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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Brazilian Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Renault F1 is a Formula One racing team that has competed both as an engine supplier and as a constructor from the late 1970s to the present day, with several breaks.
The 1991 Formula One season was the 42th FIA Formula One World Championship season.
The 2005 Brazilian Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on September 25 at Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo, Brazil.
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  1991 Formula One season - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1991 Formula One season was the 42th FIA Formula One World Championship season.
1991 was arguably the Brazilian's greatest season in Formula One.
1991 was the last season to feature "sticky" qualifying tyres, which were made of an ultra high grip rubber compound.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Monaco Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hill, who badly damaged his legs in a crash at the end of the 1970 Formula One season, continued to compete, but after failing to qualify for the 1975 race he retired to run his Embassy Hill team.
Formula Three, also called Formula 3 or, in abbreviated form, F3, is a type of formula racing and a class of open-wheeler motor racing.
Of the 2006 Formula One contenders, several have property in the principality, including Jenson Button and David Coulthard, who is part owner of a hotel there.
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 1991 Formula One season: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 1991 Formula One Season Information - Articles Free   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Riccardo Patrese had a good 1991 season, with victories in the Mexican GP and Portuguese GP.
1991 was the last season to feature "sticky" qualifying tyres, which were made of an ultra high grip rubber compound.
A Mercedes sports car driver, he debuted for Jordan at the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix after regular driver Bertrand Gachot was imprisoned in the UK for using CS gas on a London taxi driver during an argument.
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 1992 Formula One season - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1992 Formula One season was the 43th FIA Formula One World Championship season.
This season was dominated by the Williams Renault team.
Nigel Mansell won nine Grand Prix during the season, setting a record that wouldn't be matched until 1995.
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 Jordan counts the cost of survival | Formula one | Guardian Unlimited Sport
Eddie Jordan is one of formula one's survivors.
Having barn-stormed his way into the world championship arena as a precocious new boy in 1991, he is now a veteran of the turbulent financial rollercoaster that has three times threatened to put him out of business with huge debts.
So it is easy to see why the announcement by the FIA president Max Mosley, on the eve of the Spanish grand prix, of a package of cost-saving measures which could eventually wipe 50% off Jordan 's engine lease fees of $14m (£7.8m)a year was greeted warmly by the Dublin-born entrepreneur.
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 Alex Zanardi -
In 1991, he moved up to the Formula 3000 series with the Il Barone Rampante team, who were themselves newcomers to the series.
The 2000 season was one of reflection for Zanardi.
The season did not see him score many points, but for 2005 matters were much improved, in a series which became the World Touring Car Championship by adding two non-European races.
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 Formula 1 : Biography Michael Schumacher - F1-Live.com
Winning 6 races for the season, it once again came down to the final race, but a stall from pole position, and a blown tyre, saw his chances of taking the title for a third time vanish.
The 2000 season saw him partnered with Rubens Barrichello as Irvine moved across to Jaguar and it was undoubtedly the best season of his career.
The result was a frustrating season for Ferrari and Schumacher in which he claimed just one race win, the US Grand Prix, on a day when only the Bridgestone teams took part.
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 1991 Formula One season . Enpsychlopedia
The 1991 Formula One season was the 42nd FIA Formula One World Championship season.
It commenced on March 10, 1991, and ended on November 3 after sixteen races.
A Mercedes sportscar driver, he debuted for Jordan at the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix after regular driver Bertrand Gachot was imprisoned in the UK for using CS gas on a London taxi driver during an argument.
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 FORMULA ONE RACING AND THE FIA FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL DE LA AUTOMOBILE
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.
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.
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.
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 Young F1 drivers drink milk and go fast - Boston.com
Sebastian Vettel, Nico Rosberg, Robert Kubica and Scott Speed are the young drivers to watch in Formula One as the season draws to a conclusion.
In 1991, Briatore jumped at the chance to take a 22-year-old German driver to Benetton after he made an impression at the 1991 Belgian GP for the Jordan team.
Rosberg was on the starting line in the 2006 season opener at 20 for the Williams team and had the fastest lap, the youngest to do that, and he came in seventh.
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 Formula One Motor Racing FAQ (modified 3/14/97), Part 1/2
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 1991 Alesi was signed by Ferrari where he has remained for 5 seasons with rather disappointing results due no doubt to the unreliable and/or uncompetitive cars that Ferrari has put out in the last few years.
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.
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 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
Bosnia and Herzegovina's declaration of sovereignty in October 1991, was followed by a declaration of independence from the former Yugoslavia on 3 March 1992 after a referendum boycotted by ethnic Serbs.
