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		At the end of the 2008 season, 803 World Championship Grands Prix will have been held including the Indy 500 which was a part of the World Championship from 1950 until 1960.
		Major auto racing events are usually named Grands Prix, a tradition dating back to the first decade of the 20th Century and the Grand Prix motor racing of the 1920's and 1930's.
		Bold denotes the 18 Grands Prix races active for the 2008 season.
	f1gear.com /f1-racing-calendar.php (169 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)

	Ayrton Senna - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		In addition to winning the prestigious and high-profile Macau Grand Prix, Ayrton saw off the challenges of Martin Brundle in the 1983 British F3 championship, and after testing with Williams, McLaren and Toleman, he managed to secure a seat with the latter in time for the 1984 season.
		Alas, Mansell badly bruised his back in an accident while practicing for the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, which effectively handed the World Championship to Piquet since he would be out of the season-ending race at Australia in Adelaide as well.
		That weekend, he was particularly upset by two events: On the Friday of the Grand Prix, during the morning session, Senna's protégé, the then newcomer Rubens Barrichello was involved in a serious accident that would keep him out of the race.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Ayrton_Senna (4170 words)

	1985 South African Grand Prix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Results from the 1985 Formula One South African Grand Prix held at Kyalami on October 19, 1985
		This event was boycotted by several Formula One teams, including Ligier and Renault due to the country's growing problems with apartheid.
		This was the last Formula One Grand Prix to take place on a day other than Sunday.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1985_South_African_Grand_Prix (97 words)

	A-E
		Circuit of the French Grand Prix in 1965, 1969-70, and 1972, to the south of Paris.
		Seven Grand Prix were held here, five called USA-Detroit, run in 1982-86, and two editions of the U.S. Grand Prix, in 1987-88.
		The 1997 Portuguese Grand Prix was removed from the Formula One calendar when a governmental jurisdictional dispute was raised over F.I.A. track improvement demands.
	jclemens.com /F1/abcde.htm (1826 words)

	A1GP World Cup of Motorsport ™ (Site not responding. Last check: )
		South Africa has a long and strong motorsport heritage that would be stronger still but for its period of near sporting isolation during the years of apartheid.
		But this return was shortlived and South Africa hasn't hosted a grand prix since 1993, although this has largely been for economic grounds, as well as the fact that the Kyalami circuit has been chopped in size and much of its original layout is now under a housing development.
		South Africa was expelled from the Commonwealth in 1961 and massed relocation led to the formation of fl homelands.
	www.a1gp.com /racing/season.php?raceid=9 (991 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1985 Results > South African GP
		A fortnight after Nigel Mansell's victory at Brands Hatch, the Formula 1 circus moved to South Africa for the penultimate race of the season.
		Alain Prost was already World Champion and because of the political problems with South Africa several teams decided not to take part, notably Renault and Ligier.
		South African GP, Kyalami, October 19, 1985, Round: 15, Race Number: 419
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/rr419.html (519 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)

	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.
	www.slotforum.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t5220.html (5241 words)

	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).
	www.f1-grandprix.com /history5.html (1028 words)

	F1 News > Don't forget South Africa - Grandprix.com
		SOUTH Africa has had a long history with Formula 1 and the South Africans still hope to re-establish a regular South African Grand Prix.
		The South Africans, however, still want a race and we hear that the locals are bidding for the final race of the 1996 championship.
		A Grand Prix would be a good advertisement for the new South Africa.
	www.grandprix.com /ns/ns00161.html (199 words)

	TELUS - Grand Prix du Canada - Historique (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Grand Prix of Canada is held at the Mont-Tremblant circuit in Quebec.
		The Canadian Grand Prix is permanently established in Montreal on the Ile Notre-Dame circuit.
		Behind the wheel of an Arrows, Jacques, brother of Gilles Villeneuve, is unsuccessful in his attempt to qualify for the Grand Prix of Canada.
	www.globetrotter.net /gt/grandprix/en/historique.asp (1660 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Circuits > Kyalami
		It was 15 miles long and the first South African Grand Prix was won there by Whitney Straight in a Maserati.
		The first modern South African GP took place there in 1960 and was run to Formula Libre regulations - as racing cars were scarce - but in 1962 the South Africans won a place as the finale for the Formula 1 World Championship.
		In July 1993 the circuit was sold to the South African Automobile Association which managed to run the facility at a profit, using its conference rooms and exhibition centers to raise money.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/cir-069.html (1221 words)

