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	South African Grand Prix - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The South African Grand Prix was an event on the Formula 1 calendar.
		The first South African Grand Prix was held on 29 December 1962 at a track called East London.
		A total of 23 Grands Prix were held between 1962, and the final event in 1993.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/South_African_Grand_Prix (105 words)

	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)

	8W - When? - 1975 South African GP
		By then, with the growing professionalism among the F1 regulars, the South Africans were nowhere in their second-hand material, merely making up the numbers.
		Also part of the South African contingent were Ian Scheckter, who had taken over Keizan's Tyrrell and Charlton, who again was ahead of the domestic competition with the M23 he had acquired during 1974.
		So when the F1 circus reached Barcelona the South African was offered a Brabham BT44B ride by Bernie Ecclestone, who was suddenly short on drivers, all the GPDA members having announced general strike because of the alleged poor safety standards at Montjuich Park.
	www.forix.com /8w/za75.html (1033 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)

	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)

	Ambassadors: Cricket, F1 - SouthAfrica.info
		Born in Cape Town, Basil D’Oliviera, because of the policies of South Africa’s apartheid government, was forced to move to England to pursue a career in cricket.
		When he was selected for England’s tour of South Africa in 1968/9, South Africa’s government declared D’Oliviera unwelcome in the country; it would be 25 years before South Africa and England again did battle on the cricket field.
		His effort of 125 out of a South African total of 160 on a very difficult wicket at Trent Bridge in 1965 rates as one of the finest Test innings ever.
	www.southafrica.info /what_happening/sports/cricket_wc/182704.htm (438 words)

	Brunswick Formula One Film & Video Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		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)

	Soup :: The Best Ever--Super Seventies
		1975 saw Barry Sheene again finish sixth on his Suzuki, but he was fast gaining a reputation for flamboyant performances and gritty determination--qualities that hadn't gone unnoticed by the established riders.
		He was the first of the big "stars" of Grand Prix, had television coverage to cement him in the hearts and minds of the fans, and he had a massively magnetic personality.
		His stance on safety and due respect for riders was never better illustrated than at the French Grand Prix where he stormed into the organizer's office to demand his money for winning and to convey his total disgust with the facilities and track safety.
	www.superbikeplanet.com /2004/May/040525a.htm (3035 words)

	United Nations Documents on Apartheid
		On 16 June 1976, 10,000 African students in Soweto, the segregated African township of Johannesburg, joined a peaceful demonstration against the arbitrary decision imposed by the "Bantu education" authorities that Afrikaans should be used as the medium of instruction for several subjects in secondary schools.
		It may be recalled that the South African regime segregated education in 1954 and instituted a "Bantu education" system for the Africans, based on the philosophy of the then Minister of Native Affairs, Mr.
		Today, as the South African people enter the final and decisive stage of their struggle for emancipation, it is only right that their legitimate aspirations should be made clear to the entire world.
	www.anc.org.za /un/undocs2a.html (16595 words)

	Formula 1: Jody Scheckter - SouthAfrica.info
		In 1972 he enjoyed one Grand Prix drive and in 1973 he certainly made an impact - though not the kind he would have wanted to make.
		In 1975 Sheckter won once, in front of his home fans, at the South African Grand Prix.
		Nonetheless, the South African ace enjoyed a consistent season and finished third in the world championship standings.
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/sports/greats/scheckter.htm (620 words)

	Riccardo Patrese - The Italian Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Riccardo's greatest moment in 1990 was the brilliant victory in San Marino, where he finished a period of 7 years without win a Grand Prix (his last win was in South Africa in 1983).
		Many members of his old team went with him, so Frank Williams and Patrick Head founded the Williams Grand Prix Engineering Ltd. Their driver would be Patrick Neve and they had sponsorship from Saudia, an airline company.
		Rosberg won the Dallas Grand Prix, the only victory that Williams had on that season and the team got 25.5 points in the championship.
	www.rpatrese.com /teams/williams.htm (2034 words)

	The United States Grand Prix
		The Grand Prix that had raced in the streets of Monte Carlo and the forests of Spa and the Nurburgring now found itself amongst the Winnebagos of middle America.
		In the new millennium a new United States Grand Prix is due to be held at a modified Indianapolis.
		As a final irony; that which destroyed Grand Prix racing in the United States was now assisting in its rebirth.
	www.ddavid.com /formula1/usgp.htm (901 words)

	Desmond Tutu - Biography
		In 1975 he was appointed Dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg, the first fl to hold that position.
		From 1976 to 1978 he was Bishop of Lesotho, and in 1978 became the first fl General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches.
		The South African Council of Churches is a contact organization for the churches of South Africa and functions as a national committee for the World Council of Churches.
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1984/tutu-bio.html (369 words)

	Istria on the Internet - Prominent Istrians - Mario Andretti
		From 1975 to 1981, he won 12 races and earned 16 pole positions on the Grand Prix circuit.
		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.
	www.istrianet.org /istria/illustri/andretti/index.htm (2069 words)

	The Philatelic Federation of South Africa - Awards Committee
		Prior to 1974 the Grand Prix was a piece of art which the winner would keep.
		This is awarded to the best South African or South West African exhibit, which must be of at least Gold Award standard.
		The longest standing of Federation Floating Trophies, this 44 cm cup is awarded for the best South African exhibit pertaining to a period after 31st May 1910 which must have achieved at least a Silver Award and cannot be awarded again to substantially the same exhibit within six years.
	www.philatelysa.co.za /AwardsCommittee.html (1599 words)

