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Team classification in the Tour de France

The team classification in the Tour de France ranks teams by the three best individual stage times of each team's riders every stage, with no leader's jersey.

Team Lotus

Team Lotus, Colin Chapman's Formula One constructor (1958–1994), won 7 Constructors' and 6 Drivers' titles with 79 GP wins; distinct from Lotus Cars, it pioneered the monocoque, ground effect and active suspension.

Team Penske

Team Penske, also known as Marlboro Team Penske, is an American auto racing organization founded by Roger Penske in 1966, with a record 20 Indianapolis 500 wins.

Team sprint

Team sprint: track cycling event, two three-rider teams over three laps, each rider leading one lap; Olympic since 2004 (men) and 2012 (women); Netherlands men unbeaten since 2023, China won 2026 women's title.

Team TotalEnergies

Team TotalEnergies (ex Bonjour, Europcar, Direct Energie) is a French UCI ProTeam founded in 2000 by Jean-René Bernaudeau in Vendée; 26 Tour starts, 11 stage wins, and its TotalEnergies sponsorship ends after 2026.

Teresa Earnhardt

Teresa Earnhardt (nee Teresa Houston), third wife and widow of NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt, co-founded and led Dale Earnhardt Inc., controlled his trademarks, merged DEI with Chip Ganassi in 2008, and feuded with stepchildren over the Earnhardt name.

Texas Motor Speedway

Texas Motor Speedway, "The Great American Speedway," is a 1.5-mile quad-oval in Fort Worth opened in 1997 by Bruton Smith's Speedway Motorsports, hosting NASCAR tripleheaders and IndyCar through 2023.

The Duel at Daytona

The Duel at Daytona (Daytona Duels) are two 60-lap, 150-mile NASCAR Cup qualifying races during Speedweeks that set Daytona 500 grid positions 3-40, award regular-season points, and give Open cars their route into the race.

The Heart of Racing

The Heart of Racing (THOR) is a US sports car team co-founded by Ian James, Yahn Bernier, and Gabe Newell, racing Aston Martins in IMSA and the WEC while funding pediatric cardiac care at Seattle Children's Hospital.

Théo Pourchaire

Théo Pourchaire (born 2003, Grasse) is a French racing driver, 2023 FIA Formula 2 champion with ART Grand Prix, youngest ever F2 and F3 race winner, later in Super Formula, IndyCar, Peugeot WEC, and Opel Formula E.

Théophile Naël

Théophile Naël, French racing driver born 2007 in Saint-Étienne; 2023 Spanish F4 champion, 2025 Macau Grand Prix winner with KCMG, and FIA Formula 3 driver with Van Amersfoort (2025) and Campos Racing (2026, 3 wins).

Thermal Club

The Thermal Club is a private motorsports country club near Palm Springs, California, with a 17-turn, 3.067-mile road course. It hosted IndyCar's 2024 $1 Million Challenge exhibition, a 2025 points race, and was dropped for 2026.

Thomas Bearman

Thomas Bearman (born 2009, Chelmsford) is a British F4 racing driver, younger brother of F1 driver Oliver Bearman; 2025 British F4 eighth with Hitech, 2026 Formula Winter Series vice-champion with Van Amersfoort Racing.

Thomas Lance

Thomas Glasson Lance (1891–1976), British track cyclist with Polytechnic C.C.; won tandem sprint gold with Harry Ryan at Antwerp 1920, also rode the sprint, later a Brighton bookmaker.

Thomas Thornycroft

Thomas Thornycroft (Isaac Thomas Thornycroft, 1881–1955), British motorboat racer and yacht designer, won both 1908 Olympic motorboating golds in Gyrinus II, helped create the Swallow keelboat class, and was a 1952 yachting reserve.

Thruxton (venue)

Thruxton Circuit is a motor racing circuit near Andover in Hampshire, England, built on a former airfield and known as the fastest race circuit in the UK, hosting British Touring Car and Superbike rounds.

Tianma Shaoxing

Tianma Shaoxing, the FIA listing name for Zhejiang International Circuit (浙江国际赛车场), a 3.2 km, 16-turn FIA Grade 2 track in Keqiao, Shaoxing, China, opened 2016, built by Zhejiang Tianma Group; distinct from Shanghai Tianma and BYD Shaoxing circuits.

Tiff Needell

Tiff Needell (Timothy Richard Needell) is a British racing driver, motoring journalist, and television presenter known for Top Gear and Fifth Gear, who finished third at the 1990 Le Mans.

Tiffany Cromwell

Tiffany Cromwell, Australian cyclist born 1988, pro road racer from 2010, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2013 winner, two Giro d'Italia stage wins, Tokyo 2020 Olympian, Canyon-SRAM road captain turned gravel rider, retired 2026 after Nannup Gravel Worlds eighth place.

Tim Richmond

Tim Richmond, American race car driver from Ashland, Ohio; Indy 500 and NASCAR Rookie of the Year; 13 Cup wins, seven in 1986 with Hendrick; died 1989 at 34 from AIDS complications.

Toby Price

Toby Price (Toby Joseph Price, OAM), Australian rally raid racer; two-time Dakar Rally bikes champion (2016, 2019), first Australian and first non-European bikes winner; later switched to cars with Toyota.

Todd Gilliland

Todd Gilliland is an American stock car racing driver who competes full time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 34 Ford for Front Row Motorsports.

Tom Dumoulin

Tom Dumoulin, Dutch road cyclist (born 1990), 2017 Giro d'Italia winner and world time trial champion, Olympic time trial silver 2016 and 2021, runner-up Giro and Tour 2018, retired August 2022.

Tom Pidcock

Tom Pidcock (born 1999, Leeds) is an English cyclist for Pinarello-Q36.5, two-time Olympic XCO champion (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024), cyclo-cross and MTB world champion, and 2022 Alpe d'Huez Tour stage winner.

Tom Pryce

Tom Pryce (Thomas Maldwyn Pryce, 1949-1977), Welsh Formula One driver for Token and Shadow, 1975 Race of Champions winner and British GP pole sitter, killed at the 1977 South African Grand Prix after striking marshal Frederik Jansen van Vuuren.

Tom Simpson

Tom Simpson (1937–1967) was a British road cyclist, the first British world road champion (1965) and first Briton to wear the Tour de France's yellow jersey (1962).

Tommy Ivo

Tommy Ivo, "TV" Tommy Ivo, born 1936 in Denver, is an American drag racer and former child actor, builder of the four-engine Showboat dragster and claimant to the first five-second Top Fuel pass (5.97, 1972).

Toni Merkens

Toni Merkens (Nikolaus Anton Merkens, 1912-1944), German track sprinter, 1935 amateur world champion and 1936 Berlin Olympic sprint gold medalist over Arie van Vliet; fined, not disqualified, after a final-race foul; died of Eastern Front wounds.

Tony Doyle (cyclist)

Tony Doyle (Anthony Paul Doyle, 1958-2023), British track cyclist; twice individual pursuit world champion (1980, 1986), four European titles, and Britain's most successful six-day rider with 23 wins; later British Cycling president and Tour of Britain director.

Tony Kanaan

Tony Kanaan (born 1974, Salvador, Brazil) is a Brazilian racing driver, 2013 Indianapolis 500 winner and 2004 IndyCar champion, now Team Principal of Arrow McLaren; also 2015 Rolex 24 winner.