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  Macau Grand Prix Official Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Macau Grand Prix was, for the first time, entered on the international racing calendar as a "national race with foreign participation," and was subject for the first time to the regulations published by the FIA for sports and grand touring cars.
In the Motor Cycle Grand Prix, a new star was on the horizon in the form of "Rocket" Ron Haslam, who took victory in the 30 lap race in 1:22:57.75, followed by Sadeo Asami in second and Dutchman Boet Van Dulmen in third.
The shortened, 20-lap F3 Grand Prix, was won by Martin Donnelly, with Jan Lammers in second and Germany's Bernd Schneider in third.
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 Monaco Grand Prix Monte Carlo F1 Hotels & Monaco GP tickets - Grand Prix Tours
The Monaco Grand Prix is a Formula One race held annually in the Principality of Monaco.
The Monaco Grand Prix counted toward the European Championship from 1936 to 1939 (although the race was cancelled in 1938).
Opened in 1954 by H.S.H Prince Rainier III and built on the south face of the Rock of Monaco overlooking the Port of Fontvieille, some 250 animals from fifty different species (exotic birds, fl panther, white tiger, hippopotamus, lemurs…) are housed there in exemplary conditions.
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 History Lesson
Belgian Shepherds were also used as guard dogs and draught dogs (often teamed with the larger Matins and Bouviers), and were the first dogs to be used by Belgian police forces.
Belgian Sheepdog Club of America newsletters from May 1953 (the club’s first newsletter) to July 1958 (when the varieties were separated into breeds) reveal that little was known about the history and genetics of the varieties or the role of past intervariety breedings, and nothing was printed about their common ancestry.
Although the AKC separated the Belgians into three breeds 33 years ago, the ancestry of American imports continues to reinforce interdependency, as is evident in the occasional puppies that more closely resemble one of the other Belgian Shepherd Dog breeds that the breed of their parents.
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 Belgian Grand Prix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
In 1925, the first Belgian Grand Prix was won by Antonio Ascari whose son Alberto would win the race in 1952 and 1953.
In 2006, the FIA announced the Belgian Grand Prix would not be part of the 2006 Formula One season, since the local authorities have started major repair work in Spa Francorchamps.
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 Grand Prix Racing - the whole story
Grand Prix success for the operation did not come quickly, although they took some consolation when Tazio Nuvolari's victory in the Mille Miglia was the first in which the event had been completed at an average speed in excess of 100kph.
Thus Grand Prix racing began again in 1947 with the staging of the Swiss race at Bremgarten in June of that year.
The ACF opted for a sports car Grand Prix and the event was won by Charles Pozzi in a 12 cylinder Delahaye.
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 1954 Belgian Grand Prix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Results from the 1954 Formula One Belgian Grand Prix held at Spa-Francorchamps on June 20, 1954
This is the last race that Farina would start in 1954 (he would miss the rest of the season due to injury).
Thus ending his record string of 30 straight Grand Prix starts.
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Grand Prix This is a full grand prix weekend, from practice to qualifying to warm-up to the race itself.
Grand Prix Challenge This gameplay mode presents ten challenges; each challenge must be successfully completed (by having the most points at the end of the challenge) in order to unlock the next challenge.
World Feed: Because F1 races are televised (generally live) worldwide, FIA has implemented the World Feed system, in which the images of grand prix weekends are provided by the FIA- licensed F1 broadcaster for the country hosting each grand prix; all other F1 broadcasters must then use these images and sounds for their F1 coverage.
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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.
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.
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 McLaren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
History of Spanish Grand Prix is marked with changes in the race location.
The first two races (1951 and 1954) were held at Pedralbes, then it was staged at Jarama and Montjuich Park (1968 - 1981).
Swiss Grand Prix was held in the first five years (1950-1954) of the modern Formula One era.
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 pitpass - the latest, hottest F1 & A1GP news
The Belgian Grand Prix held on 18th June 1950 was the fifth race in Formula One history.
Kimi's fastest race lap at Spa in 2004 — 1:45.108 - was the longest of all Grands Prix (followed by the Malaysia lap with a 1:34.223).
