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  NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Grand Prix motor racing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This was true of the Le Mans circuit of the 1906 Grand Prix, as well as the Targa Florio (run on 93 miles of Sicilian roads), the German Kaiserpreis circuit (75 miles long), and the French circuit at Dieppe (a mere 48 miles), used for the 1907 Grand Prix.
The 1933 Monaco Grand Prix was the first time in the history of the sport that the grid was deciding by timed qualifying rather than the luck of a draw.
A European Championship, consisting of the major Grand Prix in a number of countries (named Grandes Epreuves) was instituted for drivers in 1935, and was competed every year until the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Grand-Prix-motor-racing   (4571 words)

  
 Grand Prix 2001 - Round 14 - Phillip Island - Preview
Twenty-two year old Italian Valentino Rossi is poised to take the 500cc World Championship at the Qantas Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island on Sunday.
Following his eighth grand prix victory of the season at the Pacific Grand Prix of Motegi in Japan last Sunday, Rossi needs just eight more points in the final three rounds of the 16 round title chase to add the 500cc title to his 125 and 500cc crowns.
Italian Capirossi has happy memories of the flowing Phillip Island circuit, having won his first 125cc World title there in 1990.
www.mcnews.com.au /MotorcycleRacing2001/GrandPrix500/Round14/Preview.htm   (646 words)

  
 Soup :: Italian Grand Prix Preview: Fever Pitch in Italy 2005
The 2005 F.I.M. Grand Prix Motorcycle World Championship has reached round five of its global trek, and this weekend, the travelling circus will be performing on one of the finest stages in the sport.
The Italian Motorcycle Grand Prix is one of the highest-rated sporting events of the year in Italy in terms of viewing figures and, for sure, the whole country will come to a standstill when the lights go out for the MotoGP race.
The 3.26-mile Mugello circuit was constructed in 1974 in a valley between the rolling Tuscan hillsides and held its first Grand Prix in 1976 with the event a permanent one on the Grand Prix calendar since 1991.
www.superbikeplanet.com /2005/Jun/050601a9.htm   (1684 words)

  
 Italian Grand Prix -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The first Italian Grand Prix motor racing championship took place on September 4, 1921 at Brescia.
The Italian Grand Prix counted toward the European Championship from 1935 to 1938.
The Italian Grand Prix was one of the inaugural Formula One championship races in 1950, and has been held every year since then.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Italian_Grand_Prix   (253 words)

  
 Andrea Dovizioso - Profile of a champion
Italian Andrea Dovizioso raced to 125cc World Championship title at the Malaysian Grand Prix, held at Sepang, today.
Andrea scored three race victories in the European series and ran away with the title to guarantee him a place on the 125cc grand prix grid for 2002.
He made his GP debut the same season, racing as a wild card at his home grand prix at the fabulous Mugello circuit in Toscana.
www.mcnews.com.au /Riders/dovizioso/2004_champion.htm   (1455 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Montoya captures Italian Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
MONZA, Italy — Juan Montoya won Sunday's Italian Grand Prix on a somber day of auto racing at a track that is usually among the most boisterous in the sport.
The next race is the U.S. Grand Prix at Indianapolis on Sept. 30.
The finale is the Japanese Grand Prix on Oct. 14.
www.usatoday.com /sports/motor/formula1/2001-09-16-monza-win.htm   (528 words)

  
 2001 Italian Grand Prix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Results from the 2001 Formula One Italian Grand Prix held at Monza on September 16, 2001
This was the first F1 race held after the September 11, 2001 attacks; each Ferrari ran without any sponsorship livery and had a matte fl nose-cone in remembrance.
This page was last modified 07:49, 30 April 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2001_Italian_Grand_Prix   (89 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | FORMULA ONE  | A very strange weekend
The 2001 Italian Grand Prix was a strange, eerie mix of pent up emotion, grim-faced determination and repressed celebration.
And if he had his way, he would lose the US Grand Prix from the schedule in the current circumstances.
Grand Prix officials will see motorsport in America restarting this week as part of the drive to restore normality.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/1548068.stm   (779 words)

  
 SABCnews.com - sport/other
Michael Schumacher says he is happy to have finished today's season-opening Australian Grand Prix even though the sport's longest streak of podium finishes came to an end.
The five-times world champion nursed his battered Ferrari across the line into fourth place behind David Coulthard to miss out on a spot on the rostrum for the first time since the 2001 Italian Grand Prix, a record run of 19 successive races.
Schumacher had won the three previous Australian Grand Prixs and had started today's race from pole position despite returning to Melbourne with last year's model Ferrari.
www.sabcnews.com /sport/other/0,2172,54716,00.html   (317 words)

