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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.
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The Monaco Grand Prix is a Formula One race held annually in the Principality of Monaco.
The Monaco Grand Prix counted toward the European Championship from 1936 to 1939 (although the race was cancelled in 1938).
The Monaco Grand Prix was one of the inaugural races in the Formula One championship in 1950.
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 The Story of the Grand Prix Pt6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
With the cancellation of the Grand Prix of Argentina the first race of the season would be Monte Carlo.
As is their wont at Ferrari their 1962 season suffered due to internal politics that exploded into a major rebellion at the factory that saw a mass walkout of engineers and technical staff including their chief engineer and team manager.
The German Grand Prix at the famous Nurburgring saw Porsche determined to win the race in front of their home crowd.
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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1962 Results > Belgian GP
Porsche was not present for the Belgian race because of a strike in Stuttgart and so it was left for Ferrari to take on the usual British teams.
On lap nine, however, Clark was at the front and he then began to pull away from Taylor who himself moved clear of Mairesse until he spun on lap 17 and came under pressure once again from the Belgian Ferrari driver.
Clark was left with a big lead over Graham Hill, who battled a misfiring BRM most of the way, and Phil Hill who was able to hold off Rodriguez by a tenth of a second for third place.
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 Grand Prix Auto Racing. FREE Quality Information on Grand Prix Auto Racing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the British Grand Prix on July 18, Hunt injured his wrist in a seven-car pile-up going into the first bend of the first lap.
The first Western Grand Prix of the United States, on March 28, was run through the downtown streets of Long Beach, Calif. Clay Regazzoni of Switzerland won in a Ferrari, and Lauda was second.
In the Japanese Grand Prix, the season finale, Hunt came in third and thus ended the season one point ahead of Lauda.
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 Tasman-Series.com : The 2.5L Tasman Series 1964-69
I remember that 1962 German Grand Prix at Nurburgring, when on the start line he forgot to switch his fuel pumps on, and so was left behind at the start.
Similarly, in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in 1967 he did something which up to that point I, and I think most people, had felt was impossible.
This could have been due to the fact that the second Grand Prix race he ever did was at Spa when his team mate Alan Stacey met with a fatal accident, and I think this sort of thing made a lasting impression on him.
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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.
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The most prominent example is that of Belgian sports car ace Olivier Gendebien, who raced a yellow Ferrari at his 1958 home Grand Prix.
Born from a wealthy Belgian family (some sources actually convert his wealth into aristocracy) in Brussels on 12 January 1924, Gendebien was a paratrooper in World War II before spending some four years in forestry in the Congo, where he met a rally driver named Charles Fraikin.
He was fit for the start of 1956 and, with virtually no single-seater experience behind him, finished fifth on his Grand Prix debut at the Argentine GP, followed by sixth in the Mendoza GP.
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 Sandcastle V.I. - Auto Racing Classics - Dan Gurney: All American Racer / Part 3
Fittingly, the new team's cars would be called "Eagles." The Grand Prix Eagle had many teething problems, including late delivery of the custom-built Gurney-Weslake V-12 engine.
Although on an overall basis the Eagle Grand Prix program was not successful, Dan Gurney can justifiably be proud of what he was able to accomplish against the heavily financed factory teams in Europe.
His victory in the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix still stands as a remarkable achievement considering the small size and limited resources of the All American Racers team at the the time.
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 Button Makes Formula One History
The world governing body FIA said a hearing with three judges was expected in Paris at the start of next week, before Imola hosts the San Marino Grand Prix on April 9.
Two weeks later and, after completing a grand prix for the first time in his life with great poise and confidence, the Briton found himself with more points than the entire McLaren team and their world champion Mika Hakkinen.
Last season was overshadowed by a similar measuring controversy involving Ferrari, whose aerodynamic barge boards were found to be illegal, at the penultimate Malaysian Grand Prix.
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 Wikinfo | Phil Hill
He made his debut in the French Grand Prix at Reims France in 1958 driving a Maserati.
That same year, he won the 24 hours of Le Mans with Belgian team mate Olivier Gendebien (1924-1998), driving for most of the night in horrific rainy conditions.
After leaving Ferrari at the end of 1962, he continued in Formula One for a few more years until he switched to sports car racing with Ford and Jim Hall’s Chaparral racing cars.
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 American GP - Dan Gurney
The Grand Prix effort was based in Rye on the south coast of England near the Weslake factory.
The 1966 Grand Prix season was soon upon the young team and still the Weslake V-12 was not ready.
At the Italian Grand Prix the Weslake V-12 finally appeared but it was far from ready and retired after seventeen laps.
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Dan Gurney in his Porsche graces the cover, giving Porsche their one and only victory in Formula 1 at the 1962 French Grand Prix.
In what must be one of the most beautiful racing photos of all time, Jim Clark is shown at Spa heading for a memorable first win at the 1962 Belgian Grand Prix.
Ayrton Senna's splashing maiden win in the rain at the 1985 Portuguese Grand Prix is probably one of the greatest drives in Formula 1 history.
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 Formula One History - The British Era
Between 1962 and 1973, British F1 teams won 12 World Championships with drivers the likes of Scots Jim Clark and Jackie Stewart, Australian Jack Brabham, Englishman Graham Hill and New Zealander Denny Hulme.
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.
He won four straight Belgian GPs at the tremendously difficult Spa-Francorchamps circuit, a track he despised, and was masterful in wet conditions.
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 Grand Prix Hall of Fame - Jochen Rindt - Biography
He was already something of a national hero in Austria, and won the Prix du Tyrol at Innsbruck in an Abarth 2000.
