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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.
	www.speedace.info /grand_prix_history.htm (14761 words)

	Wikinfo \| Monaco Grand Prix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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 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.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Monaco_Grand_Prix (305 words)

	The Story of the Grand Prix Pt6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With the cancellation of the Grand Prix of Argentina the first race of the season would be Monte Carlo.
		The French Grand Prix was held at Rouen in Normandy.
		The German Grand Prix at the famous Nurburgring saw Porsche determined to win the race in front of their home crowd.
	www.bonus.com /contour/Grand_Prix_History/http@@/www.ddavid.com/formula1/story5.htm (2755 words)

	Belgian Grand Prix - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		To accommodate Grand Prix motor racing, the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps race course was built in 1921 but it was only used for motorcycle racing until 1924.
		The first Belgian Grand Prix was won by Antonio Ascari whose son Alberto would win the race in 1952 and 1953.
		There was no Belgian Grand Prix in 2003 because of the country's tobacco advertising laws but it returned to the schedule again in 2004.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Belgian_Grand_Prix (786 words)

	Soup :: MotoGP Preview: German Grand Prix
		The betandwin.com Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland is a key race for championship leader Nick Hayden after his worst finish of the season, a seventh place struggle at Donington Park almost two weeks ago.
		The last grand prix staged on the old circuit was won by Agostini riding the MV Agusta in 1972 and the consensus from the German public, and even from the German racing organisations, was that the end of that particular era would see the demise of the event in that part of the country.
		Grand Prix motorcycle racing returned to the venue in 1998 and has been on the calendar every year since with the track being gradually extended and a new pit complex constructed in 2001.
	www.superbikeplanet.com /2006/Jul/tb/060713x.htm (1720 words)

	McLaren
		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)

	Grand Prix Tours - Press Releases and Published Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Grand Prix Tours puts race fans in the middle of the action like no other racing tour in the world.
		Grand Prix Tours has been in operation since 1983, when Simpson first started organizing tours from a ramshackle office inside a girlfriend's garage in southern California.
		Drivers in the Canadian Grand Prix discuss the race with tour participants during a themed party at the Intercontinental Hotel.
	www.gptours.com /pr.html?pressid=7 (1371 words)

	Italian Grand Prix - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		The Italian Grand Prix is one of the longest running events on the motor racing calendar.
		The Italian Grand Prix counted toward the European Championship from 1935 to 1938.
		The Italian Grand Prix was one of the inaugural Formula One championship races in 1950, and has been held every year since then.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Italian_Grand_Prix (190 words)

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		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)

	Atlas F1 Magazine: The F1 FAQ
		In 1980, the Italian Grand Prix would be held at Imola and this non-championship race was more or less a rehearsal.
		Of the 670 World Championship Grands Prix that have been held to date, this year's Austrian Grand Prix was the 63rd time this has occurred.
		In the earlier days it was up to the Grand Prix organisers to distribute the numbers, so yes indeed, it was on a race by race basis.
	www.atlasf1.com /2001/mon/faq.html (1297 words)

	F1A&G - Legendary Races
		It was not Mansell's first British GP victory (that was in 1986), and not his the most dramatic of his four career wins (that was in 1987, overtaking Nelson Piquet), but certainly his most rewarding.
		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)

	MSN India - Tata Racing
		A former World War 2 bomber airfield, the circuit hosted the British Grand Prix together with the Aintree track in the 50s, and later with Brands Hatch from the 60s to the 80s.
		The first major development work on Silverstone began in 1961 under the ownership of the British Racing Drivers Club.
		British motorsport received a boost at the end of 1999 when it was awarded the contract to host the British Grand Prix for the next 15 years.
	server1.msn.co.in /tataracing/circuits/british.asp (396 words)

	Formula One History - The British Era
		espite Moss's mid-1950s heroics, the British era really began in 1958, when Mike Hawthorn captured the F1 championship driving the Ferrari 246 — after the death of fellow Brit Peter Collins in the French GP at Reims — and Moss once again finished second in the Vanwall (designed by Colin Chapman).
		the first British World Champion — retired at season end, only to be killed just months later in a road accident in his Jaguar in January 1959.
		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)

