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  Wikinfo | Monaco Grand Prix
The Monaco Grand Prix, held there annually, was first organized by Antony Noghes, a well-to-do cigarette manufacturer and a resident of Monte Carlo, under the auspices of Prince Louis II through the establishing of the "Automobile Club de Monaco" of which Noghes was the founding president.
Grand Prix motor racing came to Monaco in 1929 when the first Grand Prix of Monaco automobile race was held.
The Grand Prix of Monaco is organized each year by the Automobile Club de Monaco who also runs the Monte Carlo Rally and the Monaco Kart Cup.
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 British Grand Prix - 1991 - Grand Prix Racing - the whole story
Nigel Mansell revealed that his British Grand Prix triumph was almost wrecked on the last two laps by mechanical trouble with the Williams.
Nigel Mansell was physically shattered after winning the British Grand Prix - but boosted by a hero's welcome from his elated fans.
Eddie Jordan's fledgling 7-Up Jordan Ford team had a bitter-sweet Grand Prix as they were cheered on by a mass of Irish fans.
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 Italian Grand Prix - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
The Italian Grand Prix is one of the longest running events on the motor racing calendar.
The Italian Grand Prix counted toward the European Championship from 1935 to 1938.
The Italian Grand Prix was one of the inaugural Formula One championship races in 1950, and has been held every year since then.
www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Italian_Grand_Prix   (190 words)

  
 Grand Prix Racing - the whole story
Silverstone claims to be the home of British motor racing and there is a strong argument for that claim.
Two Grands Prix were held on that configuration before the runway was abandoned.
In 1991 the track was substantially changed and emerged with a new 3.247 mile layout.
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 GrandPrixRankings
The second season of A1 Grand Prix has already got off to a flying start, with event organisers experiencing an overwhelming demand for tickets for the first race in The Netherlands on 1 October.
At a meeting with A1 Grand Prix last week, management at the Zandvoort circuit and A1 Team Netherlands agreed to build extra grandstands to help address the shortfall in spectator seating and increase the capacity of others.
Stiller approached Ecclestone because he was opposed to the plan by Silverstone's owner the British Racing Drivers' Club to finance the redevelopment of the track by leasing it to a property developer for 150 years.
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 Renault Press Release :: 200th Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
If I were not, it would be tantamount to insulting all the great Grand Prix drivers like Fangio, Clark, Hill, Stewart, Fittipaldi, Lauda and so many others who didn't have the good fortune and the privilege of taking part in 200 Grands Prix.
For me, the 250 Grands Prix mark is not an end in itself.
Grand Prix cars get faster every year, and driver safety means changes to the quicker circuits like Silverstone just have to come."
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 Amazon.com: Grand Prix: Music: Teenage Fanclub   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Grand Prix, the group's fourth full album, is fresher, more direct and less cluttered than its predecessor, but it fails to match the grungy exuberance of the band's debut or the Big Star jangle of 1991's Bandwagonesque, which remains its best effort.
Grand Prix is their best album so far, just shading Bandwagonesque for sheer loveliness.
Grand Prix mines that seam of melodious guitar pop, sixties style, better than any other 90s album I can think of.
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 MSN India - Tata Racing
A former World War 2 bomber airfield, the circuit hosted the British Grand Prix together with the Aintree track in the 50s, and later with Brands Hatch from the 60s to the 80s.
As a result of this, a chicane was added at Woodcote for the 1975 race, the track's first alteration in 25 years.
British motorsport received a boost at the end of 1999 when it was awarded the contract to host the British Grand Prix for the next 15 years.
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 Top 10 cars | MSN Cars UK - Top 10: greatest-ever British Grand Prix drivers cont...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Switching to BRM and F1 in 1965 he won his first Grand Prix at Monza and the following year narrowly missed winning the Indianapolis 500 but was awarded Rookie of the Year.
In a turbulent season Hunt was disqualified and then reinstated as the winner of the Spanish Grand Prix, stripped of the British win and forced to start from the back of the grid in Italy.
In fact for many, the defining image of Mansell’s career is his wheel to wheel battle with Ayrton Senna at over 200mph at the 1991 Spanish Grand Prix.
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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Constructors > Jordan Grand Prix
Success resulted in expansion and the team ran two-car operations in Britain and Europe with Martin Brundle the leading driver in the British series (his team mate was Canadian Allen Berg) and Tommy Byrne the team leader in Europe.
Jordan abandoned British F3 and ran three cars in the European Formula 3000 series for drivers Eddie Irvine, Emanuele Naspetti and Heinz-Harald Frentzen.
At the start of 1991 Jordan Grand Prix revealed its plans with 7Up sponsorship, Ford customer engines and drivers Andrea de Cesaris and Bertrand Gachot.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/con-jorda.html   (1352 words)

