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	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Formula One
		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.
		Formula One teams must build the chassis in which they compete, and consequently the terms "team" and "constructor" are interchangeable; this requirement distinguishes the sport from "spec series" such as IRL and NASCAR.
		Throughout the 2004 season, Formula One Management president Bernie Ecclestone repeatedly voiced his disapproval of the Silverstone Circuit, and suggested that unless its owners, the British Racing Drivers Club, modernise the facilities, the British Grand Prix would not appear on the 2005 schedule.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/F1 (3772 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.
		Formula 1 cars are the most expensive race cars currently in production and the sport is among the most expensive in the world.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Formula_One (4479 words)

	FORMULA ONE RACING DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORY \| GRAND PRIX RECORDS AND RACING SPEED ACES \| THE BLUEBIRD ELECTRIC LAND ...
		Headquartered in Paris, France, at the end of the 1949 season it announced that for 1950 they would be linking several national Grands Prix to create Formula One with a World Championship for drivers, although due to economic difficulties the years 1952 and 1953 were actually competed in Formula Two cars.
		Formula One teams must build the chassis in which they compete, and consequently the terms "team" and "constructor" are more or less interchangeable; this requirement distinguishes the sport from "spec series" such as IRL, CART, Formula 3000 and NASCAR.
		Entering a (new) team in the Formula One World Championship requires a £25 million up-front payment to the FIA, which is then repaid to the team over the season.
	www.speedace.info /formula_one.htm (4145 words)

	Formula One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Formula One, abbreviated to F1, and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of auto racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motor sport's world governing body.
		Formula 1 is generally one of the biggest global TV draws behind the Football World Cup and the Olympics.
		Formula 1 can be seen around the world on RTL, the longest serving F1 broadcaster, ITV in the United Kingdom, SPEED Channel (as well as a few races being broadcast on CBS with the GP's in San Marino, Germany (European Grand Prix), Spain, and Monaco) in America and many other stations relaying the action live.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_F1 (6877 words)

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		Michael Schumacher's recruitment for the 1996 season seemed to rejuvinate the team and, after a string of embarrassing mechanical failures, the team managed three victories and 2nd place in the constructor's championship.
		The high point of the season, during which Minardi did not score any points, was Martini's front row start at the U.S. In 1991 Minardi adopted the V12 Ferrari engine and after struggling with it at the beginning of the season finished 7th in the constructor's championship.
		In 1996 he had another difficult season scoring an early 6th place at Argentina but failing to score any more points as the ddvelopment of the car was halted with the sale of the team to Tom Walkinshaw.
	www.faqs.org /ftp/pub/usenet/news.answers/sports/formula-one-faq/part1 (7969 words)

	BBC SPORT \| FORMULA ONE \| Schumi in class of his own
		Their F2001 was the best car of the year, a machine that worked well on all tracks, and one in which the best driver of his generation could hardly fail to win the title.
		The least representative statistic of the season is that the pint-sized Colombian scored 18 points less than his team-mate Ralf Schumacher, and won only one race to Ralf's three.
		Sauber were the surprise of the season, removing their image as perennial also-rans and embarrassing Jordan and BAR, who failed to make the most of their status as works Honda teams.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/motorsport/formula_one/1598501.stm (1062 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.
		Senna made his Formula One debut in front of his home country in 1984 driving for the Toleman team but things were different then Formula Three.
		The new season, which began with so much promise for Senna, ended almost before it began when he crashed fatally at Imola.
	www.ddavid.com /formula1/sen_bio.htm (1883 words)

	IROCZONE.COM - IROC-Z History, Time-line, Year by year breakdown, IROC History
		For the 1984 season, up until the 1989 season, IROC chose the "newly" designed Camaro Z/28 as their ride.
		In the third season, the concept of total points to declare the champion was born.
		The 1980 season marked the spot where IROC racing was deamed for history for this was the last season...
	www.iroczone.com /history.asp (2775 words)

	Michelin \| Motorsports \| News Article
		The 2005 Formula One world championship is entering its most intense phase—this Sunday's Grand Prix of Europe is the second of eight races compressed into only 11 weekends.
		It was first included on the F1 calendar in 1984 and this weekend marks its 13th appearance.
		The circuit is fairly typical in Formula One terms and has become even more so since it was modified a couple of years ago.
	www.michelinman.com /motorsports/news/05262005.html (542 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Sport \| Formula one \| Formula one: How Alonso could lose the world championship
		Formula one: Ferrari a far cry from the chaos of old
		The previous closest championship was in 1984 when Niki Lauda pipped his McLaren team-mate Prost by half a point, consistency winning the day despite the fact that Lauda won only five races that season to the Frenchman's seven.
		Sao Paulo is situated almost on the Tropic of Capricorn and the weather is the most unpredictable on the formula one calendar.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /formulaone/comment/0,,1925574,00.html (1125 words)

