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	BMW WilliamsF1 Team-Austrian GP-Preview
		Austrian Grand Prix 16/17/18 May 2003 PREVIEW Despite a disappointing result in Barcelona, the BMW WilliamsF1 Team are approaching the Austrian Grand Prix with measured enthusiasm following a successful week¹s testing at Le Castellet where both Ralf Schumacher and test driver Marc Gené topped the time sheets.
		From 1970 to 1987, 18 Grands Prix were run on the Österreich-Ring, famous for its spectacularly fast corners.
		This year¹s race will be the 26th Austrian Grand Prix and the seventh to be held on the A1-Ring.
	www.theautochannel.com /news/2003/05/09/160982.html (913 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)

	Jacky Ickx
		After 17 days he was already back in his car at the Monaco Grand Prix, but his Ferrari was no match for the Lotus of Jochen Rindt.
		The car started to improve and at the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim[?] he fought with Rindt for the win, but finished second in the end.
		In 1979 he ended his career as a GP driver at Ligier, but still continued to win a lot of races in various sportscar series.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/Jacky_Ickx.html (1139 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1979 Results > Austrian GP
		The entry was the same as it had been in Hockenheim (where Williams scored a 1-2 finish) but there had been a change at Tyrrell with Derek Daly being brought in to stand-in for the unwell Jean-Pierre Jarier (who had been replaced by Geoff Lees at Hockenheim).
		ATS had undergone a restructuring with former Grand Prix driver Vic Elford becoming team manager and the team had the brand new D2, which had been designed by Nigel Stroud.
		As Austria is high up in the Austrian mountains, the Renault turbo had an advantage and Rene Arnoux was on pole position with Alan Jones second.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/rr324.html (369 words)

	Grand Prix Hall of Fame - Ayrton Senna - Biography
		The end of the year for Formula Three was celebrated in the Portuguese enclave of Macau at the Macau Grand Prix with drivers from all of the national series.
		For the French Grand Prix he was given a new car but the results were the same when he suffered turbo problems and had to retire.
		The Grand Prix world was already reeling from the death of the young Austrian Roland Ratzeberger and the serious practice crash of Rubens Barrichello.
	www.ddavid.com /formula1/sen_bio.htm (1883 words)

	Australian Grand Prix - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
		The race organisers and the government claimed that the economic benefits to the state outweighed the costs, and that the park's public amenities have been improved considerably by the works carried out for the race.
		The race was struck by tragedy in 2001, when a flying tyre from a crash between Ralf Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve flew through a gap in the barrier fence and killed a volunteer track marshal.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Australian_Grand_Prix (732 words)

	Formula One - WebArticles.com
		A number of Grand Prix racing organisations laid out rules for a World Championship before World War II, but due to the suspension of racing during the war, the World Drivers Championship was not formalised until 1947, and was first run in 1950.
		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 future of the United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is now in serious doubt after the 2005 race saw only six cars start the race, due to concerns about the safety of the Michelin tires which equipped the other fourteen cars.
	www.webarticles.com /print.php?id=522 (3829 words)

	Formula 1 - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		It consists of a series of races, known as Grands Prix, held on purpose-built circuits or closed city streets, whose results determine two annual World Championships, one for drivers and one for constructors.
		As of 2005, this expansion has resulted in the disappearance of only one race, the Austrian Grand Prix, which was last held in 2003; however, several teams have expressed their preference for a shorter calendarTemplate:Ref, and the future of such races as the British, French and San Marino Grands Prix has recently fallen into doubt.
		The future of the United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is also in doubt after only six cars started the 2005 race due to concerns about the safety of the supplied Michelin tyres.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Formula_1 (5021 words)

	The Story of the Grand Prix Pt10
		Sadly this was the last Grand Prix for ex-World Champion James Hunt for after the race he quit the Wolf team and retired from racing.
		As noted earlier the French Grand Prix was won by Renault but it was the battle for second place between Villeneuve and Arnoux that captivated the fans.
		By the German Grand Prix the title race was between Pironi and Watson only to have the Ferrari driver suffer career ending injuries during practice.
	ddavid.com /formula1/story9.htm (3270 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/fo/Formula_One.html (1232 words)

