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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 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)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Brabham
		Pole position for Carlos Reutemann at his home race at Buenos Aires and a victory in the non-championship Interlagos Grand Prix were the highlights of an aimless 1972 season during which the team ran three different models.
		The new, lighter Ford-powered BT49 was introduced before the end of the year at the 1979 Canadian Grand Prix, where Lauda quite suddenly retired from driving after practice, having lost all motivation to race.
		The 1965 British Grand Prix saw seven Brabhams compete, only two of them from the works team and there were usually four or five at championship Grands Prix throughout that season.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Brabham (6053 words)

	South African Formula One Championship
		South African saloon car driver Basil Van Rooyen got his first taste of single-seater racing when he competed in the 1968 South African Grand Prix, entered by John Love to drive the ageing Cooper Climax T79 (in which Love so nearly won the 1967 SAGP).
		The 1974 SAGP saw a strong contingent of South African privateers enter: Charlton in the McLaren M23, Keizan in the Tyrrell and Scheckter and Driver in the Gunston Lotus 72E's.
		Although always fast in qualifying, his five race Grand Prix season were a series of mishaps and accidents, the most remarkable being a spin on the second lap of the British GP in which he wiped out half the field, fortunately without serious injury to anyone.
	www.geocities.com /russell_sheldon/saf1championship.html (3632 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1970 Results > South African GP
		For the South African GP there was a fifth March, entered for Mario Andretti by the STP Corporation.
		The March presence was impressive at Kyalami and after qualifying the World Champion Jackie Stewart was on pole position in his Tyrrell car, while Amon was alongside side him in a factory car.
		South African GP, Kyalami, March 7, 1970, Round: 1, Race Number: 185
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/rr185.html (609 words)

	Formula One
		Formula One, or Grand Prix racing is the best known single-seater auto racing class, which involves an annual world championship.
		Whilst the home of the sport is undoubtedly Europe, races have also been held in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
		Historically, the series evolved from pre-war European Grand Prix racing[?] of the 1920s and 1930s.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fo/Formula_One.html (1232 words)

	Brunswick Formula One Film & Video Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Grand Prix victory, his third World Drivers Championship and a high speed tour of the awesome Nurburgring, conducted by Stewart himself.
		The work that goes into a Grand Prix campaign on the circuits of the world is intimately conveyed in this film which follows the McLaren team, Emerson Fittipaldi and Jochen Mass, through the 1975 Formula One Season.
		The 1979 Grand Prix season was more than the turning point between two decades.
	www.brunswickfilms.com /vhs.html (850 words)

	De Tomaso 505 F1 Season Review: 1970
		It paid immediate dividends and at the Spanish Grand Prix, Courage circulated the number 12 car in a time good enough for 12th on the grid.
		The Belgian Grand Prix took the F1 circus to Spa Francorchamps in early June and Courage used 505-383 on Friday before a new car, 505-382, arrived from Italy for the final session on Saturday afternoon.
		Canada's St. Jovite circuit hosted the penultimate race of 1970, but 505-383 arrived at the track without an engine and was eventually fitted with one of McLaren's spare units after repeated delays to the aircraft that was bringing a motor from London.
	www.qv500.com /detomaso505p1.php (1280 words)

	Jack Brabham - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		In 1955 he made his Grand Prix debut at the British Grand Prix driving his own Maserati 250F.
		He soon joined the Cooper Car Company team, which was the first to run the engine at the rear.
		Following injuries in the 1969 season Brabham intended to retire in 1970 but finding no top drivers available he raced for one more year, retiring after the Mexican Grand Prix.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Jack_Brabham (481 words)

	Grand Prix Racing - the whole story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1970 Jack Brabham scored the final win of his 15 year career, while a year later Mario Andretti scored his first Grand Prix victory.
		In the years between 1985 and the return of Grand Prix racing in 1992 the circuit underwent some major changes.
		Kyalami (the word means 'my house' in the local Sesotro language) has been suggested a venue for the future but with pressure on F1 to move into Asia a South African race may not make it back to the calender.
	www.gpracing.net192.com /circuits/27.cfm (501 words)

