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  cars - Formula One
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 interchangeable; this requirement distinguishes the sport from "spec series" such as IRL 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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  1994 Formula One season - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1994 Formula One season was the 45th FIA Formula One World Championship season.
At the start of the year, Williams were searching for their third straight drivers' and constructors' double with the assistance of star driver Ayrton Senna, recruited from McLaren to replace the retired reigning champion Alain Prost and 34 year old Damon Hill, entering his second year with the team.
A shaken Formula one world moved on to Monaco, where Schumacher took a convincing win, his fourth in a row.
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: 1994 Formula One season   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Formula One World Championship is awarded by the FIA to the most successful driver (World Drivers Championship or WDC) and constructor (World Constructors Championship or WCC), as determined by a pointscoring system based on results over the season.
The 1994 Pacific Grand Prix was a Formula One race, held on April 17, at the Tanaka International Circuit in Aida, Japan.
The Monaco Grand Prix is a Formula One race held annually, and since 1929, in the Principality of Monaco considered to be one of the most important and prestigious races around the world alongside the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race and 24 Hours of Le Mans.
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 1994 Formula One season: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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...
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...
Bertrand gachot (born december 23, 1962 in luxemburg) is a belgian former formula one driver....
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 Roland Ratzenberger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roland Ratzenberger (July 4, 1960 – April 30, 1994) was an Austrian Formula One driver who died tragically during qualifying for the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, the same race that took the life of three-time world champion Ayrton Senna, and seriously injured Rubens Barrichello (in practice).
He was plucked from Japan as a surprise choice by Nick Wirth's new Simtek team to drive in the 1994 Formula One season.
He was killed in qualifying for the third race of the season at the ill-fated Imola circuit, ploughing into a wall at the Villeneuve corner at over 300 km/h after a front wing failure, apparently caused by an off-track excursion on the previous lap.
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 Auto Racing - Formula One Racing   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Formula racing (single-seat auto racing) is organized and regulated by the FIA (Fédération International de l'Automobile).
For zealous Formula One racing fans, here is some information on some of the teams and their popular drivers who sweat it out in Formula One racing championships.
A Formula One racing tire is designed to last for at most 200 kilometers and is made as light and strong as possible.
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 Wired 9.03: Formula 2001
But while Formula One racers are amazingly talented and durable athletes - the exhausting 190-mile races happen every two weeks from March to October - success in the high-stakes world of F1 depends on the geeks behind the scenes.
Formula One cars, with some 9,000 components, are daunting works in progress, so the pit crew deserves a moment to gloat.
With the debut of Michelin tires this coming season, McLaren, which has decided to stay with Bridgestone, is working with the manufacturer to make rubber compounds that blend more of that elusive triumvirate of traction, speed, and durability, and figuring out how to incorporate the rethought tires into the tricky setup of a new car.
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 The Official Formula 1 Website   (Site not responding. Last check: )
His Formula One race debut was a different matter, however, driving for the already ailing Prost team in 2000.
It was a miserable season for the young German as he failed to finish 10 times and was disqualified from the European Grand Prix before he had even set a qualifying time after his car was found to be underweight.
He took a brilliant third place early on in the season at the Brazilian Grand Prix, while highly rated team mate Kimi Raikkonen span off, and he was frequently in the points throughout the rest of the season, finishing the Drivers' Championship in a highly impressive eighth place with twelve points.
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 Scotsman.com Sport - Motorsport - Formula One - Coulthard secures F1 future with Red Bull one-year deal
Coulthard always insisted he would fight for his Formula 1 future and even considered taking a year out before returning in 2006 if his search for a drive next season was unsuccessful.
Klien drove for Jaguar last season on the back of substantial Red Bull backing and despite a largely disappointing campaign, that experience is expected to earn the Austrian the drive.
Liuzzi, who won the International Formula 3000 title last season, impressed in testing and is tipped to start the season as Red Bull’s third driver, primed as a replacement for Klien should he not improve on the Jaguar test.
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 Formula One - Wikicars
Formula One, abbreviated to F1, and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of single-seat open-wheel formula auto racing in the world.
The F1 season consists of a series of races, known as Grands Prix, held in most cases on purpose-built circuits, and in a few cases on closed city streets.
The sport's title, Formula One, indicates that it is intended to be the most advanced and most competitive of the many racing formulae.
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 ON AUTO RACING; Formula One Disputes Will Go On - New York Times
That would seem to be a dominance by both man and machine worthy of the 1994 world championship.
Five races are left before the 1994 Formula One season produces its most sought-after event: its end.
