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 French Grand Prix - WOI Encyclopedia Italia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 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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 Belgian Grand Prix - WOI Encyclopedia Italia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
To accommodate Grand Prix motor racing, the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps race course was built in 1921 but it was only used for motorcycle racing until 1924.
The first Belgian Grand Prix was won by Antonio Ascari whose son Alberto would win the race in 1952 and 1953.
There was no Belgian Grand Prix in 2003 because of the country's tobacco advertising laws but it returned to the schedule again in 2004.
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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1973 Results > Belgian GP
After visiting Nivelles in 1972, the Belgian GP moved to Zolder in the Flemish part of Belgium.
The organizers started resurfacing late because of a dispute with the teams and so when practice began the tarmac was still not properly hardened.
Resurfacing work was carried out overnight, amid threats from the Grand Prix Drivers Association that they would cancel the event if the track broke up again on Saturday.
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 Grand Prix Challenge Driving FAQ - IGN FAQs
Grand Prix This is a full grand prix weekend, from practice to qualifying to warm-up to the race itself.
Tires There are four tire compounds available in Grand Prix Challenge: Hard: These tires have the longest life, which means that the player can remain on the circuit longer between pit stops.
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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 M A G I C
And the fact that Ayrton Senna, maybe the greatest Grand Prix driver of all times, was one of the victims enforced the emotions.
At the Pacific Grand Prix three weeks later, Senna once more took Pole Position, but he was put out of the race by Mika Hakkinen, who ran into the back of Senna’s car at the first corner right after the start.
At the San Marino Grand Prix, Senna was fully aware that he was a full 20 points adrift and that Imola had to be the turning point, otherwise it may be to late.
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 Grand Prix Challenge Circuit Histories FAQ - IGN FAQs
The 1939 German Grand Prix was the final race at Nurburgring for quite some time due to the beginning of World War II.
In more recent years, the opening lap of the 2000 Grand Prix of Italy was seriously marred by the death of a trackside race marshal due to all the flying debris at the Roggia Chicane (the second chicane of the circuit).
The initial 4.192-kilometer (2.620-mile) US Grand Prix was won by Michael Schumacher in 2000, followed by Mika Hakkinen (in his final race win before sabbatical/retirement) in 2001.
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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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 pitpass - the latest, hottest F1 & A1GP news
The Belgian Grand Prix held on 18th June 1950 was the fifth race in Formula One history.
In 1972 and 1974 the races were staged in Nivelles near Brussels, and in 1973, 1975 - 1982 and 1984 Zolder was the venue of the Belgian Grand Prix.
Only two out of the last ten Grand Prix weekends at Spa have not been affected by the changeable weather, the last one was six years ago.
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 Australian Grand Prix - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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.
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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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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.
For the purposes of Grand Prix Challenge, however, traction control is available for ALL events in the season.
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 A Lap of Spa-Francorchamps
This will be the 46th Grand Prix in Belgium, with a fascinating fact about almost every one of the previous 45.
The Grand Prix has been spread around four quite different circuits: the original, marvellous Spa which took in visits to Burnenville, Masta and Stavelot from 1956 through 1970, before the event went briefly to Nivelles and, for a slightly longer stay, to Zolder.
The newly standardised numbering system was first used at the 1973 Belgian Grand Prix, and eight years later, the race was stopped for the first time due to a startline accident.
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 Canadian Grand Prix - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Canadian Grand Prix (FR: Grand Prix du Canada), is a Formula 1 auto race held in Canada since 1967.
The first winner in Montreal was Quebec native, Gilles Villeneuve who died in 1982 on the final qualifying lap for the Belgian Grand Prix.
Because of tobacco legislations, new venues, and a maximum of 17 races on the schedule, the Canadian Grand Prix was preliminarily removed from the 2004 F1 schedule.
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 Monaco Grand Prix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 Daily Peloton - Pro Cycling News
Merckx was also nicknamed “Mr Ardennes” in tribute to his record breaking rides the Belgian Classics and it is fitting that a memorial to his achievements is at the summit of the Côte de Stockeu.
He is the only Belgian athlete who was voted world sportsman of the year three times (1969, 1971 and 1974).
He also won other Tours such as the Tour of Spain (1973), the Tour of Switzerland (1974) and the Tour of Belgium (twice) in 1970 and 1971.
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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.