	Formula One Motor Racing FAQ (modified 10/15/96), Part 2/2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		On August 10th he signed with Williams for the 96 season and has done a considerable amount of testing with the team between that time and the start of the season.
		He is generally expected to win some races in his first season and possibly have a shot at the championship.
		The re-fueling equipment used by all the teams is identical as the FIA mandates that the equipment be bought from Intertechnique and may not be modified by the teams.
	omicron.felk.cvut.cz /FAQ/articles/a771.html (7161 words)

	Mark Webber - Formula One - BMW WilliamsF1
		In Formula 2 Courage won a race at Enna and Williams's team ran a variety of different youngsters including Jacky Ickx and Derek Bell, who would both become F1 drivers and go to enjoy enormous success in sports car racing.
		Formula 1 was in the middle of the turbo revolution and Williams did a deal with Honda.
		The 1984 season was frustrating as the engines were under development but in 1985 with Rosberg being joined by Nigel Mansell things began to get better and by the end of the year the Williams-Honda was unbeatable.
	www.markwebber.com /formula_one/team.cfm (1506 words)

	Formula One History - The Turbo Era
		Niki Lauda won five of those to seven for Prost, and won the F1 drivers' title by 1/2 point — the strange total arising because the Monaco GP was halted in a thunderstorm after 31 laps and only half points awarded.
		Senna, who joined McLaren after several seasons with Lotus, won the F1 title in 1988, taking the championship deciding race in Japan at Suzuka, after stalling on the grid, with an inspired drive to catch and pass Prost and then draw away in the rain.
		And as a season, 1988 was like no other, with Senna and Prost finishing 1-2, combining for 167 points while winning 15 of the 16 GPs, and McLaren cruising to the constructors' title (shattering 1984's total).
	www.f1-grandprix.com /history5.html (1028 words)

	Formula one : Home page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		He had promised to race at Monza following a race in Belfast but due to missed connections he found himself driving all night from Paris only to arrive at the circuit one half hour prior to the race.
		It was also the decade in which legendary playboy James Hunt won the world championship - he capitalised after Lauda had a horrific crash at Germany's Nurburgring, from which he recovered in just 40 days.
		The 1980s was the era of Alain Prost and Nelson Piquet, not to mention the remarkable drivers' championship win for Lauda in 1984, nine years after his last title.
	formulaonefan.me.uk (537 words)

	The Racing Line - My Tribute To Ayrton Senna
		Ayrton da Silva Senna burst into motor racing's pinnacle in 1984 at the age of 24.
		The rain-hit Monaco 1984 was most memorable as Ayrton was in a realistic position to win his first race in his first season in F1 in an unfancied Toleman-Hart.
		However, despite some impressive and most of the times blinding qualifying and race performance in the ailing Lotus, it was not until the McLaren Honda days that Ayrton had a car worthy of his talents.
	members.tripod.com /the_fazz/formulaone/senna-mytribute.htm (1124 words)

	frontline: the long pilgrimage of jesse jackson: 1984 Speech \| PBS
		Tonight we come together bound by our faith in a mighty God, with genuine respect and love for our country, and inheriting the legacy of a great party, the Democratic Party, which is the best hope for redirecting our nation on a more humane, just and peaceful course.
		Third- party candidate John Anderson said "a combination of military spending, tax cuts and a balanced budget by 1984 would be accomplished with blue smoke and mirrors." They were both right.
		In 1984, my heart is made to feel glad because I know there is a way out - justice.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/jesse/speeches/jesse84speech.html (4231 words)

	Eddie Irvine - Formula 1 Merchandise
		The following season he was banned for three races for triggering a four-car pile up at Interlagos.
		Michael Schumacher's number two at Ferrari for four years, he was given a shot at championship glory when the German broke his leg in 1999 but missed out by two points to Mika Hakkinen.
		A disappointing season yields just four points with the only highlight being fourth at Monaco.
	www.formula-one-merchandise.co.uk /eddie-irvine.htm (490 words)

	Brunswick Formula One Film & Video Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		For Stewart, 1972 was a year marked by ill health, accidents and breakdowns, all of which he overcame to mount a superb defence of his title.
		A film which highlights that extraordinary season for James Hunt from the early frustration to the hard-driving triumph in the final race.
		The excitement of that season, with historical footage of the years building up to it and incisive interviews with the team who crafted the Williams championship, are all part of this exclusive video record.
	www.brunswickfilms.com /vhs.html (850 words)

	1984 Formula Thunderbird F-18 LS
		In August of 1983, I attended the Sandusky, Ohio boat show on the water on Lake Erie, which featured several of the new Formula models for 1984.
		One of the boats featured that day was the Formula F-18 LS, in an all fl gel coat.
		In 1984, Formula only made 3 boats of the 18 foot size in this particular model with the all fl gel coat.
	www.metalfaceplates.com /other/images/ebay/formula (910 words)