Only two out of the last ten Grand Prix weekends at Spa have not been affected by the changeable weather, the last one was six years ago.
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 Grand Prix Challenge Circuit Histories FAQ - IGN FAQs
The 1939 German Grand Prix was the final race at Nurburgring for quite some time due to the beginning of World War II.
In more recent years, the opening lap of the 2000 Grand Prix of Italy was seriously marred by the death of a trackside race marshal due to all the flying debris at the Roggia Chicane (the second chicane of the circuit).
The initial 4.192-kilometer (2.620-mile) US Grand Prix was won by Michael Schumacher in 2000, followed by Mika Hakkinen (in his final race win before sabbatical/retirement) in 2001.
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 L-P
The original, 14-mile long Nürburgring was commissioned in the 1930s in order to combat local unemployment and from 1951-76 was home to the German Grand Prix, apart from 1959 (Berlin) and 1970 (Hockenheim).
These are strategic positions placed around a Grand Prix circuit where F.I.A. observers watch for driving infringements, the actions of corner and safety crews and the recovery of stranded vehicles.
Formula One Grand Prix's grid size is limited to 24 cars for 1999 (previously 26 cars).
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 A Lap of Monza
The Pescara Grand Prix was held in 1957, the only Grand Prix to be named after a town rather than a country, continent or region.
There were 32 starters in 1961, the second highest for a Grand Prix and, not surprisingly, the second most retirements ever too at 20.
Among those is one of three Italian women Grand Prix drivers; the other two are the only women ever to have raced in a Grand Prix, and Lella Lombardi was the only women to get into the points.
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 BMW World - Motorcycle Sidecar Champions
Starting in 1954, BMW won the World Sidecar Championship for no less than 20 years, one of the most remarkable records in motor sports.
In the Italian Grand Prix, Wilhelm Noll with Fritz Cron in the sidecar were the first to see the checkered flag from their fully faired BMW sidecar combination.
In the Swiss Grand Prix, the fifth round of the season, Noll / Cron were the first to cross the finishing line again.
www.bmwworld.com /racing/history/motorcycles_sidecar.htm   (771 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1954 Results > Belgian GP
Five months after the first Grand Prix of the year the teams gathered again in Belgium.
There was no sign of the Lancia team and although Mercedes-Benz was working on a new car it was not ready and so Juan-Manuel Fangio continued to race for the Maserati team.
Belgian GP, Spa-Francorchamps, June 20, 1954, Round: 3, Race Number: 35
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 Louis Chiron - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
He learned to drive at a young age and joined the Grand Prix circuit after World War I where he had been requisitioned from the artillery section to serve as a chauffeur.
Competing in France, in 1926 he won his first local race, taking the Grand Prix de Comminges at Saint-Gaudens near the city of Toulouse.
After a remarkable 35 years in racing, on his retirement Chiron still remained active as an executive with the organization running the Monaco Grand Prix who honored him with a statue erected along the Grand Prix racecourse and named one of the track's curves for him.
www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Louis_Chiron   (568 words)

  
 Motorcycle Online: The Early Years of Grand Prix Racing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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.
They were hard-fought battles and while these machines may seem dated and slow when compared to today's fire-breathing two-strokes, the riders rode them to the absolute limits both of in terms of their own courage and the machine's mechanical limitations.
www.motorcycle.com /mo/mcracing/gphistory.html   (3294 words)

  
 The Ultimate Formula One Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
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.
It is based around a series of races (19 in 2005), known as grands prix, on custom-constructed road courses or closed-off street circuits.
The grands prix, some of which have a history that predates the Formula One World Championship, are not always held on the same circuit every year.
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 Untitled Document
The Grand Prix formula, now extended to the end of 1960, now stipulates the use of AvGas in the place of alcohol fuels and reduces the length of Championship events from 500 km or three hours to 300 km or two hours.
Following the Italian Grand Prix, a new safety measure is introduced to F1: medical cars follow Formula One cars on the formation lap of every Grand Prix, in order to improve reaction time in case of a first lap accident.
