race after his son Dino died in 1956. It was the 1957 Moden Grand Prix, where the V6 engine that Dino had worked on and which bore his name made its race debut.
3 handling conditions explained
Understeer - Car leaves the road head first.
Oversteer - Car leaves the road backwards.
Four-wheel drift - Front and rear of car leave the road at the same time.
19 car makers beginning with C
- Calthorpe
- Caparo
- Cartercar
- Champion
- Chenard et Walcker
- Chiribiri
- Cizeta-Moroder
- Clan
- Climber
- Colonial
- Comet
- Condor
- Corbin
- Cottin-Desgouttes
- Croesus
- Crow-Elkhart
- Croxton-Keeton
- Cunningham
- Cupra
Scandinavian World Rally champions by nation
Drivers classified in multiple positions in the 1955 Argentine GP
The race was held in such hot weather there were multiple retirements and drivers sharing cars, having taken breaks in the pits to recover.
1) Giuseppe Farina (2nd and 3rd)
2) Maurice Trintignant (2nd and 3rd)
3) Karl Kling (4th and retired)
4) Stirling Moss (6th and retired)
