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Topic: 1974 Dutch Grand Prix

	Belgian Grand Prix Information
		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.
		In 2006, the FIA announced the Belgian Grand Prix would not be part of the 2006 Formula One World Championship, since the local authorities have started a major repairment work in Spa Francorchamps.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Belgian_Grand_Prix (843 words)

	Guy Vanstraelen's Article @ The Equine Journal Stallion Issue 2002
		Dutch bred dressage horses that competed in Grand Prix Dressage at the 1998 WEG in Rome.
		Dutch warmblood horses, famous for their character, soundness and athletic ability, are exported to all corners of the globe, and are international winners under the flags of many different nations in international competitions and Olympic Games.
		The main tools in the ongoing evolution and improvement of the Dutch horse are the Keurings, or inspections which are held in the Netherlands and in North America every year, at which horses are evaluated and rewarded according to their quality and fulfillment of the Breeding Goal.
	www.theequinejournal.com /issue43/dutchart43.html (4349 words)

	Circuits of the past/English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		After Francorchamps was to dangerous to host a F1 race the Belgium Grand Prix was held at Zolder in 1971.
		In 1976 it was Nivelles turn to organize the Grand Prix but the Belgian delegation from the FIA found the track not longer suitable for Formula 1 because the condition of the asphalt.
		In this period the Dutch KNMV was using the circuit because races on streetcircuits where banned in Holland at that time.
	groups.msn.com /CircuitsofthepastEnglish/nivelles1.msnw (319 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.
		All other Grand Prix programmes have to be bought.
	www.motoprogs.com /html/grandprix.php (256 words)

	Niki Lauda - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		After an unsuccessful start to the 1970s, Ferrari were resurgent in 1974 and their faith in the little-known Lauda was quickly rewarded by a second-place finish in his début race for the team, the season-opening Argentine Grand Prix.
		His first Grand Prix (GP) victory – and the first for Ferrari since 1972 – followed only three races later in Spain.
		At the 1979 Canadian Grand Prix, Lauda informed Brabham owner Bernie Ecclestone that he wished to retire immediately, as he had no more desire to "drive around in circles".
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php?title=Niki_Lauda&redirect=no (965 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/f1/F1.html (1232 words)

	Regazzoni's dead - Lamborghini-Talk
		Regazzoni won five of his 132 Grands Prix in an 11-year career, which ended when he was paralysed from the waist down in a crash at Long Beach in 1980.
		He won the team's home Italian Grand Prix later that season, becoming a darling of the tifosi (fans), and was retained by Ferrari for 1971.
		Despite a victory in the US Grand Prix West at Long Beach early in 1976, Regazzoni fell out of favour with Ferrari and he was replaced by the Argentine Carlos Reutemann for 1977.
	www.lamborghini-talk.com /vbforum/showthread.php?p=43805 (620 words)

	Istria on the Internet - Prominent Istrians - Mario Andretti
		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.
		And finally, Marco Andretti, Michael's son, on August 27, 2006 won the Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma racing, and the beat goes on....
	www.istrianet.org /istria/illustri/andretti/index.htm (2069 words)

	Fast and fun, on and off the track (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		However, his grand prix career came to an end with a crash the following year that left him paralysed from the waist downwards.
		Although he again won the Italian grand prix in 1975, Lauda took the drivers' championship, with Regazzoni fifth, and it was clear that the so-called "wild man" had settled down comfortably in his role as supporting actor.
		But at the US West grand prix at Long Beach, California, its brakes failed, his car struck an abandoned Brabham and he went flying into a concrete barrier.
	www.smh.com.au /handheld/articles/2006/12/22/1166290737656.html (922 words)

	F1 News - Grandprix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > James Hunt
		Initially he grabbed the headlines with his exploits driving for Lord Hesketh's colorful independent F1 team and won the 1975 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort by feet from Lauda's Ferrari.
		In 1976 he joined McLaren as Emerson Fittipaldi's successor and had a terrific season, battling back into contention for the World Championship after being excluded from his victory in the British Grand Prix.
		Admittedly aided by Lauda's temporary absence from racing following his Nurburgring accident, Hunt took the title challenge all the way to the final race at Mount Fuji where third place in torrential rain was sufficient to clinch his crown.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/drv-hunjam.html (239 words)

