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Ford P68

Index Ford P68

The Ford P68, also commonly known as the Ford 3L GT or F3L, is a sports prototype racing car model introduced in March 1968. [1]

78 relations: Aerodynamics, Airfoil, Alan Mann Racing, Aluminium, Auto racing, Brands Hatch, Bruce McLaren, Bulkhead (partition), Burmah Oil, Castrol, Chris Irwin, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Control arm, Cosworth DFV, Denny Hulme, Double wishbone suspension, Downforce, Drag (physics), Drag coefficient, Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, Ford GT40, Ford Motor Company, Ford of Europe, Formula One, Four-wheel drive, Frank Gardner (racing driver), Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Group 6 (racing), Hewland, Hubert Hahne, Hydraulics, Jack Brabham, Jochen Rindt, John Surtees, John Wyer, Kent, Len Bailey, Lotus 49, Manual transmission, Masten Gregory, Mid-engine design, Mike Spence, Monocoque, Motor Sport (magazine), Naturally aspirated engine, Nürburgring, Oulton Park, Pedro Rodríguez (racing driver), Porsche, Porsche 907, ..., Radiator, Rear-view mirror, Richard Attwood, Rivet, Roadster (automobile), Silverstone Circuit, Spoiler (aeronautics), Sports car racing, Steel, Surrey, Trailing-arm suspension, United Kingdom, V8 engine, Vortex, Weybridge, Wheel hub assembly, Wing, Zeltweg Air Base, 1000 km Brands Hatch, 1000 km Zeltweg, 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, 1968 Indianapolis 500, 1968 RAC Tourist Trophy, 1968 World Sportscar Championship, 1969 24 Hours of Le Mans, 1969 World Sportscar Championship, 6 Hours of Nürburgring, 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. Expand index (28 more) »

Aerodynamics

Aerodynamics, from Greek ἀήρ aer (air) + δυναμική (dynamics), is the study of the motion of air, particularly its interaction with a solid object, such as an airplane wing.

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Airfoil

An airfoil (American English) or aerofoil (British English) is the shape of a wing, blade (of a propeller, rotor, or turbine), or sail (as seen in cross-section).

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Alan Mann Racing

Alan Mann Racing was a British motor racing team organised by Alan Mann (22 August 1936 – 21 March 2012), who was a part-time racing driver and team manager.

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Aluminium

Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Auto racing

Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition.

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Brands Hatch

Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit in West Kingsdown in Kent, England.

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Bruce McLaren

Bruce Leslie McLaren (30 August 1937 – 2 June 1970) was a New Zealand race-car designer, driver, engineer and inventor.

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Bulkhead (partition)

A bulkhead is an upright wall within the hull of a ship or within the fuselage of an aeroplane.

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Burmah Oil

The Burmah Oil Company was a leading British oil business which was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

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Castrol

Castrol is a British global brand of industrial and automotive lubricants offering a wide range of oils, greases and similar products for most lubrication applications.

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Chris Irwin

Chris Irwin (born 27 June 1942 in Wandsworth, London) is a British former racing driver.

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Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps

The Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps motor-racing circuit is the venue of the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix, and of the Spa 24 Hours and 1000 km Spa endurance races.

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Control arm

In automotive suspension, a control arm, also known as an A-arm, is a hinged suspension link between the chassis and the suspension upright or hub that carries the wheel.

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Cosworth DFV

The DFV is an internal combustion engine that was originally produced by Cosworth for Formula One motor racing.

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Denny Hulme

Denis Clive "Denny" Hulme, (18 June 1936 – 4 October 1992) was a New Zealand racing driver who won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship for the Brabham team.

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Double wishbone suspension

In automobiles, a double wishbone suspension is an independent suspension design using two (occasionally parallel) wishbone-shaped arms to locate the wheel.

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Downforce

Downforce is a downwards thrust created by the aerodynamic characteristics of a car.

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Drag (physics)

In fluid dynamics, drag (sometimes called air resistance, a type of friction, or fluid resistance, another type of friction or fluid friction) is a force acting opposite to the relative motion of any object moving with respect to a surrounding fluid.

