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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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 BT Research - Formula One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 was a new formula agreed after World War II in 1946, with the first non-championship races being held that year.
Formula 1 is generally one of the biggest global TV draws behind the Football World Cup and the Olympics.
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 Packers.com » Tickets » Season Tickets
Season ticket holders who choose to cancel all or a portion of their season tickets must submit their intent to cancel in writing to the Packers Ticket Office prior to paying their season ticket invoice, but no later than June 1.
Season tickets are revocable licenses that may be revoked, and admission refused, at the sole discretion of the Packers by refunding the printed price thereon.
Any season ticket holder whose Green Bay Packers ticket(s) are found to be used for, or in conjunction with, any commercial purposes or promotions, including, but not limited to sweepstakes, giveaways or drawings will have their season ticket privileges permanently revoked with regard to those tickets in question.
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 Formula 1 complete - F1 info, stats and news - Ferrari (Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In the 1961 Formula One season, with new rules for 1500cm³, the team kept Hill, von Trips and Ginther, and debuted another Chiti-designed car, the Ferrari 156 based on the Formula 2 car of 1960, which was dominant throughout the season.
The 1965 Formula One season was the last year of the 1.5-liter formula, so Ferrari opted to use the same V8 engine another year together with a new flat-12 which had debuted at the end of 1964; they won no races as Clark dominated in his now more reliable Lotus.
The 1968 Formula One season was better; Jacky Ickx drove with one win in France and several good positions, which gave him a chance at the World Championship until a practise crash in Canada, and Amon led several races but won none.
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 Formula One - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Formula One, abbreviated to F1, and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of single-seat open-wheel formula auto racing.
The formula has seen many evolutions and changes through the history of the sport: engines have ranged from normally-aspirated straight-4 engines to supercharged V12 engines, displacements have ranged from 1.5 litres to 4.5 litres, and the maximum power achieved in the history of the series has been around 1200 bhp, during the turbo era.
Formula 1 is generally one of the biggest global TV draws behind football and the Olympics.
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 A Racing Class called Formula Junior
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.
By the middle of the 1960 Formula Junior season, it was clear that the only way to win would be with a rear-engine machine.
By the end of 1960 there were more than 100 manufacturers of Formula Junior racing cars worldwide, and by the end of 1963 this number had increased to close to 500.
www.europeancarweb.com /features/0401ec_formula_junior   (2275 words)

  
 BMWTeaM - Formula 1 Motorsporları   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In one of those races, late in the season at Mosport in Canada, his Lola suffered a suspension failure and crashed heavily, leaving Surtees with multiple injuries.
After a frustrating 1969 season with BRM Surtees decided to follow the lead of Jack Brabham and Bruce McLaren and form his own team, though he was destined to have much less success.
In nine Formula One seasons the best results for Team Surtees were a second and a third for Mike Hailwood, himself a multiple world champion on bikes.
www.bmwteam.net /extremem3e46/efsanepilotlar/johnsurtees.asp   (1511 words)

  
 Formula 1 : Team McLaren - F1-Live.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
His Formula one debut came the following year with Cooper, and by the time the season was over, he was a regularly scoring points, actually winning the final race of the season at Sebring making him the youngest ever Grand Prix driver.
It was a slow start to the season for the team as they worked hard on the suspension geometry to get the best out of the Michelin rubber in qualifying trim, but from the fourth round of the championship at Imola, the team had the pace to challenge for race wins each time out.
Heading into the 2006 season, the team had lost the design talents of Adrian Newey to Red Bull and while pre-season testing was promising, they would end the season having failed to win a race for the first time in a decade.
www.f1-live.com /f1/en/teams/mclaren.shtml   (1773 words)

  
 cars - 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.
After the deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger during the 1994 season, the FIA mandated higher safety standards; modern Formula One circuits feature gravel traps and tyre barriers to reduce risk of injury in crashes.
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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 The Major League RBI Equivalency Formula   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Using all of the major league data for the seasons from 1955-1999, the formula was less than one percent off.
Furthermore, applying the formula to the each of the individual season totals for each league, the predictions for only nine of the 90 major league seasons were off by more than five percent.
The RBI formula was applied to these frequencies for the 77 individual players with adjustments made for their batting order position.
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 Formula One Motor Racing FAQ (modified 3/14/97), Part 1/2
Michael Schumacher's recruitment for the 1996 season seemed to rejuvinate the team and, after a string of embarrassing mechanical failures, the team managed three victories and 2nd place in the constructor's championship.
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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 Grand Prix Cars - Lotus 49
The 3 liter Formula was now one year old and after an unsuccessful 1966 season using a variety of engines including the H-16 BRM, Chapman was desperate for a new power source.
Most observers felt that a 12 cylinder engine would be bare minimum required for the 3 liter Formula and BRM continued with their 16 but the 8 cylinder had many adherents back in Detroit.
The new engine was finally ready for the third race of the season, the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.
www.ddavid.com /formula1/lotus-ford-49.htm   (1293 words)

  
 NFL.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The current system, which was adopted in 1973, removes inequities that existed in the former method and, at the same time, provides a means of comparing passing performances from one season to the next.
The 2.375 figure in average yards is 12.50, compared with the NFL record of 11.17 by Tommy O'Connell (Cleveland, 1957).
This same formula can be used to determine a passer rating for any player who attempts at least one pass.
www.nfl.com /news/981202qbrate.html   (553 words)

