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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.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fo/Formula_One.html (1232 words)

	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.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/F1 (3772 words)

	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.
	www.ddavid.com /formula1/fer500.htm (512 words)

	Formula One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_F1 (6877 words)

	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.
	www.askfactmaster.com /F1 (3167 words)

	virtualitalia.com - sports - italians and formula 1
		Prost and Senna exchanged victories throughout the season, and staged an epic battle for the title -- and it was Senna who prevailed.
		Nigel was born in Upton on Severn near Malvern in Worcestershire, on 8 August 1954.
		Benetton's young guns of Fisichella and Wurz made a valiant effort all season but their glory days are still somewhere in the future.
	www.virtualitalia.com /sports/formula1p3.shtml (1293 words)

	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.
	espn.go.com /auto/formulaone/news/1999/1026/135310.html (551 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Motorsport \| Formula One \| Schumacher emulates Fangio
		And after a French GP that never was for his Ferrari team-mate, Rubens Barrichello, who failed to start, Schumacher has completed a record run of 16 races in the points.
		Fangio was 46 when he called time on Formula One.
		The sporting code in the 1950s was far removed from the cut throat business that passes as Formula One in the 21st century.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/2143277.stm (692 words)

	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.
		At the Nurburgring Karl Kling overtook his team-leader and ran away (afterwards he said thwe reason was that since his car had a leaking fuel tank he knew he was going to do a pit-stop, so he had to race at 100 percent all the way).
	www.f1db.com /forums/showthread.php?p=182497 (1545 words)

	ESPN.com - AUTO - Hakkinen ready to make it three straight
		Since the modern Formula One world championship began in 1950, five drivers have won the title three times: Jack Brabham, Niki Lauda, Ayrton Senna, Nelson Piquet and Jackie Stewart.
		Hakkinen has said last year's championship duel with Irvine, which went down to the final race, was extremely stressful and that he needed a vacation to prepare for this year's 17-race season.
		This year's 17-race F1 schedule is relentless with a Grand Prix every two weeks between the season opener March 12 in Australia and the season finale Oct.
	espn.go.com /auto/formulaone/news/2000/0302/393730.html (855 words)

	pitpass - the latest, hottest F1 & A1GP news
		Team McLaren Mercedes heads to the Ardennes region of Belgium this weekend for race 16 of the Formula One World Championship and the final European event of the 2005 season, the Belgian Grand Prix, held at the legendary Spa Francorchamps circuit.
		Four races from the end of the season, Kimi Raikkonen is second overall with 76 points, 27 behind championship leader Fernando Alonso.
		The Belgian Grand Prix is a highlight of the Formula One season.
	www.pitpass.com /fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=25763 (1137 words)

	The Nigel Mansell Pages
		Nigel Mansell was originally brought into Formula One by the legendary Colin Chapman of Team Lotus and had a career marked by close misses, tragic accidents and equipment failure, and to date the most dominant single season ever by an F1 World Champion.
		Mansell's early years with Lotus and Williams were a learning period in which this hot-tempered Brit mastered the craft of F1 racing the traditional way -- with mistakes -- as in his slide into the Armco at a rain-filled 1984 Monaco while leading in the JPS Lotus.
		His 1991 chase of eventual World Champion Ayrton Senna, ended by a spin into the gravel at Suzuka, was marred by the loss of a wheel during an ill-fated pit stop at Estoril and the extraordinary electrical failure of his Renault "fl box" (once again while leading) in the final corner of the Canadian GP.
	www.geocities.com /jc_dowling/mansell/mansell.html (568 words)

	List of Formula One Champions - WOI Encyclopedia Italia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/List_of_Formula_One_Champions (478 words)

	Formula One History - The Early Years
		otor racing after World War II initiated a new formula — originally called Formula A but soon to be known as Formula 1 — for cars of 1,500 cc supercharged and 4,500 cc unsupercharged.
		Farina, who topped Juan Manuel Fangio by three points in the 1950 season, is best remembered for his style of driving; the relaxed, inclined position and outstretched arms that was to influence a whole generation of drivers.
		Leaving for Ferrari in 1951, for the next two seasons Farina fought a personal battle with Alberto Ascari, a battle he was bound to lose, for Ascari was by far the better driver; more controlled, faster and more precise.
	www.f1-grandprix.com /history2.html (653 words)

	A History of Ferrari in Formula One
		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.
		In 1954, new F1 specifications brought Mercedes and Lancia to the championship arena.
		Lancia dithered away all of the 1954 season with testing.
	www.breithaupts.com /totc538.htm (722 words)

	SLAM! Sports Motorsports - News - Williams concedes to Ferrari
		Just five races into the 18-round Formula One season, Williams is conceding that there is no way to beat the formidable Ferrari team in both the driver's and constructor's championships.
		The Toronto Motorsports Park started out in 1954 when L. Bruce Mehlenbacher purchased the 375-acre package of land close to the banks of the Grand River in the hamlet of Kohler.
		An old landing strip built by the Royal Canadian Air Force was turned into one of the pioneer facilities of drag racing in North America and is the oldest, continuously operated drag strip in Canada.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Motorsports/News/2004/05/11/455191.html (970 words)

