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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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 Australian Grand Prix - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Australian Grand Prix is a Formula One race held at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Albert Park as part of the annual Formula One championship season.
Australian Grands Prix, not part of the World Championship but featuring F1 open-wheeler racing vehicles, were held at various circuits around Australia for many years.
The race was struck by tragedy in 2001, when a flying tyre from a crash between Ralf Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve flew through a gap in the barrier fence and killed a volunteer track marshal.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Australian_Grand_Prix   (732 words)

  
 Clark and Gurney: The Best of Both Worlds
The next race, the Monaco Grand Prix on May 7th 1967, was marred by tragedy: an accident at the chicane involving Lorenzo Bandini, who had been leading the race at half distance.
The 1967 French Grand Prix was held at LeMans on July 2nd 1967, not the real LeMans circuit but the twisty "Bugatti Circuit" laid out on a track that was a combination of the front straightaway and the Dunlop curve of the LeMans sportscar circuit and the huge LeMans parking lot.
By the time the U.S. Grand Prix was held on October 1st 1967 at Watkins Glen, the supremacy of the Lotus 49 was apparent to one and all but the less exotic Brabham team was plainly the more consistent performer throughout the year.
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 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)

  
 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).
www.grandsteeple.com /_en/asp/hippodrome_02.asp   (1628 words)

  
 PR Leap: For France’s Grand Prix, celebrating their 100th anniversary, ARTEH® - Hotels and Resorts speeds up unique ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The French Grand Prix is a Formula One race held as part of the “Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile”.
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 thirty-two automobiles.
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 SimHQ.com - Motorsports Zone - Preview: 2004 French Grand Prix - Round 10 of 18
Renault won that first Grand Prix, but it was to be another 73 years and three days until the French manufacturer won again, at Dijon in 1979 when Jean-Pierre Jabouille recorded the first win for a turbocharged car.
Recently the French Grand Prix nearly dropped of the calendar due to a conflict between the FIA and the French Government over TV rights to the event.
In 2000, the French Grand Prix was the scene of David Coulthard fighting wheel to wheel with Michael Schumacher for victory.
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 Timeline 1967
1967 Carleton Putnam (d.1998) wrote his book: "Race and Reality." It was a sequel to his earlier book "Race and Reason" where he argued that the Negro race could not hold a candle to the white race in the personal characteristics that produced the glories of the Western civilization.
1967 Surveyor 5 landed on the moon at the Sea of Tranquility with an alpha-scattering spectrometer to analyze the surface elements.
1967 Dr. Philip D. Marsden began fieldwork in Brazil and was named a professor of tropical medicine at the Univ. of Brasilia, where he became a leading authority on Leishmaniasis, an often fatal disease borne by sand flies.
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 1967 Grand Prix of Belgium Winner - #36
June 18, 1967 dawned overcast and humid, but by the time the GP started it had become partly sunny.
At the time, this was the fastest Grand Prix ever run at any track.
Dan Gurney became the second American driver in history to win a Grand Prix in an American racing car (Jimmy Murphy won the 1921 French GP in a Duesenberg), but he remains the only American citizen ever to do it in a car of his own construction.
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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1967 Results > French GP
The Automobile Club de France's curious politics resulted in the World Championship heading for the new Bugatti circuit at Le Mans for the 1967 French GP.
The track included the famous start-finish line of the classic 24 Hour circuit but the new section (built for the racing school) was too twisty and had none of the grandeur of Reims, Rouen or Clermont-Ferrand.
Chris Irwin was bound for fourth place in the Reg Parnell Racing BRM but he suffered an engine failure in the closing laps and dropped behind Jo Siffert in Rob Walker's Cooper-Maserati.
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 Istria on the Internet - Prominent Istrians - Mario Andretti
In the Indy 500 of 1967 and 1968 he finished second, then regained the title in 1969, the year in which he also won the Indianapolis 500 Miles with a brawner Hawk owned by Andy Granatelli.
Also in 1967, he claimed his first of three career victories in the "12 Hours of Sebring" endurance race, finishing as runner-up in the Champ Car national championship and was named "Driver of the Year" for the first time.
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.
istrianet.org /istria/illustri/andretti/index.htm   (2069 words)

  
 Auto Racing History First Canadian Grand Prix
The Canadian Grand Prix is a strong fixture on the World Championship circuit in Montreal, Quebec.
However, this being the first rain race of the 1967 season, he and his teammate quickly learned how ill-suited their cars were to the wet.
The first Grand Prix was a huge success, and Canada was given a permanent spot on the calendar.
www.deepthrottle.com /History/first_cdn_gp.shtml   (1717 words)

  
 Formula One History - F1 Origins
he modern era of Formula One Grand Prix racing began in 1950, but the roots of F1 are far earlier, tracing to the pioneering road races in France in the 1890s, through the Edwardian years, the bleak twenties, the German domination of the 1930s and the early post-war years of Italian supremacy.
In 1908 the Targa Florio in Sicily saw the appearance of "pits," shallow emplacements dug by the side of the track where mechanics could labor with the detachable rims on early GP car tires — themselves a major technical improvement over the earlier technique of permanently attached wheels and spokes.
Among the best of the 1920s manufacturers were Bugatti, whose straight-eight Type 35Bs won the French and Spanish GPs in 1929 and the Monaco, French and Belgian GPs in 1930, and Fiat, which introduced the supercharger for the first time in 1923.
www.f1-grandprix.com /history1.html   (702 words)