	Soup :The Kawasaki KR250
		Future four-time world champion Eddie Lawson won the AMA 250 Grand Prix championship in both 1980 and 1981 on the Kawasaki KR250, a bike tuned for most of that period by Steve Johnson.
		Kawasaki dropped out of Grand Prix in the early 1980s after plenty of 250/350 world championships and has not been back, preferring to concentrate on Superbike and Supersport.
		Kawasaki abandoned Grand Prix racing after the 1982 season and turned their focus to Superbike and production racing, entering a wide array of bikes and riders in Superbike and World Endurance racing (including Carl Fogarty).
	www.superbikeplanet.com /kr250.htm (932 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)

	1975 Non-World Championship Formula One Races
		8 February 1975 - Killarney: 130.680 km (3.267 km x 40 laps)
		26 July 1975 - Kyalami: 131.008 km (4.094 km x 32 laps)
		4 October 1975 - Kyalami: 131.008 km (4.094 km x 32 laps)
	www.silhouet.com /motorsport/archive/f1/nc/1975/1975.html (155 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1975 Results > South African GP
		At the back of the field Lombardi became the first woman to qualify for a Grand Prix since 1958.
		Pace took the lead at the start with Scheckter jumping into second and Ronnie Peterson storming up to third ahead of Reutemann, Depailler, Regazzoni, E Fittipaldi and Lauda.
		South African GP, Kyalami, March 1, 1975, Round: 3, Race Number: 253
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/rr253.html (471 words)

	Neville Lederle - Text-Only
		The Rand Grand Prix, held at Kyalami, had a cast of international stars, as Lotus had entered Clark and Taylor in their Lotus 25's, as well as Innes Ireland in an older 24.
		The Natal Grand Prix the following weekend, held at Westmead, was marred and overshadowed by the fatal accident that befell the unfortunate Hocking during practice.
		Neville's point-scoring effort in the 1962 South African GP had caused him to be counted as a graded driver.
	f1rejects.com /drivers/lederle/text.html (2423 words)

	Ferrari History
		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'.
		Ferrari produced the famous 'shark nosed' GP car and Phil Hill of the United States took the 1961 Drivers World Championship with this car, after his team mate Wolfgang von Trips was killed in racing accident at the Italian Grand Prix.
	f1ferrarifan.50webs.com /History.htm (988 words)

	Welcome to the Grand Prix Masters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		He credits his parents for encouraging him to develop his aptitude for sport and he excelled in swimming and skiing before turning to motor racing on a professional level.
		In 1978 he began racing for the newly set up Arrows F1 team where in his first race he led the South African Grand Prix for 36 laps.
		This car and driver collaboration turned heads, and was the cause of much debate within the F1 paddock, Patrese for his aggressive driving style and the FA1 car for its innovative design.
	www.gpmasters.com /patrese.htm (465 words)

	Grand Prix Racing - the whole story
		Twice during the 1970s the track was the scene of tragedy and both incidents involved the Shadow team.
		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)

	mxlarge.com - Featuring exclusive Motocross, Supercross and Off Road news
		Youthstream and MSA (Motorsport South Africa) have signed a five year agreement starting from 2008 until 2012, for the organization of the FIM Grand Prix of South Africa, to be held at Alkmaar Raceway, near Nelspruit.
		Steve Ramon finished fourth overall at the British Grand Prix on the RM-Z450 and as a result Suzuki now lead the Rider's and Manufacturer's standings of the FIM Motocross World Championship.
		Steve Ramon enters the British Grand Prix at Donington Park and the penultimate round of the 2007 FIM MX1 Motocross World Championship with a real chance of taking the lead in the series for the first time.
	www.mxlarge.com (1731 words)

	History about the car/ driver
		Michael Schumacher was fighting hard until an accident at the British Grand Prix saw the German sidelined for all bar the final two races of the season.
		In 1994, Michael stunned the Grand Prix world, when he was quicker in the Benetton, than Senna was in the Williams.
		He made his Formula One debut in 1993, driving for Eddie Jordan, at the South African Grand Prix, where he qualified 14th, but the gearbox failed him on lap 31.
	ferrarirules.faithweb.com /custom2.html (1833 words)

	James Scott Connors - International Tennis Hall of Fame
		Connors had sought to enter the French, the only major championship he did not win that year, but because the ATP and the French administration opposed WTT--it conflicted with their tournament--the entries of WTT players were refused.
		The 1975 Wimbledon final, then, was unique, a duel between opponents in a lawsuit.
		Connors was beaten by Manolo Orantes in the 1975 finals and by Guillermo Vilas in 1977, striking the last ball, an error, in championship play in Forest Hills Stadium.
	www.tennisfame.com /famer.aspx?pgID=867&hof_id=18 (1716 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.
	www.fortunecity.com /olympia/grange/54/source.htm (733 words)

	Embassy Hill Ford GH2
		For the 1975 season Graham Hill decided to stay with the Lola Ford T370s for him and Stommelen.
		For the 1975 South African Grand Prix at Kyalami a modified version of it appeared called T371 making Stommelen score a fine seventh place at it´s debut.
		After a roll-out in Britain, the Embassy Hill team had gone to the Circuit Paul Ricard in the South of France for testing under better weather conditions with new British star driver Tony Brise behind the wheel at the end of November 1975.
	www.research-racing.de /gh2-a.htm (878 words)

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