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Welcome to F1park.com John Surtees was the next driver to win the cup for the Italian marquee, in 1964, making him famous for being the only man to win the championship on both two wheels and four. Michael Schumacher was fighting hard until an accident at the British Grand Prix saw the German sidelined for all bar the final two races of the season. Although the battle was taken down to the wire at the season-ending Japanese Grand Prix both the team and the German succeeded in retaining their titles. www.f1park.com /teams.php   (1117 words)

Macau Grand Prix Official Homepage 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. www.macau.grandprix.gov.mo /gp2002/en/inside.php   (4625 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)

Motorcycle Online: The Early Years of Grand Prix Racing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) The Grand Prix had been born, motorcycle racing was organized, highly competitive and, then just as it is now, dangerous. But 1958 belonged to MV and Surtees, with the British rider winning all six 500 races he contested and six out of seven races in the 350s. More fundamental changes occurred and 1958 was the year that marked the beginning of the end for the four-stroke GP racer. www.motorcycle.com /mo/mcracing/gphistory.html   (3294 words)

Atlas F1: Casablanca Climax Also in 1958, the length of a Grand Prix was reduced from 500 kilometers to 300 kilometers and from 3 hours to 2 hours, and the cars were to run on 130 octane AV gas instead of alcohol-based fuel. In the very next race, the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring on August 3rd 1958, the Grim Reaper struck again, as Peter Collins was killed on the 10th lap, going off after Pflanzgarten while in second place and engaged in a battle with ultimate winner Tony Brooks in the Vanwall. On September 7th 1958, the Italian Grand Prix was held at Monza, at a time in the season when the battle between Ferrari and Vanwall was tightening. www.atlasf1.com /2001/san/preview/okeefe.html   (3561 words)

Dubai Grand Prix - Information and Reservation A number of Grand Prix racing organisations had laid out rules for a World Championship before the war, but due to the suspension of racing during the conflict, the World Drivers Championship was not formalised until 1947. 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. The 2006 Brazilian Grand Prix attracted an average live global TV audience of 83 million viewers, with a total of 154 million viewers tuning in to watch at least some part of the event. dubaigrandprix.biz   (6661 words)

French Grand Prix - WOI Encyclopedia Italia The French Grand Prix is a Formula One race held as part of Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile's annual Formula One automobile racing championship season. Grand Prix motor racing originated in France and the French Grand Prix, open to international competition, is the oldest of the Grand Prix races. The first French Grand Prix was run on June 26, 1906 under the auspices of the Automobile Club de France in Sarthe with a starting field of thity-two automobiles. www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/French_Grand_Prix   (249 words)

Monaco Grand Prix - Wikicars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) The Monaco Grand Prix predates the organised World Championships; the Principality's first Grand Prix race was organised in 1929 by Antony Noghes, under the auspices of Prince Louis II through the "Automobile Club de Monaco" (A.C.M.). The Monaco Grand Prix counted toward the European Championship from 1936 to 1939 (although the race was not held in 1938). The Grand Prix of Monaco is held each year on the Circuit de Monaco, which consists of the city streets of Monte Carlo and La Condamine, which includes the famous harbour. wikicars.org /en/Monaco_Grand_Prix   (2781 words)

Historic Grand Prix Finished in bright orange Beta Utensili livery, James King's March 761/08 is powered by a 3.0 liter, 480hp long-stroke Cosworth DFV V8 -- its rebuilt tub the same one that Vittorio Brambilla drove in a handful of GP races in 1976 before it became the team's spare chassis. King is one of the founders of Historic Grand Prix, and competes with his March regularly in that group's feature events. Vittorio returned to racing in 1968 in Formula 3 and won the Italian title in 1972, by which time he was already racing in Formula 2 with March. www.historicgrandprix.com /articles/VintageMotorsport2004.htm   (1661 words)

Grand Prix Racing - the whole story Since the inception of Grand Prix racing in 1907 races had been run in accordance with a strict formula based on engine size and weight. 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. www.gpracing.net192.com /history/prewar.cfm   (2037 words)

Grand Prix Hall of Fame - Juan-Manuel Fangio - Biography During practice for the Italian Grand Prix he complained of a severe vibration but come race day the problem had completely disappeared. In 1958, driving his last race, the French Grand Prix he finished fourth and retired. Grand Prix History is produced by The Motorsports Publishing Group, LLC www.ddavid.com /formula1/fangio_bio.htm   (674 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)

