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	Monaco Grand Prix Monte Carlo F1 Hotels & Monaco GP tickets - Grand Prix Tours
		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.
	www.gptours.com /new/race.php/id/6051/Monaco-Grand-Prix (2484 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)

	The Story of the Grand Prix Pt6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		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 1962 season would be fought with reworked 1961 cars driven chiefly by Phil Hill and supported by Willy Mairesse, Ricardo Rodriguez, Giancarlo Baghetti and Lorenzo Bandini in the face of a strengthened British and German challenge.
	www.bonus.com /contour/Grand_Prix_History/http@@/www.ddavid.com/formula1/story5.htm (2755 words)

	Wikinfo \| Monaco Grand Prix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		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)

	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)

	1962 in sports
		See also: 1961 in sports, other events of 1962, 1963 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.
		March 24, 1962 - Emile Griffith regained the World Welterweight Championship by knocking out Benny the "Kid" Paret in the 12th round.
		Paret died ten days later on April 3, 1962 as a result of severe head injuries sustained in the fight.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1962_in_sports.html (411 words)

	Grand Prix Cars - Porsche F1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Grand Prix Cars - Porsche F1 Porsche began their road to Formula 1 in 1959 when they produced a flat 4-cylinder Formula 2 car that was derived from their RSK sports car.
		While the British constructors were adopting lightweight alloy wheels to reduce unsprung weight and fuel-injection, Prosche stayed with carburetors and steel rims.
		The next event was the German Grand Prix which was run in torrential rain.
	www.bonus.com /contour/Grand_Prix_History/http@@/www.ddavid.com/formula1/porsche-f1.htm (367 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1962 Results > British GP
		For the second year running the British GP was held at Aintree and all the main teams were back in action after strikes had disrupted the appearance of Porsche at the Belgian GP and Ferrari at the French.
		After qualifying Jim Clark was fastest in his Lotus and shared the front row of the grid with John Surtees's Reg Parnell Racing Lola and Innes Ireland in his British Racing Partnership Lotus.
		Bruce McLaren (Cooper) and Graham Hill (BRM) shared the second row while French GP winner Dan Gurney was on row three in his Porsche alongside his team mate Jo Bonnier and the second BRM of Ritchie Ginther.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/rr107.html (288 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)

	Clark and Gurney: The Best of Both Worlds
		But it was at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza that Clark's 1961 season turned permanently sour, when he was involved in a chilling accident between his Lotus and the Ferrari of Wolfgang von Trips.
		By 1962, the other teams had narrowed the gap with Ferrari; Lotus, Cooper and Lola who were now using the Coventry-Climax V8's, BRM introduced its own "stack pipe" V8, and the Porsche 804 had a new air-cooled flat-8 as well.
		But the 1962 British Grand Prix at Aintree was what would become known as Vintage Jim Clark: he qualified on pole, set fastest lap and led throughout, lapping everyone but the top three finishers.
	www.atlasf1.com /2001/jan31/okeefe.html?print=1 (2788 words)

	Formula One - WebArticles.com
		A number of Grand Prix racing organisations laid out rules for a World Championship before World War II, but due to the suspension of racing during the war, the World Drivers Championship was not formalised until 1947, and was first run in 1950.
		In 1962, Lotus introduced a car with aluminium sheet chassis called a monocoque in place of the traditional tubular chassis; this proved to be the next major technological breakthrough since the introduction of mid-engined cars.
		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.
	www.webarticles.com /print.php?id=522 (3829 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)

	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.
		Most of the corners were rather slow and unchallenging although its greatest asset was the facilities with the motor racing fans sharing the grandstands used for horse racing.
		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.
	www.gpracing.net192.com /circuits/13.cfm (339 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Wolfgang Seidel
		This German amateur raced intermittently in Grands Prix for a decade with little in the way of hard success, starting with a Veritas RS in the 1953 German Grand Prix and rounding it off with the 1962 British Grand Prix at Aintree in a Lotus-BRM 24.
		The eight Grand Prix starts separating those two events were tackled in a wide variety of cars ranging from a Scuderia Cento Sud Maserati 250F to a Formula 1 Cooper.
		His best placing was ninth in the 1960 Italian Grand Prix in his own Cooper-Climax T45.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/drv-seiwol.html (167 words)

	Formula One History - The British Era
		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.
		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.
	www.f1-grandprix.com /history3.html (670 words)

	The Nostalgia Column - Atlas F1 Special Project
		In 1962, the British Grand Prix was held for the second consecutive year at Aintree.
		The 1968 race was missing the presence of the previous year's winner, Jim Clark - the five-time winner of the Grand Prix died in an accident during a Formula Two race at the Hockenheim.
		In the year in which Emerson Fittipaldi grew from rookie to winner, the French Grand Prix had moved from Clermont-Ferrand to the new Le Castellet track in the south of the country.
	www.atlasf1.com /99/spn/project/schot-capps.html (1779 words)