	SlotForum > South African F1 series 1968—1975: A Brief History
		Probably the two least known but most successful South Africans involved in F1 are Gordon Murray, who used to design both Brabham and McLaren cars, and who was responsible for the McLaren F1 GTR sports car, and current Ferrari F1 designer Rory Byrne.
		The track was previously owned by the Automobile Association of South Africa, which acquired the venue 11 years ago after financial problems surrounding the South Africa Grand Prix resulted in the collapse of the company which owned the circuit.
		As you mentioned, he finished 4th in the 1962 Rand Grand Prix but was tragically killed during practice for the 1962 Natal GP.
	www.slotforum.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t5220.html (5241 words)

	Library System - Howard University
		As part of the history and culture of the peoples, African and Caribbean literature in French reflects the traumatic history of imperialism (colonial and neo-colonial) and its political, economic, and cultural manifestations.
		But there is also a political engagement that is discernible in the works of the new generation of writers, witnesses to an era torn between the vast hopes aroused by independence and the disillusioning experiences of early statehood--dictatorship, repressions, imprisonments, tortures, executions.
		The Guide is intended primarily for the beginning researcher in graduate and upper-undergraduate levels at Howard University, but it will also be informative and useful to the experienced researcher elsewhere in areas that he has not had occasion to explore.
	www.howard.edu /library/Assist/Guides/French_african_Lit.htm (3886 words)

	Australian Grand Prix - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
		In any case, a substantial number of people do embrace (and attend) the race at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit.
		es:Gran Premio de Australia fr:Grand Prix automobile d'Australie it:Gran Premio d'Australia ja:オーストラリア・グランプリ pl:Grand Prix Australii fi:Australian GP sv:Australiens Grand Prix zh:澳大利亚大奖赛
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Australian_Grand_Prix (732 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.
	istrianet.org /istria/illustri/andretti/index.htm (2069 words)

	Mahmood’s Den » The History of Formula One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Grand Prix started with the driver’s cup and in 1958 a constructor’s cup was established as a reward for the team accumulating the most points each season.
		In 1970, Austrian Jochen Rindt on a Lotus was named world champion even though he died during practice in the Monza Grand Prix.
		The first Grand Prix win for Stewart in 1973 was at the South African Grand Prix and then followed by the Belgian Grand Prix the same year.
	mahmood.tv /?page_id=2312 (11057 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.
		He was driving a Ferrari in an inconsequential sports car race in Germany and challenging for the lead when a slower amateur driver failed to see him and forced him into the wall, causing Rodriguez to perish in a fiery crash.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/02/21/Grandprix/Mexican_contingent_re.shtml (980 words)

	Motorcycle Online: The Early Years of Grand Prix Racing, the 1970's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tom Herron, the winner of the last ever 500cc Grand Prix round at the Island, was some years later killed at another road-based race, the fast and equally dangerous North West 200 in Northern Ireland.
		In the 250 and 350 classes, Rhodesian born South African resident Kork Ballington swept away the competition on his Kawasaki's.
		After the French Grand Prix he marched into the organizers office and, with the help of a translator, began to demand his prize money.
	www.motorcycle.com /mo/mcracing/gphistory3.html (5199 words)

	When Formula One Drivers Work as a Team - New York Times
		The association organized a drivers' strike in 1982 at the South African Grand Prix over its contract with the sport's governing body.
		After a decade of silence, it re- emerged in 1994 after Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna were killed at the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola, and Michael Schumacher became a director.
		This week the FIA Institute, a research organization, is set to release a racing drivers' safety handbook, for which the GPDA gave its endorsement at the Canadian Grand Prix in June.
	www.nytimes.com /iht/2006/07/28/sports/IHT-28prix.html (857 words)

	Source and Freatures
		There are complete Grand Prix results from 1894 to 1916,1919 to 1941, 1945 to 1948 which have been included.
		There are some Grand Prix results from 1949 which have been included.
		Grand Prix Track drawings of the layouts for Many of the Circuits Used.
	members.fortunecity.com /quintin_cloud/source.htm (733 words)