	Neeskens adds that special Dutch - Soccer - Sport - theage.com.au
		The second was the great Dutch side that blossomed between 1973 and 1978, a team whose free-flowing, interdependent style in which all players were expected to be able to play in any position made them the pioneers of what came to be known as total football.
		Neeskens is celebrated as one of the legends of Dutch and European soccer and is now picking up a pay cheque from Football Federation Australia, having recently stepped into the dugout alongside Guus Hiddink, his long-time friend, and Graham Arnold as assistant coach of the Socceroos.
		Buoyed by their early strike, the Dutch admitted afterwards that they were intent on humiliating the Germans and concentrated instead on the style of their play, not actually winning the game.
	www.theage.com.au /news/soccer/neeskens-adds-that-special-dutch/2006/02/11/1139542446130.html (1163 words)

	The drivers
		He had to miss the prestigious Monaco Grand Prix in order to compete at Indianapolis, but made history by driving the first mid-engined car to win at the fabled "Brickyard," as well as becoming the only driver to date to win both that race and the F1 title in the same year.
		From the Italian Grand Prix onward Lotus used the more complex BRM H16 engine in the Lotus-BRM 43 car, with which Clark won the United States Grand Prix.
		He made his debut at the German Grand Prix and took over as team leader when Jochen Rindt was killed in Italy.
	bodieofci5.tripod.com /teamlotus/id2.html (3167 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)

	swissinfo - Formula One personalities attend Clay Regazzoni's funeral in Switzerland
		Regazzoni was paralysed after suffering spinal damage in the United States Grand Prix West in Long Beach in 1980.
		The Swiss gave Williams their first Grand Prix victory in Britain in 1979 and won four races for the Italian team.
		Regazzoni was runner-up for Ferrari in the 1974 championship and in 1975 he again won the Italian Grand Prix with Ferrari.
	www.swissinfo.org /eng/social_affairs/detail/Formula_One_stars_attend_funeral_of_Regazzoni.html?siteSect=201&sid=7374643 (567 words)

	www.cyclingnews.com news and analysis
		Dutch cycling legend Gerrie Knetemann has died, aged 53, on Tuesday afternoon, November 2.
		The ex-World Champion and national coach of the Dutch road team was riding his mountain bike with three friends in Bergen when he stopped to fix his chain, which had fallen off.
		Dutch federation (KNWU) president Joop Atsma commented about Knetemann that, "He was a unique sportsman and a model for everybody."
	www.cyclingnews.com /news.php?id=news/2004/nov04/nov03newsflash (478 words)

	Formula 1 complete - F1 info, stats and news
		After being refused entry to the 1974 Monaco Grand Prix race he took part in the supporting F3 race in a March car, easily outclassing the field.
		A few years earlier Roger Williamson was killed during the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort when Williamson got trapped inside his burning car and safety marshalls were slow to cross the track while the race was in progress.
		At the end of lap 21 of the Grand Prix at Kyalami, South Africa, on March 5, 1977, Renzo Zorzi retired his Shadow with a split fuel pipe which had caused a small, but harmless fire.
	www.f1complete.com /content/view/371/273 (642 words)

	Formula One History - Wings, Shunts & Ground Effects
		Graham Hill took the 1968 title in the Lotus 49, fitted with the then-new Ford Cosworth engine, introduced at the Dutch Grand Prix in June 1967, and with the first sponsorship colors and logos seen in F1 racing.
		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.
		Suffering severe facial burns and inhaling toxic fumes from the car's burning bodywork, Lauda was expected to die and received the Last Rites in the hospital, but in a rare display of sheer determination, made a near-miraculous recovery to return to the cockpit just six weeks later for the Italian GP, where he finished 4th.
	www.f1-grandprix.com /history4.html (1370 words)

