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  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.
The 1933 Monaco Grand Prix was the first time in the history of the sport that the grid was deciding by timed qualifying rather than the luck of a draw.
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.
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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1955 Results > Dutch GP
The Grand Prix teams gathered in Holland just a few days after the Le Mans disaster in which around 100 people had been killed but amid the outcry - which included a total ban on motor racing in Switzerland - the Dutch organizers felt that they had to press on as planned.
With the Lancia team having disappeared Mercedes-Benz's opposition came from Ferrari, Maserati and Gordini, although the French marque was not competitive.
Dutch GP, Zandvoort, June 19, 1955, Round: 5, Race Number: 46
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 Aston Martin Chassis Numbers
1955 the car was rebodied with rear wings incorporating small tailfins and was sold to Peter, at low price, major maintenance by the works and the right for the works to call on the car when needed.
Parnell was third at the Grand Prix meeting at Aintree, Salvadori won at the Crystal Palace and Parnell finished a poor 6th at Charterhall.
Salvadori finished 2nd in the International Trophy at Silverstone, retired in the Dutch Grand Prix, finished 6th in the British Grand Prix and 6th in the Portuguese Grand Prix.
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 The Story of the Grand Prix Pt4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It was impressed upon Moss that in matters of the Grand Prix he would serve as second to Fangio, but when it came to sports car racing they would be treated as equals.
Both Fangio and Moss retired from the Monaco Grand Prix which was won by Trintignant in a Ferrari.
The Grand Prix of Italy would be the last championship race for the year.
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 50 Years of Mercedes-Benz and Stirling Moss - WorldCarFans.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The year 1955 was a highly important one for the member of the Silver Arrow team: he won the Mille Miglia in a record time which has remained unbroken to this day – one of Stirling Moss’ greatest successes in that year.
On July 16, 1955, he was the first to cross the finishing line in the British Grand Prix in Aintree, driving a Mercedes-Benz Formula One racing car, type W 196.
Other successes during the 1955 season were a second place in the Belgian Grand Prix, second place in the Dutch Grand Prix, first place in the Tourist Trophy in Dundrod, Northern Ireland, and first place in the Targa Florio.
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 Giancarlo Baghetti - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
The car was first entered for the Syracuse Grand Prix, the first major event ran under the new 1.5 litre championship regulations, and against a strong field Baghetti qualified 2nd and won in the only Ferrari, with the British teams and Porsche unable to compete with the Ferrari's engine.
His Grand Prix career would then be virtually over, though he would have three more one-off drives, all at the Italian Grand Prix - a works Brabham in 1965, a Reg Parnell-entered Ferrari in 1966, and a works Lotus in 1967, when he would have scored a point but for a blown engine.
While his ultimate level of talent is still debated (on the one hand, he won his first three Grand Prix, no mean feat for any driver; on the other, his results both before and after this were unimpressive), Baghetti's Championship debut win seems to have secured him a footnote in Formula One history.
www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Giancarlo_Baghetti   (726 words)

  
 1955 Dutch Grand Prix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Results from the 1955 Formula One Dutch Grand Prix held at Zandvoort on June 19, 1955
Grand Prix debut for: Hernando da Silva Ramos.
This race would take place one weekend after the disaster at Le Mans.
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 Luigi Villoresi - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
Born in Milan, Italy, and nicknamed "Gigi," he was the older brother of race car driver Emilio Villoresi who co-piloted with him in several races at the beginning of their careers.
In 1939 he won the South African Grand Prix but the onset of World War II interrupted his racing career.
He retired from Grand Prix racing in 1957 after 32 Formula 1 championship starts without a victory but made it to the podium 8 times while scoring a total of 49 championship points.
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 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.
In 1955 it was Duke and Gilera again at the top, this time with fellow Gilera-rider Armstrong as the runner-up.
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 Formula1
Hopes of a Grand Prix swansong with McLaren in 1994, thanks to French engine supplier Peugeot, were disappointed when team boss Ron Denis chose Martin Brundle instead, even though Philippe had a run-out in place of the suspened Mika Hakkinen in the Hungarian Gramd Prix.
