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	The Story of the Grand Prix
		The defining race of the pre- WW1 era was the ACF Grand Prix of 1914.
		In 1922 the Italian Grand Prix was held at one of these new tracks, the Autodromo Monza.
		Grand Prix racing in accordance with a strict formula based on engine size and weight was abandoned in 1928.In its place, races were run under Formula Libre rules.
	www.ddavid.com /formula1/story.htm (1969 words)

	British Grand Prix
		The 1951 British Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on July 14, 1951 at Silverstone Circuit.
		The 1952 British Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on July 19, 1952 at Silverstone Circuit.
		The 1953 British Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on July 18, 1953 at Silverstone Circuit.
	www.shortopedia.com /B/R/British_Grand_Prix (695 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.
		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.
	www.speedace.info /grand_prix_history.htm (14761 words)

	Monaco Grand Prix - WOI Encyclopedia Italia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Monaco Grand Prix (Grand Prix de Monaco) is a Formula One race held on the streets of the Principality of Monaco.
		The Monaco Grand Prix predates the organized World Championships; the Principality's first Grand Prix race was organized in 1929 by Antony Noghes, under the auspices of Prince Louis II through the "Automobile Club de Monaco" (A.C.M.) of which Alexandre Noghes was the founding president.
		The Monaco Grand Prix counted toward the European Championship from 1936 to 1939 (although the race was cancelled in 1938).
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Monaco_Grand_Prix (1413 words)

	Monaco Grand Prix
		The Monaco Grand Prix, held there annually, was first organized under the auspices of Prince Louis II through the establishing of the "Automobile Club de Monaco."
		In 1929[?], the first Grand Prix of Monaco automobile race was held, won by Charles Grover[?] (aka "Williams") driving a Bugatti painted in what would become the famous British racing green color.
		The Grand Prix of Monaco is organized each year by the Automobile Club de Monaco who also runs the Monte Carlo Rally and the Monaco Kart Cup[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mo/Monaco_Grand_Prix.html (195 words)

	German Grand Prix@Everything2.com
		Grands Prix were ran at the Nurburgring until 1939, when World War Two began.
		Hockenheim hosted it's first German Grand Prix in 1970 as the Nurburgring underwent modifications, sadly this circuit will forever be known as the circuit where Jim Clark died in a Formula Two Race in 1968.
		In 1977 the German Grand Prix was moved to it's current home Hockenheim, where Nika Lauda, having made a brave and quick recovery from his almost fatal accident the previous year, won.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=1345747 (766 words)

	Bangkok Post \| Learning Post \| Best of the British
		The first British Grand Prix was held in 1926 at Brooklands in Surrey and again the following year, but the idea didn't catch on for another 21 years.
		British drivers have often been at their best in the British Grand Prix and have often overachieved, providing a lengthy list of British winners over the years.
		Moss was in fact the first British winner of the British Grand Prix, winning at Aintree in 1955, and he repeated that success at the same venue in 1957.
	www.bangkokpost.com /010708_Learningpost/01Jul2008_lern008.php (900 words)

	Great Races - Fangio in Maserati 1957
		The last GP victory in Fangio's personal record, the race that gave him the 1957 World Championship, his fifth in total and the fourth Championship in a row.
		Beyond this, the 1957 German GP is considered The Grand Prix, and perhaps the most intensely fought motor race ever.
		Then came the British Grand Prix at Aintree, where the greatest threat was the Vanwall, the first British Formula 1 car to really go.
	home19.inet.tele.dk /alfa_romeo/R_1957_Fangio_Nurburgring_01.html (1164 words)

	McLaren (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Current permanent home of the Australian Grand Prix, since 1996, the 5.302-km track is located within the city boundaries of Melbourne, capital of the state of Victoria.
		A Grand Prix in Buenos Aires held in three distinct periods: 1953-58 and 1960; 1972-75 and 1977-81; and from 1995-98.
		The first Austrian Grand Prix took place at Zeltweg in 1964, and the race ran from 1970-87 inclusive at the Osterreichring, near Salzburg.
	groups.msn.com /McLaren/a.msnw (596 words)

	A-E
		Circuit of the French Grand Prix in 1965, 1969-70, and 1972, to the south of Paris.
		Seven Grand Prix were held here, five called USA-Detroit, run in 1982-86, and two editions of the U.S. Grand Prix, in 1987-88.
		The 1997 Portuguese Grand Prix was removed from the Formula One calendar when a governmental jurisdictional dispute was raised over F.I.A. track improvement demands.
	jclemens.com /F1/abcde.htm (1826 words)