  
 2004 French Grand Prix Postscript :: IndyCar® Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The dream season for Michael Schumacher and Ferrari continued at the French Grand Prix where the duo scored its ninth win in 10 starts this year, but the competition is edging closer and fighting harder.
Two or three pit stops are the norm in most Grand Prix races, but Schumacher pitted four times on his way to winning in France.
USGP tickets: Tickets for the 2005 United States Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway can be purchased online at www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com or by calling the IMS ticket office at (317) 492-6700 or (800) 822-INDY outside the Indianapolis area.
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 World Circuit - MobyGames
Formula 1 Grand Prix is the first instalment of what would quickly become the Formula 1 simulation series for the PC in the 1990's.
Designed and programmed by racing game specialist Geoff Crammond (REVS, Stunt Track Racer), Grand Prix 1 did not only introduce a multitude of features previously unknown to computer racing simulations, but also sported a physics engine that was, at its time, unmatched in its complexity and realism.
Footwork Grand Prix International, Honda UK Errors and omissions on this page may be reported to the MobyGames approvers.
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 F1A&G - Formula One History
From Farina and Fangio to Schumacher and Hakkinen, from Alfa Roméo and Ferrari to McLaren and Williams, Formula One’s history is alive with the triumph of skill and technology — and the tragedy of lost opportunities and lives cut short of their zenith.
The history of Grand Prix racing is the history of human endeavor and accomplishment, of the sheer will to win!
All Grand Prix posters courtesy of Malcolm Mitchell's Programme Covers Project.
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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1991 Results > British GP
There was Mansell Mania at Silverstone in 1991 with the British idol second in the World Championship (albeit with half the number of points of Ayrton Senna) but with the dominant Williams-Renault FW14.
Senna was credited with fourth place with Nelson Piquet fifth and Bertrand Gachot (Jordan) sixth, a promising result for the Belgian driver.
British GP, Silverstone, July 14, 1991, Round: 8, Race Number: 508
www.grandprix.com /gpe/rr508.html   (356 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | French GP cancelled
The French Grand Prix has been dropped from the 2004 Formula One calendar, race organisers have said.
The removal of the Magny-Cours race from its 11 July date has prompting suggestions that the British Grand Prix may be pushed back one week from 4 July, when it clashes with the finals of Euro 2004 and Wimbledon.
On Friday, Marcel Charmant, president of the Nievre regional authority, revealed that the French Grand Prix had been cancelled.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/3228254.stm   (231 words)

  
 SimHQ.com - Motorsports Zone - Preview: 2004 British Grand Prix - Round 11 of 18
You arrive at the right hander at 181mph / 290km/h, before dabbing the brakes, with your speed dropping slightly to 165mph / 265km/h in sixth as you swing through the bend, which is off-camber at the exit.
Last year plans were unveiled to show how Silverstone will be developed to keep the grand prix there for the foreseeable future.
In 2001 Hakkinen scored his penultimate grand prix win on a circuit he had always wanted to win on but had previously never managed.
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 Every Driver Who Has Started A World Championship Grand Prix
Statistics are correct up to and including the 2002 British Grand Prix.
Most regular Grand Prix drivers never competed in the Indy 500, and most drivers competing in the Indy 500 never competed in any of the Grands Prix.
A few Indy drivers did compete in a Grand Prix and they are not indicated as above.
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 St. Petersburg Grand Prix: Who's on TV
In 1995 he was named the Trans-Am Rookie of the Year and is a four-time SCCA Trans-Am champion (1990, '95-97).
He was the IMSA Triple Crown champion in 1991, and the 1997 Racer Magazine Racer of the Year and Road Racer of the Year.
Pruett ran his rookie season in NASCAR in 2000, and drove for Ganassi Racing in the 2002 Winston Cup race at Watkins Glen, running as high as third and finishing sixth.
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 Jeremy McWilliams to ride a Honda in British Superbike
Riding for Honda, Yamaha, Proton and Aprilia, McWilliams, originally from Belfast but now living at Newtownabbey, has spent just over a decade in Grands Prix with over 150 GP starts to his name and is the biggest signing in the recent history of Britain’s most popular motorsport series.
The signing of McWilliams is the final piece in the jigsaw for the four times British Champions who will be sporting new colours and new sponsors as well as reverting back to Honda power after four successful years with Ducati.
With victory in the 2001 Dutch TT, he became the first British rider to win a solo Grand Prix race since Ian McConnachie in 1986, a statistic which still remains today.
www.mcnews.com.au /Riders/JeremyMcWilliams/2005_honda_britain.htm   (928 words)

