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

  
 French Language & Literature Research Guide
French language and literature materials may be found throughout the library stacks.
Prix de la biographie - Awarded annually since 1987 by the Académie française for the best biography published in the preceding year; the number of books honored varies from year to year.
There are many websites devoted to French language, literature, culture, politics, etc. The University of Adelaide has compiled an excellent selection of sites ranging from live radio and tv to electronic texts and links to search engines in French.
www.mtholyoke.edu /lits/library/guides/french.shtml   (1565 words)

  
 Cor's motorcycle racing programmes collection
Grand Prix exist since the early days of motorcycle racing in the twentieth century.
Since then the term Grand Prix is generally used to indicate world championship rounds.
There are also a few Grand Prix where there wasn't a programme, or only a riderslist.
www.motoprogs.com /html/grandprix.php   (256 words)

  
 French Literature - MSN Encarta
Some writers escape the realist formula: Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier (1913) is a dream-like, poetic adventure; Gide’s Les Caves du Vatican (The Vatican Cellars, 1914), a Surrealistic romp; Cocteau, Giraudoux, Julien Gracq, Raymond Queneau, and others escape into fantasy and poetry.
These are but examples of a rich and varied genre, to which should be added the name of Georges Simenon, a master of the psychological detective novel, and a writer of straight fiction with an acute perception of human nature.
Since the 1950s, there has been a marked increase in the number of successful women novelists, among whom Marguerite Yourcenar, author of the historical novel Mémoires d’Hadrien (1951; Memoirs of Hadrian, 1954), was the first woman to be elected to the Académie Française.
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 Grand Steeple Chase 2006
And thus the “Grande Semaine d'Auteuil” is created, with the Grand Steeple on the Sunday, the Grande Course de Haies on the Wednesday and the Drags on the Friday.
The Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil is won by 5 lengths by the 5-year-old Le Paillon who, would go on to claim victory on the flat in the Grand Prix de Deauville that August and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in October.
The Grand Steeple is brought forward by three weeks and held in the last week of May. First Gold gives the Marquise de Moratalla a fifth victory in the Grand Steeple, after that of The Fellow (1991), Ucello II (1993, 1994) and Ubu III (1995).
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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1963 Results > French GP
After a year away at Rouen, the French Grand Prix returned to Reims and the field was much as normal with Jim Clark taking pole position in his Lotus from Graham Hill in the new BRM 61.
On the outside of the front row was Dan Gurney's Brabham, while the second row featured John Surtees in his Ferrari alongside Jack Brabham's Brabham.
French GP, Reims, June 30, 1963, Round: 4, Race Number: 115
www.grandprix.com /gpe/rr115.html   (392 words)

  
 F1: renault f1, honda f1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A number of Grand Prix racing organisations had laid out rules for a World Championship before the war, but due to the suspension of racing during the conflict, the World Drivers Championship was not formalised until 1947.
At the 2002 Austrian Grand Prix, Rubens Barrichello, Schumacher's teammate at Ferrari who was 1st in the race, was ordered by Ferrari to allow Schumacher to overtake him under "team orders" and win the Grand Prix.
The Bahrain Grand Prix, along with other new races in China and Turkey, present new opportunities for the growth and evolution of the Formula One Grand Prix franchise whilst new facilities also raise the bar for other Formula One racing venues around the world.
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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Circuits > Reims
In 1932 the circuit hosted the French Grand Prix for the first time and this was won by the Alfa Romeo of Tazio Nuvolari.
The Grand Prix cars did not return to Reims for a French GP again until 1938 when the Mercedes-Benz of Manfred von Brauchitsch was victorious.
In 1963 there was another French GP at Reims with Jimmy Clark winning for Lotus but by the mid Sixties competition for the race was intense and it was not until 1966 that the World Championship returned.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/cir-062.html   (478 words)

  
 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.
www.sandcastlevi.com /racing/gurney-3.htm   (820 words)

  
 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.
www.speedace.info /formula_one.htm   (4145 words)

  
 French Language and Literature Research Guide - Marriott Library
Supplément renfermant un grand nombre de termes d'art, de science, dagriculture, etc., et de néologismes de tous genres appuyés d'exemples et contenant la rectification de quelques définitions du dictionnaire...
French General Resources Voice of the Shuttle provides some of the best links for languages and literatures.
Enlightened Discourse: 18th-century French Writings "This site's over 300 links lead to the major historical events, cultural and literary issues of eighteenth-century France, and lead as well to over 350 literary, scientific, philosophical and economic works by 51 of the period's authors." (David Gatwood).
www.lib.utah.edu /ResGuides/french.html   (1970 words)