	Mille Miglia, 1955: The Times Report - Sidebar - MSN Encarta
		He won only one Grand Prix at Aintree—the first Briton to win the British Grand Prix—but in the 300SLR sports cars, Moss was almost unbeatable.
		His victories that year included the fastest-ever Mille Miglia (Italian, “1,000 miles”), the first non-Italian since 1929 to win the race when it was won by the German Rudolf Caracciola.
		The race was banned in 1957 following a fatal accident, but was revived in the late 1980s.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /sidebar_121504313/Mille_Miglia_1955_The_Times_Report.html (228 words)

	Formula One 1/43 Diecast models
		It was his last Grand Prix victory, he was killed in a road accident in 1966.
		It was the first major Grand Prix win for a British car since Henry Segrave won the French Grand Prix in 1923 in a Sunbeam.
		The 1958 French Grand Prix was to become the final race in the illustriuos carrier of Juan manuel Fangio.
	home.clara.net /nigelk/fact1950.htm (1195 words)

	Grand Prix Challenge Circuit Histories FAQ - IGN FAQs
		The Silverstone International circuit (used for the British TOCA series) shares much of the same pavement as the Grand Prix circuit used for the annual F1 Grand Prix of Great Britain; in fact, the pavement for the two circuits even cross at approximately two-thirds of the way around the International circuit.
		The British Racing Drivers' Club operated Silverstone until 2001, when current owner Octagon Motorsports took control of the venue; this also ensures that the British Grand Prix will be held at Silverstone for at least the next fifteen years.
		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).
	faqs.ign.com /articles/389/389006p1.html (4459 words)

	Wikinfo \| Monaco Grand Prix
		The Monaco Grand Prix, held there annually, was first organized by Antony Noghes, a well-to-do cigarette manufacturer and a resident of Monte Carlo, under the auspices of Prince Louis II through the establishing of the "Automobile Club de Monaco" of which Noghes was the founding president.
		Grand Prix motor racing came to Monaco in 1929 when the first Grand Prix of Monaco automobile race was held.
		The inaugural race was won by William Grover-Williams (aka "Williams") driving a Bugatti painted in what would become the famous British racing green color.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Monaco_Grand_Prix (305 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.
	www.jclemens.com /F1/qrst.htm (2223 words)

	Grand Prix Racing - the whole story
		In the mid 1950 the RAC decided that the British Grand Prix should not remian the total preserve of Silverstone.
		They elected to alternate the venue from year to year and, somewhat controversially, their first choice of venue was Aintree, a flat featureless circuit built around the Grand Natiional Racecourse, the home of Britains most famous horse race.
		The first event staged here was the 1955 British Grand Prix and, as in the rest of that year's races, Mercedes were the dominant force.
	www.gpracing.net192.com /circuits/13.cfm (339 words)

	Motorcycle Online: The Early Years of Grand Prix Racing (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Grand Prix had been born, motorcycle racing was organized, highly competitive and, then just as it is now, dangerous.
		While British factories persevered with singles and twins and outdated chassis design (the Velocette that took the 350 crown had girder forks) the Italians were developing multi-cylinder engines.
		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)

	F1 News - Grandprix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Constructors > Ferrari (Scuderia Ferrari)
		Fangio was hired to drive in 1956 alongside rising British star Peter Collins and Eugenio Castellotti.
		The Lancias were getting old, the British teams were becoming stronger and Ferrari failed to win a race in 1957.
		Ferrari had fallen way behind the British teams in chassis technology but the engine was remarkable and that year Villeneuve scored two memorable victories in Monaco and Spain.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/con-ferra.html (5154 words)

	Restoration of old C/L Stunt ringed motors by honing
		In 1957, yours truly was a skinny 10 year old kid who was just starting to get enthused by these noisy model planes which flew round and round on the end of lines.
		But back to 1957- by now, I had obtained a marvellous book by P.G.F. Chinn entitled "How to make Model Aircraft" and that book was held in such high regard, that if some kid at school had offered to swap me the Dead Sea Scrolls for it, I would have refused point blank.
		Thus ended 1957, although the final word must go to Her Majesty the Queen, who for the first time in history, appeared on television to deliver her annual Christmas message.
	www.supercoolprops.com /articles/theyear1957.php (3113 words)

	Ferrari
		Eddie Irvine's victory at the Austrian Grand Prix in July 1999, driving the Ferrari F399 V10 in his bid to win the World Championship after Michael Schumacher crashed at Silverstone.
		Gonzales battles with Fangio to win the 1951 British Grand Prix at Silverstone driving his 4.5 litre Ferrari.
		Collins and Hawthorn in the pits with their Ferrari 246 F1 cars at the 1958 British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
	www.sportart.com.au /en-us/dept_7.html (428 words)

