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  Grand Prix Hall of Fame
In has last season he lost a spectacular Monaco Grand Prix to Jochen Rindt but the fact that he was competitive even at the age of 43 in a young man's sport only adds to his legacy.
Vittorio Jano's P3 dominated the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa in 1925 after the local favorite, the Delage team, had retired all of their cars.
In 1970 driving an old Lotus 49 he drove in one of the most stirring finishes in modern Grand Prix history when he caught three-time World Champion Jack Brabham at the Monaco Grand Prix on the last corner of the race and claimed the checkered flag.
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From 1927 to 1934, the number of races considered to have Grand Prix status exploded, jumping from five events in 1927 to nine events in 1929 to eighteen in 1934 (the peak pre-World War II year).
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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 Macau Grand Prix Official Homepage
A total of 31 cars, the largest field so far, were entered in the Grand Prix, which had been reduced to 60 laps to avoid the glare of the late afternoon sun.
The Macau Grand Prix was, for the first time, entered on the international racing calendar as a "national race with foreign participation," and was subject for the first time to the regulations published by the FIA for sports and grand touring cars.
In the Motor Cycle Grand Prix, a new star was on the horizon in the form of "Rocket" Ron Haslam, who took victory in the 30 lap race in 1:22:57.75, followed by Sadeo Asami in second and Dutchman Boet Van Dulmen in third.
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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.
A Formula One Grand Prix event spans an entire weekend, beginning with two free practices on Friday (except in Monaco, where Friday practices are moved to Thursday), and one free practice on Saturday.
The 2006 Brazilian Grand Prix attracted an average live global TV audience of 83 million viewers, with a total of 154 million viewers tuning in to watch at least some part of the event.
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 The Official Formula 1 Website   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The audacious Austrian, who perfectly exemplified the popular perception of what a racing driver should be, became a favourite of the fans and of the photographers, for whom he provided some of the best action photos in Formula One history.
Jochen was leading the Spanish Grand Prix at Montjuich Park when his car's high rear wing collapsed, pitching it into the wreckage of Hill's Lotus, which had earlier crashed for the same reason.
His first win of 1970, indeed the greatest of his short career, came at Monaco in the outdated Lotus 49, the new 72 model not yet being raceworthy.
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 Monaco Grand Prix - Wikicars
The Monaco Grand Prix predates the organised World Championships; the Principality's first Grand Prix race was organised in 1929 by Antony Noghes, under the auspices of Prince Louis II through the "Automobile Club de Monaco" (A.C.M.).
The Monaco Grand Prix counted toward the European Championship from 1936 to 1939 (although the race was not held in 1938).
The Grand Prix of Monaco is held each year on the Circuit de Monaco, which consists of the city streets of Monte Carlo and La Condamine, which includes the famous harbour.
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The Grand Prix Drivers Association's demand for his immediate banishment was put off when McLaren agreed to "rest" its rash rookie.
His third place in the Monaco Grand Prix at the wheel of the WR1 was one of four podium finishes that year.
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 Formula One 1/43 Diecast models
The 1971 French Grand Prix was held at a new circuit, built high in the mountains above Marseilles at Le Castellet by multi-millionaire Paul Ricard.
In the 1973 British Grand Prix, Jody Scheckter trying his utmost, lost control of his McLaren in the middle of the pack at the end of the first lap at Woodcote Corner.
The 1975 Spanish Grand Prix was a shambles.
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 f1 statistics - Mark Donohue : Autocourse Grand Prix Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He was to finish second in the race in 1970 driving a Lola-Ford, and later on that season raced in Formula A, winning two of the three rounds he entered.
Grand Prix racing was just a diversion at this stage, for in 1972 Mark continued to race in USAC, duly winning the Indianapolis 500 in a Penske McLaren, and returned to Can-Am, where his title chances were ruined by a testing accident which saw him sidelined for a couple of months.
Donohue was practising the car for the Austrian GP when a tyre is thought to have deflated, sending the March into catch fencing and over the Armco barrier.
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 Auto-Racing @ MieNet: Grand Prix 2001 Special Details
Considering Burti's mid-twenties, he might not realize in what excellent company he is here: two Austrian legends likewise made their debut race in the Austrian GP: the late Jochen Rindt in the inaugural Austrian F1 GP (1964), and Niki Lauda in 1971, in the second Grand Prix being held at Osterreichring.