The season began in tragedy with the deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna in Imola, Italy, and continued in controversy as rule makers tried to redesign the cars in mid-year in the interest of safety.
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 50 Years of Technical Development in Formula One
The 1990 Formula One season saw the continuation of the duel between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost.
What caused a sensation before the season began were the new technical rules: the car width was reduced from two metres to 180 centimetres.
The third millenium and the sixth decade of Formula One technological advancement are looking set to take a step forward in technology, and a step backward in time: drivers' aids - high-tech electronics - which were banned from Formula One in 1994, are now making their way back to the sport.
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 Eddie Irvine -   (Site not responding. Last check: )
His professional racing career began in 1983 and he progressed to Formula Three racing in 1988, before moving on to Formula 3000 in 1989.
He got his break in the top of the Formula racing series after he started racing for Jordan in the Formula 3000 series in 1990, and was subsequently picked up by the Jordan Formula One team in 1993.
Irvine won the season's opening grand prix in Australia in a race with significant attrition and, with consistent points finishes and subsequent good form, was relatively well placed to take up the fight as the team's lead driver alongside Schumacher's replacement, Mika Salo.
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 F1 A.D. News From The Past - January'94
French Formula One team Larrousse have named Olivier Beretta, 24, as one of their two drivers for this year's championship.
British Formula One driver Mark Blundell is expected to join the Tyrrell Grand Prix team on Tuesday according to sources close to the team.
Northern Ireland's Eddie Irvine is expected to be named as Jordan's second driver for the 1994 season.
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 NFL.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The current system, which was adopted in 1973, removes inequities that existed in the former method and, at the same time, provides a means of comparing passing performances from one season to the next.
For example, take Steve Young's record-setting season in 1994 when he completed 324 of 461 passes for 3,969 yards, 35 touchdowns, and 10 interceptions.
This same formula can be used to determine a passer rating for any player who attempts at least one pass.
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 Narain Karthikeyan - Formula One Champion Personal History
Awed by his performance in the first test, Narain was asked to test for the second time with the Jordan time at the Mugello circuit in Italy.
He was on a roll for most of the season, a lap record and a finish form pole at Macau grand Prix.
A few important highlights of that season were: Narain wining the Brands Hatch Race twice (considered one of the most difficult racing circuits).
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 Jack Brabham - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
Brabham was a second generation Australian, born the son of a grocer in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville).
A newly introduced engine limit in Formula One of 1500 cc did not suit Brabham and he did not win a single race with a 1500 cc car, although his first team win came in 1964 with Dan Gurney.
In 1966 a new 3000 cc formula was created, Brabham in a Brabham-Repco won the championship again and became the first driver to win the Formula One World Championship in a car that carried his own name.
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 FORMULA ONE RACING DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORY | GRAND PRIX RECORDS AND RACING SPEED ACES | THE BLUEBIRD ELECTRIC LAND ...
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.
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.
This is an ongoing task - after the deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger at Imola during the 1994 season, the FIA mandated further changes to circuits.
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 SPORT FORMULA 1
Formula 1 Forum - you can make this your on-line home for sharing F1 news, views and reviews with aficionados all over the world.
Formula 1 PICK 6 - a competition among the fans of F1 racing on the Internet to see who can do the best job predicting the points paying positions (1-6) of the Grands Prix.
Formula One [Patrick Wolbert] - the news, the results, the races, the circuits.
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 Formula One History - After Tamburello
Once again new technical regulations were imposed to slow the cars and improve driver safety, but even with the first driver fatalities in a dozen years, the show went on, as it always has.
But in the season's first three races, despite taking three poles, Senna had failed to finish and Schumacher had won each time, putting him 30 points up in the championship as the F1 circus descended on the San Marino GP at Imola.
Ironically, despite all the tragic Formula One deaths over the decades, Aryton Senna was still the first and only F1 World Champion to have died during a Grand Prix race.
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 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.
In 1998, he competed in both Formula 3 and the FIA F3000 Championship, and he has continued to race in the latter series since then.
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.
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 The Official Formula 1 Website   (Site not responding. Last check: )
However, frustrated by his lack of progress in Europe, Ratzenberger took the well-trodden path to Japan for 1990, driving again for BMW in Touring Cars, as well as for Toyota in Sportcars, a move which brought him a victory with the Japanese squad at Fuji.
Ratzenberger’s Formula One debut was a difficult one.
Austria remains a country of Formula One fans and those who make the trip to the San Marino will be there not only to cheer on a national hero of the future, Jaguar’s Christian Klien, but also to pay tribute to a much-loved one from the past.
www.formula1.com /race/news/1450/717.html   (514 words)

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