	Grand Prix 2001 - Round 2 - Preview - Kyalami
		This is the fifth running of the South African GP, held in 1984 and 1985 at the original Kyalami circuit outside Johannesburg, and in 1992 at the rebuilt Kyalami.
		The 1999 motorcycle GP was the inaugural event at the brand-new track, which won praise for a design that packs the circuit into a compact area, offering good spectator views, but at the same time has fifth and sixth-gear bends as well as slow corners.
		Proton Team KR rider Jurgen van den Goorbergh is hoping that the special nature of the South African circuit will be his first real chance of the year to prove a point.
	mcnews.com.au /motorcycleracing2001/grandprix500/round2/preview.htm (2648 words)

	pitpass - the latest, hottest F1 & A1GP news
		Just weeks after it was announced that the A1 Grand Prix series hopes to run a race on the streets of Durban, it has been revealed that there is a move to take F1 to the city part of a massive attempt to regenerate it.
		Dr Msibi is joined by Seth Phalatse, former executive director of BMW South Africa, Jay Naidoo, former Cabinet minister and now chairperson of the Development Bank of South Africa and Nolwazi Mdluli-Motlekar, former head of SA Tourism in London.
		Whereas A1 Grand Prix' Durban event will be a street race, the ARH F1 plan could be for a purpose built race track, though the South African Grand Prix Bid Company had planned on a purpose built track in Cape Town.
	www.pitpass.com /fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=24688 (505 words)

	Library System - Howard University
		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.
		Dakar: Ethiopiques, 1985; Ethiopiques 3.1-2 (1er trimestre 1985).
	www.howard.edu /library/Assist/Guides/French_african_Lit.htm (3886 words)

	The Road to Victory
		BMW engines won nine Grands Prix in the 1980's and Honda engines won the manufacturers' title six times in a row from 1986 to 1991.
		Stewart scored their first points at Monaco in their 5th Grand Prix and scored their first Formula One victory in their third season at the 1999 European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring, their 47th Grand Prix.
		Mercedes first Grand Prix in the 1990s came at Australia in 1997, the first of three Grand Prix victories in 1997.
	www.atlasf1.com /99/dec22/tytler.html (1558 words)

	Atlas F1 Magazine: The F1 FAQ
		In 1980, the Italian Grand Prix would be held at Imola and this non-championship race was more or less a rehearsal.
		Of the 670 World Championship Grands Prix that have been held to date, this year's Austrian Grand Prix was the 63rd time this has occurred.
		In the earlier days it was up to the Grand Prix organisers to distribute the numbers, so yes indeed, it was on a race by race basis.
	www.atlasf1.com /2001/mon/faq.html (1297 words)

	Beginners Guide to Formula 1 - Grand Prix events - mad4F1.com
		If a single country hosts multiple grands prix, they receive different names; for example, Germany, Spain and Britain have at various times held a second race known as the European Grand Prix.
		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 British Grand Prix, for example, though held every year since 1950, alternated between Brands Hatch and Silverstone from 1963 to 1986.
	www.mad4f1.com /f1-basics/formula1-grand-prix.htm (305 words)

	The Philatelic Federation of South Africa - Awards Committee
		Prior to 1974 the Grand Prix was a piece of art which the winner would keep.
		This is awarded to the best South African or South West African exhibit, which must be of at least Gold Award standard.
		The longest standing of Federation Floating Trophies, this 44 cm cup is awarded for the best South African exhibit pertaining to a period after 31st May 1910 which must have achieved at least a Silver Award and cannot be awarded again to substantially the same exhibit within six years.
	www.philatelysa.co.za /AwardsCommittee.html (1599 words)

	Prost_Career
		McLaren TAG drivers Alain Prost and Niki Lauda celebrate after the Portuguese Grand Prix at the Estoril circuit in Portugal.
		South African GP Alain in action during the F1 testing for McLaren Peugeot
		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.
	www.homestead.com /formulakaz/Prost_Career.html (751 words)

	Mahmood’s Den » The History of Formula One (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
	mahmood.tv /?page_id=2312 (11052 words)

	ESPN.com - Montoya not the only bizarre scratch
		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 /espn/print?id=2027704&type=story (916 words)

	World Golf Hall of Fame Member Profile
		Gary Player represented his native South Africa in 16 World Cups.
		Gary Player was born Nov. 1, 1935, in Johannesburg, South Africa, the third of three children to Harry and Muriel Player.
		His father was a captain in a gold mine who spent most of his working life 12,000 feet underground.
	www.wghof.com /hof/member.php?member=1093 (1130 words)

	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.
	www.f1-grandprix.com /races.html (4566 words)

	History about the car/ driver (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Michael Schumacher was fighting hard until an accident at the British Grand Prix saw the German sidelined for all bar the final two races of the season.
		In 1994, Michael stunned the Grand Prix world, when he was quicker in the Benetton, than Senna was in the Williams.
		He made his Formula One debut in 1993, driving for Eddie Jordan, at the South African Grand Prix, where he qualified 14th, but the gearbox failed him on lap 31.
	ferrarirules.faithweb.com /custom2.html (1833 words)

	F1, Formula 1 Racing, News, Formula one Grand Prix, Formula 2005 schedule, history
		Dan Gurney in his Porsche graces the cover, giving Porsche their one and only victory in Formula 1 at the 1962 French Grand Prix.
		In what must be one of the most beautiful racing photos of all time, Jim Clark is shown at Spa heading for a memorable first win at the 1962 Belgian Grand Prix.
		Ayrton Senna's splashing maiden win in the rain at the 1985 Portuguese Grand Prix is probably one of the greatest drives in Formula 1 history.
	www.wheel2wheel.com /calender.asp (224 words)

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