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  French Grand Prix - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
The French Grand Prix is a Formula One race held as part of Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile's annual Formula One automobile racing championship season.
Grand Prix motor racing originated in France and the French Grand Prix, open to international competition, is the oldest of the Grand Prix races.
The first French Grand Prix was run on June 26, 1906 under the auspices of the Automobile Club de France in Sarthe with a starting field of thity-two automobiles.
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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 French Grand prix was held at on the Bugatti circuit at LeMans.
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He had won the Monaco Grand Prix the previous year, but the Coopers were less competitive than they had been and McLaren’s best Formula 1 result in 1963 was second in the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa.
New anti-dip settings were adopted for the 1963 Grand Prix Cooper, to improve handling and stop the nose diving under braking.
Despite qualifying third for the Dutch Grand Prix, Bruce had trouble with his gear selectors just before the start of the race, and had stopped at the pits with gearbox trouble after just a couple of laps.
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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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 Begians Dogs - Ring Champions NVBK
Since then KIENER (LOSH 197867), who won the Grand Prix of Belgium in 1963, takes his place in this new organization and won the title in 1964, 1966 and 1967.
Born on 1st February 1961, he won the "Grand Prix of Belgium" in 1963 before the age of 2.
Although we can also mention the performance of BOLLUX (LOSH 32278) who obtained a second place at the Grand Prix of Belgium in 1929 at the age of 22 months and who also won the Grand Prix of 1930.
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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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 FORMULA ONE RACING DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORY | GRAND PRIX RECORDS AND RACING SPEED ACES | THE BLUEBIRD ELECTRIC LAND ...
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.
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.
The Bahrain Grand Prix along with other new races in China present new opportunities for the growth and evolution of the Formula One Grand prix franchise while also raising the bar for other Formula One racing venues around the world.
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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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 Formula1
Hopes of a Grand Prix swansong with McLaren in 1994, thanks to French engine supplier Peugeot, were disappointed when team boss Ron Denis chose Martin Brundle instead, even though Philippe had a run-out in place of the suspened Mika Hakkinen in the Hungarian Gramd Prix.
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.
It almost went right in the French Grand Prix at Clermont-Ferrand in 1972 though, as the race was his for the taking when he suffered a puncture and fell back to third place.
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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Dan Gurney
By 1960 he had gained a place in the works Ferrari F1 team, but it was not until 1962 that he won his first F1 race for Porsche in the French Grand Prix.
Between 1963 and 65, Gurney drove for Jack Brabham's F1 team, consistently proving himself a match for Clark and his Lotus whilst repeatedly let down due to trifling mechanical failures.
With the advent of the 3-liter F1 regulations in 1966 he started his own team, Anglo American Racers, and won the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix at the wheel of the Eagle-Weslake.
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 CART Racing Teams
The win was the first Grand Prix victory by an American driver in an American car in 46 years, and the only one in modern Grand Prix history.
It was at that time that Goodyear started their big involvement in auto racing on both the Formula 1 circuit (Dan was the first driver to race a Grand Prix car equipped with Goodyear tires) and the Indianapolis 500, which up to that point was mostly a Firestone arena.
The cars AAR was designing and building were called Grand Prix or Indy Eagles, one of the many distinguishing features being a "beak" at the front of the car.
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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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 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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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1963 Results > Belgian GP
GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1963 Results > Belgian GP Location: GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1963 Results > Belgian GP
Maggs spun off on lap 27 and with McLaren passing Ginther and then Gurney Cooper was able to salvage second place.
Belgian GP, Spa-Francorchamps, June 9, 1963, Round: 2, Race Number: 113
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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.
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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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 McLaren Mercedes F1
At the British Grand Prix, John Watson takes the maiden victory for the new team in the McLaren-Ford MP4, the first all carbon-fibre chassis to win a Formula One race.
David Coulthard, who secures victory at the Monaco Grand Prix, and Kimi Raikkonen take fifth and sixth places in the Drivers' Championships respectively.
David Coulthard finishes the season in seventh position with victory at the Australian Grand Prix.
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 Dan Gurney - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Member
He won Grand Prix races, he won NASCAR races, he won Indy Car races, he won the 24 Hours of LeMans, he won the 24 Hours of Daytona.
By 1958, he was a member of the Ferrari Formula One team and later became one of the few Americans ever to win a Grand Prix race.
