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Encyclopedia > West Surrey Racing

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WSR Headquarters in Sunbury-on-Thames, England
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WSR Headquarters in Sunbury-on-Thames, England

Founded in 1981, West Surrey Racing is run by New Zealander Dick Bennetts. He is responsible for masterminding the careers of such names as Ayrton Senna, Mika Häkkinen, Jonathan Palmer, Rubens Barrichello and Eddie Irvine with his involvement in F3 and a racing academy in the 80s and 90s. Sunbury-on-Thames is a Surrey suburb of London, England. ... Ayrton Senna Ayrton Senna da Silva (March 21, 1960–May 1, 1994), better known as Ayrton Senna, was a Brazilian racing driver who won the Formula One world championship three times. ... // Biography Mika Häkkinen at the 2000 United States Grand Prix Mika Pauli Häkkinen (almost always seen and pronounced Hakkinen) (b. ... Doctor Jonathan Palmer (born 7 October 1956) was a racing driver from Britain. ... Rubens Gonçalves Barrichello, born May 23, 1972 in São Paulo, Brazil, is a Formula One race driver. ... Eddie Irvine, US Grand Prix, 2002 Influenced by his parents who are also involved in racing, Eddie Irvine (born 10 November 1965 in Bangor, Northern Ireland) began his racing career in 1983. ... Formula Three, also called Formula 3 or, in abbreviated form, F3, is a type of formula racing and a class of auto racing. ...


WSR moved to the BTCC in 1996, teaming up with both Honda and Ford before running the MG ZS as both a manufacturing based team and as an independent. The British Touring Car Championship is a series of races for saloon cars which is held each year in the United Kingdom. ...


In 2005, WSR were chosen to engineer the A1GP New Zealand's team entry The A1 Team New Zealand is the New Zealand team of the international racing series, A1 Grand Prix. ...


WSR has won over 70 races in Formula 3 and over 20 class and outright wins in the BTCC. Formula Three, also called Formula 3 or, in abbreviated form, F3, is a type of formula racing and a class of auto racing. ... The British Touring Car Championship is a series of races for saloon cars which is held each year in the United Kingdom. ...


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  • www.wsr-racing.com

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West Surrey Racing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (421 words)
WSR has won over 70 races in Formula 3 and over 20 class and outright wins in the BTCC.
WSR moved to the BTCC in 1996 having been chosen to run the works Ford team, their most high-profile moments arguably coming in 1998 when Nigel Mansell drove a third Mondeo at selected events during the season.
WSR were chosen to run the Team New Zealand team for the inaugural 2005-06 A1 Grand Prix season.
Encyclopedia: Grand Prix motor racing (4488 words)
Races in this period were heavily nationalistic affairs, with a few countries setting up races of their own, but no formal championship tying them together.
The rules varied from country to country and race to race, and typically centered around maximum (not minimum) weights in an effort to limit power by limiting engine size indirectly (10–15 liter engines were quite common, usually with no more than four cylinders, and producing less than 50hp).
The races that formed the first Constructors Championship were the Indianapolis 500, the European Grand Prix, and the French and Italian Grands Prix.
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