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Louis Foster
Louis James Foster (born 27 July 2003) is a British racing driver. He competes in the IndyCar Series for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. He is the 2024 Indy NXT champion and also won the 2022 Indy Pro 2000 championship. Foster previously competed in the 2021 Euroformula Open Championship with CryptoTower Racing and the 2020 BRDC British Formula 3 Championship with Double R Racing where he finished third. Personal life Louis is the son of former British Touring Car Championship racer Nick Foster. He attended Lord Wandsworth College in Hook, Hampshire. Career Karting Foster began karting at the age of 9. He competed at local karting circuitCamberley Kart Club anForest Edge Kart Clubwinning championships at both, in 2013 and 2015 respectively. Ginetta Junior Championship He made his car racing debut in the final three meetings of the 2017 Ginetta Junior Championship, driving with Elite Motorsport. He then competed in that year's Ginetta Junior Winter Series, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detroit Grand Prix (IndyCar)
The Detroit Grand Prix (currently branded as the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear Corporation for sponsorship reasons) is an IndyCar Series race weekend held on a temporary circuit in Detroit, Michigan. The race has been held from 1989 to 2001, 2007 to 2008, and since 2012. Since 2012, the event has been scheduled for the weekend immediately following the Indianapolis 500. The origins of the event date back to the Formula One Detroit Grand Prix on the Detroit street circuit. The CART series began headlining the event in 1989, and in 1992, the race moved from downtown Detroit to Belle Isle, a park situated on an island in the Detroit River, which is the longest serving venue of the race. The IndyCar Series took over the race beginning in 2007. The race has been supported by Indy Lights and Formula Atlantic and top-level sports car series such as the Trans-Am Series and the ALMS. From 2023, the race returned to the downtown streets around the Renaissance Center using ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Ginetta Junior Championship
The 2018 Simpson Race Products Ginetta Junior Championship is a multi-event, one make motor racing championship held across England and Scotland. The championship features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers, aged between 14 and 17, competing in Ginetta G40s that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. It forms part of the extensive program of support categories built up around the British Touring Car Championship centrepiece. It is the twelfth Ginetta Junior Championship, commencing on 8 April 2018 at Brands Hatch – on the circuit's Indy configuration – and concluding on 30 September 2018 at the same venue, utilising the Grand Prix circuit, after 25 races held at ten meetings, all in support of the 2018 British Touring Car Championship The 2018 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (commonly abbreviated as BTCC) was a motor racing championship for production-based touring cars held across England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circuit De Spa-Francorchamps
The Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps (), informally referred to as Spa, is a Race track, motor-racing circuit located in Francorchamps, Stavelot, Wallonia, Belgium, about southeast of Spa, Belgium, Spa. It is the current venue of the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix, hosting its first Grand Prix in 1925 Belgian Grand Prix, 1925, and has held a Grand Prix every year since 1985 except 2003 and 2006. Spa also hosts several other international events including the 24 Hours of Spa and the FIA World Endurance Championship, World Endurance Championship 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. It is also the host of the Uniroyal Fun Cup 25 Hours of Spa, one of the longest motor races in the world. The circuit has undergone several redesigns through its history, most extensively in 1979 when the track was modified and shortened from a circuit using public roads to a permanent circuit due to safety concerns with the old circuit. Track configurations Original layout In 1918, Oberste Heeresleitung#L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Soon after, it spread to other areas of Asia, and COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory, then worldwide in early 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020, and assessed the outbreak as having become a pandemic on 11 March. COVID-19 symptoms range from asymptomatic to deadly, but most commonly include fever, sore throat, nocturnal cough, and fatigue. Transmission of COVID-19, Transmission of the virus is often airborne transmission, through airborne particles. Mutations have variants of SARS-CoV-2, produced many strains (variants) with varying degrees of infectivity and virulence. COVID-19 vaccines were developed rapidly and deplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copart
Copart, Inc. is a multi-national provider of online vehicle auction and remarketing services to automotive resellers such as insurance, rental car, fleet and finance companies in 11 countries; the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Ireland, Brazil, Spain, UAE, Bahrain, Oman and Finland. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Copart has more than 200 physical locations, where it houses more than 10,000 acres of vehicle inventory. Copart sells used, wholesale and repairable vehicles in weekly and bi-weekly online auctions to buyers ranging from consumers to automotive businesses. Copart provides vehicle sellers with a range of services to process and sell repairable and clean title vehicles over the internet, using its patented virtual auction technology, named VB3, as well as others of its auction-related brands. Copart is a public company and is traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol CPRT and has been named to Fortune's 2020 Future 50 companies, 100 Fasted-Growing Companies, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hook, Hart