	Scalextric Classic Grand Prix Maserati 250F
		The British "assemblatore" (Enzo Ferrari's derisive reference to the majority of teams who don't build their entire chassis and drivetrain) were ably represented by marques like BRM and Vanwall while the Italian honor was upheld by Ferrari and Maserati.
		The year 1957 would prove to be Maserati's last as a factory GP entrant, but what a way to go out.
		In that great season occurred what is credited by many Grand Prix historians as what proved to be the greatest drive of the Fangio's storied career, his great comeback from a terrible pit stop to win the German Grand Prix at the treacherous Nurburgring.
	www.slotcarillustrated.com /Cars3/ScalextricClassicGrandPrix.html (3168 words)

	United States Grand Prix
		When Fangio started in the inaugural British Grand Prix before King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on May 13, 1950, at Silverstone, he was just 43 days shy of his 39th birthday.
		Fangio also retired in his first race, but in the next one, the Monaco Grand Prix, he won the pole and the race and was on his way to legendary status.
		The Italian Grand Prix on Sept. 14 was Schumacher’s 191st F1 start, and he is only 34.
	www.usgpindy.com /news/story.php?story_id=1922 (994 words)

	8W - Who? - Tony Brooks
		Enzo's three full-time Grand Prix drivers for 1958 were Hawthorn, Collins and Luigi Musso and some people have said that if anything, the friendship between Mike and Peter was detrimental to the team's competitiveness.
		Traditionally, the Grand Prix at Reims had been supported by at least one 12-hour sportscar race, but with the growing number of accidents attributed to driver fatigue the organisers decided to abandon this and restrict the supporting event to a Formula 2 race after the Grand Prix.
		It was Tony Brooks' penultimate GP victory of the 6 he won between 1957 and 1959, and contributed to his 2nd place in the '59 championship-his highest position.
	8w.forix.com /brooks.html (4687 words)

	8W - Who? - Tony Brooks
		Enzo's three full-time Grand Prix drivers for 1958 were Hawthorn, Collins and Luigi Musso and some people have said that if anything, the friendship between Mike and Peter was detrimental to the team's competitiveness.
		Traditionally, the Grand Prix at Reims had been supported by at least one 12-hour sportscar race, but with the growing number of accidents attributed to driver fatigue the organisers decided to abandon this and restrict the supporting event to a Formula 2 race after the Grand Prix.
		It was Tony Brooks' penultimate GP victory of the 6 he won between 1957 and 1959, and contributed to his 2nd place in the '59 championship-his highest position.
	www.forix.com /8w/brooks.html (4705 words)

	Top 10 cars \| MSN Cars UK - Top 10: greatest-ever British Grand Prix drivers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Enzo’s son Dino died before the 1956 French Grand Prix, the five Ferrari drivers all wore fl armbands but it was Collins who won the race.
		It was the year in which he won his first Grand Prix at Silverstone but finished runner up in the Championship to team-mate Fangio.
		In a Vanwall in 1957, Sir Stirling achieved his patriotic dream of a British car and driver winning their home Grand Prix but again lost the title race to Fangio and then in 1958 to Mike Hawthorn.
	cars.uk.msn.com /news/top_ten_article.aspx?cp-documentid=554879 (1749 words)

	Australian winners in Grand Prix
		Troy Bayliss will start his 10th attempt at winning a motorcycle grand prix 50 years to the day since Ken Kavanagh became the first Australian to win a GP in the premier class of two-wheel racing.
		Kavanagh beat British legend Geoff Duke in a rain-lashed Ulster 500cc GP at the Dundrod circuit in Ireland on August 15, 1953.
		He is aiming to be the next Australian GP winner by the time of, and indeed perhaps at, the SKYY VODKA Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix at Victoria’s Phillip Island circuit on October 17-19.
	www.mcnews.com.au /Features/2003/GP_50year_Anniv_Aus_Wins.htm (1449 words)

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		Grand Prix racing started in Britain by Henry Seagrave in 1926 at the Brooklands Circuit, Surrey.
		The Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1973 was the first F1 Grand Prix to be restarted when the race had to be stopped after the first lap because of a serious accident.
		Lewis Hamilton is the most successful ever rookie Grand Prix driver – he has finished in podium position (first, second or third) in his first seven races.
	www.actonw3.com /info/conroyalmail01.htm (887 words)

	Juan Manuel Fangio
		On May 21, 1950 he obtained his first victory in the World Grand Prix of Monaco, Montecarlo, with an Alfa Romeo 158, after escaping a collision that left nine cars out o the race in the first lap.
		He was back on his feet for the 1953 season, and on the 13 of September he won again in the Formula 1 category leading in the Italian Grand Prix, and obtaining the second place in the world championship.
		Fangio ran twelve Grand Prix for Maserati, winning eight; and leading to the beginning of a winning spree of four consecutive prizes.
	www.easybuenosairescity.com /biografias/fangio1.htm (1101 words)

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