	Formula One Wing Cars 1978-84
		Moveable/Sliding skirt systems were banned for the 1981 season, only flat bottom cars were allowed.
		The 1978-1980 Grand Prix Seasons would see several teams create some interesting cars in order to gain that extra edge of performance.
		Ground effects was banned after the 1984 season for safety reasons.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/monzagt (209 words)

	SI.com - Motor Sports - F1: Renault ready to run with big boys - Thursday March 27, 2003 06:00 PM
		Renault finished fourth in the constructors' championship last season with 23 points, 42 points behind third-place finisher McLaren and even farther behind runner-up Williams and champion Ferrari.
		Fernando Alonso and Jarno Trulli finished in the top two spots in qualifying with Alonso became the youngest driver to ever gain a pole position in a Formula One race, accomplishing the feat at 21 years, nine months of age.
		Last season was Renault's first as a team since 1984, when it had dropped out and concentrated on developing and supplying engines.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /motorsports/news/2003/03/26/f1_renault_ap (643 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Motorsport \| Formula One \| Red Bull snaps up Jaguar F1 team
		The US car giant had until Monday to find a buyer in order to meet the deadline for teams to enter the 2005 Formula One championship and to keep the Jaguar motorsport operation open.
		The driver line-up is not yet known, but Austrian Christian Klien, who got the Jaguar seat last season due to his Red Bull sponsorship, and Italian youngster Vitantonio Liuzzi, who Red Bull backed to the Formula 3000 title this season, are among the candidates.
		Jaguar entered Formula One in 2000 after Ford took over the Stewart team founded by three-times world champion Jackie Stewart in 1997.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/4012381.stm (648 words)

	FORMULA ONE RACING AND THE FIA FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL DE LA AUTOMOBILE
		Mosley (left) and Ecclestone wield the power in F1 Bernie Ecclestone made Formula One what it is today, and he rules the sport through a mixture of fear, respect and acute business acumen.
		He announced in July that he intended to quit his FIA role at the end of the season, saying that he found discussions with team owners increasingly tedious.
		But he subsequently decided to stay on until at least October 2005 after the FIA senate asked him not to step down.
	www.solarnavigator.net /formula_one.htm (4815 words)

	NIAF MileStones
		Andretti won 100 races including prestige events like the USAC Championships in 1965, 1966, and 1969 and the Grand Prix of Endurance in 1970.
		He was the only racer to be named Driver of the Year in three different decades -1967, 1978 and 1984, the only one to win the Daytona 500, Indy 500 and Formula One title and the only four time Indy national championship.
		In addition he was one of only three drivers to win on ovals, road courses and dirt tracks in one season.
	www.niaf.org /milestones/year_1993.asp (533 words)

	Michelin \| Press Release: Michelin and Formula One Heads Back to its Roots
		Silverstone, home of this weekend's British Grand Prix, is one of Formula One's most famous venues.
		The former military airfield staged the very first world championship event on May 13 1950 (when Alfa Romeo driver Giuseppe Farina led home the 21-car field) and this year's grand prix will be its 39th—only Monza and Monaco have hosted more.
		Renault driver Jean-Pierre Jabouille retired that day, but Michelin's pioneering radial rubber was subsequently adopted by all manufacturers and remains the technology of choice in contemporary F1.
	www.michelinman.com /difference/releases/pressrelease07072005a.html (435 words)

	F1A&G - Alain Prost
		Frenchman Alain Prost was a four-time F1 world champion — three times in the turbocharged McLaren-Honda of the mid-1980s — but his legacy may forever remain in the shadow of teammates Lauda and Senna.
		Prost's scientific, methodical approach to racing set him apart from many of his contemporaries, and led to a series of magnificent duels with his teammate and arch-rival Aryton Senna.
		His victory was overshadowed to a large extent, however, by the brilliant performance of Senna in a less-competitive McLaren, including dazzling wins in several wet races that confirmed Senna's status as the "rain master."
	www.f1-grandprix.com /prost.html (257 words)

	American Rhetoric: Jesse Jackson -- 1984 Democratic National Convention Speech ("The Rainbow Coalition")
		Jesse Jackson: 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address
		Young America must be politically active in 1984.
		In 1984, my heart is made to feel glad because I know there is a way out -- justice.
	www.americanrhetoric.com /speeches/jessejackson1984dnc.htm (4261 words)

	Auto-Racing @ MieNet: Details Worthy of Note in the Formula One 2004 Season: GP of France
		Auto-Racing @ MieNet: Details Worthy of Note in the Formula One 2004 Season: GP of France
		Fernando Alonso's pole in France was his third in Formula
		Now, for the third time, this Season, both their cars have
	www.mienet.net /sports/autoracing/2004season/documents/4659.html (1526 words)

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