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  Formula One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Formula One, abbreviated to F1, and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of auto racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motor sport's world governing body.
Formula 1 is generally one of the biggest global TV draws behind the Football World Cup and the Olympics.
Formula 1 can be seen around the world on RTL, the longest serving F1 broadcaster, ITV in the United Kingdom, SPEED Channel (as well as a few races being broadcast on CBS with the GP's in San Marino, Germany (European Grand Prix), Spain, and Monaco) in America and many other stations relaying the action live.
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 Formula One
Formula One, or Grand Prix racing is the best known single-seater auto racing class, which involves an annual world championship.
In 1950, a world championship Formula One was established for drivers.
The sport is lesser-known in the United States than either their mostly-domestic open-wheeler racing series (at the moment there are two major ones, IRL and CART) or NASCAR, but in terms of budgets and global TV audiences F1 is bigger than all three.
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 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Formula One
Formula One, abbreviated to F1 and also known as Grand Prix racing, is a form of formula racing and the highest class of single-seat open-wheel auto racing.
Formula One teams must build the chassis in which they compete, and consequently the terms "team" and "constructor" are interchangeable; this requirement distinguishes the sport from "spec series" such as IRL and NASCAR.
Throughout the 2004 season, Formula One Management president Bernie Ecclestone repeatedly voiced his disapproval of the Silverstone Circuit, and suggested that unless its owners, the British Racing Drivers Club, modernise the facilities, the British Grand Prix would not appear on the 2005 schedule.
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 1953 Formula One season - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1953 Formula One season was the 4th FIA Formula One World Championship season.
It commenced on January 18, 1953, and ended on September 13 after ninth races.
In 1953, all World Championship events were run under Formula 2 regulations.
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 Grand Prix Cars - Ferrari 500
The action was in Formula 2 and trough the insistence of the track promoters the governing body decided to sanction Grands Prix that were open only to F2 cars as championship scoring events.
The 1952 season was inaugurated at Syracuse in Sicily.
With the new rules for the 1954 season Formula 1 was once again the premier series the Tipo 500 was upgraded to 2.5 litres capacity and redesignated the Tipo 625.
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 Formula One
Formula One, abbreviated to F1 and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of single-seater (open-wheel) auto racing; it is a worldwide sport, and involves an annual World Drivers Championship and World Constructors Championship.
Non-championship Formula One races were held for many years around the world, but due to rising costs and sinking interest, the last of these ended in the early 1980s.
Formula One has been called the soap opera of the sports world: the exotic locations, vast quantities of money, and famous faces involved in the "F1 circus" lend the sport an aura of glamour entirely absent from most other world sports.
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 2008 Formula One season - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2008 Formula One season will be the 59th FIA Formula One World Championship season.
As it stands, there are a total of seven teams signed up to compete in the championship through an agreement with Formula One Management, with the other four major manufacturers in the Grand Prix Manufacturers’ Association (GPMA) having signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the 2006 Spanish GP.
On April 28, 2006 the FIA announced that all of the current teams' applications for the 2008 season were granted, along with a new team Prodrive, fronted by the ex-BAR principal David Richards.
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 Guardian Unlimited Sport | Formula one | Ferrari offer test to top rider Rossi
Formula one: Ferrari a far cry from the chaos of old
But Rossi has been approached by several formula one teams in the past and has always declared rally driving to be a more likely first step on four wheels.
He had begun a feud at the start of the season by describing Button as "weak" and likening him to a member of a boy band.
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 Formula One - WebArticles.com
Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is a type of Grand Prix motor racing.
Non-championship Formula One races were held for many years, but due to the rising cost of competition, the last of these occurred in the early 1980s.
The sport's title, Formula One, indicates that it is intended to be the most advanced and most competetive of the many racing formulae.
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 FORMULA ONE RACING AND THE FIA FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL DE LA AUTOMOBILE
Headquartered in Paris, France, at the end of the 1949 season it announced that for 1950 they would be linking several national Grands Prix to create Formula One with a World Championship for drivers, although due to economic difficulties the years 1952 and 1953 were actually competed in Formula Two cars.
Formula One teams must build the chassis in which they compete, and consequently the terms "team" and "constructor" are more or less interchangeable; this requirement distinguishes the sport from "spec series" such as IRL, CART, Formula 3000 and NASCAR.
Entering a (new) team in the Formula One World Championship requires a £25 million up-front payment to the FIA, which is then repaid to the team over the season.
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 Formula One Racing: Streak ends at 5 for Schumacher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
After starting the season with five consecutive victories, Schumacher's commanding run ended yesterday with a crash at the Monaco Grand Prix that left rival Juan Pablo Montoya complaining yet again about the German's driving.
Jarno Trulli was the winner, recording his first Formula One victory on a day when Schumacher finished his race with a wheel dangling from his damaged red Ferrari.
Button, Ferrari's strongest challenger this season in his BAR-Honda, is third with 32 points, followed Trulli with 31.
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 ESPN.com - Auto Racing - Ferrari's Formula One champions
Scheckter had to finish in front of Villenueve to take the title and he led from the start, followed closely by his teammate who obeyed orders against overtaking when Ferrari were leading 1-2.
Hill excused himself from the victory celebrations and Ferrari withdrew from the final race of the season at Watkins Glen.
