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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: German Grand Prix
In anticipation for the 1961 rule changes in F1, the 1960 GP was held for the Formula 2 cars of Porsche as well as the F2-Ferrari Dino of Wolfgang von Trips, which did not show up though.
While Formula One has generally been regarded as the pinnacle of open-wheeled auto racing, the high performance nature of the cars and the expense involved in the series has always meant that there has needed to be a path to reach this peak.
The 2004 Formula One season was dominated by Michael Schumacher and Scuderia Ferrari; also noted were the success of BAR and Renault, as well as the poor performance of Ferraris Big Three counterparts Williams and McLaren.
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 Formula 1 complete - F1 info, stats and news - Trulli, Jarno
Jarno Trulli (born 13 July 1974) is an Italian Formula One auto racing driver currently in the employ of the Toyota team.
For the first half of the season he was the better of the two Renault drivers, racking up regular points and podiums.
Early season podiums demonstrated that he was back on the pace and at Indianapolis he took Toyota's first F1 pole (albeit with very low fuel).
www.f1complete.com /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=608   (1032 words)

  
 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.
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.
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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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 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.
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.
www.speedace.info /formula_one.htm   (4145 words)

  
 Formula One 99 for PlayStation Review - PlayStation Formula One 99 Review
Formula One 99 has great control and enough settings to keep any longtime fan of the Formula One series glued to the TV for quite some time.
Formula One 99 is the latest reiteration of Psygnosis' long-running Formula One series, and it comes packed with an entirely new engine, features, tracks, and up-to-date rosters that make it the most advanced Formula One game yet.
As before, Formula One 99 is an officially licensed product of the 1999 Formula One World Championship series, and it carries with it all of the official teams, drivers, and tracks.
www.gamespot.com /ps/driving/formulaone99/review.html   (626 words)

  
 1999 Formula One season - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1999 Formula One season was the 50th FIA Formula One World Championship season.
It commenced on March 7, 1999, and ended on October 31 after sixteen races.
Michael Schumacher (Ferrari) was replaced due to a broken leg by Mika Salo at AUT, GER, HUN, BEL, ITA, EUR.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1999_Formula_One_season   (184 words)

  
 Global F1 - Feature Article: Season 2000 Review
BAR: After a disappointing debut season in 1999 which saw them fail to score any points, BAR approached this season with a strong determination to show their confidence prior to entering the championship was justified.
Even before the season started there were signs that this was not going to be a good year for the Prost team, when it emerged that a new evolution engine being worked on by Peugeot wouldn't be ready until a month into the new season.
With Peugeot announcing their withdrawal from Formula One during the summer, Alain has now signed a customer engine deal with Ferrari similar to that enjoyed by the Sauber team since 1997, and has the unenviable task of pulling his team back together over the winter to prevent a repeat of this year's disappointment next season.
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 FORMULA ONE RACING AND THE FIA FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL DE LA AUTOMOBILE
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.
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.
www.solarnavigator.net /formula_one.htm   (4815 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Auto Racing - Ferrari appeals disqualification, Hakkinen's win
Mika Hakkinen was declared the winner of the inaugural race Sunday and captured the Formula One drivers' title after the top two Ferraris were disqualified.
Formula One authorities said the bodywork of the Ferraris violated rules affecting aerodynamics and the speed of the cars.
This was the first time a Formula One race was held in a predominantly Muslim country.
espn.go.com /auto/formulaone/news/1999/1017/119219.html   (566 words)

  
 F1 GP 1990s Quizzes and F1 GP 1990s Trivia -- FunTrivia
Quiz on the 1999 F1 Championship, a closely fought season with six different winners overall.
It was an exciting season, and this quiz will test your knowledge of that season.
The 1990s saw Formula One change from a sport for enthusiasts and entrepreneurs into a multi-billion dollar business where manufacturers were starting to take control.
www.funtrivia.com /quizzes/sports/f1_gp_by_season/f1_gp_1990s.html   (517 words)

  
 Formula one racing, material reliability and high performance are essential
In Formula one racing, material reliability and great performance are essential.
In the 1996 season, Ferraris broke down 16 times with engine problems or related defects, in 1997 on nine occasions, three times in 1998, twice in 1999 and only once in 2001.
Directly related to developments in Formula 1 is the development of internal combustion engines in private cars which are becoming ever smaller and lighter, yielding a great performance, using less fuel and lasting longer with less maintenance.
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 Seebold - MIKE SEEBOLD
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.
His 1999 win gave him six victories in the top class at the St. Louis Grand Prix, one of the most prestigious powerboat races.
www.seebold.com /html/mike.htm   (398 words)