	Top 10 cars \| MSN Cars UK - Top 10: greatest-ever British Grand Prix drivers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Ferrari offered him a drive in the Modena Grand Prix but Hawthorn crashed in a Cooper during practice and was out for the season.
		When Enzo’s son Dino died before the 1956 French Grand Prix, the five Ferrari drivers all wore fl armbands but it was Collins who won the race.
		It was the year in which he won his first Grand Prix at Silverstone but finished runner up in the Championship to team-mate Fangio.
	cars.uk.msn.com /news/top_ten_article.aspx?cp-documentid=554879 (1733 words)

	Clark and Gurney: The Best of Both Worlds
		The 1960 Portugese Grand Prix at Oporto was another noteworthy race in Clark's debut year in Grand Prix racing, as it summed up the conditions under which he drove.
		For Gurney, 1961 was a memorable year where he demonstrated that he deserved to be regarded as one of the top Grand Prix drivers.
		Tim Considine's "American Grand Prix Racing" was also relied on for research on both Dan Gurney and Jimmy Clark and on the periods in which they drove.
	www.atlasf1.com /2001/jan31/okeefe.html (2788 words)

	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.
		Rodriguez was under contract to British Racing Motors in 1971 when, as was common then, he raced on a non-Grand Prix weekend.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/02/21/Grandprix/Mexican_contingent_re.shtml (980 words)

	Formula One History - The Early Years
		On 10 April 1950, Juan Manuel Fangio, in a Maserati, won the Pau Grand Prix, the first contest to be labeled an "International Formula One" race.
		Moss became the first Briton to win the British Grand Prix, at Aintree in 1955, and the first to do so in a British car, the 1957 Vanwall VW5.
		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.
	www.f1-grandprix.com /history2.html (653 words)

	This Day in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Technological leaps made during World War II had rendered pre-war racing rules obsolete, so the Formula One guidelines were established in order to encompass the new type of racing--faster and more furious than anything the racing world had ever seen.
		Formula One was initiated for cars of 1,500cc supercharged and 4,500cc unsupercharged, and the minimum race distance was reduced from 500km to 300km, a change that allowed the famous Monaco Grand Prix to be reintroduced into official Grand Prix racing.
		In 1950, Giuseppe "Nino" Farina, driving an Alfa Romeo 158, won the first Formula One World Championship at the Silverstone British Grand Prix, and racing's most thrilling tradition was born.
	www.history.com /tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=7721 (241 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 17 \| 1955: Moss claims first Grand Prix victory
		But given the history of racing in his family it was inevitable that sooner or later Stirling Moss would win a Grand Prix.
		However, his strong sense of patriotism has kept him largely in British cars and it was not until last year he accepted an offer to join the German Mercedes-Benz team.
		His career was cut short in April 1962 when he had a serious accident during a race at the Goodwood track in Sussex.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/17/newsid_2981000/2981372.stm (500 words)

	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.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Adachi4101/dan-gurney-manufacturer.html (378 words)

	Sy Kaback: Grand Prix Imported Cars
		Colin was famous for promising the same car to a number of dealers, but Grand Prix was successful selling any car Lotus would happen to send.
		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)

	BRM Formula One Cars in Small Scale
		BRM (British Racing Motors) began right after WWII as an association of industrial companies to build an all-British Grand Prix car.
		Unfortunately, while BRM engineers were cooking up complex ideas and machining them out of whole metal in costly and ultimately fruitless experiments, British garage mechanics like Cooper and Lotus were throwing together light-weight rear-engine chassis with off-the-shelf parts and motors from Coventry Climax to win races and championships.
		BRM's original idea to bring British design and engineering to the forefront of the Grand Prix world was a good one and probably had a positive effect on other's efforts but they unfortunately had difficulty keeping up most of the time.
	www.breithaupts.com /totc355.htm (581 words)

	rpm.espn.com: Coulthard will have fans on his side
		LONDON -- Michael Schumacher returns to the scene of his Ferrari team's first ever grand prix victory this weekend hoping to make Formula One history himself at Silverstone.
		If Coulthard wins again he will become the first driver to complete a run of three British Grand Prix wins since his fellow Scot, the late champion Jim Clark, notched up four in a row from 1962-65.
		He will also give a welcome boost to suffering British sports fans, short of anything to celebrate in the past week after defeats in quick succession for their cricket, rugby and tennis hopes.
	espn.go.com /rpm/f1/2001/0710/1224479.html (681 words)

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