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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.
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 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.
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 Formula One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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.
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 Formula1
Formula Two and Minardi beckoned for 1981, but Michele so impressed Tyrell with a one-off drive at the San Marino Grand Prix that theygave him a contract until the end of the 1983 season.
Formula Three proved an even harder nut to crack, for although he finished third overall at his first attempt, it took four full years before he moved on to Formula Two for 1983, with an ORECA-run Martini.
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.
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 Formula One Motor Racing FAQ (modified 3/14/97), Part 1/2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
From: mitchmcc@ultranet.com (Mitchell McCann) Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport.f1,rec.answers,news.answers Subject: Formula One Motor Racing FAQ (modified 3/14/97), Part 1/2 Followup-To: poster Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 17:55:11 GMT Organization: UltraNet Communications, Inc. Message-ID: <3379fbfe.22542488@news.ultranet.com> Summary: This article is a collection of information on Formula One racing, teams, personnel and technology.
The high point of the season, during which Minardi did not score any points, was Martini's front row start at the U.S. In 1991 Minardi adopted the V12 Ferrari engine and after struggling with it at the beginning of the season finished 7th in the constructor's championship.
In 1996 he had another difficult season scoring an early 6th place at Argentina but failing to score any more points as the ddvelopment of the car was halted with the sale of the team to Tom Walkinshaw.
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 A Racing Class called Formula Junior   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The original Formula Junior rules called for the cars to be powered by production-based engines of 1000cc with a 360kg (792-lb) car or 1100cc with a 400kg (880-lb) car.
The Formula Junior Lotus 18 was powered by the Ford Anglia engine that had been developed by Cosworth Engineering, and suddenly Keith Duckworth had all the orders he needed to keep his fledgling company afloat.
As appealing and affordable as those formula racers may be, they still don't carry the same mystique and aural impact of a brightly colored field of Formula Juniors.
www.europeancarweb.com /features/0401ec_formula_junior   (2275 words)

  
 Grand Prix Cars - Cooper-Climax T51
The first victory was achieved against great odds, in Argentina during the 1958 season when Moss, with worn-out tires, ran non-stop in a little 1.96 liter Cooper-Climax T-45 to defeat the mighty 2.4-liter Ferrari 246s.
The pattern for the rest of the season was set.
The last race of the season was won by Bruce McLaren who remained for the next 20 odd years the youngest winner of a World Championship GP, being 22 years 3 months old at the time.
www.ddavid.com /formula1/cooper.htm   (1048 words)

  
 Formula One Motor Racing FAQ (modified 10/15/96), Part 2/2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
On August 10th he signed with Williams for the 96 season and has done a considerable amount of testing with the team between that time and the start of the season.
He is generally expected to win some races in his first season and possibly have a shot at the championship.
The re-fueling equipment used by all the teams is identical as the FIA mandates that the equipment be bought from Intertechnique and may not be modified by the teams.
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 1959 Quantum One
He played musical cars and moved the Formula S from the warehouse to his garage and the Que-One from his garage to mine.
I bought some sparkplug adapters (from West Of Sweden) for this car and the Formula S, so we would be able to use NGK Iridium plugs.
At some point during the season, we broke the torque rod (bolted to the head of the motor and the side of the engine bay) that limits the movement of the motor.
www.at-speed.com /turn-in/quantum_one.html   (2814 words)

  
 "On a Silver Diamond": The 1959 Season
The committee was charged with developing a formula for financial aid to the minors through television money, since major league franchises were realizing revenues from their broadcasts into minor league territories.
After his 4-10 season for the Wings in '57, he went 8-14 for Omaha in '58 (but with a league-leading 193 Ks) and had a 3-5 mark for the current season.
Green, who had been added to the all-star team as a substitute, and Nunn were suspended for the final three days of the season without pay for "their condition and conduct" on the post-midnight plane flight from Rochester to Montreal.
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 Champ Car Atlantic News
The 2002 season would be a bittersweet one though when team founder and its inspiration Bob Dorricott succumbed to cancer.
The 2004 season saw Seneviratne assisting the Dorricott family in disbanding the team and for the first time in his career Seneviratne was not involved in a racing series.
With the good result (third) at Monterrey, we continued with the rest of the season." While there are things that can be planned out in a season, the season that US RaceTronics has experienced was not one of those things.
www.champcaratlantic.com /News/Article.asp?ID=1959   (1282 words)

  
 Schumacher has chance to leave on top - Motor Sports - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
If Michael Schumacher does indeed announce at Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix at Monza that he is retiring at the end of the season, it will be because the most successful driver in Formula One history feels the time is right and not because he is being pushed to go.
Formula One has been the German’s world for 15 years, with Ferrari his second family for 10 of them, and saying goodbye is far from easy.
His Formula One career finally fizzled out in 1995 after two races at McLaren when he was unable to fit into the car.
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 Formula One History - The British Era
The most important of these was the monocoque (or one-piece) chassis, introduced with the Lotus 25 in 1962, which along with rear engines marked the second watershed technological change in Formula One.
Clark broke the legendary Fangio's record for career victories in the opening race of the 1968 season in South Africa, but died just months later at Hockenheim in an F2 race after crashing into the trees in the rain on 7 April.
A small plaque — now located behind a protective Armco guardrail — is set in the forest to mark the spot of his tragic, and still unexplained, accident.
www.f1-grandprix.com /history3.html   (670 words)