	Auto-Racing @ MieNet: Grand Prix 2001 Special Details
		Considering Burti's mid-twenties, he might not realize in what excellent company he is here: two Austrian legends likewise made their debut race in the Austrian GP: the late Jochen Rindt in the inaugural Austrian F1 GP (1964), and Niki Lauda in 1971, in the second Grand Prix being held at Osterreichring.
		The Grand Prix held at old Osterreichring track in the year when its retirement was decreed, was worthy of the fearsome reputation which the Austrian track earned among the drivers shortly after its inauguration.
		Grand Prix from the moment M.Schumacher and Montoya got tangled until he had to pull in for his pit stop, when McLaren's strategy triumphed over Ferrari's.
	www.mienet.com /sports/autoracing/obsf1detail01b.html (5941 words)

	Formula One - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		Formula One, abbreviated to F1 and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of single-seat open-wheel formula auto racing.
		Europe is Formula One's traditional centre and remains its leading market; however, Grands Prix have been held all over the world, and with new races in Bahrain, China, Malaysia and Turkey, its scope is continually expanding.
		The only real street circuit is the Circuit de Monaco, used for the Monaco Grand Prix, although races in other urban locations come and go (Las Vegas and Detroit, for example) and proposals for such races are often discussed – most recently for London.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Formula_One (4479 words)

	Belleville News-Democrat \| 10/21/2006 \| Behind the confidence, there is a side to Schumacher that he rarely displays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The two extraordinary scenes are in sharp contrast to the public side of Schumacher, whose last Formula One race is this weekend after a record seven titles and 91 victories.
		At the 2000 Italian Grand Prix, Schumacher won the race and moved within two points of two-time defending champion Mika Hakkinen, who again was atop the standings.
		He celebrated on the victory stand at the Japanese Grand Prix after winning the race over Hakkinen to capture the title with one race left.
	www.belleville.com /mld/belleville/sports/15814601.htm (480 words)

	Ferrari's First in 20 Years 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Coulthard won the pole, his first since the 1998 Canadian Grand Prix, but it was Hakkinen who claimed the lead at the start only to be passed by Schumacher after 11 laps.
		Between the Canadian Grand Prix and the French Grand Prix, David Colthard and his girl friend were involved in a light commercial Jet accident in France inwhich the Polit and co-Polit were killed,but Colthard and his girl friend escaped from the air crash with minor injuries.
		Michael Schumacher won nine Grand Prix races during the 2000 FIA Formula One World Championship season en route to becoming the first driver to win the Drivers Championship for Ferrari since Jody Scheckter in 1979.
	www.fortunecity.com /olympia/grange/54/history/story2000.htm (2668 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Constructors > Ferrari (Scuderia Ferrari)
		Farina and Piero Taruffi joined Ascari and (apart from the Indianapolis 500) the team won every Grand Prix of the year with Ascari collecting six consecutive victories and the Championship.
		Six weeks after the crash he was back in action at Monza and in the final World Championship showdown in heavy rain at Mount Fuji in Japan he withdrew from the race, handing the World Championship to James Hunt.
		The Austrian was keen to show that he was still a winner and although Reutemann was the first to win a race, Lauda scored three wins and took the World title again.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/con-ferra.html (4925 words)

	Untitled Document
		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.
		Italian Grand Prix is held on the Monza banked track, British teams boycott the race on safety grounds.
		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.
	redlineracer.org /html/f1history.asp (5576 words)

	The Nostalgia Column
		After the French and British Grands Prix, which have been on the calendar for almost every year, it's now time for the Austrian Grand Prix.
		Although Austria had already hosted non-championship Grands Prix as far back as 1959, The first official championship event was held there on the 23rd of August 1964 and saw Lorenzo Bandini take his only Formula One win.
		1986 and 1987 appeared to be key-factors in the demise of the Austrian Grand Prix.
	www.atlasf1.com /99/aut/preview/schot.html (1375 words)

	ESPN.com - F1 - Knutson: F1's strange misses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
	sports.espn.go.com /rpm/news/story?id=2027704 (994 words)

