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	Alberto Ascari - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		Born in Milan, Italy, Ascari was the son of Antonio Ascari, a talented Grand Prix motor racing star in the 1920s, racing Alfa Romeos.
		Antonio was killed while leading the French Grand Prix in 1925 but the younger Ascari had an interest in racing in spite of it.
		He won three more consecutive races to start the 1953 season, giving him nine straight wins (not counting Indy) before his streak ended when he finished 4th in France, although it was a close 4th as the race was highly competitive.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Alberto_Ascari (677 words)

	F1 News - Grandprix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > Swiss GP, 1953
		The battle between the Ferrari and Maserati factory teams moved to Berne in late August.
		The signaled that the drivers should hold station but Ascari showed no interest in that idea and overtook both Hawthorn and Farina and so guaranteed himself a second World Championship.
		Swiss GP, Bremgarten, August 23, 1953, Round: 8, Race Number: 31
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/rr031.html (285 words)

	Alberto Ascari information - Search.com
		Born in Milan, Italy, Ascari had racing in his blood, as his father Antonio Ascari was a talented Grand Prix motor racing star in the 1920s, racing Alfa Romeos.
		Antonio was killed while leading the French Grand Prix in 1925 but the younger Ascari had an interest in racing in spite of it.
		He won his first Grand Prix race in San Remo, Italy in 1948 and won another race with the team the following year.
	www.search.com /reference/Alberto_Ascari (673 words)

	Grand Prix motor racing - Wikicars
		This was true of the Le Mans circuit of the 1906 Grand Prix, as well as the Targa Florio (run on 93 miles of Sicilian roads), the German Kaiserpreis circuit (75 miles in the Taunus mountains), and the French circuit at Dieppe (a mere 48 miles), used for the 1907 Grand Prix.
		The 1933 Monaco Grand Prix was the first time in the history of the sport that the grid was determined by timed qualifying rather than the luck of a draw.
		A European Championship, consisting of the major Grand Prix in a number of countries (named Grandes Epreuves) was instituted for drivers in 1935, and was competed every year until the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
	wikicars.org /en/Grand_Prix_motor_racing (1450 words)

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		This was true of the Le Mans circuit of the 1906 Grand Prix, as well as the Targa Florio (run on 93 miles of Sicilian roads), the German Kaiserpreis circuit (75 miles in the Taunus mountains), and the French circuit at Dieppe (a mere 48 miles), used for the 1907 Grand Prix.
		The 1933 Monaco Grand Prix was the first time in the history of the sport that the grid was determined by timed qualifying rather than the luck of a draw.
		A European Championship, consisting of the major Grand Prix in a number of countries (named Grandes Epreuves) was instituted for drivers in 1935, and was competed every year until the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
	www.f1gear.com /grand-prix.php (1651 words)

	CalendarHome.com - Hermann Lang - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He proved to be most capable on high-speed racetracks, capturing his first win in the 1937 Tripoli Grand Prix at the Mellaha Lake course in Libya which was then the fastest racetrack in the world.
		He clocked the fastest lap at the French Grand Prix and was leading the field but engine trouble knocked him out of the race.
		In 1953, Hermann Lang was given a chance to participate in Formula 1 racing driving for Maserati after one of their team drivers was injured.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Hermann_Lang (707 words)

	GRAND PRIX MOTOR RACING DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORY \| FORMULA ONE RECORDS AND RACING SPEED ACES \| THE BLUEBIRD ELECTRIC ...
		This was true of the Le Mans circuit of the 1906 Grand Prix, as well as the Targa Florio (run on 93 miles of Sicilian roads), the German Kaiserpreis circuit (75 miles long), and the French circuit at Dieppe (a mere 48 miles), used for the 1907 Grand Prix.
		From 1927 to 1934, the number of races considered to have Grand Prix status exploded, jumping from five events in 1927 to nine events in 1929 to eighteen in 1934 (the peak pre-World War II year).
		The Grand Prix of Argentina was noteworthy as Moss, driving a Cooper, used one less pitstop and had to conserve his tires in the later stages of the race, just crossing the line with the canvas showing.
	www.speedace.info /grand_prix_history.htm (14761 words)

	Top 100
		Wacker was the first American to finish on the podium in a post-war Grand Prix he was also President of the SCCA in 1951.
		Then in practice for the 1953 Swiss Grand Prix he flipped the car on his in-lap and he was transported to hospital with a fractured skull, broken ribs, and friction burns over much of his body.
		At the 1954 Italian Grand Prix at Monza Wacker shone.
	www.historicracing.com /top100.cfm?driverID=1335&today=on&fromrow=1 (566 words)

	Climb every mountain at the Retro Moto St Cergue - Telegraph
		Following the 1953 Swiss Grand Prix, during which an accident killed three spectators, road racing was banned in Switzerland.
		Swiss weather had been as bad as that in England but by the time we arrived in the picture-book pretty village of St Cergue, just up the road from Geneva, the sun had come out and the roads were drying dramatically.
		As much as I love Grand Prix racing, it's become quite sterile and doesn't have the same visceral feel as the Manx GP, the TT, or events like this hill climb and your Spanish race of last month.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2007/08/25/nosplit/mfbike25.xml (975 words)

