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  Formula One
Formula One, or Grand Prix racing is the best known single-seater auto racing class, which involves an annual world championship.
In 1950, a world championship Formula One was established for drivers.
The sport is lesser-known in the United States than either their mostly-domestic open-wheeler racing series (at the moment there are two major ones, IRL and CART) or NASCAR, but in terms of budgets and global TV audiences F1 is bigger than all three.
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 Encyclopedia: 1992 Formula One season
Founder of the Formula One team that bears his name, the Commendatore was famous for his single-mindedness and complete lack of emotional attachment to his cars ("My best car is the next one I build," is one of his better-known comments).
Introduced at the beginning of the 1998 season in a bid to reduce cornering speeds and increase overtaking opportunities, the previous slick (treadless) tyres used for dry weather racing in Formula One were required to have longitudinal grooves (three at the front, four at the rear) moulded into the tread.
Formula One steering wheels now incorporate virtually all instrumentation and controls that used to be located on the dashboard.
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 Encyclopedia: Ilmor
The inaugural Formula One World Championship was won by Italian Giuseppe Farina in his Alfa Romeo in 1950, barely defeating his Argentine teammate Juan Manuel Fangio.
Formula One engine manufacturers This article recaps the 1991 Formula One season.
Ilmor entered Formula One when the 3.5 Litre Formula was introduced and the 1.5 Litre turbocharged engines were outlawed by the FIA.
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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.
Formula One teams must build the chassis in which they compete, and consequently the terms "team" and "constructor" are more or less interchangeable; this requirement distinguishes the sport from "spec series" such as IRL, CART, Formula 3000 and NASCAR.
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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 Ukyo Katayama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His sponsors, Cabin Club, arranged a Formula One seat for Katayama in 1992, with the Larrousse team.
He stayed on with Tyrrell for the next two seasons, but suffered a mystifying loss of form, with two 7th places in high-attrition races his best results.
During these years his habit of crashing would re-emerge, notably with a barrel-roll at the start of the 1995 Portuguese Grand Prix, and, as a rather short man, was highly disadvantaged by the regulation changes which led to walls being built up around the cockpit, a response to the death of Ayrton Senna.
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 Formula One -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Formula One, abbreviated to F1 and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of single-seat open-wheel formula auto racing.
Europe is Formula One's traditional centre and remains its leading market; however, Grands Prix have been held all over the world, and with new races in Bahrain, China, Malaysia and Turkey, its scope is continually expanding.
Formula 1 cars are the most expensive race cars currently in production and the sport is among the most expensive in the world.
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 Formula One Motor Racing FAQ (modified 3/14/97), Part 1/2
From: mitchmcc@ultranet.com (Mitchell McCann) Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport.f1 Subject: Formula One Motor Racing FAQ (modified 3/14/97), Part 1/2 Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 17:55:11 GMT Message-ID: <3379fbfe.22542488@news.ultranet.com> Summary: This article is a collection of information on Formula One racing, teams, personnel and technology.
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 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.
www.faqs.org /faqs/sports/formula-one-faq/part1   (7982 words)

  
 Andrea Moda Formula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andrea Moda was a Formula One team, created by Andrea Sassetti, a shoe manufacturer from Italy.
This was fitted with Judd V10 engines but the cars were not ready for the start of the season in South Africa and Sassetti arrived with old Coloni chassis for drivers Alex Caffi and Enrico Bertaggia.
The team was excluded from the event for not having paid the $100,000 deposit for new teams in the World Championship, Sassetti arguing that it was not a new team.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moda   (386 words)

  
 Formula 1 Case
Formula 1 is currently the third most watched live sporting event, second only to the Olympics and the World Cup.
Since SIC is built for the Formula 1 machines and could accommodate the motorbikes, it is regulated by many international regulatory bodies and has met all their requirements.
This is a big issue as the Formula 1 teams travel together with their equipment in a big container, there is reason to believe that the allegation might be true.
www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/formula1.htm   (4138 words)

  
 Mercedes-Benz/com/e/M/motorsport/Formula One/Race Season 2004/Budapest/Background/The Hungarian Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Before the 1989 race, a bend in the meandering section after the start was 'ironed out', shortening the track to 3,975 kilometres; as a result, average speed rose within one year from 155.401 km/h to 167.197 km/h.
However the Hungarian Grand Prix is one of the slower races on the Formula One agenda.
In the first race in 1986, drivers were shown the chequered flag one lap earlier than planned because the two-hour limit had been reached, even though there hadn't been a drop of rain.
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 Season 1992
As winter gave way to the early spring of 1992 over the green and grassy landscape of west Wales, arguably the most disappointed and disillusioned man in Formula One was its recently crowned and current World Champion, Jonathon Jones.
Formula One brings motor racing to the heart of cities including Stockolm and thousands of people watched in awe as boats jostled side by side.
In previous seasons, the F1 circuit has finished with races in both Penang and Singapore but after some disquiet among the drivers and lack of the correct guarantees, the race in peninsula Malaysia was dropped, leaving Singapore to host the final round of the championship.
www.f1boat.com /history/durban_to_singapore_92.htm   (2436 words)

