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  • The Austral Wheel Race is the oldest track bicycle race in the world still existing, stretching back to 1887. It is owned and run by AusCycling Victoria...
    37 KB (1,356 words) - 21:40, 4 September 2024
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    An open-wheel car is a car with the wheels outside the car's main body, and usually having only one seat. Open-wheel cars contrast with street cars, sports...
    15 KB (1,967 words) - 23:55, 2 September 2024
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    Penny-farthing (redirect from Hi wheel)
    as a high wheel, high wheeler or ordinary, is an early type of bicycle. It was popular in the 1870s and 1880s, with its large front wheel providing high...
    35 KB (3,909 words) - 00:17, 10 August 2024
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    top-level American open-wheel racing championship is sanctioned by IndyCar. Competitive events for professional-level, open-wheel race cars have been conducted...
    61 KB (6,063 words) - 14:23, 8 June 2024
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    "Bring Your Own Big Wheel" race, takes place on Easter Sunday in San Francisco. A Big Wheel race was hosted by the Tulsa Big Wheel Racers LLC as a fundraiser...
    5 KB (532 words) - 18:59, 12 July 2024
  • water flowing to or from a water wheel is called a mill race. The race bringing water from the mill pond to the water wheel is a headrace; the one carrying...
    78 KB (9,420 words) - 13:10, 5 September 2024
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    by a car, just south of Canberra, during the inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race across Australia, on 31 March 2017, after covering just over 5,000 km...
    15 KB (1,446 words) - 19:59, 24 August 2024
  • designed the Indian Pacific Wheel Race, a 5,500 kilometer road race across the continent of Australia. In the course of the first race, Mike Hall was killed...
    4 KB (348 words) - 03:57, 4 April 2024
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    reintroduce open-wheel racing in the form of IndyCar Series to the track in the 2009 season. In 2011, the series returned to the track. However, the race failed...
    26 KB (2,474 words) - 21:40, 29 August 2024
  • There are a myriad of types of race cars used, from open wheel Sprint cars and Modifieds to stock cars. While open wheel race cars are purpose-built racing...
    28 KB (3,868 words) - 19:50, 7 June 2024
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    A steering wheel (also called a driving wheel, a hand wheel, or simply wheel) is a type of steering control in vehicles. Steering wheels are used in most...
    32 KB (3,285 words) - 02:32, 3 July 2024
  • competition of speed The Race (yachting race) Mill race, millrace, or millrun, the current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel (sluice)...
    4 KB (613 words) - 05:20, 3 April 2024
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    Petrol Cycle, another three-wheeled car. A Conti 6 hp Tri-car competed in (but did not complete) a 1907 Peking to Paris race sponsored by a French newspaper...
    34 KB (2,615 words) - 10:02, 25 August 2024
  • Great American Race may refer to: Indianapolis 500, an open-wheel race Daytona 500, a stock car race Great Race (classic rally), an annual club rally for...
    205 bytes (62 words) - 16:10, 28 December 2019
  • Thumbnail for Sprint car racing
    Sprint cars are high-powered open-wheel race cars, designed primarily for the purpose of running on short oval or circular dirt or paved tracks. Historically...
    31 KB (3,151 words) - 16:51, 27 August 2024
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    prohibit all external support, such as the Transcontinental Race and the Indian Pacific Wheel Race. The related activity of randonneuring is not strictly a...
    33 KB (4,249 words) - 12:51, 25 August 2024
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    A mill race, millrace or millrun, mill lade (Scotland) or mill leat (Southwest England) is the current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel...
    4 KB (466 words) - 23:35, 27 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen
    Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen (category Wheel-driven land speed record cars)
    derived from the 1937 open-wheel race car Mercedes-Benz W125 Formel-Rennwagen, of which also a streamlined version was raced at the non-championship Avusrennen...
    8 KB (995 words) - 08:07, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Katherine Legge
    open-wheel race in North America in 2005. Prior to joining the Toyota Atlantic series, Guildford-born Legge raced in several developmental open-wheel series...
    71 KB (2,370 words) - 10:11, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fifth-wheel coupling
    rotating ball-race-bearing type. The advantage of this type of coupling is towing stability. Some camper trailers also use a fifth-wheel configuration...
    10 KB (1,467 words) - 13:06, 2 April 2024
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