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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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 Stallions Direct - Dutch Gold
Dutch Gold retired at the end of 1992 having competed at Grand Prix level since 1985 and been a leading member of the British team at Seoul Olympics, European Championships every year.
He is the only horse in the country to perform all the Grand Prix dressage movements in long reins to music and these performances are loved by him and all his fans.
Dutch Dream is a lovely ride who shows exceptional paces and balance for a young horse.
www.stallionsdirect.com /studs/catherston/dutchgold.html   (307 words)

  
 A1GP World Cup of Motorsport ™   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The fastest lap on the current Grand Prix circuit of 1:19.880 seconds is held by Luca Badoer and was set in 2001 during a demonstration of the Ferrari F1-2001.
Holland, or the Netherlands (Dutch for the low countries) as its inhabitants prefer it to be known, is a low-lying country on the north-west corner of Europe, bordered by Belgium to the south and Germany to the east.
These fans have waited 21 years to have a Grand Prix at the Zandvoort circuit that was built in the middle of the sand dunes at this seaside town that is a twenty minute train ride from Amsterdam.
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 Australian Grand Prix - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 circuit, whilst not as ridiculously tight as Monaco, was notoriously tough on drivers and gearboxes.
In any case, a substantial number of people do embrace (and attend) the race at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Australian_Grand_Prix   (732 words)

  
 Zeedijk, Dutch Warmblood Grand Prix Horse
Although many of his offspring became successful through Intermediare, only two became Grand Prix dressage horses and BOTH of them were from the wonderful cross with the wonderful mare, Rowillie.
He was USDF Horse of the Year at Training level in 1985 and during his short career, performed like the champion he was at every level.
He was schooling all of the Grand Prix when he was injured at 8 years old.
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 A1GP World Cup of Motorsport ™   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The event, organised by A1 Grand Prix, in close co-operation with Circuit Park Zandvoort and A1 Team Netherlands, will be the first time A1 Grand Prix has raced in the Netherlands.
A1 Grand Prix Chairman, Sheikh Maktoum is delighted that A1 Grand Prix will race in the Netherlands: ‘The enthusiasm of the Dutch fans is the main reason to come to Zandvoort.
Circuit Park Zandvoort has hosted 29 Grand Prix’s in its history, the last taking place in 1985 and is also home of the Masters of Formula 3 – the unofficial F3 World Championship, and DTM in the Netherlands.
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 F1 News > Dutch Grand Prix in the pipeline? - Grandprix.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ecclestone, who recently announced his decision to put a Russian Grand Prix on the calendar as soon as the Moscow circuit is ready, is continually looking into new venues, and Ernst believes Zandvoort has a good chance of securing an event.
FIA president Max Mosley was impressed by the improvements that had been made to the Zandvoort circuit when he visited last year, and now the event appears to be in the hands of Ecclestone.
Zandvoort first hosted a Grand Prix in 1952 and was last on the calendar in 1985.
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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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 Norman Dello Joio successfully defends his CN Reliability Grand Prix Title with Glasgow… ~ EquestrianMag
This was the first Grand Prix in the CN Precision Series which runs throughout the Spruce Meadows summer tournament season, concluding with the CN International Grand at the Masters in September.
Each Grand Prix awards a CN railroad spike to the winner, iron, bronze, silver and gold, which can be cashed in for a C$1 million bonus for any rider who can win all four Grand Prix classes.
At the end of the Reliability Grand Prix, it was Norman Dello Joio who pocketed $66,000 and hammered the first spike, defending the title he won last year and previously in 2002.
equestrianmag.com /news/grand-prix-llewellyn-reports-equestrian-6-06...   (1209 words)

  
 Formula1
Hopes of a Grand Prix swansong with McLaren in 1994, thanks to French engine supplier Peugeot, were disappointed when team boss Ron Denis chose Martin Brundle instead, even though Philippe had a run-out in place of the suspened Mika Hakkinen in the Hungarian Gramd Prix.
This form earned him a drive with Ferrari for 1959, and he stared his second season with the Italian team by finishing second in the Argentinian Grand Prix, but he was thrown from his car in practice at Monaco and broke an arm, leaving him on the sidelines for the remainder of the season.
It almost went right in the French Grand Prix at Clermont-Ferrand in 1972 though, as the race was his for the taking when he suffered a puncture and fell back to third place.
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 Formula One History - The Turbo Era
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.
Prost won the World Championship in 1985 and 1986 (the latter after Nigel Mansell, now with Williams, suffered a dramatic rear tire explosion at 180 mph at Adelaide in the season's last race).
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 DUTCH TREAT IN MANILA: Animated Films from the Netherlands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dutch animators and their work have influenced animation around the world.
The visual language of Dutch films is understood around the world, just as people everywhere recognise, interpret, and enjoy the drawings and paintings of Dutch artists.
Dutch animation is supported by government grants and major European television stations.
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 F1A&G - Legendary Races
In the torrential rains that hit Estoril in April 1985, Senna's effortless progress through the pack, as his rivals slithered and crashed behind his gleaming fl Lotus —; with that soon-to-be famous fluorescent yellow helmet visible even through the clouds of spray — seemed guided around the track as if by an invisible hand.
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.
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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.
www.fivb.org /EN/volleyball/competitions/WorldGrandPrix/2005/Teams/Team_Roster.asp?TEAM=NED&TRN=WGP2005&sm=24   (710 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.
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 Catherston Stud
Dutch Gold retired at the end of 1992 having competed at Grand Prix level since 1985 and as a leading member of the British Team at the Seoul Olympics and the European Championships every year since 1985.
Dutch Gold is the sire of Elite Stud Book mare Catherston Deal in Gold as well as the grandsire of 2 BWBS graded stallions.
Dutch Display (was Callow Hill) completed Bramham CCI*** and Lion D'Angers CCI***, qualified for the World Equestrian Games in 1994 and finished 1st Gatcombe 1997.
www.catherstonstud.net /dutch_gold.htm   (324 words)

