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François Guiter
François Émile Jean Guiter (7 May 1928 — 9 November 2014) was a French businessman who served as Elf Aquitaine, Elf's head of marketing from 1967 to 1989. Through his control over the Dirigisme, French state-owned oil company's marketing budget, he became one of Formula One's most important power brokers. Joe Saward of ''Autoweek'' described Guiter as one of "the primary forces in creating modern F1". Guiter facilitated Formula One's path to broadcast television, winning a struggle with the BBC to permit large-scale advertising in the sport. He was the chief financial backer of Equipe Matra Sports, Matra, Tyrrell Racing, Tyrrell, and Renault in Formula One, Renault, the first two of which won titles while being sponsored by Elf. He championed Renault's introduction of Turbocharger, turbocharged engines to Formula One in 1977, ushering in a new era of racing dominated by wealthy multinational automakers. Although Renault disbanded its Formula One works team in 1985, Elf helped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
