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 Racing Formulae Clubman & GT
Formula Atlantic arose from the American Formula B and was devised as a transatlantic formula to be raced throughout Europe and the Americas.
Formula 750 races are still held today and there have been very few rule changes in the mean time.
Formula 5000 cars were a popular choice for Formula Libre with some internationally known drivers turning up for these races.
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 Formula 5000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Formula 5000 (or F5000) was an auto-racing series that ran in the various countries around the world from 1968 to 1982.
F5000 was introduced in 1968 in the SCCA Formula A races, a series where single seaters from different origins were allowed to compete, but which became dominated by the new F5000 cars when the large stock-block V8s were allowed.
The formula worked initially, with a number of European drivers crossing the Atlantic to attend the SCCA-run championship, but when IMSA introduced the new Group C-based GTP regulations for their own sports car championship, the old F5000 cars were now clumsy and slow compared to the new cars.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Formula_5000   (718 words)

  
 OldRacingCars.com | F5000
Formula A matched the new regulations for Formula 1 but it struggled to raise any worthwhile entries in its first few seasons.
The SCCA national championship for Formula A was not even competed in 1965 so the first national champion in Formula A was Harry McIntosh in 1966 who beat a paltry field in his ex-F1 Brabham BT7 (F1-1-63).
The South Africans went first, adopting Formula Atlantic for 1976, New Zealand went the same way early in 1976, the US series was dropped at the end of that year and the British series turned into the British F1 series in 1977 and ejected the last F5000 cars after 1978.
www.oldracingcars.com /f5000   (373 words)

  
 OZ Boss Championship The Cars
Formula One, Indy Car, Champ Car, Formula 3000, Formula Nippon, Formula 4000 and Formula 5000 - the fastest cars in the world, and on Australian circuits as part of the Oz BOSS Championship and the 2006 Australian Motor Racing Series.
Formula 3000, Formula Nippon and Formula 4000 all use the same chassis technology as the categories mentioned above - carbon-fibre monocoque construction, and were developed as a feeder category for F1.
Formula 5000 captured the imagination of Motor Racing fans around the world.
www.users.bigpond.com /samdale12/OZBOSS/thecars.htm   (307 words)

  
 OZ Boss Championship Formula 5000
Formula 5000 derives it's name from the big-banger 5-litre (or 5000 cc) V8 engines used in the cars.
With an amazing sound, tremendous power and torque, and classic open-wheeler styling, Formula 5000 was an instant hit with race fans worldwide.
Formula 5000, as a standalone series concluded in 1982, but it had set countless imaginations alight, and will return to Australian circuits with the Oz BOSS championship.
www.users.bigpond.com /samdale12/OZBOSS/f5000.htm   (174 words)

  
 Sandcastle V.I. - Auto Racing Classics - Gurney's Eagles - Formula Racing
Gurney's success on the Formula 1 circuit was limited, primarily because of the unreliability of the new Weslake engine.
Gurney's biggest Formula 1 success, however, was at the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix, where he drove a magnificent race to claim the first grand prix victory by an American driver and car since 1921.
When SCCA revamped the Formula A series to new Formula 5000 specs, All American Racers fielded Formula 500 Eagles that, unfortunately, were more stunningly attractive than they were successful.
www.sandcastlevi.com /racing/eagle-1.htm   (890 words)

  
 F1 News > Formula 5000 in Albert Park? - Grandprix.com
The New Zealand Herald is reporting that the Australian Grand Prix Corporation is considering a proposal from the Victorian Historic Racing Register in conjunction with the New Zealand Formula 5000 Association to field a 30 Formula 5000 cars as a Grand Prix support event in 2007.
Formula 5000 was a championship that ran in a variety of different countries between 1968 and 1986, initially in the United States of America, where it grew out of the success of the CanAm sports car series, using cheap stock-block V8 engines up to 5-litres (5000cc).
The Formula 5000s weighed 600kg and had around 600hp and that meant they could reach top speeds of 200mph although the cars were cumbersome in the corners.
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 Stewart MotorSport
This car was Brian Redman's 5000 car that was prepared by the Lola-Hass racing team in "76" The car was never raced by him in that season as the 5000 series fell apart that year.
This car happens to be the last Formula 5000 race car to be made by Lola and is only 1 of 3 that were ever built.
The first time the car ran as a 5000 car it raced in Sandown raceway in Australia and succeeded to win 2 races to 2nd in two others.
www.stewartmotorsport.com /Formula5000.html   (225 words)