Canadian Gilles Villeneuve is killed during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder, after he lost control of his Ferrari due to contact with the March of Jochen Mass.
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 THE MODEL CAR TRACK OF THE BELGIAN MODEL CAR CENTRE IN AALST
A handicap of such approach is that such tracks are never very realistic: the grand stands are disproportional small, public is restricted to a couple of dozens of figures, and the stands are hardly a copy from what is found at full scale racing circuits.
On building the model car track of the Belgian Racing Centre, I refused to follow the general trend of the typical race circuit.
Belgian steam locomotive Type 93 (former Prussian T9³) in 1954 in Antwerp port.
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 Mahmood’s Den » The History of Formula One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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.
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 Alberto Ascari - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Member
He was only seven years old when his father was killed in the French Grand Prix at the height of his racing career.
He finished ninth later that year in the last Tripoli Grand Prix and raced in another event before World War II forced him to curtail his activities until 1947.
He quickly followed that with a victory in the Naples Grand Prix and then, in Monaco, he was about to take the lead on the 81st lap when his wheels locked and he was thrown into the harbor.
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The Austrian Grand Prix: Zeltweg, August 12, 1979
The Belgian Grand Prix: Spa-Francorchamps, June 20, 1954
The Donnington Grand Prix: Donnington October 2, 1937
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 Istria on the Internet - Prominent Istrians - Mario Andretti
In 1954, they witnessed the famous "Mille Miglia", a thousand-mile course from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia, and it was the driving skill of the great Alberto Ascari who then inspired the 14-year old spectators' interest in car racing.
He won the Japanese Grand Prix, then in 1977 still with the Lotus, won the Western (at Long Beach) United States, Spanish, French and Italian (at Monza) Grand Prix.
In 1982 he returned to Ferrari and took part in the two last Grand Prix races of his career, in Italy, where he obtained his eighteenth pole position and came in third.
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 6th Gear - Downshift - Spa
The GT40 was driven to victory in the 1968 Spa 1000kms by Belgian sports-car and F1 legend Jacky Ickx.
This Surtees was driven by Brazilian Carlos Pace in the 1974 Belgian Grand Prix, the last to be held at Spa until 1983.
The Belgian GP wasn't quite so rewarding for Button however, after qualifying a disappointing 12th he was involved in an accident on lap 29 and retired.
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 Virtual garage - 1999 Goodwood Festival of Speed
Paul Frére, brilliant Belgian motoring writer and rapid driver began his racing career in the 1948 Spa 24 hours.
He won the Grand Prix des Frontières for HWM in 1952, drove F1 Ferrraris to Fourth and second in the 1955 - 1956 Belgian Grand Prix, and raced his first Le Mans in 1954 for Aston Martin.
Ickx is the son of a Belgian motoring journalist and historian Jacques Ickx.
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 Grand Prix / Formula 1 Racing Books - Vol. 6
He then embarks on a whistle stop tour of Grand Prix racing history, concentrating on later years as a build up to 1955, and indeed finishes the chapter with a short report on the first round of the World Championship, the Argentine Grand Prix of 16th January.
Because of the Le Mans disaster, four Grands Prix were cancelled, and only six races counted towards the World Championship.
He wrote mainly fiction, notably "Grand Prix Murder" (Collins 1955).
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 Ferrari Legends: Mike Hawthorn || Ferrari 1 - Unofficial Ferrari F1 News and Views
This meant Hawthorn's debut in the 1952 Belgian Grand Prix driving a Cooper-Bristol, where he finished fourth.
Mike would also come third in the British Grand Prix to finish fourth in the World Championship.
Hawthorn would take his first career victory at the French Grand Prix, and would stand on the podium twice more.
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 Moto Guzzi V8
In it's day the V8 was able to achieve remarkable speeds for the technology of its time, reaching 187 mph at the MIRA test track in France.
Whist still under development it was clocked at an incredible 178mph at the Belgian GP in 1957.
The V8 was first ridden at the 1954 Belgian Grand Prix by Aussie rider Kev Kavanagh but it soon suffered a crankshaft failure.
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