  
 After Big Season, Formula One Looks Ahead - New York Times
The Formula One season ending at the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday has been one of the most entertaining in years.
But with all that excitement, the 2005 season also created the first race in which 70 percent of the cars on the grid quit before the first lap, while the others pretended they were in a race, at the U.S. Grand Prix in June.
It was significantly ironic that the new rules came at the end of one of the most entertaining seasons on the weekend of one of the sport's greatest races.
www.nytimes.com /iht/2005/10/15/sports/IHT-15prix.html?pagewanted=1   (889 words)

  
 Formula One '99
Formula 1 '99 is not a game--it's a racing simulation.
An officially licensed product of the 1999 Formula One World Championship, the title sports faithful re-creations of all 16 of the 1999 Grand Prix circuits that are based on designs from the Formula One association.
Featuring all the teams and drivers of the 1999 season, including all newcomers and stand-in drivers, it also complies with all 1999 rules and regulations and has the voices of official TV commentators in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Finnish.
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 Psygnosis Enters the Winner's Circle With Formula One 99; Psygnosis Ships Formula One 99, the Latest Addition to the ...
Formula One 99 was developed from the ground-up by a completely new team -- Studio 33, a developer with a strong heritage in racing games.
To ensure Formula One 99 was as authentic as possible, the development team was able to obtain CAD (computer-aided design) files for the first time, directly from the Formula One Association, allowing the tracks to be recreated as realistically as possible.
Formula 1, an official product of the FIA Formula One World Championship is licensed by the Formula One Administration Limited.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_Dec_16/ai_58271664   (772 words)

  
 CNN.com - Peyron wins Belgium Grand Prix - July 12, 2002
He then went on to win the first Grand Prix of the 2002 season in Lorient, but was one of six retirements in the rough conditions of the offshore race Course des Phares.
The Formula 1 of sailing in the Channel port of Zeebrugge has three days of inshore racing in the 18-metre (60ft) sophisticated trimarans, which are capable of speeds in excess of 35 knots.
Peyron is a past master of the ORMA circuit, winning the overall Championship in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1999.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/sailing/07/12/formula.one.spt/index.html   (211 words)

  
 Formula One Point Standings — Infoplease.com
Formula One Point Standings - Formula One Point Standings Official Top 10 Formula One World Championship point leaders for 1999...
Formula One Results - Formula One Results 2000 Season 2000 Race Locations Formula One Point Standings Top 5 + Pole...
Formula for success: standing of indirect purchasers under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
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 Charmed: Season One
The first season of this show was largely expository in nature, letting the audience get used to the parameters of the world created for the series.
In the moonlight she can read that she and her sisters are witches, each with a special power and together they will form the Charmed Ones, the ultimate force to defend the innocent against the forces of evil.
For the remainder of the pilot and most of the first season the girls discover the extent of their powers and have to put aside their differences to fight evil together.
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 Formula One Racing provided by Bravenet.com
In 1992 he was driving in the Japanese Formula 3 series, he won three races and finished second in the championship.
The car was uncompetitive and Villeneuve finished the season in fifth place in the championship with a dismal 21 points.
Expectations were high for BAR and Villeneuve in their first year; they had an appalling season, the team failed to score a single point.
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 Prost AP02 Peugeot V10 in vendita su carclassic.com
These cars are perfectly usable, 2 similar models are currently in use by the AGS Formula 1 drivers school on the Circuit du Var in the south of France.
The Prost AP02 was the car with which the Prost Formula One team used to compete in the 1999 Formula One season.
It was driven by Olivier Panis, in his sixth season with the team (including Ligier), and Jarno Trulli, in his second full season with the team.
www.carclassic.com /stock.asp?Ref=DY91&Lang=it   (255 words)

  
 Mika Hakkinen announces his break from Formula One
Mika Hakkinen who was the world champion for two consecutive years - 1998 and 1999, has announced that he would be taking a break from Formula One.
He currently stands 6th in the drivers championship, owing to his many non-starts in the season.
Though he has said that he would return after an year, its being said that this is his first step towards retirement.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/formula_one_racing/80412   (363 words)

  
 WORLD-LEADERS SUN AND MCLAREN TEAM UP FOR THEIR 12TH F1 SEASON TOGETHER
Throughout its 32 year-long racing history, UK-based McLaren has proved to be one of the most successful Formula One teams of all time, with 116 Grands Prix wins -- closest rivals Ferrari with 119 wins and Williams 99 -- racing in a total of 476 Grands Prix to date.
Formula One is the most popular annual sporting events in the world and one of the most technologically dependent.
In preparation for the 1999 season, McLaren has 'Java™ technology enabled' its Pitwall system used in the control and management of the race strategy and the cars' performance during each race.
www.sun.com /smi/Press/sunflash/1999-03/sunflash.990311.1.xml   (660 words)

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