  
 ESPN.com: Mario Andretti synonymous with racing
Whether it was Indy, Formula One, Formula 5000 or Sprint cars, he proved himself a winner at all levels of competition in his 36-year career.
The next year, he entered the Formula One Grand Prix racing circuit, capturing the pole position in his very first race, the U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, N.Y. However, he was forced out of the race early by clutch trouble.
The highlight of his international career was in 1978 when he won six Formula One races and became the second American (Phil Hill was the first in 1961) to win the world championship.
espn.go.com /sportscentury/features/00014066.html   (984 words)

  
 Stringfellow, Inc., Nashville, TN
The Heil Formula 5000 rear loader is known throughout the world for its toughness and durability, high compaction payloads, and no-nonsense work ethic.
The time tested Formula 5000 is the workhorse of large municipal fleets, as well as the rear loader of choice for independent private haulers and major waste companies alike.
The DPF 5000 also uses the improved high angle ejector cylinder mount, which allows the ejector to retract farther, putting more weight forward in the body while reducing the packing forces on the track and the floor.
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 Monoposto Racing
Formula B is hotly contested between Mark Harmer and Joe Blacker and classic formula 2 is between Danny and Bob Baker.
Formula 2 is between Howard Katz and Derek Harling and in formula super vee Fletcher Belt has a comfortable but not insurmountable lead.
Formula Junior has had two or three cars at each of the last few events although for various reasons not all of them have completed the weekend.
www.monoposto.com /MR_News.html   (2669 words)

  
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Teddy Pilette won the European Championship, and Warwick Brown captured the Australian Formula 5000 series championship in their T-400 series Lolas.
Lola ended the 1970s as the most successful Formula 5000 constructor, winning 38 races in the series, while its next closest competitor won only 13.
The front suspension is by upper and lower tubular wishbones and Armstrong Formula 1 light alloy telescopic double-adjustable shock absorbers with co-axial coil springs.
www.motorsportsmarket.com /pages_new/car_detail.asp?car=16   (465 words)

  
 CAR . CO . NZ Motor Racing: New Zealands premier website for motoring and motorsport enthusiasts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The stock-block 5 litre V8-based Formula 5000 category was New Zealand's premier motor racing class from 1969 to 1975 and for a generation of petrol heads nothing else has ever really come close - hence the interest in the two support races at Pukekohe this weekend.
Fourteen genuine Formula 5000 cars will be competing at the meeting, with the field bolstered - as it was in the 1970s - with some smaller capacity single-seater racing cars.
Here, however, it is the Formula 5000 cars which are the crowd-pullers and as word about the local scene spreads, more enthusiasts are importing cars from the US or UK to rebuild and race.
www.car.co.nz /race.asp?articleid=2773   (486 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Peter Gethin
He also won the 1970 Formula 2 race at Pau and soon afterwards he moved into Formula 1, being drafted in by McLaren after the death of team founder Bruce McLaren.
He stayed with the team in 1971 but in the mid-season he was approached by BRM which needed to replace Pedro Rodriguez, who had been killed in a sports car race at the Norisring.
He remained in Formula 5000 in 1976 and then moved into management, looking after the career of rising Italian star Beppe Gabbiani.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/drv-getpet.html   (417 words)