Hook is a civil parish and large village in the Hart District of northern Hampshire, England. It is situated east of Basingstoke and northeast of Southampton, on the A30 national route, just north of Junction 5 of the M3 motorway. London is 41 miles (66 km) northeast of the village. The 2021 Census recorded Hook's population as 9,100. Hook railway station has direct rail links to both London Waterloo and Basingstoke with indirect routes to Reading, Salisbury, and Southampton. Rail services are provided by South Western Railway. Among the businesses located in Hook are Serco and Trimble Navigation. Between 2004 and 2006, Hook expanded eastwards with the development of the Holt Park residential area, and from 2020 northeastwards with the Green Hart Park and Oakwood Grange developments. History Until the 18th century, there were only a few scattered farms in the area. The area of Murrell Green had existed as a village previously, but lay abandoned for years. Sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Wandsworth College
Lord Wandsworth College (LWC) is a co-educational private school in Long Sutton, Hampshire, England, for day and boarding pupils between the ages of 11–18, which occupies a 1,200 acre campus and is known for its charitable foundation. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Since 2015, the headmaster has been Adam Williams. In 2020, the College was named Independent School of the Year for Student Wellbeing, and was awarded the Schools of Character Kitemark by the Association of Character Education. In April 2021, the College announced that it had entered a formal collaboration with St Neot's Preparatory School, Eversley. At 436 hectares, its campus is larger than that of any other school in England apart from Winchester and Eton. History The College takes its name from Sydney Stern, 1st Baron Wandsworth, whose generous bequest established the school. Stern, a Liberal MP, wished to provide an education and supportive boarding environment to child ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Foster (racing Driver)
Nicholas John Foster (born 10 October 1965 in Redditch, Worcestershire) is a British racing driver and businessman who has driven in the British Touring Car Championship. Racing career After spending the first part of his career in rallying, Foster switched to circuit racing in 2006, competing in the Radical Championship. In 2007 he began two years in the British GT Championship, driving a GT3 class Dodge Viper for Team RPM. Two years in the GT Cup followed. British Touring Car Championship In 2011, Foster stepped up to the British Touring Car Championship, driving for West Surrey Racing in a BMW 320si. His best result of the season was a second-place finish in the reversed grid race at Croft, ahead of teammate Rob Collard. He stayed with the team for 2012, now rebranded as eBay Motors. Nick remained with the WSR team for 2013, with a brand new NGTC spec BMW 1 series, alongside Collard and returning former champion Colin Turkington. He stayed as part of WSR's unchanged line ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Touring Car Championship
The British Touring Car Championship (BTCC), officially known as the Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship for sponsorship reasons, is a touring car racing series held each year in the United Kingdom, currently organised and administered by TOCA. It was established in 1958 as the British Saloon Car Championship and was renamed as the British Touring Car Championship for the 1987 British Touring Car Championship, 1987 season.BTCC History 1958-1990 Retrieved from www.btcc.net on 13 August 2012 It is one of the oldest, most popular and most prestigious touring car series in the world. The championship, currently running Next Generation Touring Car regulations, has been run to various national and international regulations over the years including FIA Group 2, FIA Group 5, FIA Group 1, FIA Group A, FIA Super Touring and FIA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double R Racing
Double R Racing is a motor racing team, which last raced in the 2023 F4 British Championship. The team was formed in November 2004 as Räikkönen Robertson Racing by then McLaren Formula One driver and world champion with Scuderia Ferrari, Ferrari, Kimi Räikkönen, and his race manager Steve Robertson (racing driver), Steve Robertson, a former Formula Three driver. It is based in Woking, site of the McLaren manufacturing facility, and it is managed by Anthony "Boyo" Hieatt. History When the team was announced, it was confirmed that Räikkönen Robertson would compete in the British Formula 3 Championship, British F3 International Series, in the Championship Class (the first of two different classes) from the 2005 season. In this first season, the two Dallara F305 Mugen Motorsports, Mugen-Hondas were driven by British driver Dan Clarke, and Brazilian Bruno Senna. This saw the team fare well, with Clarke taking the team's maiden win at Castle Combe Circuit, Castle Combe, as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motopark Academy
Motopark Academy (raced under Lotus moniker from 2012 to 2014) is an auto racing team based in Oschersleben, Germany, next to the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben race track. In 2013, the team competed in the GP2 Series under the name Russian Time and have operated a satellite team called CryptoTower Racing. History Single-seaters The team have competed in open-wheel racing consistently since the start of the 21st century. They have competed in the Formula 3 Euro Series since 2009. Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 They were teams' champions in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 in 2004, with their American driver Scott Speed taking the drivers' title with eight wins. Motopark Academy won the drivers' title of the 2006 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season with Filipe Albuquerque, with the Portuguese driver collecting four wins in all. Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup Motopark Academy have won all four Drivers' Championships in Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup, since i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