  
 FORMULA ONE: Youth is served by strong F1 rookie crop
Enge, the test driver for Prost-Acer, was called in to replace Luciano Burti for the final three races of this season while Burti recovers from the concussion he suffered when he crashed in the Belgian Grand Prix.
He raced in the Ford Fiesta Cup series in the Czech Republic in 1992 and 1993, and then competed in the Formula Ford Zetec Cup series in 1994 and 1995 and won the title in his second season.
In 1998-99, Yoong raced in both the British Formula 3 and the FIA Formula 3000 championships, and he scored a second place in both series.
www.theautochannel.com /news/2001/09/25/030132.html   (1060 words)

  
 math lessons - Formula One
Non-championship Formula One races were held for many years, but due to rising costs and sinking interest, the last of these ended in the early 1980s.
Formula One teams must build the chassis in which they compete, and consequently the terms "team" and "constructor" are interchangeable; this requirement distinguishes the sport from "spec series" such as IRL and NASCAR.
After the deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger during the 1994 season, the FIA mandated higher safety standards; modern Formula One circuits feature gravel traps and tyre barriers to reduce risk of injury in crashes.
www.mathdaily.com /lessons/F1   (3774 words)

  
 F1 Season Opener 94
But on Sunday, the 1994 season opens in Brazil with other questions that could make or break Formula One racing as a spectator sport.
At the heart of the current problem is a gas-pedal system known as "fly-by-wire." It involves an electronic accelerator that communicates with the motor not by the traditional mechanical cable method, but by electronic signals.
Some of the most exciting teams will not be those that win races, but those that have in the past been eclipsed by the big teams and will this year be fighting for the fourth, fifth, and sixth places.
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 Seebold - MIKE SEEBOLD
Mike, the North America Formula One champion in 1982 and 1992, moved to the top of PROP's career victories list with eight wins in five seasons.
He is the only drivers who has won a race in each of the five seasons PROP has organized Formula One racing in the U.S. and Canada.
His father, boat racing legend Bill Seebold, got him a Kitson Craft to race in the Sport G class "at a one-hour marathon nationals somewhere in Ohio." He was a kid racing against a field of adults, but still he came home the winner.
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 David Coulthard : The Formula One DataBase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
His 1994 season was a difficult one considering he was in the best car on the grid and some were starting to Question Frank Williams' decision to keep him for 1995.
Mika established himself as number one at the first race of the season in Australia as Coulthard was forced to move over and allow him to pass for the victory.
This trend continued all season as Raikkonen missed out on the driver's championship by two points and an aging Coulthard was left in his dust, and McLaren once again finished behind Williams in the constructors championship.
www.f1db.com /driver/id/10165   (1801 words)

  
 AutoWeb - Renault the 2002 Formula One Season
Withdrew from Formula One as a constructor at the end of the season.
Formula One Drivers' and Constructors' Champions again with Alain Prost and Williams.
It takes more than one and a half years for a new engine to reach a good reach a satisfactory level of development and, now that we have acquired this experience, we will be more capable of responding to the needs of the chassis team by supplying them with a competent unit.
www.autoweb.com.au /cms/A_54938/newsarticle.html   (2153 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Motor Sports - Formula One - Schumacher wins fifth Grand Prix in a row - Sunday March 04, 2001 11:39 AM
Formula One rookie Juan Pablo Montoya, making the switch from the IndyCar series, retired from the race with engine failure on lap 40.
Michael Schumacher, in his 10th season, now has 45 career wins and needs just seven more to break the Formula One record of 51 held by Alain Prost.
Since the end of the 1997 season, only four of 50 races have been won by teams from outside the big two -- Jordan has three of them (Belgium 1998 and France and Italy in 1999) while Stewart has the other -- the 1999 European Grand Prix.
www.cnn.com /cnnsi/motorsports/world/news/2001/03/03/formulaone_schumacher_ap   (933 words)