  
 Havoline.com: Racing: History: CART: Mario Andretti
And one of his fondest childhood memories was bicycling to the edge of Florence to watch a stretch of the long-distance Mille Miglia road race.
Winner of 12 Formula One races throughout the world, his F1 career was capped when he captured the World Driving Championship in 1978.
He also won several Formula 5000 races and finished second in the Formula 5000 series in 1973 and 1974.
www.havoline.com /racing/history/marioa.html   (520 words)

  
 Sports Car Market > Profiles and Price Guide > 1968 McLaren M10B Formula 5000
Driven to victory at Sydney's Warwick Farm by Frank Matich in November 1970, it became the first Formula 5000 racing car to win an Australian Grand Prix and secured Matich's place as the most dynamic and talented of local racing drivers.
The McLaren M10A Formula 5000 was one of the first of the monocoque Formula 5000s to hit the market in 1968.
Formula 5000 cars have always suffered marketwise compared to CanAm cars, which ran with many of the same drivers during the same years.
www.sportscarmarket.com /profiles/2003/September/Race/index.html   (857 words)

  
 Motor Books - Formula 5000 in Europe Race by Race
Formula 5000 was an important rung on the motorsport ladder on both sides of the Atlantic for more than half a decade, yet it is still waiting for its definitive history to be produced.
Wolfgang Klopfer’s work doesn’t pretend to be that; rather, as its title suggests, it is a race-by-race review of the seven-year history of the British-based European F5000 series.
Combine it with Brian Cowdrey’s Formula 5000: A-Z — The 1969-1975 Era, and you’d have a half decent history of a memorable category.
www.motorbooks.co.uk /review.asp?bookid=64431   (153 words)

  
 ZMHFormulaCars
Still, considerable variation is possible within a given "Formula", especially in the earlier cars.
Dave Olson of Orinda, CA in the proto-Formula 5000 Holynski-Chevy.
All rights are reserved and the images and/or text may not be digitized, reproduced, stored, manipulated, and/or incorporated into other works without the written permission of the photographer, Tam McPartland.
www.tamsoldracecarsite.net /ZMHFormulaCars.html   (141 words)

  
 ESPN Classic - Super Mario had speed to burn
Whether it was Indy, Formula One, Formula 5000 or Sprint cars, he proved himself a winner at all levels of competition.
The next year, he entered the Formula One Grand Prix racing circuit, capturing the pole position in his very first race, the U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen.
While he didn't have much success in Indy cars (he won only three of 111 starts from 1970-82), he captured the USAC dirt track championship in 1974 plus several Formula 5000 races, finishing second in the Formula 5000 series in 1973 and 1974.
espn.go.com /classic/biography/s/andretti_mario.html   (1389 words)

  
 Heil :: Products :: Formula® 5000 :: garbage trucks, garbage collection, refuse trucks, refuse collection, front ...
The Heil Formula® 5000 rear loader is a high compaction refuse vehicle known throughout the world for its durability and performance.
With over 16,000 built and over 23 years of proven reliability, the Formula® 5000 has become the mainstay collection vehicle for fleets large and small.
The Formula® 5000 features Heil’s DuraPack™ Family body, with its curved sidewall and fully welded subframe, and a no-nonsense tailgate that can handle residential routes as well as commercial assignments.
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 CAR . CO . NZ Motor Racing: New Zealands premier website for motoring and motorsport enthusiasts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When they were new, the 5 litre stock-block V8-powered Formula 5000 racing cars competing in the two support races at the Placemakers V8 Supercar meeting at Pukekohe this weekend had a 'shelf-life' of a year or two at the most.
It was one of the last Formula 5000 racing cars built - in 1976 - and was raced that year by Team VDS driven Teddy Pilette in the United States.
The first chance to see the Formula 5000 cars in action will be tomorrow morning with a practice session scheduled to start at 11.40 am.
www.car.co.nz /race.asp?articleid=2790   (733 words)