In January of 1963, Gurney was entered in the initial NASCAR race at Riverside, the Motor Trend 500.
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The three Scirocco chassis were constructed in 1963 by Roy Thomas, the well known English race car fabricator of the period.
By 1963, Paul Emery, the man behind the Emeryson F1 team, was out and Hugh Powell was running the organization.
The Scirocco was late to the scene in 1963 due to the team’s late start in design and construction of the new cars.
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 Synoptique - EXPRMNTL 3 / Knokke-le-Zoute 1963 : Flaming Creatures, Raving Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
At the 1963 Knokke-le-Zoute festival, the film was denied screening, but Mekas seized the projection booth and ran the film until authorities cut the power.
Moreover, the formal ‘radicalization’ of the festival in 1963 was in major part due to the presence of the American Avant-garde and Underground.
The reaction of the Belgian newspaper and the French magazines reveal mostly national sensibilities, especially as it is the French Nouvelle Vague which is most under fire by this new more radical film movement.
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But when Stirling Moss won the 1958 Argentine Grand Prix in Rob Walker's privately-entered Cooper and Maurice Trintignant duplicated the feat in the next race at Monaco, the racing world was stunned and a rear-engined revolution had begun.
The Cooper team's decline was accelerated when John Cooper was seriously injured in a road accident in 1963 and Charles Cooper died in 1964.
Their final Formula One victory was achieved by Mexican driver Pedro Rodriguez at the 1967 South African Grand Prix.
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 Bugatti - Wikicars
Although founder Ettore Bugatti was born in Italy, the automobile company that bears his name was located in Molsheim, in the then-German Alsace region (which went to France in 1919).
The company was known for its advanced engineering in its premium road cars and its success in early Grand Prix motor racing, winning the first ever Monaco Grand Prix.
Only a few models of each of Ettore Bugatti's vehicles were ever produced, the most famous being the Type 35 Grand Prix cars, the huge "Royale", the flowing Type 57 "Atlantic", and the Type 55 sports car.
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 McLaren Grand Prix Team - John Hopkinson's Unofficial Page
The McLaren team is ranked together with Williams and Ferrari as one of the grandee teams in F1, with sustained success over a long period of time in grand prix racing.
In 1966 Bruce Mclaren's team produced the M2 grand prix car designed by Robin Herd, and Bruce McLaren drove the car in the Monaco GP.
The first GP win for the team came in 1968 when Bruce McLaren won the Belgian GP at the wheel of the Ford-cosworth powered M7A racing car.
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 TIME.com: Jeeemy, Jeeerny, Jeeemy -- Jun. 25, 1965 -- Page 1
Midway through the Grand Prix of Belgium last week, a Ferrari mechanic angrily shook his fist at the public address loudspeakers and exploded with pent-up Italian frustration.
In 1963 the Flying Scot won an incredible seven of ten Grand Prix races.
The Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps last week was a relative breeze.
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 JOHN STARKEY CARS :: GRYFON INC.
After a works career with Ferrari, BRM, and Porsche (for whom he scored their only World Championship Grand Prix), Gurney returned to America in 1962 and drove his first Indianapolis 500 in one of Mickey Thompson’s Harvey Aluminum Specials.
Sadly, the gearbox broke but Gurney was also driving for wealthy patrons in sports cars and won the 1963 Riverside 500 stock car race.
The V12 Weslake-powered Eagle was a beautifully Grand Prix car and one of the best built of the period.
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 Autodelta - a history
On March 5 1963, a collective enterprise named Auto-Delta was set up by partners Carlo Chiti and Lodovico Chizzola and registered at the Udine Chamber of Commerce.
The single-seater, known as the 177, competed only in this race and was followed by the 179 (from the Canadian Grand Prix 1979 to 1981) and the 182 (1982).
The single-seater turbo, known as the 183, was managed on the track by the Euroracing stable that achieved an outstanding second place in the German and South American Grand Prix with De Cesaris at the wheel.
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 Jean Dausset - Biography
In 1958, he was named Assistant Professor of Haematology at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, then Professor of Haematology in 1963 and was appointed Head of the Immunology Department at Hôpital Saint-Louis.
In 1963, he married Rose Mayoral from Madrid who gave him two children, Henri and Irène.
Grand Prix des Sciences Chimiques et Naturelles (Académie des Sciences)
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