  
 The Ultimate Formula One - American History Information Guide and Reference
Non-championship Formula One races were held for many years, but due to rising costs and sinking interest, the last of these ended in the early 1980s.
During the early 2000s, Bernie Ecclestone's Formula One Administration created a number of trademarks and an official website for the sport (formula1.com) in an attempt to give it a corporate identity.
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.
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 Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire, LLC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Indianapolis 500 was a stop for the FIA World Driver’s Championship from 1950 through 1960; all 11 of those events were won by Firestone-equipped drivers.
Formula One champions who rode on Firestone tires include Graham Hill in 1968, Jochen Rindt in 1970 and Emerson Fittipaldi in 1972.
At the start of the 2003 season, Firestone has a record of 686 documented Indy car wins -- an impressive number considering the Firestone Racing program began a 20-year hiatus from the top forms of motorsports at the end of the 1974 season.
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 Grand Prix Hall of Fame - Jimmy Clark - Biography
Ironically in 1959 the Border Reivers planned to buy a single-seater Formula 2 Lotus for Clark but after watching Graham Hill lose a wheel in a similar car, Clark decided that the Lotus cars were not safe and that he would stick to sports cars for the time being.
The new 3-litre Formula introduced in 1966 led to a down year for Lotus as they did not have an engine that was competitive.
Clark won at Zandvoort in the legendary engine's first start yet it was too late in the season and Clark had to settle for 3rd place in the World Championship.
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 History of Monaco Grand Prix Monte Carlo F1 Hotels & Monaco GP tickets - Grand Prix Tours   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The new season of the World Championship brought a very different line up to the Monaco Grand Prix from the year previous.
One unfortunate piece of news for the 1966 season was that Coventry Climax, owned by Jaguar, had withdrawn from F1 racing.
The Monaco Grand Prix was the second race of the 1967 season and it took place five months after the Grand Prix at Kyalami.
www.gptours.com /new/history.php/id/7051/decade/1960   (3716 words)

  
 Low-Drag Designs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
His research was based on his Chaparral series of cars and the wings added to the Formula 1 cars of the late 1960’s.
Formula 1 racing contributed many milestones to the world of aerodynamics.
The prologue of aerofoils during the 1968 season of Formula 1 racing was what started the frenzied rate of maturing for Formula 1 technology.
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 DVD Review - The Flintstones: The Complete First Season   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The show was an instant hit with TV audiences, and appeared in first-run broadcast for 6 seasons.
You followed that up with a game of whatever sport was in season with your friends and a tour of the neighborhood on your Big Wheel...
It's just a couple of minutes long, and most of the voice talent is different than the final product, but you get to see the very first appearance of Fred, Barney, Wilma and Betty.
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 A History of Ferrari in Formula One - The 1960's
Engine size had been reduced to 1.5 liters and two different V6 "Dino" engines were available from the previous year's Formula 2 efforts ­ one with a 60-degree vee angle and a newer one with a flatter 120 degree.
Surtees was already a motorcycle-racing champion including several seasons with the Italian MV Augusta team.
He quickly made the switch to 4 wheels in the early 1960's and his engineering and race car development skills were a huge benefit to the team.
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 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.
He was 500cc motorcycling champion with MV Agusta in 1956, 1958, 1959 and 1960, also taking the 350cc title in 1958, 1959 and 1960.
Hill excused himself from the victory celebrations and Ferrari withdrew from the final race of the season at Watkins Glen.
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 Jim Clark's 1960 Formula One season   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Signed by Colin Chapman to drive the Team Lotus Formula Junior and Formula Two cars, Clark jointly took the FJ Championship with teammate Trevor Taylor with three wins, and having led at Monaco.
The 1960 season was the last contested with 2.5 litre engines.
Louis Stanley, husband of BRM co-owner Jean Stanley, said of Clark at the end of 1960 that he had a tendency to drive a fraction beyond his ability, and that fearlessness could be his undoing.
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 Formula One History - The Early Years
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.
His career declined, leading to retirement, following accidents during the 1960 Belgium Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps, where Moss was thrown from the car, breaking both legs, after a rear axle broke at over 130 mph, and an even worse shunt at Goodwood in 1962.
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 1960 United States Grand Prix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Race 10 of 10 in the 1960 Formula One season.
The 1960 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on November 20, 1960 at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California.
Phil Hill was astonished at the "incredible" difference in handling between the year-old, rear-engined green and red Cooper he was given for the race and the Monza-winning Dino Ferrari he had been driving all season, but he managed to put it only thirteenth on the grid.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1960_United_States_Grand_Prix   (847 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Formula 1 in Camera, 1960-69: Books: Paul Parker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
For many fans, this was the era when Formula 1 was at its peak - thrilling and dangerous, but still a sport.
It is exactly as the publishers synopsis indicates - a truly wonderful photographic account of Formula One racing during the 1960's.
The book is very well laid out - each year is preceded with a short and concise summary of events that take place that year and is concluded with a page of data covering teams and drivers, results etc. Very concise and not overdone as is the case with so many books of this type.
www.amazon.co.uk /Formula-Camera-1960-69-Paul-Parker/dp/1844252183   (594 words)

  
 IGN Boards - ~France (07/16/2006)~
In 1960 Jean Bernigaud built a racing circuit on farm land near to Magny Cours in the Upper Loire, France.
So far this season he has climbed to sixth place in the drivers’ standing after winning 26 points for the team.
The Japanese youngster, who has competed in both Super GT and Formula Nippon, may be in line to race in the German Grand Prix alongside veteran Takuma Sato.
boards.ign.com /formula_one_racing/b5763/121863433/p1   (3552 words)

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