The car will be a contender in the Le Mans endurance race in France this summer.
They apparently met and bonded when they were the only two finishers in an extreme endurance race.
R-10 became the first diesel-powered car to win an endurance race, pipping a field of petrol-powered rivals to the post.
His father also told local media that after leaving jail, Mr Melo travelled to Europe to compete in an endurance race.
It finished third at Le Mans that year and in 2003 claimed the top two spots in the 24-hour endurance race.
Odette Siko and Marguerite Mareuse, a couple of Frenchwomen, drove a Bugatti in the 24 Hours of LeMans endurance race of 1932.
His last endurance race was in 2010 at the age of 75.
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He just had to decide if he wanted this to be an endurance race (fight and lose) or a sprint (surrender early but still lose).
Her plan can vary for drivers in an endurance race in which three different drivers divide their time behind the wheel of a single car.
All contenders agree that this will now be an endurance race, rather than the quick sprint which Team Romney had hoped for, the BBC's Steve Kingstone says.
Over time ladies were encouraged to save their best dresses for the Gold Cup, the prestigious endurance race run on the Thursday and won in 2015 by Trip to Paris.
The endurance race, which begins on 5 January, has a route which takes in more than 8, 000km (5, 000 miles) between Lima in Peru and Santiago in Chile.
If an endurance race is too much to take on, the Irish Triathlon website lists many races that can be done in teams, as relays or with more manageable distances.
His rowing companion Mr Humphreys, 32, from Clapham, London, previously spent four years cycling round the world, has written two books and run the Marathon des Sables, a six-day endurance race across the Sahara desert.
When the grueling 2013 Rolex 24 endurance race kicks off at Daytona International Speedway on Jan. 26, the field will include three Mazda6 race cars powered by an unusual type of renewable fuel.
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Take a look at just about any major endurance race of the past 30 years, everything from the Boston Marathon to the World Cross Country Championships to the Summer Olympics, and you'll see runners from Kenya, men and women, standing on the winner's podium.
In a sport dominated by men, she has more than one hundred races and eight major wins to her credit, including an overall win at road racing's Miami Grand Prix in 2004 and a second-place finish in the 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race in 2007.
At the American Le Mans Series' six-hour endurance race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in September, the GT3 R Hybrid walked away from the field, posting the fastest laps in the GT class and stopping only three times for fuel, compared with other competitors' five or more stops.
In this case, it looks like Lance relied on a combination of legal and PR calculus to DNF, with the hope that he could put an end to an endurance race he felt he could never win and instead move on with his life, salvage his personal brand and preserve his foundation.
He adds that more than just an endurance event, the race often becomes a breeding ground for lifelong friendships amongst runners.
Exhausted after cycling 1, 259 miles in 83 hours as part of an endurance challenge called the Race Across America, he becomes convinced that the motorhome carrying his support team is actually an alien spacecraft, and that his team's pleas for him to come inside and get some rest are merely a cunning pretext to get him to co-operate with a spot of alien probing.
The race is one of "extreme endurance and mental resilience that pushes you to right to the edge, " said Thomson, who participated in the event the last time it was held but was forced to pull out of this year's competition due to appendicitis.
The race in Malaysia is arguably the toughest race of the season as far as endurance is concerned as the heat and humidity makes it so tough.
The drug is used to boost performance in endurance events such as running and cycling and the race is now on to validate it before the games in September.
NOME, Alaska (AP) A 53-year-old former champion has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to become the oldest winner of Alaska's grueling test of endurance.
Spartan Race began in Vermont as a new wrinkle for a core group of already hardcore outdoor endurance athletes, but quickly became popular with everyone from weekend warriors to couch potatoes to elite runners and cyclists, exploding in popularity nationwide, and spawning smaller events of just three miles, Spartan Sprints.
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Race organisers said 161 crews had entered for the non-stop 125 miles (201km) endurance event.
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In an endurance test of the vehicle's computers, sensors and mechanical systems, Sandstorm drove 131 laps on a race course near Pittsburgh, covering the distance in seven hours.
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