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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.
Australian Grands Prix, not part of the World Championship but featuring F1 open-wheeler racing vehicles, were held at various circuits around Australia for many years.
Australia became part of the F1 world championship in 1985 with the last race of the season held on the street circuit in Adelaide.
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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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 Grand Prix Journal VI
German companies and Formula one: The balance sheet is not as bad as it can be thought of and the comeback of Mercedes-Benz with the Peter Sauber AG from Switzerland in 1993 is at least positive when looking at the experiences Renault and Honda made earlier for instance.
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 Racing - the whole story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The German Grand Prix has been staged here since 1986 and it is, for the majority, an open circuit that is very fast throughout.
German drivers are accompanied by a sea of waving flags and a barrage of fireworks.
At over four miles in length, it is one of the longest Grand Prix circuits, and it is often more infamously remembered as the circuit that took the life of Jim Clark in April 1968.
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 The Official Formula 1 Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The European Grand Prix has been held at a total of four locations since its inception in 1983, but it is the legendary Nurburgring in Germany that has been its most recent - and most frequent - home.
Argentine driver Onofre Marimon, a protege of compatriot Fangio, died in practice in 1954, while three-time Grand Prix winner Peter Collins was killed in the 1958 race.
Meanwhile, the Nurburgring staged the 1985 German Grand Prix, but was then absent from the Formula One schedule until 1995.
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 football-22.com - German Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The German Grand Prix, known as ‘der grosse Preis von Deutschland’, is the second race in the F1 World Championship race line-up to be held in Germany — the first one, earlier in the season, is the European Grand Prix, at the Nürburgring.
The German Grand Prix was moved to Hockenheim in 1977 and ironically enough, Lauda won that Grand Prix.
In 1927, the German Grand Prix was moved to the Nürburgring.
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 German Grand Prix 2001 - The Good Gambling Guide
And the first of these may be the last Grand Prix on the Hockenheimring in its current state: it's the second longest circuit currently to Spa, and it's the second fastest, to Monza.
Nurburgring hosted early World Championship Grands Prix until the end of the fifties when a single race was run on the autobahns of the Avus, just outside Berlin but then the Grand Prix returned to the Nurburgring again.
Hockenheim had its first Grand Prix in 1970 and then after Niki Lauda's accident at the Nurburgring - one of only two German Grand Prix race stoppages, incidentally - the race returned to the circuit by the Rhine in 1977, briefly returning to the 'new' Nurburgring for the 1985 race.
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 FORMULA ONE: Germany to lose Grand Prix?: Latest Motorsport news, results with radio player
Accountants at the Grand Prix venue which once boasted dramatic long straights heading out into the forest, and which saw epic slipstreaming battles with low downforce spec cars, have felt the repercussions of the decline of enthusiasm for the event over the past few seasons.
Of the two German locations the Nurburgring has a history stretching further back into Grand Prix history, with the German Grand Prix being held there from 1951 to 1976 on the glorious Nordschleife, with only the interruption of Avus holding the event in 1959 and Hockenheim in 1970.
The new Nurburgring first held the European Grand Prix in 1984 and in 1985 it held the German Grand Prix for the first time in ten years, but the circuit was never seen as challenging by drivers and the next season F1 returned to Hockenheim and would not return to the Nurburgring until 1995.
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 Grand Prix Challenge Circuit Histories FAQ - IGN FAQs
The 1939 German Grand Prix was the final race at Nurburgring for quite some time due to the beginning of World War II.
In more recent years, the opening lap of the 2000 Grand Prix of Italy was seriously marred by the death of a trackside race marshal due to all the flying debris at the Roggia Chicane (the second chicane of the circuit).
The initial 4.192-kilometer (2.620-mile) US Grand Prix was won by Michael Schumacher in 2000, followed by Mika Hakkinen (in his final race win before sabbatical/retirement) in 2001.
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 Europe Grand Prix Tickets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Europe Grand Prix Tickets are to be paid for within the period of payment printed on the invoice.
In the case that a particular category of Europe Grand Prix Tickets is sold out, gpticketshop.com has the right to provide tickets of a similar category.
Since we have to buy a number of Europe Grand Prix Tickets from middlemen, there may be differences between the invoiced prices and those printed on the.