This form earned him a drive with Ferrari for 1959, and he stared his second season with the Italian team by finishing second in the Argentinian Grand Prix, but he was thrown from his car in practice at Monaco and broke an arm, leaving him on the sidelines for the remainder of the season.
It almost went right in the French Grand Prix at Clermont-Ferrand in 1972 though, as the race was his for the taking when he suffered a puncture and fell back to third place.
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 Grand Prix 2001 - Round 7 - Assen  set-up report (Yamaha)
The Dutch TT originally began life as 28km street track before being shortened - once in 1955 and again in 1984 - to comply with the ever-changing demands of modern motorcycle racing.
After rain stopped proceedings three laps into the main event the Dutch TT became a race on aggregate times rather than on the track.
In some ways the base setup for the Dutch TT resembles what Yamaha used in Mugello (Italy) - where the rear spring rate is firmer, yet the front is softer.
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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.
Italian Grand Prix is held on the Monza banked track, British teams boycott the race on safety grounds.
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.
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 Istria on the Internet - Prominent Istrians - Mario Andretti
From 1948 to 1955, the family lived in a displaced persons camp in Tuscany - a fate similar to that of several hundred thousand other Istrian refugees who were interned in refugee camps throughout Italy while awaiting either permanent residency or legal immigration to other countries.
In June 1955, after years of waiting, the Andretti family was granted a visa to emigrate to the United States of America where they settled in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, in PennsylvaniaĆ s Lehigh Valley.
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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 Grand Prix Cars - Lotus 49
Could he build a proper Grand Prix engine and how much money was needed.
The new engine was finally ready for the third race of the season, the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.
The most important race of the year was the U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen for obvious reasons.
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 Grand Prix Sports
Marat was the Grand Prix dressage champion of the Asian Games, Janna competes successfully at the Grand Prix level.
Source for late-model Grand Prix information including the mailing list, information on other owners and their vehicles, and special discounts on aftermarket equipment.
Events management and VIP corporate hospitality during the Monaco Grand Prix F1 and other sports events in Monte-Carlo and the French Riviera.
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 ARA MODEL REVIEWS: NEW BRUMM REVIEWS
The Belgian Grand Prix at Spa was the fourth round of the 1958 title chase, held on June 15.
Where this new Grand Prix Mercedes-Benz was so very advanced was in the use of desmodromic, or positive, valve opening and closing and the employment of fuel injection directly into the cylinders.
The British Grand Prix was held at Aintree on July 20, and Maserati was again represented by Fangio, Behra, Schell, and Menditeguy.
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 WRESTLING INTERVIEWS
Dutch and I have the formula for what works but no one wants to listen.
Dutch was a true professional in every sense of the word.
Dutch thinks you are one of nicer guys in the business is he correct or are you too modest to comment?
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 Circuit Park Zandvoort - Historie
Sporting highlights in the period to 1973 included the 1952 Grand Prix, which was a world championship race, the Grand Prix of 1961 when all 15 starting vehicles made it to the finish without a single pit stop, and the Dutch Grand Prix in 1955, won by Fangio and Mercedes.
With scheduling that would drive U.S. promoters crazy, the Grand Prix was held as early as May 20th (1962) and as late as August 31st (1980), August was the most popular month, with eleven of the thirty races held during that month.
When racing returned it 1955, it was Mercedes-Benz and Fangio''s turn to dominate, with Stirling Moss second in qualifying and in the race.
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LORENZO BANDINI DROVE IN 42 GRANDS PRIX AND WAS BORN DECEMBER 21, 1936 IN BARCE, CYRENAICA NORTH AFRICA.
HE DROVE IN 1 GRAND PRIX AT MONZA IN 1988 AND COLLIDED WITH AYRTON SENNA.
HE DROVE IN 14 GRANDS PRIX AND TOOK POLE POSITION IN THE 1957 ITALIAN GRAND PRIX AT MONZA.