	IGN Boards - ~Britain (06/11/2006)~
		The seven-time Formula One World Champion has been the topic of much debate ever since he was found guilty of deliberately stalling in order to hold onto pole position in Monte Carlo last Saturday.
		His Honda team started the season promising to fight for a maiden victory with what team boss Nick Fry claimed was the best driver line-up in Formula One.
		After 1964 Formula One racing left the circuit, Aintree continued to be used for lesser events and club racing, eventually falling into disrepair.
	boards.ign.com /formula_one_racing/b5763/119067994/p1 (8779 words)

	United States Grand Prix
		In 1954, Luigi Chinetti wanted to run a further modified V12 Ferrari built up to look like an early version of the Ferrari 553/555 “Squalo” of the period as a non-factory effort for Luigi Villoresi, who drove a Maserati 250F and the Lancia Grand Prix car during the 1954 Formula One season.
		In the course of the 1964 Formula One season, Ferrari’s lead driver, John Surtees, in his Ferrari 158 V8, was in a nip-and-tuck struggle for the World Championship with Graham Hill’s BRM P261 V8.
		Midway through the season, Enzo Ferrari became embroiled in a technical dispute with the sporting authorities over homologation of his Ferrari sports car and surrendered the competition license for the official Ferrari factory team for the last two Formula One races of the season, in Watkins Glen, N.Y. and Mexico City.
	www.usgpindy.com /news/story.php?story_id=578 (3308 words)

	Juan Manuel Fangio Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In 1954 he participated in his second world championship race.
		He began the season driving a Maserati 250 F, and ended it piloting a Mercedes Benz W 196, christened The Silver Arrow.
		At the time Fangio became the the world´s champion for the second time, in 1955, the Mercedes Benz team withdrew from competition after one of his cars caused a true massacre at Le Mans.
	home.ptd.net /~edjones/alfa6.html (392 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Motorsport \| Formula One \| All-time great bows out
		Ferrari's decision to race their definitive 2003 car at the Spanish Grand Prix brings to an end the career of arguably the greatest Formula One car of all time.
		The fact that the F2002 was driven by the best driver of his era also helped it maintain its level of superiority.
		As much as Schumacher's mistakes have enlivened the start of the new season, it would somehow have seemed unjust if the F2002 had bowed out as a failure this year, for it was never that.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/2970071.stm (754 words)

	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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2008_Formula_One_season (559 words)

	SPEEDtv.com
		The icing on the photographic cake is the season-by-season summary of the Formula One seasons, featuring highlights and listing the winners of each grand prix.
		Tidbits of trivia are sprinkled as seasoning throughout.
		The average age of grand prix drivers was 44 in 1950 -- 30 by 2002.
	www.speedtv.com /articles/auto/formulaone/23017 (980 words)

	RacingOne - Nascar Racing: Auto Racing, Nascar News, Racing News, Nascar Online, Nascar 2006, Nascar Drivers, Nascar, ...
		Robinson has raced in select ARCA and Busch Series races this season, and vows her attempt to make it in the Winston Cup Series is no way a publicity ploy.
		Sara Christian, who drove a Ford owned by her husband, was credited as being the first female to race in the Grand National Division, having participated in six events in 1949.
		There were only eight races that season, and she wound up finishing 13th in points.
	www.racingone.com /article.aspx?artnum=6746 (1576 words)

	miscellaneous
		The "keystone" of Formula One is the Concorde Agreement, a document signed by the team owners that is most notable for the fact it regulates key financial issues relating to the operation of the sport, including the distribution of television broadcast revenues and prize money, plus travel and freight allowances.
		The FIA Formula One World Championship was created in 1950, and the first Formula One race counting for the FIA Formula One World Championship was the British Grand Prix, which took place in Silverstone the 13
		In the 5th race of the 1954 season the first driver to die in a World Championship event was Argentinian Marimon who was killed during practice.
	www.fortunecity.com /silverstone/saturn/8/miscellaneous.html (1374 words)

	Formula One Page (46)
		The 1980's was the era of racing that I first experienced, and saw some of the best driver's the sport had ever seen.
		The 2006 season is only 2 races old as I write this update, and so far Renault have won the first 2 races.
		However, Schumacher was much more competitive in the opening races and it looks like he could return to form and be the man to beat again in 2006.
	www.1-18scalecars.com /Formula_one.htm (1126 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- New champ hails the old (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		But the New Zealander's road to Formula One might not be as straight as that followed by former CART winners Michael Andretti, Jacques Villeneuve, Alex Zanardi and Juan Montoya.
		The IRL title is his sixth in a decade going back to when he won New Zealand's Formula Vee championship in 1994 at the age of 13.
		The annual "silly season" of Winston/Nextel Cup driver moves began last week with a major non-move.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/20031016-9999_z1s16mtrspt.html (1066 words)

	Formula One Timeline quiz -- free game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		F1 GP by Season : Formula One Timeline
		1954: Which of the following drivers never raced in the all dominating Mercedes W196?
		1976: James Hunt was 1976 world champion in a season that went down to the very last race.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=134416 (314 words)

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