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Drag coefficient

In fluid dynamics, the drag coefficient (commonly denoted as: \scriptstyle C_\mathrm d\,, \scriptstyle C_\mathrm x\, or \scriptstyle C_\mathrm w\) is a dimensionless quantity that is used to quantify the drag or resistance of an object in a fluid environment, such as air or water.

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Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile

The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA, English: International Automobile Federation) is an association established as the Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus (AIACR, English: 'International Association of Recognized Automobile Clubs') on 20 June 1904 to represent the interests of motoring organisations and motor car users.

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Ford GT40

The Ford GT40 is a high-performance endurance racing car with the Mk I, Mk II, and Mk III model cars being based upon the British Lola Mk6, and were designed and built in England, while the GT40 Mk IV model was designed and built entirely within the United States.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

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Ford of Europe

Ford of Europe AG is a subsidiary company of Ford Motor Company founded in 1967 in Cork, Ireland with headquarters in Cologne, Germany.

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Formula One

Formula One (also Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and owned by the Formula One Group.

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Four-wheel drive

Four-wheel drive, also called 4×4 ("four by four") or 4WD, refers to a two-axled vehicle drivetrain capable of providing torque to all of its wheels simultaneously.

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Frank Gardner (racing driver)

Frank Gardner OAM (1 October 1931 – 29 August 2009) was a racing driver from Australia.

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Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is an American multinational tire manufacturing company founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling and based in Akron, Ohio.

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Group 6 (racing)

Group 6 was the official designation applied by the FIA to two motor racing classifications, the Prototype-Sports Car category from 1966 to 1971 and the Two-Seater Racing Cars class from 1976 to 1982.

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Hewland

Hewland is a British engineering company, founded in 1957 by Mike Hewland, which specialises in racing-car gearboxes.

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Hubert Hahne

Hubert Hahne (born 28 March 1935) is a former racing driver from Germany.

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Hydraulics

Hydraulics (from Greek: Υδραυλική) is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids.

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Jack Brabham

Sir John Arthur Brabham, (2 April 1926 – 19 May 2014) was an Australian racing driver who was Formula One World Champion in,, and.

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Jochen Rindt

Karl Jochen Rindt (18 April 1942 – 5 September 1970) was a German-born racing driver who represented Austria during his career.

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John Surtees

John Surtees, (11 February 1934 – 10 March 2017) was an English Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver.

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John Wyer

John Wyer (11 December 1909 in Kidderminster, England – 8 April 1989 in Scottsdale, Arizona, US) was an English automobile racing engineer and team manager.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Len Bailey

Leonard Bailey (25 July 1926 – 23 June 1997) was a British automobile designer.

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Lotus 49

The Lotus 49 was a Formula One racing car designed by Colin Chapman and Maurice Philippe for the 1967 F1 season.

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Manual transmission

A manual transmission, also known as a manual gearbox, a standard transmission or colloquially in some countries (e.g. the United States) as a stick shift is a type of transmission used in motor vehicle applications.

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Masten Gregory

Masten Gregory (February 29, 1932 − November 8, 1985) was an American racing driver.

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Mid-engine design

A mid-engine layout describes the placement of an automobile engine between the rear and front axles.

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Mike Spence

Michael Henderson "Mike" Spence (30 December 1936 – 7 May 1968) was a British racing driver from England.

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Monocoque

Monocoque, also structural skin, is a structural system where loads are supported through an object's external skin, similar to an egg shell.

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Motor Sport (magazine)

Motor Sport is a magazine founded in the United Kingdom in 1924"Racing Magazines ", Magazine-Agent.com, 2009, webpage:.

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Naturally aspirated engine

A naturally aspirated engine is an internal combustion engine in which oxygen intake depends solely on atmospheric pressure and does not rely on forced induction through a turbocharger or a supercharger.

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Nürburgring

The Nürburgring is a 150,000 person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Oulton Park

Oulton Park Circuit is a motor racing track close to the small village of Little Budworth, Cheshire, England.

