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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Jaguar Racing
It was formed from the purchase by Ford of Jackie Stewart's Stewart Grand Prix Formula One team in June 1999.
Jackie Stewart talks with fans at the 2005 United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis Sir John Young Stewart, OBE (born 11 June 1939 in Milton, West Dunbartonshire), better known as Jackie Stewart, and nicknamed The Flying Scot, is a three-time Scottish Formula One racing champion.
After the 2004 Brazilian Grand Prix, Bernie Ecclestone, Max Mosley, much of the sport's management, and every driver except Michael Schumacher signed the donkey, and the mechanics announced their intention to auction it on eBay and donate the proceeds to charity.
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 Wikinfo | Monaco Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The principality of Monaco, holds one of the oldest races on the Formula One automobile racing circuit.
The Monaco Grand Prix, held there annually, was first organized by Antony Noghes, a well-to-do cigarette manufacturer and a resident of Monte Carlo, under the auspices of Prince Louis II through the establishing of the "Automobile Club de Monaco" of which Noghes was the founding president.
Grand Prix motor racing came to Monaco in 1929 when the first Grand Prix of Monaco automobile race was held.
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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.
Monaco was next and the race was held without Clark, who was at Indianapolis winning that year's classic in a Lotus Type 38 powered by an American Ford engine under a partnership with the American giant that would have tremendous consequences for Formula 1 in the near future.
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 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.
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 History of Monaco Grand Prix Monte Carlo F1 Hotels & Monaco GP tickets - Grand Prix Tours   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
At the Italian Grand Prix with the World Championship all but won, Rindt's Lotus veered sharply left under heavy braking into the Armco barriers at the Parabolica, he died in the ambulance on the way to a Milan hospital.
The organizers at the Monaco Grand Prix had changed the number of entrants at the race and bumped it up to 18 cars instead of the usual 16.
The Monaco Grand Prix remained incident free for the most part until mid-race Hunt had a spin out at the Tabac and was pushed to the back of the field and then followed it with an engine failure.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Rules for a Grand Prix World Championship had been laid out before the war but it took several years afterward for the series to get going; meanwhile Ferrari rebuilt his works in Maranello and constructed the 12-cylinder, 1.5 L Tipo 125, which competed at several non-championship Grands Prix.
At the 1967 Monaco Grand Prix Bandini crashed and suffered heavy injuries when he was trapped under his burning car; several days later he succumbed to his injuries.
However the tyres provided for San Marino Grand Prix were more competitive, and the Bridgestone tyres supplied for the United States Grand Prix allowed the three Bridgestone teams to race, while the seven Michelin teams were forced to retire due to Michelin's advice that the tyres would not last the race distance.
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 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
A crash at the 1969 United States Grand Prix broke his legs and interrupted his career.
After failing to qualify for the 1975 Monaco Grand Prix, where he had won five times, Hill retired to concentrate on running his team.
In November 1975, Graham was killed when his Piper Aztec aeroplane (which he was piloting at the time) crashed in foggy conditions over Arkley Golf Course in North London.
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 The Official Formula 1 Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Monaco' was followed by a downward spiral precipitated by a huge accident in the last race of the season, the US Grand Prix.
Finally, following the humility of failing to qualify for the 1975 Monaco Grand Prix, Hill announced he was retiring as a driver but would continue to run the team led by his highly talented discovery, Tony Brise.
On November 29, 1975, returning from a test session at the Paul Ricard circuit in France, Hill was trying to land in dense fog at the Elstree airfield near London when his twin-engined plane crashed and burned, killing all aboard.
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 Michael Schumacher
Grand Prix racing cars are space ships on earth, handmade prototypes and also constructed totally at the limit.
In contrast to that Graham Hill had to fail qualification for the 1975 Monaco Grand Prix to get to know, that his retirement from racing (and concentration on the task of being a team principal) was the better solution.
The next fatal accident in Grand Prix Racing, after the crashes of Ratzenberger and Senna in Imola of 1994, is coming nearer and nearer looking at this tendency from the mathematical point of view.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Graham Hill
At the unusually late age of nearly 30, he started racing, and due to Lotus' presence in Formula One, he quickly got a chance to race there, debuting at the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix.