	The F1 FAQ
		The Eastern bloc also played a small part, as Jonathan Palmer's T-car at the 1986 Hungarian Grand Prix, the first to be held behind the iron curtain, bore East sponsorship, while both regular cars were in regular West outfit.
		The 1974 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort started and finished with Niki Lauda first, followed by his Ferrari teammate Clay Regazzoni, the two McLarens of Emerson Fittipaldi and Mike Hailwood and Tyrrell's Jody Scheckter.
		On the first outing of the car, the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix at Anderstorp, Brabham's rivals were first stunned, but quickly started protesting against this invention.
	www.atlasf1.com /2000/hun/faq.html (1623 words)

	International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
		Dutch tennis champion Tom Okker was ranked (ATP) among the World's Top Ten Singles players for seven consecutive years, 1968 thru 1974.
		Okker was the Dutch national champion 1964 to 1968, when he turned professional.
		In 1973, "The Flying Dutchman" was second in Grand Prix standings.
	www.jewishsports.net /BioPages/TomOkker.htm (204 words)

	F1A&G - Legendary Races
		It was the Argentine's 24th and final Grand Prix victory, and also his greatest.
		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)

	F1 ace Regazzoni dies in car crash
		The Swiss-born racer, who gave Williams their first grand prix victory at Silverstone in 1979 and won four races for Ferrari, was 67.
		Police said Regazzoni, who was paralysed after breaking his back in a crash at the 1980 U.S. Grand Prix West in Long Beach, died when his car collided with a truck on a highway to the west of the Italian town of Parma.
		He drove for BRM for a season in 1973 before returning to Ferrari in 1974 as team mate to future triple world champion Niki Lauda under the guidance of team manager Luca di Montezemolo, now the Ferrari president.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /sports/2006-12/18/content_761354.htm (526 words)

	World Grand Prix 2005 / Team Roster NED
		From 1985 Selinger was officially allowed by the FIVB as a former Israelian international to play for the Dutch national team and from 1985-1992 he went on to play an incredible 387 international matches to be the fifth most capped Dutch player of all time.
		As a member of the Dutch national team he won a silver medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona and two bronze medals at the European Championships of 1989 and 1991.
		At the end of 1992 Selinger retired as a Dutch international, although he continued playing at the Dutch Premier League club Alcom/Capelle, and it was four laters when he took his first step into coaching in Japan.
	www.fivb.org /EN/volleyball/competitions/WorldGrandPrix/2005/Teams/Team_Roster.asp?TEAM=NED&TRN=WGP2005&sm=66 (710 words)

	Formula 1 complete - F1 info, stats and news
		In 1973, Formula One returned to the Zandvoort for the Dutch Grand Prix, after an absence of a year due to extensive safety upgrades to the race track which amongst others included new asphalt, installation of barriers and building a new race control tower.
		This race was only the second Formula One start for the March team and the second Grand Prix race for the promising Williamson.
		Initially some people, like the commentators on Dutch tv, race control and some of the other drivers participating in the race, thought that Purley was the driver that belonged to the burning car, and thus thought that the driver had gotten away safely.
	www.f1complete.com /content/view/432/273 (515 words)

	Albert Claude - Autobiography
		Longlier, my birthplace, is located in a high point of the Belgian Ardennes, atop the rising spur of an eroded remnant of the foot of the Alps, next to a deep valley.
		My grandfather was born in 1830, just the year the Flemish and French speaking Catholics decided to secede from the Lutheran Dutch people of the low lands, governed by the House of Orange.
		For a number of generations tracing back to the 17th century, his ancestors had been active in maintaining a Relay, or Stagecoach stop, providing horses, food and lodging for travellers, and wagons for the conveyance of goods.
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1974/claude-autobio.html (3054 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)

	A1 GP Circuits - Circuit Park Zandvoort
		With a history of 17 Dutch Grands Prix under its hallowed tarmac, it also has the distinction of being the only circuit to host a Grand Prix where all 15 cars that took to the grid finished, all without making a pitstop, during the 1961 Dutch Grand Prix.
		Benefiting from the excitement of the first race, and the most enthusiastic fans in the world, A1 Team The Netherlands home race is bound to be one of the highlights on the A1 Grand Prix calendar.
		In 1985, the Dutch Grand Prix was held for the last time, as part of the circuit had to be remodelled because of new buildings.
	www.travelplaces.co.uk /mr-a1-circuits-zandvoort.htm (512 words)

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