  
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In 1999, it was the 9th time in history that the winner of the Canadian Grand Prix earned at the end of the year the driver's championship.
In 2000, it was the first Canadian Grand Prix raced (totally or partially) under the rain since 1989.
In 2001, the Canadian Grand Prix has been the scene of the first ever 1-2 finish by two brothers since the launching of the Formula 1 World Championship.
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 F1A&G - Legendary Races
In this historic French Grand Prix, the oldest of them all, there has never been a battle for position as dramatic as this.
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)

  
 United States Grand Prix
Super Typhoon Number 22 never hit the Suzuka area, home of the Japanese Grand Prix, as it was forecast to do, but the storm caused plenty of havoc elsewhere in Japan.
Winner of the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix and a veteran of 158 Grand Prix starts, he has driven for Ligier, Prost, BAR and Toyota.
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=3648   (1073 words)

  
 ESPN.com: TENNIS - Mauresmo emerges as French favorite
Even if Mary Pierce's bad back had allowed her to defend her French Open crown, she wouldn't have been the French player carrying the highest hopes of France.
As the fifth seed and now France's best hope for a women's singles repeat, Mauresmo – who's being mentioned in the same breath with Hingis, Venus Williams, Lindsay Davenport and Capriati as favorites – knows all eyes on Court Centrale will be transfixed on her.
While their minds were on Pierce, the people's hearts were with Mauresmo, who was voted by the fans as the nicest and best-liked player.
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 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)

  
 Eagle Eye: US GRAND PRIX 2000
He won the 1967 Belgium Grand Prix with his Eagle.
The two legends forced sports editors to run grand prix results in Monday's papers.
Despite all the critics and doubters, we'd done it,'' said Gurney, whose victory was the first by an American in an American-built car since Jimmy Murphy won the 1921 French GP in a Duesenberg.
www.allamericanracers.com /gurney_grand-prix/dan_mario-f1.html   (1074 words)

  
 SFFF | 2006 Program
French legendary stars Deneuve and Depardieu, together for the first time since Le Dernier Metro in 1980, and instantly credible as a couple with a passionate past, lead a wonderful ensemble cast.
In 1967, Jean-Luc Godard gleefully announced the end of his career with this darkly funny vision of hell; a fascinating companion piece to Bunuel's Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie (the structure is nearly identical), Weekend is a portrait of France (and Western consumer culture) in full crash-and-burn decline.
Unifrance is involved in every stage in the life of a French film abroad, from its selection at a recognized film festival to its presentation at an international market, to its commercial release in one or more foreign territories.
sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org /program.htm   (5988 words)

  
 MotoGP 2002 - Statistical facts after the opening round at Suzuka
It was the first win by a four-stroke machine since Giacomo Agostini won the German Grand Prix in 1976 at the Nurburgring circuit riding an MV Agusta.
It was the first time that a four-stroke started from pole in the top class since the Grand Prix of Finland at Imatra in 1975 when Gianfranco Bonera rode the MV Agusta.
The last time a four-stroke started from pole in any solo class was at the French 350cc Grand Prix in 1976 when Giacomo Agostini was on an MV.
www.mcnews.com.au /MotorcycleRacing2002/GrandPrix500/Round_2/Stats.htm   (579 words)

  
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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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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Chris Irwin
This led to an offer to drive for BRM in 1967.
The factory team was running H16 cars for Jackie Stewart and Mike Spence, while Reg Parnell Racing was running a third car for Irwin.
At the 1967 French Grand Prix at Le Mans Irwin had his moment of glory when he went faster than Stewart on the first day in the V8 car.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/drv-irwchr.html   (303 words)

  
 Act French
MARIE NDIAYE (Playwright) was born in 1967 in Pithviers, France.
Her mother, who raised her, is French; her father, whom she first met at age 15, is Senegalese.
Besset was awarded 2005 Grand Prix du Théâtre by the Académie Française.
www.actfrench.org /artists.php?performance_id=62   (437 words)

  
 football-22.com - French Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
One of the more classic Grand Prix races in the F1 World Championship calendar is the French Grand Prix.
The so-called ‘Grand Prix” races were run in France long before the F1 World Championship Grand Prix was created.
The French Grand Prix has been on the calendar since F1’s inception in 1950.
www.football-22.com /French_Grand_Prix.html   (281 words)

  
 YouTube - Grand Prix Zandvoort 1967
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 VeloceToday - Online Magazine for Italian Car Enthusiasts!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
And so it should be, for the youngest World Champion had just won his hometown Grand Prix, and the 50th Grand Prix of Spain.
Mind you, it wasn’t called Formula 1 back in those days (the nomenclature began only after WWII), but it was a Grand Prix and in the next few decades winners would include Dario Resta, Meo Constantini, Rudolph Caracciola, and Achille Varzi.
After WWII, the Spanish Grand Prix moved from venue to venue, and after Mike Hawthorne’s win aboard a Ferrari in 1954, the race disappeared from the calendar until 1967, when a new circuit, designed by Dutchman John Hugenholtz, was opened up at Jarama.
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 Track Race History
Dijonp73 - Dijion73 - Grand Prix de France
Kyalami - Kyalami - South African GP Laguna67 - Laguna 67 Grand Prix
Rouen - Rouen - French GP Sachsr67 - Sachsenring
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 Le Mans Circuit Bugatti - GPL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thanks to many people sending great pictures of the track and from the 1967 French Grand Prix, we now have a much more accurate track.
Rather, the 1967 French Grand Prix took place on the infamous Le Mans Curcuit Bugatti.
The pole time of 1967 was set by Graham Hill in a Lotus 49 at 1:36.2.
www.ehnstrom.se /roland/bugatti   (735 words)

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