The Lotus had a reputation of being very fragile and dangerous at that time, especially with the new aerodynamic aids which caused similar crashes of Hill and Jochen Rindt at the 1969 Spanish Grand Prix.
After failing to qualify for the 1975 Monaco Grand Prix, at the track where he had won 5 times, Hill retired from driving to concentrate on running his team.
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 Vittorio Brambilla - WOI Encyclopedia Italia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
His great day came at the Österreichring in 1975, when he got a victory in a wet Austrian Grand Prix.
He is best remembered for spinning off and wrecking the nose of his car as he took the chequered flag and completing his slowing down lap with the front of the car destroyed and waving madly to the crowd.
In a multiple pileup at Monza in the 1978 Italian Grand Prix, in which Ronnie Peterson died, Brambilla suffered serious head injuries, but recovered to drive briefly for the Alfa Romeo F1 team in 1979 and 1980, before retiring.
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 GoodHumans Message Boards: GRAND PRIX - PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO - David Harrison Levi - Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA
It was Williams in his Bugatti 35 B who brought this first Grand Prix to an average speed of 80.104 kilometres per hour.
From 1950 onwards the Monaco Grand Prix featured permanently in the calendar of World Champion Racing events, except in 1952 when the organisers decided they preferred "Sports" cars to the single-seater Formula 2 (2 litres) normally retained for the World Championship.
Ten years later, for the 44th Grand Prix, the widening of the road at the beginning of the Quai des Etats Unis at the foot of the Boulevard Louis II descent, allowed the creation of a new zigzag which brought the length of a lap to 3.328 metre.
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 The Sports Section: The The Race: Monaco 2000
Michael's disappointment was the greater after starting the Grand Prix on pole and leading in typically commanding fashion for the first 55 laps.
The German, winner at Monaco four times in the past six years, nursed his Ferrari around the circuit before pulling into the pits and stepping out of the car after mechanics struggled for a minute to repair the problem.
The Monaco circuit weaves around the narrow streets that leave little room for overtaking so a good position on the grid is vital.
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 F1 News - Grandprix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > Monaco GP, 1975   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Coming just two weeks after the scandalous Spanish Grand Prix, the organizers at Monaco did some quick safety work on the track and decided that only 18 cars should be allowed to start and that the grid should be staggered to avoid another first corner accident.
Jacques Laffite was back with Williams while Graham Hill took part in what would be his last event, running one of his cars but failing to qualify.
Jochen Mass (McLaren) had been running fifth but was overtaken by Depailler on the penultimate lap and so had to settle for a single point.
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 Historic Monaco Grand Prix - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique
The first Monaco Grand Prix was held in 1929 and it is now an important part of the Formula One calendar.
In 1952, the Monaco event had been run for sports cars, as this was a period in F1 when the regulations were being changed from one engine to another and there was not an abundance of single-seater racing cars.
If you are in the area for the Historic Grand Prix or the Formula One Grand Prix and are staying for a few days an enjoyable pastime is a visit to the annual Cannes Film Festival.
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 Ferrari
Monaco and Ferrari are synonymous with excitement and style, the Ferrari Team shown here typifies everything that surrounds the famous marque.
Eddie Irvine's victory at the Austrian Grand Prix in July 1999, driving the Ferrari F399 V10 in his bid to win the World Championship after Michael Schumacher crashed at Silverstone.
Collins and Hawthorn in the pits with their Ferrari 246 F1 cars at the 1958 British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
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 Grand Prix Hall of Fame - Niki Lauda - Biography
By the German Grand Prix he was more than 20 down to the Austrian.
Lauda and Didier Pironi, head of the Grand Prix Drivers Association, organized a resistance movement, and got most of the drivers to lock themselves together in a hotel meeting room over night while Pironi negotiated with FISA major-domo Jean-Marie Balestre.
Grand Prix History is produced by The Motorsports Publishing Group, LLC
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 Monaco special and unusual F1 event | www.azstarnet.com ®
The Monaco Grand Prix this Sunday is one of those special events that is more than just another race for the drivers.