Alberto won nine consecutive races between June 1952 and the end of 1953 and then went from champion to last in 1954 when he moved to Lancia and finished 24th overall.
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 Drivers / Teams - Most exciting Formula One season...
In 1969, again the British GP and the Italian GP were just points of interest in a season that saw Stewart win 6 of the first 8 races, and in that 8th round of a 11 race championship the Scottish driver was WC already with a little more than 70% of the championship run...
Once more, of course this season had some points of interest as you mentioned, but I think in terms of tittle fights those were not interesting or exciting seasons at all.
In 1953 Maserati had the best engine, while Ferrari had the best chassis and on the faster tracks they were very even, but Ferrari tended to come out on top on the slower circuits.
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 Ferrari Champions (Formula One)
Between the second part of the 1952 season and the first part of the 1953 season Alberto Ascari won 9 consecutive Grand Prix.
He retired after the 1958 season and was killed in an automobile accident near Surrey England in early 1959.
Jody Scheckter retired in 1980 and went on to become a very successful business man. Both of his sons are race car drivers (not in Formula One).
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 rediff.com sports: Formula One statistics
Michael Schumacher, with his win in Australia this month following victory in Japan at the end of last season, is now looking for his third win in a row.
Australian Mark Webber became the 51st driver in Formula One history to score on his grand prix debut with his fifth place in Melbourne.
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 List of Formula One Champions - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
The Formula One World Championship is awarded by the FIA to the most successful driver (World Drivers' Championship or WDC) and constructor (World Constructors' Championship or WCC), as determined by a pointscoring system based on results over the season.
The WDC has been awarded every season since 1950, and the WCC has been awarded every season since 1958.
Before 1991 a driver could not count all of his results towards the championship - in the first season 4 races out of 7 were counted, and in the era of 16-race seasons, only 11 resutls from 16 counted.
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 Super Prostate Formula - Information
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 Ferrari - The most successful Formula One team ever!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Schumacher helped the team finish a credible third behind an all-conquering Williams team in his first year with the team after their long hiatus (he won the Grand Prix of Spain, Belgium and Italy).
The 1997 season came down to the result of the final race in Jerez, between Schumacher's Ferrari and the Williams-Renault of Jacques Villeneuve.
Schumacher attempted to take out Villeneuve, crashed and was subsequently stripped of his championship points, after leading for most of the season.
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 A History of Ferrari in Formula One
All the great champions are here plus many other cars that, while not world-beaters, represent technological innovations or other important aspects of the history of Ferrari and F1 ­ twin stories closely intertwined, since Ferrari is the only team to have contested each season since the inception of the world championship.
For 1952,the race organizers and sporting authorities realized that there would not actually be much competition in the F1 category so it was decided to run the championship for Formula 2 cars until the advent of a new set of regulations in 1954.
The 4cyl 500 model (500cc x 4cyl = 2 liter engine capacity) swept the boards for the 1952 and 1953 seasons, winning all but the last race of the 1953 season and making Alberto Ascari a two-time Ferrari world champion.
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 Formula One Team - Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro
This put him out for all of the rest of the season, except for the last two races, where he made an incredible comeback.
Ferrari focused on giving Schumacher the car he needed for 2000, and the season started well, with the German winning three races in succession.
After several retirements mid-season, Hakkinen had amazingly managed to restle the lead away from Schumacher, but four straight wins at the end of the season secured both titles for the Italian team, much to the delight of fans around the world.
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 Nigel Mansell - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Member
Despite his uncanny ability to get every ounce of speed out of whatever he happened to be driving, his career was a mixture of struggles and success.
Mansell won 32 Of 42 Formula Ford races in 1977, but broke his neck in a Formula Ford accident, then checked himself out of the hospital when he was told his career was likely over.
His performance drew the attention of Lotus head Colin Chapman, who gave Mansell his first Formula One ride, even though Mansell broke his back in an accident late in the season.
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 Formula One Brain Teasers 2 quiz -- free game
F1 Challenge : Formula One Brain Teasers 2
In Ayrton Senna's 1988 title winning season, for how many of the sixteen races did he fail to qualify on the front row of the grid?
Which team did 1996 world champion Damon Hill struggle with in his debut season in Formula One?
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 SI.com - Motor Sports - Formula One: Ferrari Fact Box - Saturday March 01, 2003 05:31 PM
Record-breaking season with 15 wins in 17 races and Schumacher taking 11 victories.
The new F2003-GA, due to be introduced once the championship returns to Europe at the San Marino Grand Prix in April, shattered the Fiorano track record on its debut.
"I am confident this will be the best Ferrari Formula One car ever," said designer Rory Byrne, whose last offering — the F2002 -- was in a class of its own last season.
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 Interest Rate Formula - Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 Formula One 1953
Formula 1 Season History Statistics CustomStat Compare Link
1953 Season Circuits Standings Driver List Driver Rezults Statistics Next Year: 1954 Previous: 1952
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 Ferrari - The most successful Formula One team ever!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Argentinian Jose Gonzales (Pampas Bull) won Ferrari's first F1 Grand Prix victory at Silverstone in 1951
Phil Hill, driving the famous 'Shark Nose' Ferrari 156, scored the title of World Champion 1961.
Team mate Wolfgang von Tripps died during the season.
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