  
 List of Formula One Champions - WOI Encyclopedia Italia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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)

  
 BMW World - Racing Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Formula One, history of BMW Motorsport, SCCA and more.
BMW completed their fifth Formula One season with a new chassis, an improved engine and a victory at Brazil.
On January 10, 2000, the BMW WilliamsF1 Team was officially presented to the public as BMW returned to Formula One action.
www.bmwworld.com /racing/index.htm   (510 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends - The Complete First Season: DVD: Daws Butler,Edward Everett Horton,Bill ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
"Jet Fuel Formula" is a cold war-era blast, as Rocky (voiced by June Foray, the Queen of Cartoons) and Bullwinkle frantically race to re-create a rocket fuel recipe (actually Grandma Bullwinkle's recipe for mooseberry fudge cake), while being menaced by those no-goodniks Boris Badenov and femme fatale Natasha.
The first season of "Rocky and His Friends" -- as it was called at the time -- covered two "RandB" arcs: the epic "Jet Fuel Formula" (40 episodes) and "Box Top Robbery" (12).
Season 2, expected next year, is teased in two episodes about moon mice.
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 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.
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 The Cooper Days   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the European summer of 1958, he began racing Formula One and Formula Two cars for Cooper Racing team.
At the end of the 1959 Formula One season he had his first Grand Prix win at Sebring in the United States.
Bruce McLaren Motor Racing was formed to compete in the 1964 Tasman Series down under, while still continuing as a works driver for the Cooper organisation till the end of 1965, when he left to enter his own Formula 1 car in the 1966 world championship.
www.bruce-mclaren.com /cars/coopers/the_cooper_days.htm   (250 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Legends plan US F1 team
American motor-racing legends Dan Gurney and Phil Hill have announced plans to set up an all-American Formula One team for next season.
Gurney, who won four races during a Grand Prix career that lasted from 1959 to 1970, said that a deal to establish the team might be secured within a fortnight.
Links to more Formula One stories are at the foot of the page.
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 FORMULA ONE NEWS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A spokesman for the Italian team told Bloomberg News that the 29-year-old Badoer would be test driver and backup for Germany's Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barichello of Brazil, the same role he performed last year when Ferrari won the constructors' and drivers' championships.
The duo found success in Formula Three in the early 1950s by building a car with the engine placed behind the driver, an unorthodox concept at the time.
John Putt was appointed chief operating officer of Jordan Grand Prix, the Formula One team that will begin a new partnership with Honda in 2001.
www.usatoday.com /sports/motor/formula1/digest.htm   (777 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Alonso toasts 'dream' win
The 22-year-old became the youngest ever winner in Formula One, surpassing American Troy Ruttman, who won in the United States in 1952.
Not only did Alonso become the first Spaniard to win a grand prix, but he also delivered Renault's first victory since Alain Prost won in Australia 20 years ago.
He also became the eighth different winner this season, storming to his maiden victory in his 29th Grand Prix.
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 The Bullwinkle Show: Banana Formula (7, 8 & 9) - TV.com
Boris and Natasha, with their tape recording of Bullwinkle hiccupping the secret formula, are off to rendezvous with Fearless Leader, jetting in from Pottsylvania.
And when Rocky calls Army Intelligence a contradiction in terms, the two agents bind and gag him and the Narrator too.
Tell the world what you think of Banana Formula (7, 8 & 9), write a review for this episode.
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 Settling in to New York 1959   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It was the first time anyone had provided such information and from the first lesson I made progress.
Within a year our lessons had reached that formula point where we were going through a routine.
The ballet's winter season began in December with Vicky busy rehearsing new productions for the post-Nutcracker part of the season which would run through the first week of February.
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 iLikeRacing.com » Open Wheel Racing News And Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Posted in Formula One News on Jul 15, 2005 at 2:54 PM
Hockenheim, which lies close to the cities of Mannheim and Heidelberg, underwent a radical change of its own in 2002, when the circuit's long, forest-lined straights were axed in favour of a more compact, 4.574-kilometre (2.842-mile) layout.
Michelin has started the second phase of the 2005 Formula One world championship in exactly the same manner that it began its campaign in Australia - with convincing victories at Magny-Cours and Silverstone.
ilikeracing.com /formula_one_news/the_stadium_of_light_20050715.html   (990 words)

  
 Formula One 1959
Formula 1 Season History Statistics CustomStat Compare Link
Who had victory and pole on same track
1959 Season Circuits Standings Driver List Driver Rezults Statistics Next Year: 1960 Previous: 1958
www.4mula1.ro /history/year/1959   (55 words)

  
 UpdateF1 >>
People talk about the end of the "Michael Schumacher Era" in Formula One.
It will end only when his records are beaten
• END OF SEASON POLL - FINAL CHANCE
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