Besides the Formula One course winding through the center of the glamorous principality of Monte Carlo, the race schedule is the most unusual on the world-hopping F1 circuit, with practice opening on Thursday - a day earlier than usual - and a day off on Friday before qualifying and the race on the weekend.
Headlining the historic entries will be the U.S. Grand Prix-winning Tyrell of Jackie Stewart in 1972, Carlos Reutemann's Brabham BT-44 in 1974, Niki Lauda's Ferrari 312T in 1975, James Hunt's McLaren M-26 in 1976-1977, Gilles Villeneuve's Ferrari 312 T-5 in 1979, and the Williams FWO7B of Alan Jones in 1980.
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 Grand Prix de Monaco 2001
The Grand Prix of Monaco with it`s glamorous atmosphere, thank God demanding an only dead with Lorenzo Bandini being killed back in 1967, will be held on the street circuit of Monte Carlo, until a car will crash into a grandstand making hundreds of spectators killed.
In 1975 the Italian won his only Grand Prix at Austrian Zeltweg in a very heavy rain with a works March Ford - and was so happy about his victory that he crashed into the pit wall after passing the finish line.
Some hours after the Grand Prix of Monaco 2001 he scored a double victory in the Indianapolis 500 with the young Brazilians Helio Castroneves and Gil de Ferran with cars bought from Dallara.
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 German Grand Prix 2001 - The Good Gambling Guide
And the first of these may be the last Grand Prix on the Hockenheimring in its current state: it's the second longest circuit currently to Spa, and it's the second fastest, to Monza.
Nurburgring hosted early World Championship Grands Prix until the end of the fifties when a single race was run on the autobahns of the Avus, just outside Berlin but then the Grand Prix returned to the Nurburgring again.
Hockenheim had its first Grand Prix in 1970 and then after Niki Lauda's accident at the Nurburgring - one of only two German Grand Prix race stoppages, incidentally - the race returned to the circuit by the Rhine in 1977, briefly returning to the 'new' Nurburgring for the 1985 race.
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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.
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.
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 F1 1975 - Lauda & Ferrari No. 1 DVD - Duke Video
1975 was the year the prancing horse got its spring back.
1975 was an unsettled season full of disagreements and problems that saw four races stopped prematurely for safety reasons and the Canadian GP cancelled over money issues.
They have skilfully combined film from their famous archive - including some previously unseen material (plus a thrilling in-car lap of Monaco) - to create a review that captures the essence of a very special era in Grand Prix racing.
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 Circuit de Monaco : The Formula One DataBase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In 1929 the inaugural Monaco Grand Prix was organised by Anthony Noghes, which was won by William Grover-Williams in a Bugatti which bore the colours which would later become world famous as British Racing Green.
The first Monaco Grand Prix to count towards the F1 World Championship was won by Juan Manuel Fangio.
However it would be 1955 before the Monaco Grand Prix would be a regular occurence in Formula 1.
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 Monaco Formula 1 - Histoire du Grand Prix
Le Grand Prix doit son existence à la volonté et au travail d'un homme passionné de sport: Anthony NOGHÈS, ancien Trésorier Général des Finances, né le 13 septembre 1890 et décédé le 2 août 1978.
Depuis 1950, le Grand Prix de Monaco compte pour le Championnat du Monde des conducteurs (à l'exception de 1952).
De 1929 à ce jour,' 14 Grands Prix n'eurent pas lieu : de 1939 à 1947, puis durant les années 1949, 1951,1953 et 1954.
www.monaco-formula1.com /historique.html   (336 words)

  
 Toyota Racing - Monaco Grand Prix - Qualifying Round-Up   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The 2006 Monaco Grand Prix marks the 40th annivers...
The last time the Monaco Grand Prix was won by a B...
Panasonic Toyota Racing heads into tomorrow's Monaco Grand Prix with two drivers in the top six rows of the grid after a hectic qualifying session around the streets of the principality.
www.4mula1.ro /formula1news/1838-toyotaracingmonacograndprixqualifyingroundup.html   (832 words)

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