	RacingOne - Nascar Racing: Auto Racing, Nascar News, Racing News, Nascar Online, Nascar 2006, Nascar Drivers, Nascar, ...
		Coulthard, who trails Schumacher by 12 points in the drivers' standings with eight Grands Prix left in the 17-race season, is coming off a victory at the French GP two weeks ago.
		The Finn was second behind Coulthard at the French Grand Prix, the third 1-2 finish for McLaren this season.
		At last year's Austrian Grand Prix, Coulthard bumped Hakkinen in the first lap, dropping the Finn to the last place.
	www.racingone.com /article.aspx?artnum=1919 (569 words)

	GrandPrix.com > Store
		The Austrian Grand Prix: Zeltweg, August 12, 1979
		The Belgian Grand Prix: Spa-Francorchamps, June 20, 1954
		The Donnington Grand Prix: Donnington October 2, 1937
	store.grandprix.com /shop/index.php?cPath=7_33 (152 words)

	F1A&G - Legendary Races
		It was the first Grand Prix win by a Briton, a prelude of many more to come.
		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)

	United States Grand Prix
		The U.S. Grand Prix that year was destined to be anti-climatic because Mario Andretti had clinched the World Championship at Monza, the preceding race.
		Hunt retired both from the team and Grand Prix racing after the 1979 Monaco Grand Prix; Rosberg was called up to finish what would turn out to be Wolf’s last season and an ignominious one for the once-Cinderella team.
		In Bobby’s case, in that rain-soaked practice session for the Canadian Grand Prix, he learned that a rookie in the rain doing things he shouldn’t be doing and getting in over his head ought to be reigned in by the team manager before he hits something.
	www.usgpindy.com /news/story.php?story_id=3077 (1494 words)

	South African Formula One Championship
		At the end of the year March pulled out of Grand Prix racing; the car was sold to British Hill Climb specialist Roy Lane, who asked for the car to be re-built in its original 6 wheel form.
		Love was a privateer entry for the 1967 SA Grand Prix in the old car which was painted fl and white when he got it directly from New Zealand.
		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)

	The Hindu : Schumacher aims to survive first lap
		Not too high for someone who has won two Formula One World Championships and has won 40 Grand Prix races and is usually among the favourites in any race he drives in.
		That turned out to be his last victory before he won again in the final race of the season, the Japanese Grand Prix, which secured his second consecutive world title.
		Before that at the Austrian Grand Prix he was run into by Ricardo Zonta's Bar-Honda, again barely 10 seconds after the start.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2000/08/12/stories/07120882.htm (773 words)

	f1 facts page 2
		MICHEL MAY DROVE IN 2 GRANDS PRIX - THE 1961 MONACO GP IN A PORSCHE AND THE 1961 BRITISH GP AT AINTREE IN A SCUDERIA COLONIA LOTUS 18.
		LORENZO BANDINI DROVE IN 42 GRANDS PRIX AND WAS BORN DECEMBER 21, 1936 IN BARCE, CYRENAICA NORTH AFRICA.
		HE DROVE IN 1 GRAND PRIX AT MONZA IN 1988 AND COLLIDED WITH AYRTON SENNA.
	www.f1cartvideos.com /funfactsonf12.html (1798 words)

	STADIUM 64 - Manuals Archive: Racing Destruction Set (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		From buenosaire(s) to watkinsgle(n), they are listed in the order they were driven during the 1979 World Driving Championship competition.
		The most famous of all the Grand Prix courses.
		Won the Constructor's Cup as the best run Grand Prix for the two years the Las Vegas Grand Prix was held there.
	s64.emuunlim.com /manuals/racingdestructionset.htm (3974 words)

	Penske Racing : Penske Racing History
		From a NASCAR perspective, driver Bobby Allison won both Darlington races for Penske Racing in the number 16 AMC Matador.
		1976 Penske Racing returns to Austria to compete in the Austrian Grand Prix Formula One race and driver John Watson, in a PC4-Ford powered machine, wins the race to earn the first and only Formula One victory for Penske Racing.
		The PC 5 was first used in Champ Car competition and was similar to the McLaren M24.
	www.penskeracing.com /content09.asp (2201 words)

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