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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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 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.
There are also a few Grand Prix where there wasn't a programme, or only a riderslist.
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 F1 News - Grandprix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > Dutch GP, 1977
There were 34 cars fighting for the 26 grid positions and so the Dutch organizers decided to have a pre-qualifying session as has happened at Silverstone.
This proved to be a waste of time as Arturo Merzario objected, pointing out that the rules did not insist that he should pre-qualify.
This elevated Patrick Tambay (Theodore Ensign) to third place but he ran out of fuel on the penultimate lap and so Scheckter took third with Emerson Fittipaldi fourth and Tambay being classified fifth ahead of Reutemann.
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 Former 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.
In 1977 and 1978 Regazzoni drove for Ensign and Shadow respectively before returning to a competitive car with Williams as team mate to Australian Alan Jones in 1979.
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 Soup :: MotoGP Preview: The 76th Dutch TT
The first Dutch TT (Tourist Trophy) took place on the original road circuit in Assen in 1925 and only during the second-World War, 1940 - 1945, were no events staged.
The Dutch TT is one of the biggest sporting events of the year in Holland.
The Dutch doctors were not able to stabilize the limb and only when Doctor Costa "kidnapped" Doohan from the Dutch infirmary, did Costa and his staff manage to halt any fears of an amputation through infection.
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 Formula 1 complete - F1 info, stats and news - Pryce, Tom
Pryce was the son of a policeman and was born in Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales.
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.
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 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.
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 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/Niki_Lauda   (965 words)

  
 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.
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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 Grand Prix Games - The community place :: Off-Topic :: Clay Regazzoni killed in car accident, aged 67   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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, establishing himself as a darling of the Italian 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.
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 Dutch Grand Prix - Definition, explanation
The Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One automobile race held at Circuit Zandvoort, from 1952 to 1985.
After the war some of these roads were widened and linked together and a racing circuit was designed by a group of officials from the Royal Dutch Motorcycle Association, with advice from the winner of Le Mans 24 Hours in 1927, Sammy Davis.
In 1950 the race became known as the Dutch Grand Prix but was not until 1952 that this became a round of the World Championship.
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 1977 TT at Assen GP, The Netherlands
I went to my first TT grand prix when I was 9 years old (1969).
Rik at the 1977 Grand Prix in Holland
This page I like to show some pictures and talk about the 1977 TT at Assen Grand Prix, where I was with my dad, who had to work that week at the races, so I got to see all the big race-bikes and racers up close.
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 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.
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 Wikipedia search result
The Arrows Grand Prix International team was founded in 1977, by Italian financier Franco Ambrosio (A), Alan Rees (R), Jackie Oliver (O), Dave Wass (W) and Tony Southgate (S) when Rees, Oliver, Wass and Southgate left the Shadow team.
In September, in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, Patrese was involved in an accident which claimed the life of Ronnie Peterson and he was banned from racing in America by his fellow drivers.
The team nearly secured a maiden victory at the 1997 Hungarian Grand Prix when a combination of race events gave Hill the lead but a gearbox failure in the final laps of the race saw him finish second.
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 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.
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 BMWNation > Articles
In 1984 he entered his first Grand Prix in an ATS BMW, and in 1986 celebrated his first Formula One victory in a Benetton BMW.
Out of a total of 210 Grand Prix races he claimed ten victories, 17 second places and 21 third places, as well as twelve pole positions and 21 fastest laps.
When Ralf drove his first Formula One Grand Prix race he was 22 years old and, after a relatively quiet year abroad, a great deal more mature On the outside he was becoming leaner and more angular, while inside he was more rounded and confident.
www.bmwnation.com /articles/2002_f1preview_03.html   (1852 words)