  
 Mahmood’s Den » The History of Formula One
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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 ESPN.com - F1 - Knutson: F1's strange misses
Many a driver has missed a Grand Prix because of an injury suffered in an accident on the track.
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.
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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 Double Top for Spaniard Dani Pedrosa and Honda
The first at the Portuguese Grand Prix where he suffered a slow puncture that ended his late race charge.
Team manager Puig, himself a successful grand prix racer, has been a huge influence on Pedrosa’s development from a raw mini-bike novice to double World Champion and is full of admiration for his young charge.
With one race remaining in the series, the Grand Prix of Valencia on October 31, Pedrosa will have to delay his title celebrations.
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 Battles at other venues
The circuit for the Dutch Grand Prix was constructed in 1948 near the growing seaside resort of Zandvoort.
A Stop Grand Prix Auto Racing Committee made up of representatives of local councils, park groups, civic associations, New York councillors and Senators began a successful campaign to stop this proposal.
From 1953 till the last Argentinian Grand Prix in 1981, the race had been run at the city's Autodrome Oscar Galvez.
home.vicnet.net.au /~sapark/sapweb/p56.html   (1229 words)

  
 2000 Olympic Games
In 1985, the United States welcomed an unknown German rider to the dressage scene.
In 1996, at the Atlanta Olympics, Guenter rode Graf George to a team bronze medal with a seventh place in the Grand Prix Freestyle, a tenth place in the Grand Prix Special, finishing eighth overall.
Betsy Steiner, a USET dressage veteran, says, "Guenter is one of the most centered people I know." During his stay in Florida for the USET Dressage Selection Trials for the 2000 Olympic Games, Guenter was "extremely generous with his time." Colleagues, students and friends respect and admire Guenter in and out of the saddle.
www.equestrian.org /olympics/guenterseidel.html   (371 words)

  
 Prost_Career
McLaren TAG drivers Alain Prost and Niki Lauda celebrate after the Portuguese Grand Prix at the Estoril circuit in Portugal.
However, the following year, 1985, he took the first of his four titles and successfully defended it in 1986, then only the fourth driver ever to do so.
In 1988 he was joined at McLaren by a new star of F1, the Brazlian Ayrton Senna, and despite personal hostility between the two men, as a driving duo they proved awesome.
www.homestead.com /formulakaz/Prost_Career.html   (751 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Montoya not the only bizarre scratch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
• 2000 Austrian Grand Prix: Eddie Irvine is overcome by a strange illness and can't race his Jaguar.
• 1991 Belgian Grand Prix: Jordan Ford driver Bertrand Gachot is in jail after a fight with a London taxi driver.
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.
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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1985 Results > Dutch GP
There was only a week between the Austrian and Dutch GPs.
Carl Haas decided to launch his new Beatrice Lola and Alan Jones gave the car a run around Brands Hatch.
Dutch GP, Zandvoort, August 25, 1985, Round: 11, Race Number: 415
www.grandprix.com /gpe/rr415.html   (501 words)

  
 GP-Site
His first Formula One wins came in the 1974 Spanish and Dutch Grand Prix with Ferrari.
He drove for March 1971-1972, BRM 1973, Ferrari 1974-1977, Brabham 1978-1979 and McLaren 1982-1985.In 1976 he had a dreadful accident in the German Grand Prix, which almost killed him, and he suffered severe burns to his face and lungs.
In all he won 25 Grand Prix races and achieved a record 420 points from 171 starts.
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 F1 Circuits quiz -- free game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
How long was the Nurburgring circuit which hosted the German Grand Prix between 1951 and 1975?
Despite the success of Australian drivers, Australia did not host a round of the F1 World Championship until 1985.
What is the name of the first corner at the Monaco Grand Prix circuit?
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 Meet Our Mares
This is Kalidascope, who is by the Dutch stallion Art Deco of the Samber line, and o/o a TB mare, Racey Routte.
She is registered, papered Dutch, by the very good Dutch Grand Prix Jumping Stallion Rubinstein by Lorenx, by Ladykiller and out of a Dutch approved TB mare with Nasrullah lines.
This is the Dutch Rubinstein, who was a successful jumper in Holland and was 100DT tested there with a 10 score for jumping and was Res.
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