  
 Auto-Racing @ MieNet: Grand Prix 2001 Special Details
Counting all their grand prix victories, and the single wins of Rubens Barrichello and the late Carlos Pace (Moco), Brazil totals 80 grand prix wins, standing second only to Great Britain in the all-time winners table.
The Italian driver, who is yet to score his maiden F1 victory [see related entry], must be craving for a more competitive Benetton, even more so after watching his former team-mate at Jordan (R.Schumacher) be the first to take the chequered flag in the San Marino Grand Prix.
The Spanish Grand Prix should allow an idea of how the different teams have been tackling the many different alternatives at hand so as to achieve an ideal setting for their cars and optimize their overall performance.
www.mienet.com /sports/autoracing/obsf1detail01.html   (10319 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Constructors > Arrows Grand Prix
At the end of the year the Italian was dropped to make way for Warwick who joined Suzuki in 1993 with Mugen engines and a new FA14 chassis.
The Arrows-Yamaha A18 was launched in January but was not very competitive although, thanks to Bridgestone tyres and an improving Yamaha engine, Hill was able to dominate the Hungarian GP before mechanical gremlins slowed him in the final laps and he finished second.
A switch to Asiatech V10s in 2001 and the loss of a lot staff left the team rather weaker in 2001 when Walkinshaw decided to replace de la Rosa with F1 debutant Enrique Bernoldi.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/con-arrow.html   (1798 words)

  
 rpm.espn.com: Schumacher just happy to finish race
MELBOURNE -- Michael Schumacher said he was happy just to finish Sunday's season-opening Australian Grand Prix even though the sport's longest streak of podium finishes came to an end.
The five-time world champion nursed his battered Ferrari across the line into fourth behind David Coulthard to miss out on a spot on the podium for the first time since the 2001 Italian Grand Prix, a record run of 19 successive races.
Schumacher had won the three previous Australian Grands Prix and had started Sunday's race from the pole position returning to Melbourne with last year's model Ferrari.
espn.go.com /rpm/f1/2003/0308/1520673.html   (340 words)

  
 British Motorcycle Grand Prix 2001
Grand Prix in the 500 class last year.
Ian McConnachie was the last British rider to take solo GP victory, winning the 80cc race at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in 1986.
The last time a British rider took a win in the 250 class was when Alan Carter won the French Grand Prix at Le Mans in 1983.
www.birmingham101.com /101motorsMOTOGP.html   (1605 words)

  
 Brazilian Grand Prix - Formula 1 - Drivers
At the 2004 US Grand Prix at Indianapolis, Ralf Schumacher was injured in a high speed crash.
Da Matta was replaced by Ricardo Zonta for the Hungarin Grand Prix (Round 13) and will not return for Toyota this season.
Pantano was replaced by Timo Glock for the Canadian Grand Prix (Round 8) because of a payment dispute.
www.brazilian-grand-prix.com /drivers.php   (200 words)

  
 Italian Grand Prix Facts & Figures || Williams F1 - Unofficial Williams F1 News and Views
For BMW, the 2001 victory was the second success as Nelson Piquet won in 1983 during his Championship winning year in the BMW powered Brabham.
The 2002 race will be the 53rd Italian Grand Prix held at Monza with only the 1980 race being held at Imola.
Over the years numerous changes have been made to the circuit and in 2001, the first chicane was dramatically re-profiled, while minor changes were made to the chicane after Curva Grande.
www.sportnetwork.net /main/s107/st12260.htm   (609 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 2001 Results > Italian GP
JUAN PABLO MONTOYA finally won his first Grand Prix victory after threatening to do so on several occasions since the Brazilian GP in April.
It was a well-earned victory for "Monty", who is already a popular figure in the F1 paddock, and although the circumstances meant that celebrations had to be rather muted, it was refreshing to see a new winner.
The Italian Grand Prix could have gone to either Montoya or to Rubens Barrichello and that was its point of interest.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/rr678.html   (1850 words)

  
 Coulthard encouraged by Ferrari-free podium
Ferrari's Australian Grand Prix failure is good news for Formula One and for Michael Schumacher's rivals, says race winner David Coulthard.
The McLaren driver refrained from talking up his championship chances after his 13th career victory but felt that Ferrari, winners of 15 of last season's 17 races, had at least been unsettled after years of domination.
Sunday was the first time since the 2001 Italian Grand Prix that the German had finished outside the top three, a record run of 19 successive rostrums.
www.rediff.com /sports/2003/mar/10coult.htm   (617 words)

  
 Schumachers Mother In Coma?? - Linksheaven Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Insiders have insisted Michael, who openly showed his emotions at the 2001 Italian Grand Prix immediately after September 11 and almost retired as a result of the terrorist attacks in New York, is still concentrating hard on this weekend's race.
Both Michael and Ralf Schumacher will race in today's San Marino Grand Prix (Sunday) from the front row of the grid, despite the death of their mother in the early hours of this morning.
The brothers opted to take part in the San Marino Grand Prix even though their mother had died earlier that morning.
www.linksheaven.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=2365   (1556 words)

  
 United States Grand Prix
The last driver to earn his first Grand Prix victory was 2000 Indianapolis 500 winner Juan Pablo Montoya, who won the 2001 Italian Grand Prix.
He won the 1959 United States Grand Prix at Sebring, Fla., when he was 22 years and 104 days old.
The problem started in the Australian Grand Prix when Villeneuve, who had a problem with his radio, pitted when it was actually Button’s turn to come in for fuel and tires.
www.usgpindy.com /news/story.php?story_id=1082   (1049 words)