The Belgian and Mexican Grands Prix are dropped from the calendar due to safety problems.
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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 ESPN.com - Montoya not the only bizarre scratch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Toleman team, for example, suspended Ayrton Senna from the 1984 Italian Grand Prix because it was incensed that he had signed to drive for McLaren in 1985 when the team thought he was still under contract to it.
David Coulthard fractured several ribs when the private jet he was on crashed while landing just a few days before the 2000 Spanish Grand Prix.
Alan Jones arrived at the 1981 Italian Grand Prix with a broken finger suffered in a fight with two guys in a road-rage incident.
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 The Belgian Grand Prix
In the 1960s the Spa 1000km became A nasty accident at Spa started Jackie Stewart's crusade for better safety and Spa was a victim, the Grand Prix moving to the characterless Nivelles circuit near Brussels.
Jochen Mass tells a horrif Plans were laid to rebuild the track and, in an effort to retain the spirit of the old circuit, most of the original area around Francorchamps was retained.
Qulifying for the Belgian Grand Prix is due to take place on Saturday 31st August 2002...
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 United States Grand Prix
A win in the race also would be a remarkable 70th since he made his debut in 1991 at the Belgian Grand Prix.
Stewart, a native of Dumbarton, Scotland, drove in 99 races, won 27 (that was a record when he retired after the 1973 season) and world championships in 1969, 1971 and ’73.
Tickets: Tickets for the United States Grand Prix 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.
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He won the Paris-Roubaix race three times (1968, 1970, and 1973), the Liège-Bastogne-Liège race five times, the "flèche wallonne" (Tour of Wallonia) three times and the Tour of Flanders twice.
He also won victories in other races such as Paris-Nice, Ghent-Ghent, Ghent-Wevelgem, the Tour of Lombardy, the Tour of Sardinia and the Grand Prix of the Nations.
Between 1969 and 1974 he was Belgian sportsman of the year six times.
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 ooBdoo
The disaster comes to be known as the 1973 National Archives Fire.
July 29 - Formula One racing driver Roger Williamson dies in an accident, witnessed live on European television, during the Dutch Grand Prix.
The central character in the BBC series Life on Mars travelled through time to 1973 from 2006.
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 International Motorsports Hall of Fame Press Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Among his most famous cars were the Type 35 Bugattis, produced with four different engines in the mid-1920's, the Type 59 that won three Grands Prix in 1934 and the 4.7 liter supercharged GP cars that were so successful in the late 1930's.
This talented Belgian driver began his career on motorcycles, and won the European 50cc championship at the young age of 12.
By age 21, Ickx was driving one of Ken Tyrrell's Formula 2 cars, and at 23, won his first Grand Prix in France in 1968 driving a Ferrari.
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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.
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 Niki Lauda
Neben den Grand Prix Rennen fuhr Niki Lauda 1972 in der Formel 2 einen Werks-March Ford 722...
In seinen frühen Tagen startete Niki Lauda auch in der Tourenwagen Europameisterschaft, hier 1973 mit einem BMW Coupé von Alpina.
Niki Lauda erzielte seine ersten beiden Weltmeisterschaftspunkte 1973 beim Grand Prix von Belgien in Zolder mit einem Marboro B.R.M. P160E als er den fünften Platz belegte.
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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.
In 1973 Gordon Coppuck McLaren's chief designer produced the highly successful M23 grand prix car.
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 The men most likely to beat Schumacher
First Colombian driver to win a grand prix, 'JPM' was a Williams test driver before moving to United States and winning the CART title and Indianapolis 500.
Runner-up to Schumacher in 2003 and winner of last year's Belgian Grand Prix, McLaren's sole victory of 2004.
He replaced compatriot and two-time champion Mika Hakkinen at the team at the end of 2001 and was dubbed 'Ice Man' by team boss Ron Dennis.
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 International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
In 1973, "The Flying Dutchman" was second in Grand Prix standings.
At the millennium (year 2000), twenty years after his retirement, Okker’s 31 career “open tennis” Singles victories (combined ATP Tour, Grand Prix and WCT tournaments) still ranked 20th all-time.
Among Okker’s other Singles titles: 1968 Italian Open, 1970 German Open and Belgian Open, 1973 Dewar Cup and Canadian Open, and 1974 WCT Rothmans.
www.jewishsports.net /BioPages/TomOkker.htm   (204 words)

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