  
 Eagle-eye: AAR History
It was at that time that Goodyear started their big involvement in auto racing on both the Formula 1 circuit (Dan was the first driver to race a Grand Prix car equipped with Goodyear tires) and the Indianapolis 500, which up to that point was mostly a Firestone arena.
The crowning achievement in Formula 1 was Dan's victory at the Grand Prix of Belgium in 1967.
Apart from fielding Formula 1 and Indy Car racing teams, AAR also entered at various times the U.S.-Sports car, Trans-am, Can-am, Formula A, Formula 5000 and Atlantic Series as well as IMSA championships with GTU and GTO Toyota Celicas and GTP with Toyota Eagles.
www.allamericanracers.com /hist.html   (1147 words)

  
 M7 Formula One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
However, they did not neglect the Formula 1 field entirely, although the bulk of their attention was naturally been directed towards the sports car programme.
To replace this car Bruce McLaren built a Formula 1 version of the M10 car which was used in Formula 5000 races.
This was deleted for the Formula 1 car and the same method of attachment used as on the M7A.
www.bruce-mclaren.com /cars/formula1/m7a.htm   (1836 words)

  
 A record of grand prix and voiturette racing
Mindful of the fact that it will be several years before the later volumes of the Record Books will all become available, we have decided to issue several Fact Books covering Formula 1 and 2 racing from 1976 onwards.
In addition there is a one volume edition of European Formula 5000 racing while a 3 volume series on 500cc Formula 3 racing and a similar book on Formula Junior racing have been produced.
However due to high demand, the Formula 5000 and Formula Junior Books are out of print and are not available, though a new Formula Junior Book is now in preparation.
www.formulaoneregister.com /Facts.htm   (166 words)

  
 UpdateF1 >> Full Throttle F1 Magazine > The Pilot, the Lord and the Race Track   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When challenged on the subject of Australian Formula One drivers it is perhaps understandable that, to most people, three names spring to mind.
Jack Brabham, a legend at the very top of the tree, needs no introduction, while 1980 World Champion Alan Jones is familiar to most enthusiasts and, last but not least, current Williams pilot Mark Webber carries the flag for a country with a rich racing heritage at the present time.
Post formula one, of course, Perkins went on to be, and remains, an Australian hero, mastering the mighty Bathurst 1000 like no-one else.
www.formula-1.updatesport.com /magazine/article/The-Pilot-the-Lord-and-the-Race-Track/1143370271.html   (1280 words)

  
 buy Formula 1 online @ retail therapy online - UK Shopping   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ex Formula One World Champion, Nigel Mansell is editor of this official guide of the F1 season.
New to the scene in 2001, the Formula One annual offers in-depth coverage of all the teams, drivers and races during the 2001 season.
Formula fix is a protein based thinner that will restore and maintain a smooth consistency to thickened nail protein without affecting your prescribed formula.
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 Formula racing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Formula racing is a form of motorsport where the type of automobiles used is regulated by a formula.
Although this in truth applies to virtually every form of motor racing conceived of since the start of the sport a century ago, in common parlance the words 'formula car' are used to mean an open-wheeled purpose-built racing car.
This page was last modified 11:13, 3 September 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Formula_racing   (89 words)

  
 Excel Sum if with multiple options :: MrExcel Message Board
I need to caluclate a formula based on the results of multiple other cells.
Formula 2 represents the formula I want to calculate, but at present I have a seperate page that looks at 5000 lines of data and does 5000 calculations.
Looking closely at your 2nd formula, I realize that you must have data also in columns O, Q, and V in the Data worksheet.
www.mrexcel.com /archive2/200/238.htm   (700 words)

  
 Formula 5000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Unfortunately, it was basically a Formula B car, designed for 250hp with a 500 hp.
The Mk7 was designed to contest the SCCA 5 liter Formula A / Formula 5000 class.
Previously, this class was a bit of a catch all, but starting in 1968, the class was strictly a class for 5 liter engines based on production V8 blocks.
www.davewolin.com /f5000.htm   (425 words)

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