	French grand prix facts aamp stats - French Grand Prix: Facts & Stats
		The first ever GP was staged at Le Mans in 1906 as an assertion of the country’s then-dominant position in the automotive world.
		To this day he is the only man to have achieved that feat.
		It was also Renault’s maiden F1 win, 73 years after it took the honours in that landmark ‘grand prix’ in 1906.
	www.thef1blog.com /thef1blog/thef1blog.php/2006/07/12/french_grand_prix_facts_aamp_stats (1164 words)

	The Games Club - The place to PLAY games in Central London
		The structure of the Regional Championship tournament is modified Swiss.
		The structure of the "Lazy Peon" Challenge tournament is modified Swiss.
		The structure of the Lorwyn 2HG Pre-release are modified Swiss.
	www.thegamesclub.org (301 words)

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		Grand Prix motor racing has its roots in organised automobile racing that began in France as far back as 1894.
		Grand Prix motor racing eventually evolved into formula racing, and Formula One can be seen as its direct descendant.
		The first and only race at the time to regularly carry the name Grand Prix was organized by the Automobile Club de France (ACF), of which the first took place in 1906.
	f1gear.com /grand-prix.php (1651 words)

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		The Swiss Grand Prix was the premier auto race of Switzerland; in its later years, it was a Formula One race.
		Grand Prix motor racing came to Switzerland in 1934, to the Bremgarten circuit located just outside the city of Bremgarten, Bern.
		The Swiss Grand Prix returned to the racing calendar in 1982 for one year, albeit at a track just across the border in Dijon, France.
	stron.frm.pl /wiki.php?title=Swiss_Grand_Prix (163 words)

	Corporate History 1951 - 1960 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At Swiss Re the mechanical computer is replaced by a programmable one.
		On 29 May 1953, Edmund P. Hillary, a New Zealander, accompanied by Sherpa Tensing, are the first to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, the 8848 metre high Mount Everest.
		At Swiss Re, the electronic era dawns with the installation of an IBM 650 data processing unit.
	www.swissre.com /INTERNET/pwswpspr.nsf/vwRobotCrawlLU/EBER-5VDFV7?OpenDocument&RobotCrawl=1 (734 words)

	Belgian Grand Prix Information
		To accommodate Grand Prix motor racing, the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps race course was built in 1921 but it was only used for motorcycle racing until 1924.
		The first Belgian Grand Prix was won by Antonio Ascari whose son Alberto would win the race in 1952 and 1953.
		There was no Belgian Grand Prix in 2003 because of the country's tobacco advertising laws but it returned to the schedule again in 2004.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Belgian_Grand_Prix (843 words)

	Formula One
		Formula One, or Grand Prix racing is the best known single-seater auto racing class, which involves an annual world championship.
		Whilst the home of the sport is undoubtedly Europe, races have also been held in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
		Historically, the series evolved from pre-war European Grand Prix racing[?] of the 1920s and 1930s.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/f1/F1.html (1232 words)

	Motorcycle Online: The Early Years of Grand Prix Racing (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Originally titled the "Coupe Internationale," it was named the "Grand Prix of Europe" when held at Patzau in Austro-Hungary on July 8, 1906.
		The Grand Prix had been born, motorcycle racing was organized, highly competitive and, then just as it is now, dangerous.
		The 1953 season marked the start of a new phenomenon in Grand Prix racing that was to reappear several times throughout its history -- the rider's strike.
	www.motorcycle.com /mo/mcracing/gphistory.html (3294 words)

	Mahmood’s Den » The History of Formula One
		The Grand Prix started with the driver’s cup and in 1958 a constructor’s cup was established as a reward for the team accumulating the most points each season.
		The 1983 season with its 15 Grand Prix witnessed a fierce competition between a number of the drivers mainly Nelson Piquet that continued to wage a war against the drivers especially French Alain Prost who drove for Renault and Ferrari’s driver Rene Arnoux.
		The first Grand Prix win for Stewart in 1973 was at the South African Grand Prix and then followed by the Belgian Grand Prix the same year.
	mahmood.tv /?page_id=2312 (10906 words)

	Grand Prix motor racing
		Grand Prix motor racing eventually evolved into formula racing, and Formula One can be seen as its direct decendant.
		The 1933 Monaco Grand Prix was the first time in the history of the sport that the grid was determined by timed qualifying rather than the luck of a draw.
		A European Championship, consisting of the major Grand Prix in a number of countries (named Grandes Epreuves) was instituted for drivers in 1935, and was competed every year until the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
	www.anime.co.za /wiki/Grand_Prix_motor_racing (1760 words)