His first year at Lotus was marked by a scary accident during the Spanish Grand Prix where his aerofoil collapsed, resulting in a broken jaw and concussion.
In his home Grand Prix, at the Osterreichring, Rindt failed to finish and his main rival Jacky Ickx led a Ferrari 1-2.
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 St. Petersburg Grand Prix: Mexican contingent reveres forerunners
Last year's grand prix (in Mexico City) was the biggest sporting event in the history of the country." It drew about 180,000 spectators for the race and about 300,000 for the weekend.
He won his first race as a Grand Prix regular, the 1967 South African GP, and the Belgian GP three years later.
He was driving a Ferrari in an inconsequential sports car race in Germany and challenging for the lead when a slower amateur driver failed to see him and forced him into the wall, causing Rodriguez to perish in a fiery crash.
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The Grand Prix formula, now extended to the end of 1960, now stipulates the use of AvGas in the place of alcohol fuels and reduces the length of Championship events from 500 km or three hours to 300 km or two hours.
Italian Grand Prix is held on the Monza banked track, British teams boycott the race on safety grounds.
Following the Italian Grand Prix, a new safety measure is introduced to F1: medical cars follow Formula One cars on the formation lap of every Grand Prix, in order to improve reaction time in case of a first lap accident.
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 XAR 11   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It subsequently was fitted with a 1500 cc FWB and was campaigned that year in sports car races at Rouen, the British Grand Prix F-2 support race, Brands Hatch, Oulton Park and Imola.
Moran campaigned that summer in Europe and results included a 9th place finish at the Belgian Grand Prix for sports cars at Spa.
It was then sold to H. Warren Rohlfs, who ran it with a friend, Eric Pasquini, in sports car races in the Northeast until 1962, when it was part traded for a Jaguar at a Connecticut dealership.
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 Mahmood’s Den » The History of Formula One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Grand Prix started with the driver’s cup and in 1958 a constructor’s cup was established as a reward for the team accumulating the most points each season.
The 1983 season with its 15 Grand Prix witnessed a fierce competition between a number of the drivers mainly Nelson Piquet that continued to wage a war against the drivers especially French Alain Prost who drove for Renault and Ferrari’s driver Rene Arnoux.
The first Grand Prix win for Stewart in 1973 was at the South African Grand Prix and then followed by the Belgian Grand Prix the same year.
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 Formula one statistics
A driver is considered to be "entered" into a Grand Prix if they attempt to compete in at least one official practice session with the intent of entering the race.
1987 Monaco Grand Prix — 1987 Portuguese Grand Prix
Grand Chelem (Pole, Win, Fastest Lap and leader all race in same Grand Prix)
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 Istria on the Internet - Prominent Istrians - Mario Andretti
Driving a Lotus, Mario realized his lifelong dream and qualified on the pole on his very first Formula One race at the 1968 United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, but was forced out of the race with a clutch problem.
He won the Japanese Grand Prix, then in 1977 still with the Lotus, won the Western (at Long Beach) United States, Spanish, French and Italian (at Monza) Grand Prix.
In 1982 he returned to Ferrari and took part in the two last Grand Prix races of his career, in Italy, where he obtained his eighteenth pole position and came in third.
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 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.
Jackie Ickx the Belgian driver (who replaced Hulme when he moved to McLaren) was second in the 1969 Championship in the Brabham-Ford car.
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 Honda's Formula 1 Racing History in Autosport.com - NSX Prime
Although John Surtees was Honda's most successful Grand Prix driver, in the course of its last season in 1968, Honda retained other drivers on occasion to join Surtees for one-off performances, including Jo Bonnier for the Mexican Grand Prix and David Hobbs for the Italian Grand Prix.
Born in the former French colony of Madagascar, Schlesser had been in and about Grand Prix circles for years and had a solid background in French National racing, both as a sportscar driver and in open-wheel racing.
It was decided on the Thursday morning before the Grand Prix that the Honda RA302 air-cooled V8 would run as an entrant of "Honda Racing (France)" and that Schlesser, as a popular French driver, should drive the RA302.
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 Manufacturer - Dan Gurney
Their initial focus was Indianapolis 500 and Goodyears battle with Firestone, but Gurneys first love was road racing, especially in Europe, and he wanted to win the Formula One World Championship while driving an American Grand Prix Eagle racing team.
The Weslake V12 engine was not ready for the 1966 Grand Prix season, so the team used four-cylinder 2.7-liter Coventry-Climax engines and made their first appearance in the second race of the year in Belgium.
His last Formula One race was the 1970 British Grand Prix.
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 1970 Triumph T100
These bikes were best known for their wins at Daytona in 1962 (Don Burnett), 1966 (Buddy Elmore), and 1967 (Gary Nixon).
In July of 1969, Percy came in second, at the Belgian Grand Prix.
One month later, at the Swedish Grand Prix in Anderstorp, Percy won the non-points race.
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As a result of the rivalry the grand Prix had two homes, alternating between Mosport Park and Mont-Tremblant.
JULY 31st: Although Hungary hosted a Grand Prix way back in 1930’s, the events like Second World War and the Iron Curtain led to a withdrawal lasting almost three decades.
OCTOBER 10th: The fans world over are awaiting the Formula One World Championship, China Grand Prix to be held in Shanghai.
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Frank had the Cooper shipped to the U.S. He received the car on a Thursday and by that Saturday was already racing it at Riverside, where it had run in the Grand Prix two years earlier.
That was the first year of the Mexican Grand Prix, which was not a very long tow from Southern California.
If you are interested in owning one of the most historically significant Grand Prix cars of all time, this is a true opportunity.
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