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  South African Grand Prix - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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)

  
 pitpass - the latest, hottest F1 & A1GP news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Apart from a couple of defectors, they all camped in a hotel conference room with mattresses to be shared… When it was subsequently revealed that Alain Prost and Gilles Villeneuve shared a mattress, a wag opined to the effect that - 'combine the two and you'd have the world's best driver'.
I read everything the good doctor writes with great interest but he is telling those of us not privy to British newspapers what's going down in a nation that has always seemed, at least to this outsider, as a country that loves to eventually bury a star under a pedestal.
The day after the US Grand Prix I was being interviewed on a New Zealand-wide sports radio station appropriately called Radio Sport.
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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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 African Fiction
African writers are not yet widely read in the United States, but they are taken very seriously in their own countries.
His father, a general in the South African army, leads the double life that a commitment to apartheid dictates: he provides a secure, prosperous life for his family while brutally preventing fls from doing the same for theirs.
Slovo is the daughter of South African anti-apartheid activists Ruth First, who was killed by a letter bomb in 1982, and Joe Slovo, who joined Nelson Mandela’s government.
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 Grand Prix Journal VI
Grand Prix racing often only took place on the television screen, except for the German round of the championship, when some guys had crashed fatally.
Surely, the image of Grand Prix driving as a profession was a negative one in a Germany of the 68 generation, who often were able to remember the war or the post-war era.
The Grand Prix driver not as a fair sportsman, but as the Aryan superman, instead of fighting for wins with his competitor, having the order to consider him as a brutal enemy to bring complete, if possible, fatal defeat to - that was the horrible example the Nazis had created.
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 Grand Prix Masters: Kyalami 2005
When Mansell gave his Grand Prix debut at Zeltweg in 1980, Fittipaldi decided to retire, from the middle of the nineties they were driving against each other in the Indy Car Series.
Jacques Laffite, who had driven 176 Grand Prix as Graham Hill had done before, but who was not able to return like the Briton caused by the leg injuries he had sustained at Brands Hatch in 1986, was the oldest driver being 62 years of age.
The Grand Prix at Kyalami always had taken place either at the beginning of the season or at it`s end, never in the middle of the year.
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 1982 in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1981 in South Africa, other events of 1982, 1983 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
9 December - The South African Defence Force stage a pre-dawn raid on houses inhabited by the banned African National Congress in Maseru, Lesotho
23 January - The South African Grand Prix, is held at Kyalami
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1982_in_South_Africa   (643 words)

  
 Grand Prix Hall of Fame - Niki Lauda - Biography
At South Africa they were threatened by FISA with being banned from the race for lack of licenses.
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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 SlotForum > South African F1 series 1968—1975: A Brief History
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.
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 Grand Prix Diary.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
On closer inspection though, this is no picture from a Grand Prix weekend (the dolly bird holding the lollipop gives that much away) as the picture is from the Jerez circuit which has not held a Grand Prix for years.
In their Chinese Grand Prix preview they inform us that Takuma Sato was penalised 10 grid places in Japan for shunting Michael Schumacher out of the Italian Grand Prix.
Grand Prix Diary checked the FIA’s sporting regulations and found nothing to forbid an invisible car, although General Safety Regulation 90, which says ‘Any driver intending to leave the track should signal his intention to do so clearly to other competitors and in good time’ could be the teams only stumbling block.
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 South Africa's New & Used Car Search - AutoWorld   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Scott Poulter, CEO, Grand Prix Masters, said, “We are very pleased to bring Alain Prost back onto the grid, he has always remained a driving force within Formula One and has a huge following.
According to event director, Duncan Heafield of 3cAfrica, the Altech SA Grand Prix Masters will be supported by the Altech South African Formula 1 two seater event.
The Altech South African Grand prix supports Unite Against Hunger and The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund in the fight against Aids, and proceeds from the race weekend will go towards alleviating the Aids pandemic in our country.
www.autoworld.co.za /autonews/viewart.asp?id=2809   (262 words)

  
 Formula One History - The Turbo Era
till, in 1982 there were 11 teams using the Cosworth engine, including (for several races) Brabham, for whom Nelson Piquet had won the 1981 championship by one point with a victory at the U.S Grand Prix, held in the parking lot of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
And while the turbos continued to improve, with wins in one-half of 14 races, the 1982 season was dominated by a rift between Villeneuve and Didier Pironi at Ferrari that would lead to tragedy for both men.
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)

  
 MotoGP 2003 - Round 2 - Welkom - Anthony West Preview
West, who did not race in 2002, is fresh from a strong comeback in the season-opening 250cc Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka on April 6, holding second place for most of the event until crashing his Zoppini Abruzzo Aprilia just four laps from the finish.
West's crash at Suzuka was only his fifth in 48 grand prix starts since 1998, and he said it could be partially attributed to a lack of dry-weather track-time in practice and qualifying before the race.
West is in his third year of 250cc grand prix racing, and finished sixth in the world championship in 2000.
www.mcnews.com.au /motorcycleRacing2003/MotoGP/Rnd2/Preview_Westy.htm   (583 words)

  
 Grand Prix Racing - the whole story
Opened in 1961 Kyalami had to wait until 1967 before hosting the South African Grand Prix in 1967.
Twice during the 1970s the track was the scene of tragedy and both incidents involved the Shadow team.
In 1983 the race moved to the end of the season and provided the setting for a showdown between Prost and Piquet.
www.gpracing.net192.com /circuits/27.cfm   (501 words)

  
 gamble on South African Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
SOUTH AFRICA - The Grand Classic Prix held at the same time as the Arnold was last weekend.
Trans Notes South Africa is and with great places to escape to this winter, was rally launched in 1911, filled in 1929 the first Monaco Grand Prix was held.
A total of 22 Media Prix were handed out, including the Grand Lions for New Zealand and South Africa tied which the most Media Lions with three each Lee said United could not understand the allure of Formula One Grand Prix events operators from the he South Australia, States, Africa and Malaysia.
www.officialsportsbetting.com /motorsports/gamble-on-South-African-Grand-Prix.php   (835 words)

