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  1999 German Grand Prix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Results from the 1999 Formula One German Grand Prix held at Hockenheimring on August 1, 1999.
In the early laps Finnish drivers ran 1st and second, which Martin Brundle noted is "not bad for a nation of 5 million".
However, Mika Häkkinen ultimately retired due to a wheel failure, allowing Heinz-Harald Frentzen to restore some German pride by finishing 3rd.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1999_German_Grand_Prix   (131 words)

  
 ger180799   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kenny Roberts (Grand Prix Suzuki) led the race from start to finish to take the most important win of his career.
With the Suzuki team struggling to re-gain their early season form and awaiting new parts from the factory in Japan, it was important to do well at this tight and tortuous track in the former East Germany.
Valentino Rossi (Aprilia Grand Prix Team) continued his runaway form of the last 7 races and again took the win under strong pressure from Loris Capirossi (Elf Axo Honda Gresini).
www.motorcycle.com /mo/mcmail/1999/gp/ger180799.html   (1511 words)

  
 rpm.espn.com: F1 allows such team orders
1999 Malaysian Grand Prix: Michael Schumacher leads but slows to let teammate Eddie Irvine, who has a shot at the title, win.
1999 German Grand Prix: With Schumacher out of action with a broken leg, Ferrari drafts in Mika Salo and then orders him to let title contender Irvine take the win.
What has incensed so many people in Ferrari's Austrian Grand Prix debacle is that the Ferrari F2002 and Michael Schumacher are so dominant that the Drivers title is practically in the bag.
espn.go.com /rpm/f1/2002/0514/1382305.html   (1059 words)

  
 Tough Formula One quiz -- free game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In the 2000 United States Grand Prix, Mika Hakkinen was forced to retire after chasing hard.
In the 2000 Belgian Grand Prix there was a backmarker between Mika Hakkinen and Michael Schumacher as Mika made his stunning overtaking move: who was he?
In the 1999 Italian Grand Prix a car was ransacked by spectators after it had crashed.
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=40516   (335 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Monaco Grand Prix: Computer & Video Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Monaco Grand Prix does an excellent job of that, so if you make even the slightest mistake on one of the curves, you could completely spin out.
Grand Prix is not that great, even for a driving sim.
The soundtrack is lame (possibly with the exception of the German track), and once you do master the tracks and levels, there's still no sense of satisfaction.
www.amazon.com /Monaco-Grand-Prix/dp/B00002970D   (2575 words)

  
 SimHQ.com - Motorsports Zone - Preview: 2004 German Grand Prix - Round 12 of 18
Hockenheim had its first Grand Prix in 1970 and then, after Niki Lauda's accident at the Nurburgring, one of only two German Grand Prix race stoppages, incidentally, the race returned to the circuit by the Rhine in 1977, briefly returning to the new Nurburgring for the 1985 race.
The Ferrari driver took his first Grand Prix victory after starting 18th on the grid and after a race that was dictated by changing weather conditions and a disgruntled Mercedes employee who decided to walk across the track, Rubens succumbed to tears on the podium as his emotions overwhelmed him.
The German Grand Prix was moved to Hockenheim after Niki Lauda's fiery accident at the old Nurbergring in 1976.
www.simhq.com /_motorsports/motorsports_027b.html   (3344 words)

  
 WGP2003 Home Page
August 26, 2003 - The six-day European qualification tournament for the 2004 World Grand Prix starts on Tuesday in Pila, Poland with Greece opening proceedings at 12:00 GMT with their match against Bulgaria.
For the very first time in the history of the FIVB World Grand Prix, the prestigious FIVB annual women's competition and carrier of one million dollars in prize money, Europe will have the privilege to organize its own preliminary round for the 2004 edition.
The FIVB World Grand Prix in 2003 celebrates its 11th edition with the addition of four teams to allow 12 of the world's elite women's teams to contest this prestige annual competition.
www.fivb.org /EN/Volleyball/Competitions/WorldGrandPrix/2003/index.asp   (880 words)

  
 EINS
For almost an hour, the more than 100,000 spectators who gathered along the north German coast were treated to the finest battle in recent Class One competition as Victory 4 and Victory 44 fought out a classic cat-and-mouse chase at speeds in excess of 153mph.
However, 28 wins from 52 starts is a magnificent record in any sport and the UAE team is on a high after a great start to the 1999 season and a championship standings table which shows the Victory Team holding first second and third place with two races down and six remaining.
The third round of the series – the Norwegian Grand Prix – is set to take place in Arendal on July 18.
www.victoryteam.org.ae /news98/Travemunde.htm   (978 words)

