Heitkotter beat out over 53, 000 competitors who registered for GT Academy and is now a Nissan-sponsored professional race car driver and part of a four-person team that will race the 24-hour race in Dubai in January 2012.
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Megan thinks she succeeded on Wall Street partly because she is the daughter of a race car driver.
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Thanks to the advent of technology, Heitkotter was able to use GT5 to literally help become a professional race car driver.
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Alex Zinardi, a race car driver who lost both of his legs in a crash, is a Paralympic gold medal winner in handcycling.
In late February, Ray Evernham, the 53 year-old former race car driver and NASCAR team owner, filed a civil lawsuit in a North Carolina court against Gillett.
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He was 24 then and he's a race car driver.
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One People.com commenter even suggested that 2013 was "the year of the 'young-er cougar, ' " noting that race car driver and model Danica Patrick, 30, is dating fellow driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
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"In the eyes of brand decision makers, she was a personality who happened to be a very good race car driver, " says Dan Migala, who runs a sports business newsletter called the Migala Report.
Daytona Beach, Florida (CNN) -- It was never Milka Duno's intention to become a race car driver, although her parents may have had an inkling when, as a 12-year-old, she took her mother's Chevrolet on a joyride.
Just as a race car driver might discuss the fine points of his engine, I had the hero in my novel "The Soloist" dissect the piano's inner workings in relation to a given piece of music: pedal action, tuning, hammers and bridge.
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So you don't have to be a real race-car driver to truly enjoy the 575 M.
At least race-car driver Danica Patrick left her clothes on this time.
Or get behind the wheel with the Richard Petty Driving Experience and feel the thrill of a race from the driver's seat.
"He's still a race-car driver, " Manfred Zimmermann told CNN.
"Maybe I just wasn't meant to win this race as a driver, maybe I'm meant to win it 20 times as an owner, " said Michael, who also won the championship in 1991.
This time-hopping and time-wasting adventure stars Emilio Estevez as a race-car driver and Mick Jagger as the high-tech body snatcher who plunks Estevez out of a car wreck and sends him eighteen years into the future.
After a recent meeting with Gildo Pallanca Pastor, race-car driver and owner of a tiny car company in Monaco called Venturi, Wynne will soon be able to move up to a 300hp engine with better turbochargers and a wider exhaust system.
The rules dictate that a drive-through penalty imposed in the last five laps of the race has to be converted into a 25-second addition to the driver's race time.
Like a F1 race car, a driver will be able to call on that added boost for a launch down the straightaway or coming out of a corner.
She finished eighth, the highest finish ever for a female driver at the race.
Ecclestone wants to introduce a new system whereby the driver with most race victories would be champion.
Hamilton, along with every other driver in the race other than Renault's Nelson Piquet Jr, chose dry tyres.
What no one can doubt is that there is a new driver in the race and one with an impressive track record.
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The McLaren driver dominated the race at Shanghai while his title rival Felipe Massa was handed second place by Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen.
Every driver wants to race a car that has the Prancing Horse embossed on the steering wheel, but your teammate will be Alonso.
Last year one out of four races was won by the driver starting the race in the pole position, up from one out of 10 earlier this decade.
Meanwhile, F1 chiefs are still investigating the fire that cast a shadow over Williams' first grand prix victory since 2004 and the first race victory by a Venezuelan driver.
Other competitors in the race include World Touring Cars driver Yvan Muller, who will be behind the wheel of a buggy, and Nascar star Robby Gordon, in a Hummer.
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Vettel, who is the only driver apart from Button to actually win a race this season following his victory in China, was the dominant driver throughout the weekend.
While Dodge and Toyota also race in Nascar, no Toyota driver has won a title in Nascar's premier series, and none has won in a Dodge since Richard Petty in 1975.
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