ESPN.com - Knutson: Speed joins long line of Americans in F1 He finished third in his last race, at the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, which was the same track where his father clinched the world championship back in 1978. Eddie Cheever: Cheever was the last American to race in his home Grand Prix when he finished third in the 1989 U.S. Grand Prix in Phoenix driving an Arrows. He raced in a total of 48 Grand Prix between 1958 and 1964 driving for Maserati, Ferrari, Cooper, ATS and Lotus. sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=2252737&type=story   (1052 words)

German Grand Prix - WOI Encyclopedia Italia A precusor to the German Grand Prix, the first race was won by Italian Felice Nazzaro in a Fiat. The first national event in German Grand Prix motor racing came to the Automobil Verkehrs und Übungs-Straße AVUS race course in southwest Berlin in 1926 as a sports car race. The 1930 and 1933 German Grands Prix were both cancelled due to the country's economic problems. www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php?title=German_Grand_Prix&redirect=no   (314 words)

[No title] 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. www.cheatcc.com /psx2/sg/grand_prix_challenge.txt   (20803 words)

Formula 1 complete - F1 info, stats and news - Brambilla, Vittorio He returned to racing in 1968, in Formula 3 and won the Italian championship in 1972; by the time he was already racing Formula 2, where he won several races and bought his way into Formula 1. He is best remembered for spinning off and wrecking the nose of his car as he took the chequered flag and completing his slowing down lap with the front of the car destroyed and waving madly to the crowd. In a multiple pileup at Monza in the 1978 Italian Grand Prix, in which Ronnie Peterson died, Brambilla suffered serious head injuries, but recovered to drive briefly for the Alfa Romeo F1 team in 1979 and 1980, before retiring. www.f1complete.com /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2378   (339 words)

mxlarge.com - Featuring exclusive Motocross, Supercross and Off Road news It's been a while since KTM have won a Grand Prix in the premier class, in fact the last a KTM won was Ben Townley in 2005. The Grand Prix of Germany proved to be a disappointing day for the CAS Honda team. David Philippaerts won his maiden MX1 Grand Prix, and was imitated by countryman Antonio Cairoli in the MX2 class, with the Sicilian winning his fifth event in a row. www.mxlarge.com /index.php   (1663 words)

MONZA, ITALY - Vodafone Italian Grand Prix, Autodromo Nazionale Monza Circuit Monza's fame lies more than anything with Grand Prix racing but the track has long been the venue of other great races, including the famous Monza Lotteria, when the young drivers were able to grab a moment of glory and, perhaps, a Grand Prix drive. In 1985 the racing had to stop after 800km when the frontrunners arrived to find that a very large tree had been blown down across the track and Hans Stuck tried to convince his fellow drivers that they could lift the tree out of the way and get on with the racing. Monza was the venue in 1957 and 1958 for a pair of curious Europe versus America races known as The Races of the Two Worlds in which Indycar roadsters battled with Formula 1 cars. www.pitstop.com.my /circuits/monza.asp   (595 words)

American Auto Racing Writers & Broadcasters Association Winner of a dozen grand prix races including the German GP six times — he won the first-ever German GP on the Avus in 1926 at 84.5 mph, and five at the Nurburgring between 1928 and 1939. He won four grands prix in his career, including the first-ever United States GP at Sebring in 1959, and the first for the cars bearing his name, the 1968 Belgian GP. He was runner-up for the championship in 1955 through 1958, and placed third in points in 1959 through 1961, coming closest in 1958 when despite four wins he finished one point behind Mike Hawthorn (who won one race) at a time when a grand prix win paid only 8 points. www.aarwba.org /legends.htm   (19514 words)

Maserati - the essentials This was the same car that Giuseppe Campari drove to victory in the French Grand Prix and Tazio Nuvolari did the same in the Belgian and Nice Grand Prix. Maserati brought its Grand Prix career to a glorious finale in 1957 at the end of a triumphant season, which started out with the first three places in Argentina and ended with Fangio's world title in the 250F. It was both the first Maserati of the new era and a revival of a 4-seater Grand Tourer tradition that began forty years earlier with the 3500GT. www.italiancar.net /site/cars/maserati/index/maserati.html   (1597 words)