  
 Chicago International Documentary Festival
Elected by the national membership three times to the board of directors, he is the former Board Chair and President of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers.
His poetic documentaries, including “From Moscow to Pietushki” (1990), “Dostoevsky’s Travels” (1991), “Serbian Epics” (1992), “Tripping with Zhirinovsky” (1995), and the short fiction “Twockers” (1998) have earned him the highest critical accolades.
He is the winner of Royal Television Society Awards, a Prix Italia, the Grierson Award, an Emmy International and a Felix (European Film Academy Award).
www.chicagodocfestival.org /jury_grandprix.htm   (734 words)

  
 Grand Prix - The Cars, the Race, the Dreams, and a horse to boot. Drivers, Racing, and everything else.
Grand Prix - The Cars, the Race, the Dreams, and a horse to boot.
Dressage in Harmony : From Basic to Grand Prix (The Masters of Horsemanship Series, Bk.
Grand Prix of Monaco -- Rainer W. Schlegelmilch, et al; Hardcove
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 SPEEDtv.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The first words in SPEED ADDICTS set the tone of the book, and probably make the reader realize that he has a lot to learn about Grand Prix racing.
“The tradition of presenting a Grand Prix winner with a laurel wreath was halted when sponsors began complaining that they were covering up their logos during this ideal photo opportunity.”
“Nigel Mansell, on his victory lap at the 1991 British Grand Prix, gives Ayrton Senna-whose McLaren had run out of fuel-a lift back to the pits.
www.speedtv.com /articles/auto/formulaone/22764   (816 words)

  
 ESA Portal - Space technology for McLaren at the British Grand Prix
At the British Grand Prix next weekend, the McLaren team will have a special boost from space technology: their mechanics' suits will feature a cooling system, specially developed from the astronauts' suits by the Technology Transfer Programme of the European Space Agency.
The McLaren mechanics' suits are the unique product of a team grouping together the ESA Technology Transfer Programme (TTP), the Italian fashion manufacturer Karada and the designer Hugo Boss.
The results since 1991: more than one billion euros in revenues will be generated by end of 2004 for all companies involved, more than 2,500 jobs created or saved, 25 new companies established and 150 successful transfers.
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 Marlboro Ducati Previews The British Grand Prix News Article // RoadracingWorld.com
Ducati Marlboro Team riders Loris Capirossi and Carlos Checa return to Europe for the British GP after their Wild West adventure at Laguna Seca.
This is the 19th consecutive year that the Leicestershire venue has hosted the British motorcycle Grand Prix.
The Italian always looks forward to the British GP because he scored his first world-class victory at Donington in August 1990, winning the 125 GP at the age of just 17.
roadracingworld.com /news/article/?article=23438   (858 words)

  
 Onboard Laps
Montoya's pole position lap for the 2002 Italian Grand Prix was largely missed on live TV.
Here is your chance to see the whole of the fastest ever lap in Formula 1 history, averaging at over 161mph, from a mixture of onboard footage and trackside cameras.
A complete onboard lap with the Jordan of Fisichella, from one of the wet practise sessions from this year's San Marino Grand Prix.
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 British Grand Prix Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For 2 laps Barros managed to hang on to second place, shadowing Doohan, but on lap 5 Okada passed Barros and closed up on Doohan.
The pace being set by Doohan was too much for the twin and at last the race lap record, that was still held by Kevin Schwantz dating back to 1991, was broken by both Doohan and Okada.
In the meantime, Carlos Checa had crashed on hard tyres that he had gambled would give him an advantage in the second half of the race.
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 eBay - british grand prix, Fan Apparel Souvenirs, Vintage Sports Memorabilia items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
BRITISH GRAND PRIX SILVERSTONE 1993 PROGRAMME - MINT
Minichamps 1/43 British Grand Prix Event Car 2001.
Poster advertising the Fosters British Grand Prix 2002
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 Steve Patrickson Profile
Also finishing 7th at the British Grand Prix.
Being knocked off by a fallen rider in the 1991 British Grand Prix on the first lap
Youngest Ever British Championship Race Winner at 15 years old.
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 Living in England, holiday in Wales
It was well worth getting up at 4.30am to see Nigel Mansell win the British Grand Prix in front of a home crowd.
Gerhard Berger came second followed by Alain Prost and then Ayrton Senna, who ran out of fuel on the last lap.
Our second Christmas as a married couple; and after a record number of pre-Christmas drinks parties, business functions and family parties we managed to spend an indulgent, romantic Christmas Day alone.
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