  
 October Hills Farm Mezcalero Pedigree
Mezcalero is by the beloved Dutch stallion Voltaire, one of the first performance stallions to go on and prove himself equally important as a breeding stallion.
In 1989, he was the winner of the Grand Prix of Berlin.
In dressage, Furioso II’s son Purioso is the sire of Cocktail (Anky van Grunsven’s Grand Prix mount).
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 McLaren
Brazilian Ayrton Senna won the final USA-DETROIT race, in 1986, and the two subsequent U.S. GRAND PRIX events, in 1987-88, to score a "hat trick" on the streets of "Motor City".
In the modern era, it was host to the 1993 European Grand Prix, won memorably by McLaren's Ayrton Senna.
30 editions of the Dutch GP were run from 1952 to 1985 at Zandvoort, a town on the North Sea.
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 swissinfo - Swiss racing driver Clay Regazzoni dies in road accident in Italy
Regazzoni, aged 67, who was paralysed after suffering spinal damage in the United States Grand Prix West in Long Beach in 1980, died in a collision near Parma in Italy.
The Swiss, who hailed from Lugano in the southern canton of Ticino, gave Williams their first grand victory in Britain in 1979 and won four races for Ferrari.
Regazzoni was runner-up for Ferrari in the 1974 championship and in 1975 he again won the Italian Grand Prix with Ferrari.
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 Grand Prix 2000 - Round 9 - Donington - Preview
The British GP was one of the six original events on the first World Championship calendar of 1949 - but the event is in fact the oldest of them all, dating back to the dawn of motorcycle racing and reflecting generations of enthusiasm for the sport.
The race only moved to mainland Britain in 1977, to be run at Silverstone for ten years after the public-roads Manx circuit was judged too dangerous for modern racing.
Crivillé flew to Japan after the Dutch Grand Prix where he tested a new chassis for the NSR 500.
www.mcnews.com.au /MotorcycleRacing2000/GrandPrix/GP2000round9_Donington_Preview.htm   (2063 words)

  
 KWPN-NA
The van der Steen brothers contribute to the Dutch Warmblood breeding not only by producing top quality jumpers, but also they try to generate understanding and enthusiasm for the equestrian sports by opening their stud farm to the general public.
A few years ago we both competed in the Grand Prix at the CDI in Goes, the Netherlands and in the awards ceremony we stood just next to each other.
Joep Bartels is married to the Dutch Grand Prix rider Tineke Bartels, who rides the KWPN approved stallion Broere Jazz, and their daughter, Imke Schellekens - Bartels with her KWPN approved stallion Gestion Lancet, is also an active Grand Prix competitor.
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 ESPN.com - Montoya not the only bizarre scratch
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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 Formula One History - Wings, Shunts & Ground Effects
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.
Lauda re-captured the title with Ferrari in 1977, but quit the team with two races to go, following a calculated 4th place championship-clincher at the U.S. Grand Prix, to join Bernie Ecclestone's Parmalat Brabham team — and be replaced in the Ferrari by Gilles Villeneuve.
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 THE HORSE MAGAZINE
It was the summer of 1977, the eldest offspring of Le Mexico were two years old and when the Dutch jury went to assess them, they were not over-impressed.
At the end of their second season at stud, Dutch stallions are judged on the basis of their offspring (in Le Mexico's time, this test was conducted at the end of their fourth season).
To interpret this correctly you must understand that the Dutch estimate of breeding value, most of the competitive results gained abroad, are not counted.
www.horsemagazine.com /BREEDINGBARN/GREAT_STALLIONS/LEMEXICO/lemexico.htm   (879 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.
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 Formula One History - The Turbo Era
The first turbo was remarkably quick, although suffering from "turbo lag" under acceleration, but very unreliable, and it would be a year before the Renault finished a Grand Prix.
Renault won the '79 French Grand Prix with Jabouille, while Villeneuve and René Arnoux waged a fantastic duel behind, with Villeneuve crossing the line 0.3 seconds ahead.
After the San Marino Grand Prix, in which Pironi passed Villeneuve, against team orders, while the Ferraris were easily running 1-2 under turbo power, Gilles vowed he would never again speak to his team mate.
www.f1-grandprix.com /history5.html   (1028 words)

  
 Formula one: Ferrari icon dies in car crash | Formula one | Guardian Unlimited Sport
The five-times grand prix winner, who twice triumphed at Monza driving for the Italian team, was reported to have collided head on with a truck on a main road near Parma while driving a Chrysler Voyager.
"Even after the accident when he crashed his Ensign in the US grand prix at Long Beach in 1980, a crash which left him paralysed from the waist down, he made the best out of his circumstances and was soon driving again in cars adapted with hand controls.
In 1968 he was implicated in the fatal accident involving the Englishman Chris Lambert's Brabham after a collision with Regazzoni's Tecno in the Dutch round of the European formula two championship at Zandvoort.
sport.guardian.co.uk /formulaone/story/0,,1973306,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=7   (455 words)

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