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Ogier's factory-backed Volkswagen Polo has won four of the seven events run in 2013.

The Triumph team is the first factory-backed motorcycle land speed outfit in decades.

Mopar, the parts and accessories division serving Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, SRT, Ram and Fiat, introduced perhaps the largest factory-backed assortment of vehicles.

Porsche and Bentley made pronouncements here this week that indicated they were studying expanded factory-backed international racing efforts that could include returns to Le Mans next year.

Although AMG, the tuner division of Mercedes-Benz, technically predates BMW M, it did not offer a factory-backed Mercedes in the United States until 1993.

It helped that the rules in the Le Mans GT2 class emphasize production-based vehicles like the factory-backed Corvettes, which will do battle with entries from BMW, Ferrari, Jaguar, Porsche and other marques.

The main factory backed teams have been the Holden Dealer Team (1969 1987) and the Holden Racing Team (1990 present).

It was the second time in his career that Alain Prost had been fired by a factory backed team for his public criticism of the team and car, having been fired under similar circumstances by Renault at the end of the 1983 season.

"The F.L.A. does some good work, but we don't think it's appropriate for them to call themselves independent investigators because they're in part funded by companies," said Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, a university-backed factory monitoring group.

Long before the Bangladesh safety plan was developed, overseas workers had sued American retailers over illegally low wages, 12-hour shifts and the use of guard dogs and barbed wire fences, said Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, a university-backed factory monitoring group.

Brent Hoberman Brent recently became Chairman and Co-Founder of Founders Factory, a corporate backed incubator/accelerator based in London.