	Auto Racing History 1½-litre Grand Prix Racing 1961-65 Book Review
		Formula 1 Grand Prix racing also went through this exercise when the FIA, shockingly, announced they were abandoning the 2½-liter engine formula in favor of a 1½-liter sized power plant, the same as in Formula 2, starting with the 1961 season.
		This is a shame, because many important historic moments in Grand Prix racing came out of that period.
		For any Grand Prix enthusiast, or racing fan in general, the 1½-litre Grand Prix Racing 1961-65 - Low Power, High Tech is a must to fill in that historic hole on your bookshelf.
	www.deepthrottle.com /History/litre_book_review.shtml (927 words)

	Top 10 cars \| MSN Cars UK - Top 10: greatest-ever F1 innovations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But plenty of examples of the Grand Prix engineers’ dark art have been too weird, impractical or costly to ever help you or I drive down a public road.
		British Racing Motors decided to take their existing V8, and rather than add a blower, stack two of them on top of one another, sharing a common crankshaft.
		On its debut at the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix the car won easily in the hands of Niki Lauda and the other teams were in uproar.
	cars.uk.msn.com /news/top_ten_article.aspx?cp-documentid=580071 (1697 words)

	German Grand Prix 2001 - The Good Gambling Guide
		And the first of these may be the last Grand Prix on the Hockenheimring in its current state: it's the second longest circuit currently to Spa, and it's the second fastest, to Monza.
		Nurburgring hosted early World Championship Grands Prix until the end of the fifties when a single race was run on the autobahns of the Avus, just outside Berlin but then the Grand Prix returned to the Nurburgring again.
		Hockenheim had its first Grand Prix in 1970 and then after Niki Lauda's accident at the Nurburgring - one of only two German Grand Prix race stoppages, incidentally - the race returned to the circuit by the Rhine in 1977, briefly returning to the 'new' Nurburgring for the 1985 race.
	www.thegoodgamblingguide.co.uk /thisweek/2001/grandprix/latestgrandprixpreview.htm (1399 words)

	The Honda History Page
		Although Honda only returned to Grand Prix racing in 2000, the company boasts a distinguished pedigree in all forms of motorsport and it is often said that racing is in Honda’s DNA.
		By 1968, Honda had recorded two Grand Prix victories, and had also starred in the F2 championship in which Jack Brabham had claimed 11 consecutive victories in 1966.
		The decision to withdraw from Grand Prix racing at the end of 1992 was taken in light of the company having achieved all the targets that had been set for the programme, but within eight years, the challenge of top level motor sport proved too great for Honda to resist.
	www.geocities.com /sgarvey/histhonda.html (762 words)

	United States Grand Prix
		It was also the 13th win for Ferrari in the Italian Grand Prix and the third in a row for the team.
		Panis, an 11-year veteran of 156 F1 races and winner of the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix, will not eligible to run the third car during Friday practice sessions because the driver of the third car must not have participated in more than six Grands Prix in the last two years, according to FIA regulations.
		USGP tickets: Tickets for the 2005 United States Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway can be purchased online at www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com or by calling the IMS ticket office at (317) 492-6700 or (800) 822-INDY outside the Indianapolis area.
	www.usgpindy.com /news/story.php?story_id=3540 (1430 words)

	Sy Kaback: Grand Prix Imported Cars
		Sy Kaback formed Grand Prix Imported Cars for the purpose of importing Lotus and other British cars like MG and Morris.
		Grand Prix ad which ran in the October 1961 issue of the SCCA's Sports Car magazine...
		Grand Prix went on to sell about 125 Lotus cars in total, mostly to eager "sports car-types" who would enter their new machines in various motoring competitions.
	www.simplesevens.org /sykaback/09.htm (408 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.
		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.
		In 1961 the Ferrari pilot Wolfgang von Trips ran an excellent race and lead home team mates Phil Hill and Richie Ginther in a 1-2-3 for the Scuderia's sharknosed machines.
	www.gpracing.net192.com /circuits/13.cfm (339 words)