  
 RTE News - Grand Prix: Hakkinen clinches pole position for German Grand Prix
Grand Prix: Hakkinen clinches pole position for German Grand Prix
World champion Mika Hakkinen is in pole position for tomorrow's German Grand Prix.
He had to fend off a challenge from Jordan's Heinz-Harald Frentzen to take his eighth pole in 10 attempts this season and the 18th of his career.
www.rte.ie /news/1999/0731/sport.html   (136 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Montoya claims top spot for German Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mika Hakkinen of Finland, a former two-time champion who won the British Grand Prix two weeks ago, was third in a McLaren-Mercedes.
Ferraris have won the last two German GPs — but not with Michael Schumacher behind the wheel.
In 1999, he missed the race after breaking a leg at the British GP.
www.usatoday.com /sports/motor/formula1/2001-07-28-german-pole.htm   (647 words)

  
 Indiacar News-Schumacher wins German Grand Prix
The Ferrari number two, who abandoned before the start of the French Grand Prix last week and who stalled on the grid at Silverstone also had problems at the start again.
He was forced to change into the back-up just seconds before the start of the race and looked to be on course for a podium finish until late in the race.
The championship's next race is the Hungarian Grand Prix on August 18.
www.indiacar.com /xnewdet.asp?id=n4032   (529 words)

  
 BBC News | Formula 1 | Hakkinen wins in German Grand Prix
Ferrari's Eddie Irvine was eighth leaving the Italian team well behind in the race for the constructors' championship in which McLaren have a 26 points lead with five races to go.
Hakkinen's victory was his sixth this season and only the seventh in a career of over 90 grand prix.
From that point on, however, there was little for the 130,000 German crowd to cheer.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sport/formula_1/143966.stm   (649 words)

  
 :: GRAND PRIX MASTERS RACE AT KYALAMI ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
THE world of high-performance motor racing is set to be revolutionised by the establishment of A1 Grand Prix, which will oversee the new World Cup of Motorsport.
THE AA Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit is set for another lap: a consortium comprising MJF Associates, Imperial Bank and Imperial Motor Holdings has bought it for R42-million.
Morbidelli, who began racing at the age of 12, is a veteran of 70 Formula 1 Grand Prix, signing up as Ferrari's test driver in 1990.
www.joburg.org.za /2005/nov/nov9_grandprix.stm   (763 words)

  
 WFP
Rome, July 2, 2004 - Formula One star Jarno Trulli is helping put the brakes on child hunger by appearing in a WFP public service announcement (PSA) that indicates the speed at which malnourished children are dying around the world.
The Italian racing driver, who won his first-ever Grand Prix at Monte Carlo earlier this year, warns that hunger claims the life of a child in the same time it takes his Renault F1 car to reach 200 kilometres per hour.
He goes into this weekend's French Grand Prix placed fourth in the world championship standings.
www.wfp.org /newsroom/in_brief/Africa/040702_trulli.asp   (455 words)

  
 Formula One 1999 quiz -- free game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Why was the Belgian Grand Prix weekend a tiring one for the BAR mechanics?
In 1999 three teams used more than the usual two drivers.
In the Canadian Grand Prix Michael Schumacher, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve all crashed in the same corner?
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=42294   (346 words)

  
 Ford Motor Company - Press Release - German Grand Prix - Preview
The German Grand Prix is held at the notorious Hockenheimring, a high-speed, low downforce circuit which places a premium on engine performance and aerodynamic efficiency.
There is always an incredible atmosphere at this race, particularly in the Stadium section which houses up to 100,000 spectators where the flags and firecrackers create a blaze of colour and noise.
After missing the Austrian Grand Prix through illness, Eddie Irvine, the 1999 German Grand Prix winner, is keen to resume racing...
media.ford.com /newsroom/release_display.cfm?release=5456   (535 words)

  
 Formule Passion ---- German Grand Prix
It's after the accident happened to Niki Lauda, in 1976, that the government decided to officialize Hockenheimring like the circuit of the Grand Prix.
The circuit is unfortunately famous bcause of the deaths of Jim Clark, Patrick Depailler and for the accident that ended the Didier Pironi's carreer.
The German had to wait 1995 and Michael Schumacher to see a German driver winning the race.
perso.orange.fr /formulepassion/_en/Circuits_en/Allemagne_en.htm   (116 words)

  
 Malaysian Grand Prix, October 1999
However, in the end it was a messy affair as to whether his team mate Eddie Irvine or McLaren's Mika Hakkinen would take the points as Ferrari were sensationally disqualified, and then reinstated on appeal 5 days later.
Schumacher, out of action since breaking his leg in the British Grand Prix in July, amazed everybody by jumping straight back into pole position with a lap over a second quicker than anybody else.
There is little doubt that the German would have the championship wrapped up by now had his season not been interrupted.
website.lineone.net /~gareth_holroyd/formula1/malaygp.html   (779 words)

  
 The German Grand Prix
The circuit at Hockenheim was built in 1939 by Mercedes-Benz, which wanted somewhere to test its cars for the high-speed Tripoli Grand Prix.
The boom in the German economy in the late 1950 Racing restarted in 1966 but it was not until April 1968 that Hockenheim hit the headlines, for all the wrong reasons, when Jim Clark was killed in an unexplained accident out in the woods during a Formula 2 race.
Qulifying for the German Grand Prix is due to take place on Saturday 27th July 2002...
homepages.ihug.co.nz /~mrc/circuits/German/index.html   (218 words)

