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Gio Ruggiero
Gio Ruggiero, also known as Giovanni Ruggiero, is an American stock car racing driver from Seekonk, Massachusetts, who races full time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for Tricon Garage.
Giovanni Lombardi
Giovanni Lombardi, Italian cyclist born 1969 in Pavia, won the 1992 Barcelona Olympic points race gold with 44 points, then rode professionally for Lampre, Polti, Telekom, Acqua & Sapone, and CSC, winning Giro and Vuelta stages.
Giovanni Pettenella
Giovanni Pettenella (Vanni), Italian track sprinter, 1964 Tokyo Olympic sprint gold and 1,000 m time trial silver; 1968 world sprint bronze and world trackstand record holder.
Giro d'Italia
Giro d'Italia (Corsa Rosa), annual Italian Grand Tour stage race organized by La Gazzetta dello Sport since 1909; time-based general classification, pink leader's jersey since 1931; 2026 winner Jonas Vingegaard.
Giro di Lombardia
Giro di Lombardia, also called Il Lombardia or the Race of the Falling Leaves, is an Italian autumn one-day cycling race, one of the five Monuments, first held in 1905, run between Bergamo and Como, and known for the Madonna del Ghisallo climb.
Giuliano Alesi
Giuliano Alesi (ジュリアーノ・アレジ), born 1999, French racing driver, son of Jean Alesi; ex-Ferrari Academy, F2 2019-2020, Super GT GT500 winner with TOM'S, 2026 KCMG Super Formula and Le Mans debutant.
Giuseppe Beghetto
Giuseppe Beghetto (born 8 October 1939, Tombolo, Italy) is a track cyclist, 1960 Rome Olympic tandem gold medalist with Sergio Bianchetto and three-time professional world sprint champion (1965, 1966, 1968).
Giuseppe Olmo
Giuseppe Olmo (Gepin), Italian cyclist (1911-1992): 1932 Olympic team road race gold, 1935 hour record of 45.090 km, two Milano-Sanremo wins, and founder of the Olmo bicycle and polyurethane industrial group.
Glossary of cycling
A glossary of cycling is a reference list of bicycle terms, spanning formal ISO standards like ISO 8090, enthusiast jargon, and French racing words such as peloton.
Glossary of motorsport terms
Glossary of motorsport terms: cross-discipline vocabulary of motor racing, covering F1, IndyCar, WEC, WRC, MotoGP and drag racing. Includes understeer/oversteer, flags, safety car vs VSC vs FCY, tyre compounds, and 2026 F1 terms like Overtake Mode.
Gong Jinjie
Gong Jinjie (宫金杰), born 1986, Chinese track cyclist from Jilin; 2012 Olympic team sprint silver with Guo Shuang, 2016 Rio gold with Zhong Tianshi, China's first Olympic cycling gold.
Goodwood Festival of Speed
Annual four-day motorsport festival held each July at Goodwood House, West Sussex; founded 1993 by the 11th Duke of Richmond; centered on a 1.16-mile hillclimb; hillclimb record 39.08 seconds by Max Chilton in 2022.
GP2 Series
GP2 Series (2005–2016), single-seater feeder championship to Formula One created by Briatore, Ecclestone, and Michel to replace F3000; Dallara-Renault V8 cars, feature/sprint weekends, 28 F1 graduates including Rosberg and Hamilton; became FIA Formula 2 in 2017.
GP3 Series
GP3 Series: single-seater racing championship (2010-2018), founded by GP2 organiser Bruno Michel as feeder to GP2 and Formula One; replaced in 2019 by the FIA Formula 3 Championship; champions included Bottas, Leclerc, Russell.
Grace Brown
Grace Brown (Grace Lowden Brown, born 1992) is a retired Australian road cyclist, 2024 Olympic and world time trial champion, four-time national time trial champion, and president of The Cyclists' Alliance.
Graeme Brown
Graeme Allen Brown (born 1979, Darwin) is a retired Australian track and road cyclist, nicknamed Brownie, who won dual Olympic gold at Athens 2004 in the team pursuit and Madison with Stuart O'Grady, then raced 16 pro years for Panaria, Rabobank, Belkin, and Drapac before retiring in 2016.
Graeme Obree
Graeme Obree, 'The Flying Scotsman', Scottish cyclist born 1965; twice broke the world hour record (51.596 km in 1993, 52.713 km in 1994) on his homemade bike Old Faithful, won world pursuit titles in 1993 and 1995, and had his tuck and Superman positions banned by the UCI.
Graham Hill
Graham Hill (1929-1975), English Formula 1 driver, double world champion 1962 (BRM) and 1968 (Lotus), five-time Monaco GP winner, and the only driver to complete the Triple Crown of Motorsport: Monaco, Indianapolis 500, and Le Mans.
Graham Rahal
Graham Rahal (b. January 4, 1989, New Albany, Ohio) is an American INDYCAR driver, son of Bobby Rahal, racing for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing; 327 starts, 6 wins, best championship finish fourth in 2015.
Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal: UCI WorldTour one-day road race on a Mount Royal circuit since 2010, held two days after GP Québec; climbing-heavy course, 2026 winner Isaac del Toro.
Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec: annual UCI WorldTour one-day road race in Québec City, Canada, first held 2010 (Voeckler). Repeated hilly circuit with the Côte de la Montagne; Matthews three wins; Evenepoel won 2026; paired with GP Montréal before the Worlds.
Grand Prix de Denain
Grand Prix de Denain – Porte du Hainaut, the "mini Paris-Roubaix", a flat one-day UCI ProSeries (1.Pro) race in northern France since 1959, with 13 cobbled sectors over about 23 km shortly before Paris-Roubaix.
Grand Prix des Nations
The Grand Prix des Nations was a French individual time-trial one-day race founded in 1932, considered for decades the unofficial world championship of time trialling, last contested in 2004.
Grand Prix Drivers' Association
Grand Prix Drivers' Association (GPDA), trade union of Formula One drivers founded 11 May 1961 under Stirling Moss; disbanded 1982, revived 1994 after Senna's death; chairman Alex Wurz; advocates driver safety and F1 governance reform.
Grand Prix motor racing
Grand Prix motor racing: top-level single-seat circuit racing begun by the 1906 French Grand Prix near Le Mans, run as the AIACR European Championship 1931-1939, and continuing since 1950 as the FIA Formula One World Championship.
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
Grand Prix motorcycle racing (MotoGP), the FIM Road Racing World Championship founded in 1949 at the Isle of Man TT; premier prototype class of 1000cc four-strokes (850cc from 2027), with Moto2, Moto3, sprints, and Honda as the most successful manufacturer.
Grand Prix motorcycle racing classes and regulations
Grand Prix motorcycle racing is run as three prototype classes, Moto3, Moto2, and MotoGP, with the electric MotoE category, governed by FIM regulations covering rider ages, wild cards, and qualification.
Grand Prix of Long Beach
Grand Prix of Long Beach (Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach): annual IndyCar street race in Long Beach, California, first held 1975, Formula One venue 1976-1983. 1.968-mile, 11-turn circuit; 2026 winner Alex Palou; owned by Penske Entertainment since 2024.
Grand Prix racing formulae (1906–1939)
The Grand Prix racing formulae were the technical rule sets defining Grand Prix cars from 1906 to 1939, covering engine capacity, weight, and fuel limits.
Grand Prix seasons, 1906–1925
Grand Prix seasons, 1906–1925 covers early Grand Prix motor racing, from the first French Grand Prix at Le Mans in 1906 to the 1925 World Championship.