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 European Grand Prix Tickets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
European Grand Prix Tickets are to be paid for within the period of payment printed on the invoice.
In the case that a particular category of European Grand Prix Tickets is sold out, gpticketshop.com has the right to provide tickets of a similar category.
Since we have to buy a number of European Grand Prix Tickets from middlemen, there may be differences between the invoiced prices and those printed on the.
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 Renault F1 Team (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
After the Grand Prix of Belgium Benettons second driver Roberto Moreno was fired to clear the cockpit for a young German having driven only that single race in a Jordan Ford: Michael Schumacher, who should become the dominating figure of the nineties.
In spite of having won 8 Grand Prix that year (from the 9th, that of Spa he had been disqualified because an irregular wooden floor) Schumacher had to fight for the title against Damon Hill in the Williams Renault until the last race, the Australian Grand Prix at Adelaide.
But shortly before the Brazlian Grand Prix 2000 it was announced that Renault had bought the Benetton team 100 per cent shortly before this event to establish theirselves as constructors of their own rights by overtaking the high standard Enstone facilities at the beginning of the 2002 season.
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 World Wide Ticketing - Grand Prix of Europe 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The venue chosen to stage the event is the 'new' Nürburgring circuit which was opened for Grand Prix action in 1984, when Alain Prost won the European Grand Prix.
Then, after ten years of Grand Prix inactivity, the circuit was used for the European Grand Prix in 1996, which gave Jacques Villeneuve his first win in Formula One.
After a one-off outing in 1985 as the German Grand Prix the circuit remained unused for F1 events until 1995 when it became a regular feature of the Grand Prix calender as either the Grand Prix of Luxembourg or Europe.
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 Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix Association | History and Posters
In 1985, we became the largest volunteer managed and operated event of its kind in the nation, and have held onto that honor to this day.
Following the meeting, the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix Association was founded and designated a nonprofit organization incorporated for the express purpose of sponsoring the Pittsburgh International Grand Prix.
The Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix Association is a registered 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization with a mission to hold a world-class vintage automotive event for charity.
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 motoring.iafrica.com | formula 1 Fifty years of the German Grand Prix
The 2002 German Grand Prix will mark the 50th running of the race since it joined the Formula One World Championship calendar in 1951.
Hockenheim's first German GP proved to be a close-run affair, with Lotus driver Jochen Rindt taking a narrow victory from the Ferrari of Jacky Ickx.
Avus, which held the very first non-championship German GP in 1926, consisted of two parallel straights (in fact a dual-carriageway), originally each six miles long, joined by a regular flat hairpin at one end and a longer, steeply banked turn at the other.
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 Hockenheimring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After the war, Grand Prix motorcycle racing events were held, with the German motorcycle Grand Prix alternating between Hockenheim and other tracks.
The Hockenheim Circuit hosted the German Grand Prix for the first time in 1970 when the F1 drivers decided at the French Grand Prix to boycott the Nürburgring unless major changes were made.
From 1977 to 2006 the Hockenheimring hosted the German Grand Prix with the exception of 1985 when the newly rebuild Nürburgring was introduced.
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 Manfred Winkelhock (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Winkelhock first tried to qualify for Formula One Grand Prix in Italy in 1980 when he stood in for the injured Jochen Mass at Arrows.
With the support of BMW he landed a drive with ATS in 1982 but the car was rarely reliable and although he qualified well on several occasions there were few results and a lot of accidents.
In 2000, Manfreds son Markus Winkelhock emerged as a frontrunner in the German Formula 3 Championship.
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 Coach profile
Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1956, Lee came to Germany first as a player in 1985 to compete for the club VBC Paderborn.
Lee had early success in his coaching career when his teams won the German Championship in 1994 and 1997, were second at the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1996 and then in 1999, he took the national team to Italy for the European Championship where they finished fourth.
The great tactician that he is, Lee will be looking to maintain that sort of form and improve on their 2003 World Grand Prix finish of 7th in the 2004 edition.
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 German F1 Tickets - Buy 2007 German Formula 1 Grand Prix Tickets Online - Nubrugring - Germany
Note: The German Grand Prix is held at the Nurburgring in 2007.
The new track was soon regarded as the German Race Course that had no equal any where in the world, and in 1938 it hosts over 200,000 spectators.