Saltire : Blogging by Steve MacLaughlin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) As the third running of the United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis approaches less than a week from now I thought that I would devote all of this week's blogging to providing some basic information about the sport. The distance of a modern Grand Prix is the least number of laps which exceeds 305km, and no race may last for more than two hours. Yes, a Formula One Grand Prix takes place in all weather conditions, and the tire manufacturers have developed treaded tires, which help to avoid the risk of aquaplaning. saltire.weblogger.com /2002/09/23   (847 words)

Ford Racing: Team Ford Racing News The Monza circuit was built in 1922 and this year it hosted the 73rd Italian Grand Prix. The banking was used in the famous War of The Worlds races in 1957 and 1958 when the Indy boys brought their giant roadsters over to challenge the F1 chaps. If conditions are right in Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix, the winner could set a new record for the fastest average speed over a the race distance. www.fordracing.com /news/detail/?flashcheck=0&bhjs=0&article=20462   (743 words)

Rare Stanguellini Delfino to Compete in Grand Prix de Monaco Historique It was the first international Formula conceived to offer young aspiring Grand Prix drivers an economic single seater which used the mechanics of mass produced cars. Auriana is of Italian ancestry and is a passionate collector of 20th century Italian movie posters and Italian race cars. In 2004 his Stanguellini Formula Junior won the prestigious Grand Prix Historique du Monaco, then restricted to front-engined cars in the hands of Joe Colasacco, who thus followed in the virtual footsteps of Michael May the winner there in 1959 in an identical Stanguellini Formula Junior. www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-18-2006/0004364463&EDATE=   (642 words)

Italianbike - Feature: Desmo Dinosaur - Ducati Apollo So, it was almost inevitable that, sooner or later, his creative repertoire, ranging from the triple-camshaft desmodromic twins and singles, which Ducati went Grand Prix racing with in the late ’50s, through to the 864cc V-twin desmos, would include a four-cylinder motor. In fact, there were three of these in all, the most recent being the still-born Bipantah project terminated in 1982 on the eve of Taglioni’s retirement, while the first was his only transverse in-line design, the four-cylinder 125cc Grand Prix contender which he created in 1964, but was never raced. This collapse in sales forced first Gilera and Moto Guzzi, then a year later, in 1958, Ducati to withdraw from Grand Prix racing – a sure sign of distress in such a sport-mad country – but also to focus more closely on their export markets, particularly the USA, then hungry for European products. www.chpltd.com /italianbike/desmo_dinosaur.html   (950 words)

F1A&G - Legendary Races It was the first Grand Prix win by a Briton, a prelude of many more to come. But in characteristic style, the aggressive Brazilian won five Grands Prix, including the European GP at a restored Donington Park circuit in England— where Auto Union and Mercedes had dueled in the late 1930s — in one of the most memorable drives of his career. At the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa, Ferrari's historic 600th GP, Schumacher came into the race a mere two points behind Mika Hakkinen, who had taken over as McLaren team leader with the departure of Ayrton Senna in 1994. www.f1-grandprix.com /races.html   (4566 words)

Anniversaries - July When Renault showed up at the British Grand Prix in 1977 with a 1.5-liter turbo charged engine there were many in the paddock who dismissed the French carmaker's entry as hopeless. Mercedes won their great victory at the French Grand Prix and many felt that the German company had grown soft after their withdrawal from racing and was quite content to rest on their laurels. Paul Daimler had other ideas and when the time came for the 1914 French Grand Prix to be held, Mercedes had already completed 30,000 miles of testing with the majority done at Lyon the site of the French Grand Prix. www.ddavid.com /formula1/anniv_7.htm   (531 words)

F1 Circuit Germany :: German F1 Grand Prix The first major events held at the Nurburgring was the German motorbike Grand Prix in 1927 followed by German Grand Prix for motorcars. This resulted into the fatal crashes of Onofre Marimon in 1954, Peter Collins in 1958, Gerhard Mitter in 1969 and the accident in 1976 where Niki Lauda was heavily burnt. In 1985 it had the honour of hosting the 33rd German Grand Prix, but in 1986 the German Grand Prix returned to the circuit of Hockenheim and Nurburgring received the honour of hosting the European Grand Prix in 1996. www.f1corporate.com /formula-one-travel/49/1/german-f1-grand-prix/f1-circuit-germany.html   (426 words)

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