In keeping with the framework established at the Madrid Conference in October 1991, bilateral negotiations were conducted between Israel and Palestinian representatives (from the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip) and Syria, to achieve a permanent settlement; however, these efforts were derailed/postponed by the outbreak of Israeli-Palestinian violence in September 2000.
Rule by dictatorship was brought to a close in 1991 with a transitional government, and in 1992 when Mali's first democratic presidential election was held.
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 Formula One Racing provided by Bravenet.com
His season was spoiled by a string of technical failures but at the Japanese his car was working well and Barrichello put in a strong performance to finish 5
Barrichellos 1995 season was hampered by poor reliability but at the Canadian Grand Prix when his rivals were suffering with technical difficulties his Jordans kept going and Barrichello finished second.
His season was plagued by retirements but at the Monaco Grand Prix while everyone else was spin off the track Barrichello kept it on the track and he finished third but he was later upgraded to second because of Michael Schumacher being disqualified from the championship.
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 Formula One History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Formula One is facing one of the most continuous domination we have ever konwn.
This season would be completely dominated by Williams drivers, with 10 victories and not scoring points in only three races.
This season bring small technical innovations, but new rules like “chassis frontal crash-test”, rear wing new position and non-comercial fuel liberate for use.
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 IGN Boards - - Melbourne [03|18|2007] -
Despite the popular end of season slot for the Adelaide race, pressure was growing from the Melbourne motor sport community, and in 1992 Jeff Kennett was elected the new premier of the State of Victoria.
An agreement was reached with Formula One in 1993, but the contract with Adelaide did not expire until 1995, so Kennett had plenty of time to prepare.
Formula One racing thrives on its annual period of rebirth, and what we have seen so far in 2007 does nothing to dissuade one from the view that we are in for a bumper season, in which several drivers could be in contention for victory and the world championship.
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 Formula 1 Case
The Formula 1 event was the second most watched after the Olympics in terms of followers.
Malaysia’s aim is to be able to develop their own Formula 1 engine so that they would not depend on other for the technology.
However his main aim was the Formula 1 racing and with the SIC, his chances of fulfilling his dreams seemed possible.
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 Ligier: L’histoire Continue
Nothing was ever finalised and Prost was left out of Formula One before his return in 1993 and his fourth World Championship.
On the face of it, Prost is the team with the edge to claim Bridgestone’s maiden win on their return to Formula One.
Unfortunately the life of the butterfly is short, and I see this as true in the case of Prost.
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 Mika Hakkinen from start till date
Well, everyone following F1 a decade back, in 1991, would surely remember about the young Finn, who was unbelievavably excited on his entry into Formula One more than anything else.
Mika Hakkinen, then first drove for Lotus in 1991, the same company for whom he won the Euroseries in 1988.
In 2000, Mika came very close to winning it again, but a poor start to the season and the engine blow-up in the crucial race at Indianapolis saw him take second to Michael Schumacher.
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 Fast farewells at end of longest season | Formula one | Guardian Unlimited Sport
The longest Formula One season in terms of races will come to an end in China this morning and with it will go an exceptionally high proportion of significant names in the sport's history.
These two were prominent last Sunday in Japan when Alonso and Raikkonen contributed to the best race of the season courtesy of stunning overtaking moves as they worked their way from the back of the grid.
Such low starting positions were caused by rain having fallen just before the race favourites were due to qualify and their subsequent electrifying performances have prompted calls for examining a means of changing the traditional method of having the fastest drivers start from the front.
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 Schumacher’s Drive Placed Him In The Lead
In the middle of the 1991 Formula One racing season, Jordan Formula One team co-owner Eddie Jordan found himself in a bind.
One of his drivers was in jail for an altercation with a taxi driver.
His splash into the Formula One world with Jordan and then Benetton was dramatic.
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 CNNSI.com - Motor Sports - Formula One - Facts and figures from 2000 Formula One season - Sunday October 22, 2000 12:53 ...
It was the first season in which just two teams won everything since 1988, when McLaren had 15 wins and Ferrari one.
Brazilian Rubens Barrichello was the only first time winner of the season, ending a run of 123 starts without success to triumph at Hockenheim in Germany in July.
He was the first fatality at a Formula One race since Senna was killed at Imola in 1994.
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 UpdateF1 >> Profiles > Drivers > View Item
2002 : Formula 1 (Ferrari), Schumacher confirms his status as one of the greatest drivers ever to compete in the sport by claiming a record equalling 5th world title (144 points).
In the process Schumacher also set a new record for the amount of race wins in one season.
Decides to retire from Formula 1 at Monza and so ends his legendary career.
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