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Pedro Rodríguez (racing driver)

Pedro Rodríguez de la Vega (18 January 1940 – 11 July 1971) was a Mexican Grand Prix motor racing driver.

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Porsche

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Porsche 907

The Porsche 907 was a sportscar racing prototype built by Porsche in 1967 and 1968.

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Radiator

Radiators are heat exchangers used to transfer thermal energy from one medium to another for the purpose of cooling and heating.

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Rear-view mirror

A rear-view mirror (or rearview mirror) is a mirror in automobiles and other vehicles, designed to allow the driver to see rearward through the vehicle's rear window (rear windshield).

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Richard Attwood

Richard James David "Dickie" Attwood (born 4 April 1940, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire) is a British motor racing driver, from England.

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Rivet

A rivet is a permanent mechanical fastener.

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Roadster (automobile)

A roadster (spider or spyder) is an open two-seat car with emphasis on sporting appearance or character.

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Silverstone Circuit

Silverstone Circuit is a motor racing circuit in England next to the Northamptonshire villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury.

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Spoiler (aeronautics)

In aeronautics, a spoiler (sometimes called a lift spoiler or lift dumper) is a device intended to intentionally reduce the lift component of an airfoil in a controlled way.

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Sports car racing

Sports car racing is a form of circuit auto racing with sports cars that have two seats and enclosed wheels.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.

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Surrey

Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.

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Trailing-arm suspension

A trailing-arm suspension, sometimes referred as trailing-link is a vehicle suspension design in which one or more arms (or "links") are connected between (and perpendicular to and forward of) the axle and a pivot point (located on the chassis of a motor vehicle).

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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V8 engine

A V8 engine is an eight-cylinder V configuration engine with the cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two sets (or banks) of four, with all eight pistons driving a common crankshaft.

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Vortex

In fluid dynamics, a vortex (plural vortices/vortexes) is a region in a fluid in which the flow revolves around an axis line, which may be straight or curved.

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Weybridge

Weybridge is a town by the River Wey in the Elmbridge district of Surrey.

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Wheel hub assembly

A wheel hub assembly (WHA), also referred to as hub assembly, wheel hub unit, wheel hub bearing, etc., is an automotive part used in most cars, passenger vehicles, and light and heavy trucks.

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Wing

A wing is a type of fin that produces lift, while moving through air or some other fluid.

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Zeltweg Air Base

Zeltweg Air Base, now known as Fliegerhorst Hinterstoisser, is a military airfield in Styria, Austria near Zeltweg.

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1000 km Brands Hatch

The Brands Hatch 1000 km was an endurance sports car event that was part of the World Sportscar Championship for varying years from 1967 until 1989.

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1000 km Zeltweg

The 1000 km Zeltweg (originally known as the 500 km Zeltweg) was an endurance sports car event held near Zeltweg, Austria.

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1968 24 Hours of Le Mans

The 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 36th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 28 and 29 September 1968 on the Circuit de la Sarthe, in Le Mans, France.

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1968 Indianapolis 500

The 52nd International 500 Mile Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Thursday May 30, 1968.

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1968 RAC Tourist Trophy

Although the 1967 TT was part of the European Touring Car Championship, the 1968 and 33rd running of the RAC International Tourist Trophy Race, saw a return to Group 7 sportscars.

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1968 World Sportscar Championship

The 1968 World Sportscar Championship season was the 16th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship racing and featured the 1968 International Championship for Makes and the 1968 International Cup for GT Cars.

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1969 24 Hours of Le Mans

The 1969 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 37th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 14 and 15 June 1969.

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1969 World Sportscar Championship

The 1969 World Sportscar Championship season was the 17th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship motor racing.

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6 Hours of Nürburgring

The 6 Hours of Nürburgring (formerly the Nürburgring 1000 km) was an endurance race for sports cars held on the Nürburgring in Germany and organized by the ADAC since 1953.

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6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps

The 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (formerly the 1000 Kilometres of Spa-Francorchamps) is an endurance race for sports cars held at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_P68

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