Since this year there's been every reason to be glad, with the return of the Formula 1 and Motor Bike Championship, and the Nürburgring has never been as much a part of the region as it is today.
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 The European GP Preview
The last Grand Prix at the Nordschleife circuit was in 1976, when Niki Lauda had his horrific accident and fire, near Bergwerk, 10 km away from the pits and therefore about 10 minutes away from a trauma team.
Jos Verstappen finished 13th in the 1998 Luxembourg Grand Prix for Stewart and his highest grid position was 13th in 1996 with Footwork.
Minardi is expected to have four Fondmetal 'Evolution' engines for the European Grand Prix and Mazzacane is expected to again use their new titanium gearbox.
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 European Grand Prix Tickets. how to buy your formula 1 european tickets
The new track was soon regarded as the German Race Cours that had no equal anywhere in the world, and in 1938 it hosts over 200,000 spectators.
In 1950, the first year of the Formula 1 Grand Prix, the "Ring" became international again, and the 1st August 1954 the Nürburgring hosted more than 400,000 spectators for the European Grand Prix tickets course.
The modern European Grand Prix tickets circuit has a mix of high and low-speed corners with limited overtaking possibilities, putting a premium on qualifying and fast pit stops.
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 United States Grand Prix
The Italian Grand Prix on Sept. 14 will set the scene for the United States Grand Prix, where the title could be won.
The team brought in Zsolt Baumgartner as a replacement, and he became the first Hungarian to start a Grand Prix in the modern F1 era that began in 1950.
USGP tickets: Tickets for the 2003 United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis are on sale, and the IMS ticket office encourages customers to place orders early to ensure the best possible opportunity to acquire good seats.
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 SimHQ.com - Motorsports Zone - Preview: 2004 German Grand Prix - Round 12 of 18
Hockenheim had its first Grand Prix in 1970 and then, after Niki Lauda's accident at the Nurburgring, one of only two German Grand Prix race stoppages, incidentally, the race returned to the circuit by the Rhine in 1977, briefly returning to the new Nurburgring for the 1985 race.
The Ferrari driver took his first Grand Prix victory after starting 18th on the grid and after a race that was dictated by changing weather conditions and a disgruntled Mercedes employee who decided to walk across the track, Rubens succumbed to tears on the podium as his emotions overwhelmed him.
The German Grand Prix was moved to Hockenheim after Niki Lauda's fiery accident at the old Nurbergring in 1976.
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 F1Community.org - Unofficial McLaren fan Portal - 2006 German Grand Prix - Preview > > Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Following the French Grand Prix nine days ago, Team McLaren Mercedes travelled to Jerez for a four day test with Kimi Raikkonen, Pedro de la Rosa and Gary Paffett all in attendance.
The German Grand Prix was introduced to the sport in 1951 and originally took place at the Nürburgring Nordschleife.
Paying occasional visits to the Avus track and Hockenheim over the years, the latter became the permanent base for the German Grand Prix in 1977, with the exception of 1985 which saw the race return to Nürburgring for a year.
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first Austrian Grand Prix at Zeltweg in 1964; first race at A1 in 1997; first A1 winner was Jacques Villeneuve (Williams); 1975 winner was Vittorio Brambilla (March), while Penske (1976) and Shadow (1977) scored their only wins at the Osterreichring.
first Grand Prix held in 1950; 2003 is the 49th consecutive race at Monaco; first winner was Juan-Manuel Fangio; Ayrton Senna won 5 consecutively (1989-'93); Alberto Ascari and Paul Hawkins both survived crashes into the harbour; in 1989, the race featured 18 different constructors; Olivier Panis (Ligier-Mugen) scored his only GP victory in 1996.
first German GP held at the Nurburgring in 1951; first race at Hockenheim (1970) was won by Jochen Rindt (Lotus); 1985 German Grand Prix was the last time a constructor had three cars in a race (Renault).
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 The Nurburgring: Grand Prix in the Mist
With three races to go and only 30 points left in the drivers championship this Grand Prix is critical for the outcome of the World Championship.
Fisichella finished sixth at last year's Luxembourg Grand Prix and his highest grid positions were fourth in 1997 and 1998.
Jacques Villeneuve is the king of the modern Nurburgring, winning in his first career Grand Prix at the European Grand Prix of 1996 and winning again at the Luxembourg Grand Prix of 1997.
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