  
 Man for One Season
By September 13th 1992, the height of the Silly Season at Monza, the announcement had come: Ron Dennis had dropped everything to venture forth to the wilds of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he signed a contract with Michael Andretti to drive for McLaren in 1993, with a further two-year option if things worked out.
With the first race of the 1993 season scheduled for Kyalami, South Africa, Ron Dennis covered his bets and brought on Mika Hakkinen to be either teammate to Michael Andretti or test driver for McLaren, depending on Senna's decision.
In some ways, with the benefit of historical context and with more public knowledge today as to how Formula One teams actually operate, we may be in a better position to judge now what went wrong than was possible to do at the time these events were occurring in 1993.
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 Nigel comes to the Speedway. Jim Clark  and Al Unser come to mind.
At the peak of Mansell's fame, during the successive championship seasons in 1992 and 1993, Nigel was arguably racing's number one international celebrity.
Even though the Brit enjoyed a spectacular, record breaking season on the way to the World title, Prost's looming presence was a dark shadow that followed Mansell from the checkered flag to the podium at race after race, until Nigel finally announced he was leaving the series at Monza on Sunday September, 13.
Presumably Formula One was in his past and in early 1993, the goal for Mansell was to conquer the boys racing in the states.
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 Formula One: Championship chase reaches fever pitch in Hungary
That was Mika Hakkinens prediction of the Formula One World Championship battle this year that has turned into a fierce fight between four drivers after Michael Schumacher dominated the early races of the season.
Nigel Mansell clinched the 1992 Formula One World Championship with a second-place finish in the Hungarian Grand Prix, which was the 11th of 16 races that year.
For example, in 1992 I finished fourth, starting from the back row, and after that I basically fell in love with Hungary and this track.
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 Formula One 1992 - F1 GP 1990s Quiz
Formula One 1992 - F1 GP 1990s Quiz
It was an exciting season, and this quiz will test your knowledge of that season.
* Which Grand Prix was last held during the 1992 season, and has not been on the calender since?
www.funtrivia.com /quizdetails.cfm?id=42759   (53 words)

  
 ATLAS F1 - The Journal of Formula One Motorsport
As the season progresses to Barcelona, the hub for much of the teams' testing programmes, the Spanish Grand Prix typically sees the teams as prepared as they can be for racing and little in the way of change.
In 1992, the Briton went on to dominate the opposition to clinch his first title.
Schumacher is chasing a seventh crown, but there are similarities in the way he is dominating the season.
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 Scuderia Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari, Takuma Sato, Rubens Barrichello, Michael Schumacher, Formula One, Williams Williams ...
It was his 59th pole position and fourth this season.
Also Saturday, the Spanish GP extended its contract with Formula One until 2011, but the agreement is subject to looming tobacco legislation.
Formula One has agreed to drop tobacco funding by the end of October 2006.
www.sportsline.com /autoracing/story/7314048   (480 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Motor Sports - Formula One - Alesi bids farewell in F1 season finale - Thursday October 11, 2001 06:43 PM
Meanwhile, with Michael Schumacher having won his fourth driver's crown in Hungary in August, the focus of attention at Suzuka turns out to be a battle for the No. 2 position in the standings between Schumacher's Ferrari teammate Rubens Barrichello and McLaren's David Coulthard, who currently holds the seven-point lead over Barrichello.
For his part, Coulthard said he was looking forward to the final race of the 2001 season and holding on to his No. 2 spot.
Barrichello brushed aside speculation that Schumacher, who has won eight times this season and needs just one more win to tie Nigel Mansell's all-time record of nine victories set in 1992, will assist his teammate in securing victory at Suzuka.
www.cnn.com /cnnsi/motorsports/world/news/2001/10/11/japan_preview_ap   (471 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Russians plan new F1 team
But Shnaider insisted the team, to be called Midland F1 and based "on the outskirts of London", had the cash to fund its big ambitions.
"I'm surprised that no one has realised that having a Formula One team is like getting an NBA or NHL franchise for free, as it is one of the world's most popular sports," he said.
It entered Formula One with the Ford-powered Scuderia Italia team in 1988 and stayed until 1992.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/3724208.stm   (544 words)

  
 Benetton F1 Team - Formula One Team Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The team won the Mexican Grand Prix during their debut year, 1986, with Gerhard Berger at the wheel, finishing the season in 6th position.
Ford turbo engines replaced the BMW engines for the 1987 season, with drivers Teo Fabi and Thierry Boutsen taking the team to 5th in the Constructor's Championship.
In his final season Berger won the 1997 German Grand Prix as the team regrouped.
www.geocities.com /MotorCity/Lane/4994/benetton.html   (517 words)

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