  
 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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 Driver - Dan Gurney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He is one of only five American drivers to win a Formula One Grand Prix, and the only one to win in a car of his own manufacture.
After three second places the first year, he broke through in 1962 at the French Grand Prix with his first World Championship victory and the only GP win for Porsche.
While Brabham himself scored the maiden victory at the 1963 Solitude race, it was Gurney again who took the teams first win in a championship race, in 1964, and again in Rouen.
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 French Grand Prix Tickets : French Grand Prix Nascar Tickets at Cheappremiumtickets.com
To place an order over the telephone you can reach one of our knowledgable and friendly customer service representatives, toll free at 800-Stage90 (800-782-4390), who are standing by to assist you with your French Grand Prix tickets purchase.
Magny Cours was the home of a whole generation of French motor racing stars in the 1970s.
If you want to buy French Grand Prix tickets from the venue or organization box offices or their official distribution outlets, please inquire directly with the venues or organizations themselves.
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 American GP - The Drivers
George Follmer seemed a most unlikely Grand Prix driver but in 1973 that was exactly what he was when he competed the entire season for the Shadow team.
In 1909 Grand was now racing officially for the factory and his greatest victory occurred that same year in the Vanderbilt Cup.
The heir to the wealthy Dumont family he raced in 34 Grand Prix but his highest finish was 7th in Belgium 1977.
www.ddavid.com /formula1/drivers_us.htm   (2801 words)

  
 2001 F1 French Grand Prix - Magny Cours Formula 1 Race Report
Michael is now just one Grand prix away from equalling the all time record for number of GP's won, currently held by "The Professor" Alain Prost.
Formula 1 might be dominated by British teams, but grand prix motor racing has its roots in the octagon that is France.
The French can claim to have invented motor racing, staging a round of the F1 world championship for 49 of its 50 years and great manufacturers like Bugatti, Renault, Peugeot and Matra have all left an indelible mark on the sport.
www.geocities.com /formula-fun/2001france.html   (1648 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Constructors > Bugatti
The firm dominated the Grand Prix world in the late 1920s and early 1930s and, when it could no longer compete with the German teams which were funded by the Nazi government, it turned to Le Mans and won the French classic in 1937 and 1939.
Bugatti died in 1947 and the company passed to his son Roland, but there was no money available for racing and it was not until 1955, by which time the firm was on its last legs, that Bugatti tried to go racing one last time, hiring Gioacchino Colombo from Maserati.
Maurice Trintignant drove one of the cars at the French GP that year but it was not competitive and was not seen again.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/con-bugatti.html   (285 words)

  
 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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 rediff.com sports: The Wheel was their World
Clark again lost the World championship narrowly in 1964, when his engine seized in the final lap of the final race, but he won it back in 1965, in a season that saw the emmergence of a fellow-Scotish rival 'Jackie Stewart'.
Having won the Monaco Grand Prix earlier in the season, Rindt drove a Lotus-72 model in the Dutch Grand Prix from pole to finish.
But as fate would have it, during a practice session for the Italian Grand Prix, Rindt crashed into the barriers and was declared dead before medical aid could be administered.
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 Grand Prix
I was sitting right behind him at the Grand Prix yesterday and today and we struck up a conversation.
Most of Peron’s test today in the Grand Prix with Ann Kathrin Ehlen was correct and pleasant with just a few minor faults such as a bauble in the middle of the 1 tempis, but compared to some of the other top horses, the test was lacking in brilliance.
The first half of the CDIO Dressage Grand Prix took place on Thursday afternoon with 18 rides and the second half on Friday afternoon with 23 rides for a total of 41 in the competition.
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 Preview
May 18, 2002 - The Grand Prix de Pau is an event that gives a young driver the chance to race on a circuit steeped in history.
The first race in this picturesque city in the south of France, home to King Henri IV, was in 1899 with the first Grand Prix contested here in 1901 while the first official French Grand Prix took place in 1930 with the layout of the track being changed in 1933 to it's current configuration.
The circuit has many similarities to the more famous street circuit in Monaco, with the uphill section leading into a hairpin, many more hairpin turns and short straights, all the while with the ever present barriers lining the track to nab the unwary.
www.danmcmullen.com /pau_preview.htm   (374 words)

  
 Jean Dausset - Biography
He was mobilized in 1939 and returned from the French Campaign in 1940 to a Paris occupied by the Germany Army.
In 1948, he was sent, as a French trainee, to the Children's Hospital in Boston (Professors L. K Diamond and Sydney Farber) where he worked in one of the Harvard Medical School laboratories.
This work as Advisor to the Cabinet of the National Ministry of Education, spanned three consecutive years and culminated in the introduction of a law which established full-time employment in French hospitals, introducing to the hospitals professors of basic sciences, who were given hospital responsibilities.
nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1980/dausset-bio.html   (1298 words)

  
 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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 cars - Formula One
It is a worldwide sport, involving an annual World Drivers Championship and World Constructors Championship, and is the most expensive sport in the world, as annual team budgets average in the hundreds of millions of US dollars.
It is based around a series of races (19 in 2005), known as grands prix, on custom-constructed road courses or closed-off street circuits.
The only other race to have been included in every World Championship season is the Italian Grand Prix; it has occurred at Monza, except when it was at Imola in 1980.
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 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 14 GRANDS PRIX AND TOOK POLE POSITION IN THE 1957 ITALIAN GRAND PRIX AT MONZA.
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 PRIX GONCOURT FOR FRENCH LITERATURE, 1903-2002
The Prix Goncourt, administered by La Société de gens de lettres on behalf of the Académie Goncourt, is France's most prestigious literary award.
Under the terms of the will of Edmond de Goncourt, it is awarded every December to "the best imaginary prose work of the year".
On October 29, 2002 it was announced that Pascal Quignard had won the 2002 Prix Goncourt with his novel Les Ombres Errantes (The Wandering Shadows).
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