	American GP - Phil Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After an exciting duel the race was won by Hill, becoming only the second American to win a European Grand Prix after Jimmy Murphy 39 years earlier.
		In 1961 a new 1.5 liter formula was introduced and Ferrari was ready with a new engine powering a rear-engined car.
		Von Trips scored the next victory at the British Grand Prix but the following race was on the German's home track at the Nurburgring.
	www.bonus.com /contour/Grand_Prix_History/http@@/www.ddavid.com/formula1/phill.htm (617 words)

	f1 facts page 2
		MICHEL MAY DROVE IN 2 GRANDS PRIX - THE 1961 MONACO GP IN A PORSCHE AND THE 1961 BRITISH GP AT AINTREE IN A SCUDERIA COLONIA LOTUS 18.
		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.
	www.f1cartvideos.com /funfactsonf12.html (1798 words)

	Brabham
		John Cooper was responsible for the rear engine layout design, which has become the standard for grand prix cars in the modern era.
		In 1964 the Brabham team enjoyed their first grand prix victory with the BT7 car driven by the American Dan Gurney.
		It is sad to see the demise of a successful team in such a short time, but it is a reflection of how competitive modern grand prix racing can be.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/john_hopkinson/brabham.htm (975 words)

	United States Grand Prix
		He won 15 more Grand Prix races, including the USGP at Riverside, Calif., in ’60, and his final win came in the German Grand Prix at Nurburgring on Aug. 6, 1961.
		His last Grand Prix start was the USGP on Oct. 6, 1961, at Watkins Glen, N.Y. He was leading when he fell out with mechanical problems on Lap 59 of 100.
		In 1961, he won the last F1 race at Oulton Park, which also was last F1 race won by a front-engine car.
	www.usgpindy.com /news/story.php?story_id=3664 (1061 words)

	Grand Prix 2001 - Round 9 - Sachsenring - Preview
		The MotoGP riders face the Cinzano Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland at the tight demanding Sachsenring circuit on Sunday before enjoying their summer break, just over half way through the 16-round title chase that began in April.
		Following his fifth grand prix victory of the season in the last round in England, Rossi leads his great rival Max Biaggi by 26 points and so will stay ahead regardless of the result after this ninth round on Sunday.
		Rossi won the 250cc race at this the slowest and shortest track in 1999 but Biaggi has yet to win at the track which was re-opened for grand prix racing in 1998.
	www.mcnews.com.au /MotorcycleRacing2001/GrandPrix500/Round9/Preview.htm (3426 words)

	GrandPrix.com > Store
		The Belgian Grand Prix: Spa-Francorchamps, June 20, 1954
		The Donington Grand Prix: Donington, October 22, 1938
		The Donnington Grand Prix: Donnington October 2, 1937
	store.grandprix.com /shop/index.php?cPath=7_33 (152 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1961 Results > British GP
		With just a fortnight between the French and British Grands Prix the field at Aintree was not very different from that which had been seen at Reims, although Rob Walker ran a four-wheel-drive Ferguson for Jack Fairman, although this was also driven by Stirling Moss during practice.
		Moss took over Fairman's Ferguson after he had retired but was eventually called into the pits and disqualified for having received a push-start.
		British GP, Aintree, July 15, 1961, Round: 5, Race Number: 99
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/rr099.html (287 words)

	BBC Sport \| In Depth \| Grand National 2002
		As well as horse racing, Aintree has also hosted a European and five British Grand Prix.
		Stirling Moss won his first Grand Prix in Liverpool in 1955.
		The cost of the building work is in the region of £20,000 and takes a month to complete.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport/hi/english/static/in_depth/other_sports/2002/grand_national/fascinating_facts/17_20.stm (113 words)

	BRITISH GRAND PRIX HEROES: Sporting Life \| MotoGP, Superbikes, Rallying, Athletics, Sports News, Live Scores, Betting ...
		British fans at Brands Hatch threatened a riot in 1976 if he were not allowed to take a restart, such was their devotion.
		His clashes with Michael Schumacher, his championship near misses, it all struck a chord with a British public used to supporting the underdog.
		British drivers were not considered much good in a car before Moss rewrote the rule book.
	www.sportinglife.com /others/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=others/06/06/05/AUTO_British_Heroes.html (361 words)

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