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    held at Interlagos was the Mil Milhas Brasil, and the last major race on the original circuit was the 1989 Mil Milhas Brasil. Formula One returned to...
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    Nelson Piquet (category Indianapolis 500 drivers)
    Milhas Brasileiras driving the McLaren F1 GTR with Johnny Cecotto and Steve Soper. On 20 January 2006, Piquet won the 50th edition of the Mil Milhas Brasileiras...
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    Felipe Giaffone (category Indianapolis 500 drivers)
    His father, "Zeca" Giaffone is the 1987 Stock Car Brasil champion and Mil Milhas Brasil five times winner in the 1980s. He went to the United States to drive...
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    races, and is one of the races—along with the Monaco Grand Prix and Indianapolis 500—that form the Triple Crown of Motorsport, and is also one of the races...
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    Emerson Fittipaldi (category Indianapolis 500 drivers)
    the Second World War and Wilson Sr was also responsible for the first Mil Milhas race in 1956, in São Paulo, having been inspired by the 1949 Italian Mille...
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    Enrique Bernoldi (category Indianapolis 500 drivers)
    EuroSeries, driving for Team JD in a Tatuus CN, whilst entering the 500 Milhas de Kart do Beto Carreiro at the end of the year. In 2013, he entered the...
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    Hélio Castroneves (category Indianapolis 500 drivers)
    Road America". NBC Sports. Retrieved 30 May 2024. "Equipe de Piquet vence Mil Milhas de Interlagos" [Piquet team wins Thousand Miles of Interlagos]...
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    Rubens Barrichello (category Indianapolis 500 drivers)
    in his first Indianapolis 500 on 27 May 2012. He led a total of two laps and finished 11th, and in doing so won the 2012 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the...
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    and in 1963 joined the World Sportscar Championship and was extended to 500 km. Starting in 1966 the name Spa Grand Prix was no-longer used, and the...
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    Hours of Imola is an endurance race for sports cars, held at the Autodromo de Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy. The race was first held as the fourth...
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    time. One of the more common lengths of endurance races can be running for 500 kilometres (310 mi), or roughly 3 hours, or 1,000 kilometres (620 mi), or...
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    Bathurst 1000 (redirect from Bathurst 500)
    Armstrong 500 with a 500 mile race distance at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit; it was relocated to Bathurst in 1963 also with the 500 mile distance...
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    – via Open Library. O'Kane, Philip (2012). "A History of the 'Triple Crown' of Motor Racing: The Indianapolis 500, the Le Mans 24 Hours and the Monaco...
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    Spa 24 Hours (category Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps)
    the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium. It is currently sponsored by CrowdStrike. The Spa 24 Hours was conceived by Jules de Their and Henri...
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    to a dominant win. 1980 saw the first victory by a sports-prototype. Alain de Cadenet managed to win the home event as a driver, team owner, as well as...
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    2014 and 2015, alongside Portuguese team-mate João Barbosa. Also the Mil Milhas Brasil, an endurance race, has the longest history in the Brazilian racing...
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    average a lap at 388 km/h (241 mph). The series' biggest race is the Indianapolis 500, which is commonly referred to as "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing"...
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    Mile (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    exactly), the Italian mile (roughly 1.852 km), and the Chinese mile (now 500 m exactly). The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 pedēs ("feet"), but...
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    the 1000 km was held as a part of the Le Mans Endurance Series (LMES). The 500 km Nürburgring was also similar event for smaller sportscars during the 1960s...
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    developed by Creventic and with approval from the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). It features GT3-spec cars, GT4-spec cars, sports cars...
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    (Sydney Motorsport Park). The event was inspired by the long-running Bathurst 500 production car race, which began at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit...
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    Nürburgring 24 Hours (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    24h-rennen.de. 29 May 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2022. "Dunlop Reifen" (PDF). Dunlop.de. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2012-05-21. de:Hans-Peter...
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    the rules established for the 24 Hours of Le Mans by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), which are slightly modified if necessary, mainly to allow additional...
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    race was originally organised by Britcar. The 2009 race was shortened to 500 miles due to the recession. In 2011 the race used the new arena section for...
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    became a single 500 mile race, then shortened once more in 1987 to just 500 km. For several years IMSA kept the Continental as a 500 km race for prototypes...
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    Sports car racing (category Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2012)
    Championship – In operation since 2012, the current auto racing World Championship for Sports cars and GTs organised by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and sanctioned...
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    hour, 3 hour, 4 hour, 6 hour or 8 hour event, or as a 200 mile, 225 km, 500 km or 1,000 km event – as shown in the race results in the tables below....
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    Shanghai 4 Hours of Silverstone 2 hours TCR European Endurance 1000 miles Mil Milhas Brasil Mille Miglia 1000 km 1006 km Palanga 1000 km Paul Ricard Bathurst...
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    Eleven people were killed at the village of Guidizzolo: Spanish driver Alfonso de Portago, American co-driver/navigator Edmund Nelson, and nine spectators....
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    Sportscar Championship, IMSA GT Championship and American Le Mans Series. In 2012, the race was the opening event of the FIA World Endurance Championship in...
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