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 TIME.com: Fast Out of the Turns -- Aug. 10, 1959 -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
But Australian-born Jack Brabham and his Cooper-Climax are challenging—and beating—the world's biggest names this season in the exacting sport of Grand Prix road racing, the ultimate competition for lean speed machines that can chafe off rubber in skidding turns, accelerate to 190 m.p.h.
This year Coventry Climax developed a special four-cylinder, 2.5 liter, Grand Prix engine, and the Coopers started showing their tail pipes to all comers.
In 1955, driving a car from the garage in Surbiton, he won the Australian Grand Prix, snapped up an offer to campaign on the international circuit with Cooper.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1955 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-1.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.
January 7 - Marian Anderson is the first fl singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
April 16 - Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg
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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Carel Godin de Beaufort   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In 1955 he bought an MG and took part in a few local rallies before acquiring a Porsche 1500 Super and racing it at Zandvoort.
In 1957 he got hold of a Porsche 550A-RS and drove it in the Formula 2 category at the German GP, finishing third in his class and 14th overall.
He drove the same car at the 1958 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort and finished 11th.
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 Wikinfo | Formula One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Formula One, or Grand Prix racing is the best known single-seater auto racing class, which involves an annual world championship.
Historically, the series evolved from pre-war European Grand Prix motor racing of the 1920s and 1930s.
Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
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 Graham Hill - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Member
He went to BRM two years later and in 1962, he won the Dutch Grand Prix for his first Formula One victory.
But he did well until a crash in the United States Grand Prix threw him out of the cockpit of his car and broke both his legs.
The South African Grand Prix on March 7, 1970.
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 SLAM! SPORTS: END OF CENTURY REVIEW: 1999 NOTABLE DEATHS: MARCH 2 TO MAY 6
Friermood headed the U.S. Volleyball Association from 1952 to 1955 and was a member of the organization for 37 years.
He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1955, just four years after retirement.
Postlethwaite started his F1 career in 1971 with March Engineering and designed the car which James Hunt drove to victory for the Hesketh team in the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort in 1975.
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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Luigi Villoresi
In 1938 he had been recruited into the Maserati team, ironically to counter the speed of the newly arrived rival Alfa Romeo 158s, one of which was now driven by his brother Emilio who was killed testing at Monza the following year.
After the war he continued to race Maseratis, winning the Italian Championship in 1946 and 47 before joining his good friend Alberto Ascari at Ferrari in 1949, winning that season's Dutch Grand Prix.
In 1954, Villoresi switched to Lancia together with Ascari but was deeply affected by Alberto's fatal accident at Monza in the spring of 1955.
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 8W - What? - Ecurie Nationale Belge
In 1950, the squad went as far as buying a Talbot-Lago Grand Prix machine but as they wanted to enter the car in international events the the Belgian Auto Club RACB went wild over their Ecurie Belgique name.
Back to the fifties, which in 1959 also saw a inconspicuous return to the Grand Prix scene (and of the ENB name), the team fielding two Cooper-Climax T51s for Bianchi and de Changy at the Monaco GP.
You would have thought we had seen the best part of Bianchi's Grand Prix career (and for the moment we certainly had), but the Italian-born Belgian was to be spotted in F1 cars until 1968, his final season in fact being the one coming closest to a regular full season.
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 Four Wheel Drive Racing Cars
The racing fraternity has dabbled with four wheel drive from time to time but it is currently banned from Formula-One (F1) Grand Prix and from Indy Car style racing.
Mercedes-Benz returned seriously to F1 Grand Prix racing with the W196 (4x2) and dominated 1954 and 1955.
In due course, four wheel drive was banned from Formula-One Grand Prix racing.
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 1955 British Grand Prix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Results from the 1955 Formula One British Grand Prix held at Aintree on July 16, 1955
Last Grand Prix appearance for: Lance Macklin, Leslie Marr, Kenneth McAlpine, Tony Rolt, and Peter Walker.
This page was last modified 11:25, 2 September 2006.
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