  
 LancasterOnline.com: Schumacher Wins German Grand Prix
HOCKENHEIM, Germany (AP) - Michael Schumacher won the German Grand Prix on Sunday to capture his third straight Formula One race and close in on points leader Fernando Alonso.
Schumacher, already Formula One's most successful driver, won his 89th Grand Prix and his fourth at Hockenheim.
He has delayed a decision on his future until September and if the Ferrari driver decides to retire, this would have been his final race at home.
ap.lancasteronline.com /4/car_f1_german_gp   (495 words)

  
 German Grand Prix, August 1999
Three races ago he had won only one Grand Prix, was contracted to finish behind his Ferrari team mate and could probably see McLaren running off with the silverware anyway.
Suddenly, following the German Grand Prix in Hockenheim, he finds himself a winner for the third time this season and eight points clear in the drivers championship, McLaren apparently bent on self-destruction, and what's more he has a new team mate who now has to move out of his way!
In scenes reminiscent of Schumacher's crash at the British Grand Prix the McLaren spun out of control and over the gravel trap before plunging nose first into the tyre barrier.
website.lineone.net /~gareth_holroyd/formula1/germgp.html   (863 words)

  
 Ford Motor Company - Press Release - Stewart-Ford German Grand Prix: Final Report
With just one week between the Austrian and German Grands Prix, race preparation for Hockenheim was started before the cars left Austria and the final touches were added before the start of practice on Friday.
Jac Nasser, CEO and President, Ford Motor Company, was at the track for the first time since Ford's acquisition of Stewart Grand Prix.
The 11th round of the FIA Formula One World Championship will be the Hungarian Grand Prix on 15 August.
media.ford.com /newsroom/release_display.cfm?release=2361   (1126 words)

  
 Soup :: German Grand Prix Previews, 2005
Set in the rolling heartlands of German motorcycle sport in the Hohenstein-Ernstthal region, the former public roads circuit is close to the MZ motorcycle factory and huge crowds of up to 250,000 attended the event in its heyday, when the race took place on the old road course.
The tight twisting nature of the track demands acceleration rather than outright speed, six left-hand turns in succession put great stress on tires and a steep downhill plunge followed by an uphill section to the start-finish straight requires precision from riders and stability from machines.
Roberts Jr qualified in third place at last year's German Grand Prix and both he and team-mate John Hopkins then raced their Suzuki GSV-R's to top-10 finishes at the demanding eastern German track.
www.superbikeplanet.com /2005/Jul/050727x9.htm   (2914 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Irvine is fastest in practice for German GP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Irvine is fastest in practice for German GP By Nesha Starcevic, The Associated Press
HOCKENHEIM, Germany — Eddie Irvine set the fastest time Friday in practice for the German Grand Prix, beating the favorites on the track where he won two years ago.
Mika Hakkinen of Finland, a former two-time champion who is coming off his first season victory at the British Grand Prix two weeks ago, came in third in his McLaren-Mercedes in 1:41.949.
www.usatoday.com /sports/motor/formula1/2001-07-27-german-gp.htm   (335 words)

  
 1999 German Grand Prix (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-5.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Emilie Heymans of Montreal, second on three-metre and fourth on tower at the 1999 World Cup this past January, was eliminated in the semifinal for eighth overall.
March 7, 1999, ROSTOCK, Germany—Montreal teenagers Alexandre Despatie, who received one perfect 10.0, and Emilie Heymans each won a bronze medal Sunday to cap a strong Canadian performance at the Rostock Grand Prix diving competition.
Despatie and Heymans, both members of coach Michel Larouche's CAMO club, won bronze medals at the Rostock Grand Prix, adding to the historic gold won Saturday by teammate Myriam Boileau.
www.geocities.com.cob-web.org:8888 /camodiving/press99/Germany99.html   (862 words)

  
 Wrestling Canada Lutte | CAWA Athlete Profiles
He wrestled in the 2004 Canada Cup in Guelph and was second winning his first three matches before facing a strong Cuban opponent in the final.
Daniel's international accomplishments include being Canada's first male World Champion in 1999 and gold medalist in numerous events including the Austrian Grand Prix (1997), Canada Cup (1998, 2000, 2003), German Grand Prix (1999) and the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Daniel is coached by Dave McKay and Mike Jones at the Burnaby Mountain Wrestling Club at Simon Fraser University where he is a Master's student.
www.wrestling.ca /athletes/athlete.php?id=16   (159 words)

  
 RTE News - Formula One: Irvine wins German Grand Prix
Eddie Irvine has taken the lead in the world championship after his second sensational victory in a week at the German Grand Prix in Hockenheim today.
The 33-year-old Ulsterman won by one second from team-mate Mika Salo to boost his chances of becoming Ferrari's first drivers' champion in two decades, with six races remaining.
Jordan's Heinz-Harald Fentzen was third from fellow German Ralf Schumacher, of Williams.
www.rte.ie /news/1999/0801/sport.html   (124 words)

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