	Hermann Lang Information
		He proved to be most capable on high-speed racetracks, capturing his first win in the 1937 Tripoli Grand Prix at the Mellaha Lake course in Libya which was then the fastest racetrack in the world.
		He clocked the fastest lap at the French Grand Prix and was leading the field but engine trouble knocked him out of the race.
		In 1953, Hermann Lang was given a chance to participate in Formula 1 racing driving for Maserati after one of their team drivers was injured.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Hermann_Lang (678 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In his second Macau Grand Prix, Jefferies powered his Yamaha 750cc at an average speed of 142.34kph to grab the lead on the second lap and eventually win the race in 30 minutes and 57.359 seconds.
		Jefferies, 25, said "it was a bit of a bonus" that his closest rival Swiss veteran Andreas Hofmann began to leak oil on the 12th lap, prompting racing officials to raise the red flag and call off the 15-lap race.
		On his fourth Macau Grand Prix, Hofmann couldn't explain why his engine malfunctioned but he clinched a second place finish with a 1.006-second gap behind Jefferies on the 12th lap.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/archives/2001/10/31/0000011572/wiki (793 words)

	- BenzWorld News
		In 1953, in the second year of his motor racing career, his unexpected class victory in the classic Italian long-distance race — the Mille Miglia — opened the door of the Porsche racing stable for him.
		When the company returned to Grand Prix racing with the new W 196 Formula One racing car in 1954, Neubauer recruited the 26-year-old Hans Herrmann into the famous Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows team alongside world champion Juan Manuel Fangio and Karl Kling.
		He was able to celebrate his first success with a third place in the Swiss Grand Prix, achieved fourth place in the Italian Grand Prix, and at the AVUS racetrack in Berlin he secured a triple victory for the team by finishing third behind Karl Kling and world champion Fangio.
	www.benzworld.org /news.html?id=204 (807 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Sport (A-M)
		Grand Criterium is an important horse race for two-year olds held in France.
		The Grand National Archery Society is the governing body for archery in the United Kingdom.
		The Grand Prix de Paris is a horse race founded in 1863 and is the French classic for three-year olds.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/O1.HTM (10998 words)

	Q-T
		The motor sport side to Renault; Their V10 engines had powered 75 Grand Prix winners between 1989 and the beginning of the 1998 Formula One season and accounted for six World Constructors' Championships (Williams in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1997, and Benetton in 1995).
		Site of the Pacific Grand Prix, a one-off event which was held on April 17 1994 and won by Michael Schumacher (Benetton at that time).
		From 1 January 2001, testing was prohibited on all circuits between the last Grand Prix and 31 December.
	jclemens.com /F1/qrst.htm (2223 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, December 18, 1991) was an English Grand Prix racer and Formula One driver who participated during the 1951 and 1952 seasons at two Swiss Grand Prix in Bremgarten with HWM car.
		He was more successful as a sports car driver with Aston Martin and won his class at 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1950, sharing with Lance Macklin.
		In 1956 Heath was killed in an accident in the Mille Miglia and Abecassis retired from racing, turning his attention to running the HWM operations.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=George_Abecassis (328 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Lausanne, (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Inside the Prix de Lausanne: where you don't have to win to be a winner.(even rewards who lost the competition)
		French-speaking universities advance Swiss ophthalmology: Jules Gonin, Marc Amsler are among well-known affiliates of Lausanne, Geneva medical schools.
		The world's steepest metro line is being extended: in 2008, Lausanne will become the first city in Switzerland to have an automatic rubber-tyred metro line.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Lausanne,&StartAt=11 (784 words)

	Grand Prix Hall of Fame - Alberto Ascari - Biography
		It was May 22, 1955, and the European and Monaco Grand Prix was reaching its most exciting moment.
		He had walked out on Ferrari at the end of 1953 and on 1 January 1954 had signed for the ambitious Lancia company, who had designed and built an innovative new Grand Prix car, the first in their history.
		Grand Prix History is produced by The Motorsports Publishing Group, LLC
	www.ddavid.com /formula1/ascari_bio.htm (1525 words)

	Grand Prix Bern
		The legendary "Grand Prix Bern”;, which was staged on the "Bremer” circuit from 1931 to 1939 and 1947 to 1954, was one of the top events in motor racing.
		After 1955 the Swiss government placed a ban on racing in the light of a tragic accident at Le Mans.
		The Bern Motorcycle Grand Prix was staged at Bremgarten before the Second World War between 1931 and 1937 and several times between 1947 and 1954 (World Championship in 1949) The Bern track was never altered and thus became reduced to a monotonous high-speed circuit.
	www.gpbernrevival.ch /e/history/g_hintergrund_e.html (405 words)

	rediff.com sports: I'm not Formula One's main man, says Schumacher
		But he is the clear favourite to win Sunday's Spanish Formula One Grand Prix -- a fourth victory in five races this season that would make the German, more than ever, Ferrari's number one.
		Ferrari say the latter but statisticians note that the team have included the 1996 French Grand Prix which he never actually raced in despite qualifying on pole.
		As a Swiss resident, he said he felt it was right to leave voting in Germany to the people who lived there.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2002/apr/26schu.htm (527 words)

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