	Mario Andretti Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		He was signed to a multi-year contract by the powerful Firestone racing team, and although he won only one race that year--the Hoosier Grand Prix at Indianapolis--he was constantly among the leaders, including an impressive third-place finish at the Indianapolis 500.
		He won the South African Grand Prix in 1971, but struggled through the next several seasons without a Grand Prix victory.
		By the early 1980s, however, Andretti had pretty much retired from the Grand Prix circuit, and was once more ready to concentrate on Indy cars.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/mario-andretti (1597 words)

	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.
	www.f1cartvideos.com /funfactsonf12.html (1798 words)

	1970 De Tomaso 505 Formula 1
		Although the finished article looked a little bulky and weighed 552kg (making it the heaviest car on the grid for the opening race), the 505 was extremely well made and soon lost some of those excess pounds.
		As promised, the first car (chassis 505-381) was unveiled (still unpainted) on February 12th 1970 at a factory press reception.
		Entered by De Tomaso Automobili for the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami.
	www.qv500.com /detomaso505p2.php (1155 words)

	1970 Non-World Championship Formula One Races
		31 January 1970 - Kyalami: 163.760 km (4.094 km x 40 laps)
		6 June 1970 - Kyalami: 163.760 km (4.094 km x 40 laps)
		4 October 1970 - Kyalami: 163.670 km (4.094 km x 40 laps)
	www.silhouet.com /motorsport/archive/f1/nc/1970/1970.html (166 words)

	VIR ALUMNI by Phil Allen
		He was killed in practice for the Austrian Grand Prix in August of 1975.
		In 1970 he was Formula Vee National Champion and won the Formula Super Vee title in 1973 as well as the SCCA President's Cup.
		In 1970 he returned to VIR in an Alfa GTA that he was campaigning in the Trans Am series.
	www.virhistory.com /vir/people/alumni.htm (12094 words)

	Graham Hill - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Member
		He went to BRM two years later and in 1962, he won the Dutch Grand Prix for his first Formula One victory.
		But he did well until a crash in the United States Grand Prix threw him out of the cockpit of his car and broke both his legs.
		The South African Grand Prix on March 7, 1970.
	www.motorsportshalloffame.com /halloffame/1990/Graham_Hill_main.htm (435 words)

	Can : The Formula One DataBase
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	www.f1db.com /tiki-likepages.php?page=Can (797 words)

	GP-Site
		His first Formula One wins came in the 1974 Spanish and Dutch Grand Prix with Ferrari.
		He drove for March 1971-1972, BRM 1973, Ferrari 1974-1977, Brabham 1978-1979 and McLaren 1982-1985.In 1976 he had a dreadful accident in the German Grand Prix, which almost killed him, and he suffered severe burns to his face and lungs.
		In all he won 25 Grand Prix races and achieved a record 420 points from 171 starts.
	homepage.eircom.net /~grandprix2000/page13.html (187 words)

	Ferrari
		The mid-1950s saw Mercedes-Benz return to and dominate Grand Prix racing but the 'silver arrows' team withdrew from motor sport after one of their sports cars crashed into the crowd at the 1955 Le Mans 24 hour race.
		But Grand Prix racing was changing – a new formula with a 1.5 litre normally aspirated engine was introduced and rear engined cars became the ‘standard’.
		Highly professional organised teams such as McLaren and Williams dominated Grand Prix racing in the 1980s and 1990s.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/john_hopkinson/ferrari.htm (1089 words)

	Bienvenue sur DreamsCar.com - Bio Steve McQueen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bruce is one of the rare drivers who won the Grand Prix at the wheel of a car he designed and to have developed during his life racing cars which won the Indianapolis 500 miles, the Can-Am Series as well as the European and American championships of Formule A-5000.
		Since everything is relative, in 1995 I acquired the McLaren Dennis was driving at the time of his victory at the South African Grand Prix in 1972.
		It was the 5th victory for the McLaren Team, the only victory for the M19 model and the first following the disappearance of its founder [gallerie M19A].
	www.dreamscar.com /en/bio_bruceMcLaren.shtml (306 words)

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