  
 Library System - Howard University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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)

  
 Atlas F1 Magazine: The F1 FAQ
At the 1981 British Grand Prix, Piquet had given the BMW engine its first outing in the second qualifying session.
However, at the 1982 South African Grand Prix the team was plagued by so many engine problems that they reverted back to the old Ford engines for the Brazilian and US-West Grands Prix.
At the Canadian Grand Prix, Piquet led for the largest part of the race, cruising home 13 seconds ahead of Patrese and over a minute ahead of McLaren driver John Watson.
www.atlasf1.com /2002/aut/preview/faq.html   (1242 words)

  
 Race Report :: 1983 South African GP
By the end of Tuesday he was down to 1m 06.86s (only half a second from Arnoux’s 1982 pole time with the ground effect Renault), and well clear of Elio de Angelis, whose Lotus-Renault was second fastest, on 1m 07.51s.
South Africa, after all, had been without top-level motor racing for nearly two years — and this was also the World Championship decider.
Yes, he was six laps down, but this was his first Grand Prix, a long afternoon’s work in great heat, with a single set of Pirellis for the entire race.
www.riccardopatrese.com /SAGP83.htm   (7441 words)

  
 South African Grand Prix - Definition, explanation
Official web site of the South African Motorcycle Grand Prix at Phakisa Raceway near Welkom.
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 8W - When? - 1983 South African GP
In 1982 a Cosworth-engined car had still been able to take the championship but at Kyalami in 1983 three drivers were fighting for the world championship.
After a terrible 1982 Ferrari had been in a good position for 1983 but curiously the team came to Kyalami in disorder.
Coming to South Africa with 40 points Tambay had not only lost the championship, he had also lost his place at Ferrari for 1984.
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 Mahmood’s Den » The History of Formula One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Grand Prix started with the driver’s cup and in 1958 a constructor’s cup was established as a reward for the team accumulating the most points each season.
The 1983 season with its 15 Grand Prix witnessed a fierce competition between a number of the drivers mainly Nelson Piquet that continued to wage a war against the drivers especially French Alain Prost who drove for Renault and Ferrari’s driver Rene Arnoux.
The first Grand Prix win for Stewart in 1973 was at the South African Grand Prix and then followed by the Belgian Grand Prix the same year.
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 GRAND PRIX WINNERS 1885-1949 LIST GUIDELINES
In 1946, the St. Cloud GP, Grand Prix des Nations and the Turin GP were added with the sole objective to determine the "Best Driver" that year.
Grandes Épreuves and events of great publicity, as well as races where some of the main contestants met for competition, are considered major races.
The A.I.A.C.R. cancelled the 1929 World Championship in October that year after an European Grand Prix had not taken place and holding that event was obligatory to authorize the championship.
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 Bayliss faces a tough Welkom | 2006 GMC Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix - Official Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Australia’s new motorcycle grand prix racer Troy Bayliss faces another ride into the unknown this weekend.
The Welkom circuit hosting the South African Grand Prix is one of 13 tracks new to 2001 superbike world champion Bayliss in his debut season in MotoGP.
After South Africa the MotoGP circus begins its nine-round tour through its European heartland before four more flyaway races in South America and the Pacific Rim - including the SKYY VODKA Australian Motorcycle GP at Victoria’s Phillip Island on October 17-19 - followed by the season-ending Valencia GP in Spain on November 2.
bikes.grandprix.com.au /news/archive/2003/news/bayliss_faces_a_tough_welkom   (1091 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Marc Surer
He made his Formula 1 debut for Ensign at the end of the 1979 season, then broke his ankles when he crashed an ATS at Kyalami the following spring while testing for the South African Grand Prix.
He started 1981 by driving for Ensign and coming fourth in the Brazilian Grand Prix, but then suffered more leg injuries when he crashed - again at Kyalami.
It was a tough blow but Surer fought back again and drove for Arrows from 1982 until the end of 1984.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/drv-surmar.html   (441 words)

  
 South Africa's Formula One great - SouthAfrica.info
Ferraris, designed by South African Rory Byrne, have dominated the sport of Formula One in recent years, winning five consecutive World Driver's and Constructor's Championships.
He was honoured for his contribution to the sport of motor racing, and for putting South Africa on the world motor-racing map.
He made the step up to Formula One in 1982, when Toleman racing moved into the premier motor sports league.
www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/sports/byrne.htm   (604 words)

  
 Formula One Grand Prix quiz -- free game
In 1984, Ayrton Senna developed an affliction which became quite a worry for the Lotus team, as they had just signed him.
The South African Grand Prix was last held in what year of the 20th century?
Didier Pironi, drove without any success in a few races the year after his leg-breaking acident at Hockenheim in 1982, but decided to retire due to the dissapointing results he achieved?
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 f1 facts
DEREK DALY WAS BORN ON MARCH 11, 1953 AND DROVE IN 49 GRANDS PRIX RACES FINISHING 4TH IN THE 1979-80 SEASON AT THE ARGENTINE AND BRITISH GRANDS PRIX.
HIS DEBUT RACE WAS IN THE 1980 CANADIAN GRAND PRIX IN MONTREAL DRIVING AN ALFA ROMEO.
IT WAS HIS 1ST GRAND PRIX IN AN EX-LOTUS 33.
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