The Grand Prix held at old Osterreichring track in the year when its retirement was decreed, was worthy of the fearsome reputation which the Austrian track earned among the drivers shortly after its inauguration.
Grand Prix from the moment M.Schumacher and Montoya got tangled until he had to pull in for his pit stop, when McLaren's strategy triumphed over Ferrari's.
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 Formula One History - Wings, Shunts & Ground Effects
Lotus returned in force in 1970, a season which was all about the brilliance of Austrian Jochen Rindt with the new Lotus 72 (taking the laurels in Monaco, Holland, France, Britain and Germany) and was overshadowed by Rindt's horrific death in practice for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza's infamous Parabolica corner.
Rindt won the 1970 championship posthumously, and his replacement as number one driver for Lotus, young Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi, piloted the 72 to his first F1 win at the season-ending U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen.
But at the German Grand Prix on 1 August, Lauda crashed his Ferrari at Bergwerk, a 150 mph section of the Nürburgring, in a massive, flaming accident that still brings shivers when viewed to this day.
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 The ex-larrikin now a Grand Prix big wheel - National - www.theage.com.au
As clerk of the course for the Australian Grand Prix, he is responsible for the safe functioning of the Albert Park circuit.
Apart from the race director, Schenken is the top man at the Australian Grand Prix, and the highest-ranked Confederation of Australian Motor Sport official at the race, to be held next weekend.
The highly regarded motor racing journalist, who has handled the Grand Prix's media since 1997, announced his departure in an email to sports journalists yesterday, alluding to "increasingly unsatisfactory" circumstances at the corporation.
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 Historic Grand Prix
We slide ourselves down into the cockpit of a 1976 March 761 Grand Prix car for the ride of a lifetime.
Finished in bright orange Beta Utensili livery, James King's March 761/08 is powered by a 3.0 liter, 480hp long-stroke Cosworth DFV V8 -- its rebuilt tub the same one that Vittorio Brambilla drove in a handful of GP races in 1976 before it became the team's spare chassis.
King is one of the founders of Historic Grand Prix, and competes with his March regularly in that group's feature events.
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 Formel 1 by Thomas Staedeli
The Austrian Niki Lauda was born in Vienna in 1949.
During this time he achieved six Grand Prix wins and one of them with the legendary six-wheeled Tyrrell type P 34 (see picture at Patrick Depailler).
The Finn Keke Rosberg was born in Stockholm in 1948.
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 Spielberg, Austria - A1 Austrian Grand Prix, A1-Ring Circuit
The Austrians had set their hearts on a Formula 1 World Championship Grand Prix but in 1961 they had to be content with a non-championship F1 race.
The Austrian telephone company paid for much of the work in exchange for the new track being renamed the A1 Ring.The new track was very different to the old.
The grand corners were gone and the new track was a modern stop-go circuit.
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 Formula 1 complete - F1 info, stats and news - Rindt, Jochen
It was to be his only Grand Prix of the year.
Rindt clinched the first Grand Prix victory of his career in the Grand Prix of the USA in Watkins Glen.
Jochen Rindt won the championship that year, because his Lotus team mate, Emerson Fittipaldi won the following and next to last Grand Prix of the year at Watkins Glen, depriving Ferrari driver Jacky Ickx of the points he needed to win the crown himself.
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In his debut at the 1975 German Grand Prix he finished 8th, retired in the next GP, to finish 9th at Monza.
Two weeks later at the 1976 German Grand Prix Ertl was one of the four drivers who helped pull Niki Lauda from his burning Ferrari after Lauda's infamous crash during the second lap of the race.
Ertl tried once again with ATS in the 1980 German Grand Prix with the same result, so the 1978 Austrian Grand Prix in front of his home crowd was the last GP he actually took part in.
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The 312B was introduced by Ferrari for the 1970 season with a new horizontally opposed or "flat" 12 cylinder engine.
1970 was a good year for Ferrari and for Ickx, the Belgian driver finishing 2nd overall in the Drivers championship.
The Austrian was killed in his Lotus 72 near the end of the season while leading the championship.
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 Tameokits Focus
The chosen race is the German Grand Prix in Hockenheim, which is where the Austrian champion had his last victory.
In 1970, the Lotus 72 replaced the Typ 49, which was driven by Jochen Rindt for half the season.
The Austrian pilot won four consecutive Grand Prix’ with the “72/2” and arrived at Monza to compete in the Grand Prix with 11 advantage points against his nearest rival.
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