  
 Paddock News (Italian Grand Prix)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The first available date would probably be 2001 when some of the current race contracts expire.
At the time of the grand prix at Spa-Francorchamps, the Belgian government honoured some of its most famous racing drivers.
Having completed their 600th Grand Prix at Spa, Ferrari held a huge celebration dinner at Monza.
www.atlasf1.com /news/1998/847.htm   (399 words)

  
 Juan Pablo Montoya - mad4F1.com
In 2002, qualifying was still on the former 12-lap format, and Montoya would repeatedly stun the paddock by snatching pole from the scarlet team on his last flying lap, often with minutes or seconds to spare in the session.
In 2003, he added the prestigious Monaco Grand Prix on the famed street circuit to his victory list, as well as the German Grand Prix at the Hockenheimring.
After early season promise faded, the Colombian was frequently left struggling to score points, but everything came together for him at the last race of the year when he won the 2004 Brazilian Grand Prix, his fourth career victory in Formula One.
www.mad4f1.com /season-2005/teams-drivers/juan-pablo-montoya.htm   (874 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Montoya outbattles Raikkonen for Monaco Grand Prix victory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
MONTE CARLO, Monaco (AP) — Juan Pablo Montoya won the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday, ending Michael Schumacher's three-race winning streak in Formula One.
His other came at the Italian Grand Prix in 2001.
The Canadian Grand Prix is in two weeks in Montreal.
www.usatoday.com /sports/motor/formula1/2003-06-01-monaco-grand-prix_x.htm   (437 words)

  
 The Observer | Sport | Formula one: Rare slip from master Michael lets in Barrichello
Schumacher kept the place by the skin of his sparkling white teeth as Fernando Alonso failed by a mere eight-thousandths of a second to beat the Ferrari, the Renault driver heading a tight group who include the BAR-Honda of Jenson Button and Spa winner Kimi Raikkonen (McLaren-Mercedes) in sixth and seventh places.
When not debating just who is the fastest driver ever on a track where cars exceed 200 mph in three places, paddock gossip centred, once again, on the future of the British Grand Prix.
The suggestion would seem to be that if the British Grand Prix is removed from the 2005 calendar, it will be Ecclestone's responsibility and not that of the beleaguered club that F1's guru appears to dislike intensely.
observer.guardian.co.uk /sport/story/0,6903,1302907,00.html   (832 words)

  
 Formula one, 2001 season Italian Formula One Grand Prix at Monza: Practice and Qualifying: the jpoc report.
Formula one, 2001 season Italian Formula One Grand Prix at Monza: Practice and Qualifying: the jpoc report.
Neither Minardi managed to set a time as they battled with a series of mechanical maladies and they must have been worried about failing to beat the 107% time in the qualifying session.
The tiny Italian team fared even worse when the qualifying sesison finally began.
www.jpoc.net /cars/sport/f1/2001/monzaqualifying.html   (1591 words)

  
 Bitter sweet day for McLaren as Montoya wins Italian Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Championship leader Spaniard Fernando Alonso cruised home second ahead of his Renault team-mate Italian Giancarlo Fisichella to tighten their grip on the leadership in the championships.
The win was the sixth of Montoya's career and revived memories of his first Formula One triumph at the circuit in 2001 when he drove for Williams.
Italian Jarno Trulli came home fifth for Toyota ahead of his team-mate German Ralf Schumacher with Brazilian Antonio Pizzonia in a Williams finishing seventh ahead of Button in his BAR Honda.
www.theallineed.com /news/0509/046011.htm   (1069 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He ended the season with a record 11 wins and the F2002, still in service this weekend as Ferrari delay rolling out their new F2003-GA, was beaten only once in 2002.
Sunday’s Grand Prix at Interlagos could be Schumacher’s last appearance in the F2002 and he will be eager to show that the first two races had more to do with misfortune and mistakes than the new qualifying regulations.
McLaren’s David Coulthard, winner against the odds in Australia, will be hoping to regain the lead from Raikkonen at the circuit where he won in 2001 and scored his first points of 2002.
www.telegraphindia.com /1030403/asp/sports/story_1836003.asp   (606 words)

  
 2WF.com - Online and on the Gas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
His 250cc rookie season may not have delivered a win quite yet, but as prizes go, a chance to ride a MotoGP missile is not a bad reward for a season of impressive effort, and an overall season podium finish in third.
It was a second consecutive rookie season for another rider getting a sample of Honda MotoGP power soon, just not one who makes his way in the Grand Prix paddock currently.
Melandri, a former 250cc champion, finished the 2005 Honda debut season with a flourish winning the final two grands prix of the season to secure his impressive second place in the championship.
www.2wf.com /articles/news/5F98E06C-7693-4940-80E5-902CE14878BE.asp   (1830 words)

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