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Pierre Trentin
Pierre Trentin (born 1944, Creteil) is a French retired track cyclist, not the road racer Matteo Trentin. Double Olympic champion at Mexico 1968 (1,000 m time trial in world-record 1:03.91, tandem with Daniel Morelon), four Olympic medals, three world titles.
Pietro Fittipaldi
Pietro Fittipaldi (born 1996, Miami) is a Brazilian racing driver, grandson of Emerson Fittipaldi; two F1 starts for Haas in 2020, IndyCar with Dale Coyne and RLL, and LMP2 winner at Monza 2023.
Pikes Peak International Hill Climb
Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, the Race to the Clouds: annual hill climb race on the 12.42-mile, 156-turn Pikes Peak Highway, founded 1916 by Spencer Penrose; record 7:57.148 by Romain Dumas in the Volkswagen ID.R.
Pit stop
Pit stop: scheduled halt in a team's pit box during a motor race for tyre changes, repairs, or refuelling. F1 mandates at least one stop per Grand Prix; refuelling banned since 2010; average F1 stationary time about 2.5 seconds.
Plato Racing
Plato Racing is a British Touring Car Championship team founded in August 2025 by double champion Jason Plato, fielding Mercedes-AMG A35 saloons for Rowbottom and Morgan in 2026 before administration and his ousting.
Pocono Raceway
Pocono Raceway, the Tricky Triangle, is a 2.5-mile triangular superspeedway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania, founded by the Mattiolis in 1968; its three differently banked turns and NASCAR Cup Series Great American Getaway 400 distinguish it from other ovals.
Points classification in the Tour de France
Points classification (classement par points) of the Tour de France, decided by the green jersey since 1953. Created for the Tour's 50th anniversary; points from stage finishes and intermediate sprints, flatter stages paying more; Peter Sagan holds a record seven titles.
Pole position
Pole position is grid slot 1 in motor racing, awarded to the fastest qualifier; the term comes from horse racing's inside-rail pole, and F1 has awarded it since 1950.
Polish Rally Championship
Polish Rally Championship (RSMP, Rajdowe Samochodowe Mistrzostwa Polski), Poland's top national rally series run by PZM; 71st season in 2026 with six asphalt rounds including Rally Poland, an FIA ERC round; 2025 champions Matulka and Syty.
Porsche 919 Hybrid
The Porsche 919 Hybrid is an LMP1 sports prototype Porsche raced in the FIA World Endurance Championship from 2014 to 2017, winning Le Mans in 2015, 2016, and 2017.
Porsche 956
Porsche 956: Group C sports-prototype racing car, 1982-1985, first Weissach monocoque with ground effect; 2,649 cc twin-turbo flat-six, 620 hp; won Le Mans 1982-1985, including a 1-2-3 debut, and took World Sportscar Championship titles 1982-1984.
Porsche 962
Porsche 962 (962C in Group C form): sports-prototype racing car, successor to the 956, built for IMSA GTP from 1984. Won 54 IMSA GTP races, Le Mans in 1986, 1987 and, as the Dauer 962 Le Mans GT, 1994.
Porsche Leipzig
Porsche Leipzig: Porsche AG plant and Porsche Experience Center in Leipzig, Germany, opened 2002, building Panamera and Macan, with a 3.7 km FIA-certified Hermann Tilke circuit recreating 11 famous corners, a 2.2 km dynamic track, and a 132-hectare off-road course.
Poul Sørensen
Poul Sørensen names several Danish public figures, including cyclist Poul Bergenhammer Sørensen (1906–1951), a 1928 Olympic road racer, a Conservative minister and party leader (1904–1969), a journalist-poet (1906–1973), and an Olympic handball goalkeeper.
Prerov
Prerov, formally CROSS Arena Přerov and locally called Přerovská rokle, is a 1,000 m clay autocross circuit near Přerov in the Czech Republic, hosting FIA European Championship rounds since 1998.
Primo Magnani
Primo Magnani (Primo Natale Mario Magnani, 1892–1969), Italian track cyclist from Pavia; won team pursuit gold at Antwerp 1920 with Giorgetti, Ferrario, and Carli, and finished eighth in the 50 km race.
Primož Roglič
Primož Roglič, Slovenian road cyclist (born 1989, Trbovlje), former ski jumper; first Slovenian Grand Tour winner with four Vueltas (2019, 2020, 2021, 2024) and 2023 Giro; Olympic TT champion; 2026 Vuelta runner-up.
Prodrive
Prodrive: British motorsport engineering company founded 1984 by David Richards, based in Banbury. Ran Subaru's WRC team (McRae 1995, Burns 2001, Solberg 2003), six WRC titles, Le Mans GT wins, Mini WRC, P25, Defender Dakar. Distinct from Dutch Prodrive Technologies.
Production World Rally Championship
Production World Rally Championship (PWRC), FIA Production car World Rally Championship: companion WRC series for Group N production-based rally cars, a drivers-only title running 1987 to 2012 before replacement by WRC-2 Pro.
Prudence Fowler
Prudence Fowler (born 2003, Auckland) is a New Zealand track cyclist, 2025 world championship bronze (scratch) and silver (team pursuit) medallist and Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games team pursuit silver medallist; not the British masters rider Walter Fowler.
Qatar (venue)
Lusail International Circuit, originally Losail International Circuit, is a permanent motorsport facility in Doha, Qatar. Opened in 2004, it is globally renowned for hosting Formula 1 and major motorcycle championships.
Qiddiya Speed Park Track
Qiddiya Speed Park Track, also known as Qiddiya Speed Park, is a motorsport circuit under construction near Riyadh, planned as the future home of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Qinhuangdao (venue)
Qinhuangdao Circuit, formally Shougang Motorsport Valley (首钢赛车谷), is an FIA Grade 2, 3.8 km, 17-turn anti-clockwise racing circuit in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China, built through a former steelworks and opened in 2018.
Quinn Simmons
Quinn Simmons, American road cyclist from Durango, Colorado, riding for Lidl-Trek; 2019 junior road race world champion, three-time US national champion, first WorldTour win at the 2025 Volta a Catalunya, nicknamed Captain America.
Race Across America
Race Across America (RAAM) is an annual non-stop, supported transcontinental bicycle race of about 3,000 miles from Oceanside, California, to the East Coast, first run in 1982, with solo riders and relay teams racing a running clock across 4 time zones.
Race of Champions
Race of Champions (ROC): annual international motorsport event since 1988, founded by Fredrik Johnsson and Michèle Mouton as a Henri Toivonen memorial; champion drivers from F1, WRC, NASCAR, IndyCar race head-to-head in identical cars on a parallel track for the Champion of Champions title and ROC Nations Cup.
Race of Champions (Brands Hatch)
The Race of Champions was a non-championship Formula One motor race at Brands Hatch in Kent, run from 1965 to 1983 and sponsored by the Daily Mail.
Racing Bulls
Racing Bulls (Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team), Red Bull's Faenza-based sister F1 team, formerly Minardi, Toro Rosso, AlphaTauri, and RB; two wins (Vettel 2008, Gasly 2020); 2026 drivers Lawson and Lindblad.
Racing colours
Racing colors, also known as national racing colors, are standardized liveries assigned country by country that identified a car's entrant in international motor racing until sponsorship liveries were allowed in 1968.
Racing flags
Racing flags, also known as auto racing flags, are the colored flags waved by trackside marshals in motorsport to signal race starts, finishes, hazards, and penalties.