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  Grand Prix motorcycle racing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grand Prix motorcycle racing refers to the premier categories of motorcycle road racing.
Premier class GP motorcycles are prototype racing machines that are not available for general purchase (road-going versions of the 125 and 250cc machines are available).
From the mid-1970s until 2002 the top class of GP racing was restricted to four cylinders and 500 cc, regardless of whether the engine was a two-stroke or four-stroke.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_Prix_motorcycles   (1220 words)

  
 Motorcycle racing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Motorcycle speedway and ice speedway are held on oval circuits where riders slide their machines around turns.
Motorcycle trial is where participants ride specially-designed motorcycles at very slow speeds over a variety of obstacles.
Motorcycle drag racing (also known as "Sprints") is where two participants line up at a dragstrip with a signaled starting line.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Motorcycle_racing   (411 words)

  
 Grand Prix motorcycle racing : Grand prix motorcycle racing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Grand Prix motorcycles are almost completely unrestricted in their design, except for minimum weight and engine capacity requirements.
The motorcycles, particularly the 500cc machines, are made out of exotic and expensive materials, including titanium and carbon fibre, and are equipped with sophisticated electronics including telemetry, engine management, and traction control, though most machines still use carburettors because fuel injection's throttle control isn't precise enough for the riders.
While the 500cc motorcycles are raced only at World Championship level, 125cc and 250cc bikes are available at relatively reasonable cost for purchase (the 125cc bikes are available for about the same as a small car), and are thus raced in national championships around the world.
www.city-search.org /gr/grand-prix-motorcycle-racing.html   (744 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: German Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A precusor to the German Grand Prix, the first race was won by Italian Felice Nazzaro in a Fiat.
The first national event in German Grand Prix motor racing came to the Automobil Verkehrs und Übungs-Straße AVUS race course in southwest Berlin in 1926 as a sports car race.
The 1930 and 1933 German Grands Prix were both cancelled due to the country's economic problems.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/German-Grand-Prix   (7052 words)

  
 Grand Prix Hall of Fame - Tazio Nuvolari - Biography
After serving in the Italian Army as a driver he started racing motorcycles seriously when he was 28.
At the Monza Grand Prix for motorcycles he crashed during practice.
After the death of Bernd Rosemeyer in 1938, Auto Union was desperate for a driver who could master their mid-engine racecar.
www.ddavid.com /formula1/nuvo_bio.htm   (880 words)

  
 Grand Prix Challenge Driving FAQ - IGN FAQs
Grand Prix This is a full grand prix weekend, from practice to qualifying to warm-up to the race itself.
Tires There are four tire compounds available in Grand Prix Challenge: Hard: These tires have the longest life, which means that the player can remain on the circuit longer between pit stops.
World Feed: Because F1 races are televised (generally live) worldwide, FIA has implemented the World Feed system, in which the images of grand prix weekends are provided by the FIA- licensed F1 broadcaster for the country hosting each grand prix; all other F1 broadcasters must then use these images and sounds for their F1 coverage.
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 Yamaha Bikes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Japanese contribution to Grand Prix racing was paramount in the 1960s and 1970s with many famous riders.
As Grand Prix Racing Motorcycles explains, the Japanese did not suddenly become proficient in the design and development of motorcycles when they first appeared in Europe at the end of the 1950s.
But soon they were to prove that they were very much their own men, by designing a succession of highly innovative machinery, not only to the Grand Prix world’s benefit but the paying ‘over-the-counter’ customer too.
www.brooklandsbooks.com /pages/yampl.htm   (717 words)

  
 The Grand Prix FAQ
Grand Prix Net is not responsible for the accuracy or use of this information; please use this information at your own risk.
This is most common on Grand Prixs equipped with the 5-spoke wheel design, but has been known to happen on all Grand Prixs with differing severity and frequency.
All Grand Prixs are equipped with a speed limiter that will retard the fuel delivery to your engine at a pre-set speed (108 for normally aspirated 3800's and 126 for supercharged 3800's).
www.grandprix.net /faq   (5735 words)

  
 Grand Prix Challenge Circuit Histories FAQ - IGN FAQs
The 1939 German Grand Prix was the final race at Nurburgring for quite some time due to the beginning of World War II.
In more recent years, the opening lap of the 2000 Grand Prix of Italy was seriously marred by the death of a trackside race marshal due to all the flying debris at the Roggia Chicane (the second chicane of the circuit).
The initial 4.192-kilometer (2.620-mile) US Grand Prix was won by Michael Schumacher in 2000, followed by Mika Hakkinen (in his final race win before sabbatical/retirement) in 2001.
faqs.ign.com /articles/389/389006p1.html   (4459 words)

  
 Clinica Mobile
It is unveiled at the "Dino e Enzo Ferrari" circuit of Imola, the day before Italian Motorcycles Grand Prix there.
Meanwhile, the 2nd Mobile Clinic, the one created in 1981, begins to be used at other motorcycling events and, in 1990, becomes the little travelling hospital of the Superbike Championship, directed by Dr. Massimo Corbascio.
Used mainly in the Grand Prix, it would enable Clinic 3 to be used in the Superbike Championship).
www.ducati.com /clinica_mobile/story3.html   (300 words)

  
 Motorcycle Racing, Motocross, Supercoss, Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The rider must exceed the previous top speed record for that class or type of bike for their name to be placed on the record books.
GP motorcycles are prototype racing machines and are not available for general purchase (although road-going versions of the machines are available).
Since nearly all medium and large capacity (over 250 cc) road motorcycles have 4-stroke engines, most manufacturers benefit more directly from the technology developed in road racing if they use 4-stroke racing engines.
www.manutdblog.com /motorcycle-racing.htm   (672 words)

  
 Australian Grand Prix Collection
Commemorating the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix, the "Fuel Tank" has been developed as both a keepsake and the first component to the collectible concept as previously described.
The Gearbox commerates the 2004 Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix and is the penultimate piece in the collection, so the bike will be complete next year.
All Motorcycle Grand Prix 'Bar Pieces' will be Officially Licensed Merchandise of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation and will perform within the conditions and parameters of the agreement for each year an agreement is made.
www.ceramicinnovations.com.au /collctrs.htm   (1355 words)

  
 Grand Prix Challenge
Excellent and addicting: I was about to throw my PS2 out the window (thanks to AE Sports Grand Prix Challenge, which won't let you pass the qualification tests and "forgets" the ones you did pass) when my copy of Grand Prix Challenge arrived.
Grand Prix Challenge II: Use the left arrow and right arrow to move left and right Hold down the space bar to switch to high gear Play More Games: Sport: Ski-Run, Flash Golf,...
Grand Prix Challenge 2 - Speed up your racing car by shifting the...
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 Spa-Francorchamps auto racing
During the period extending from the mid-twenties until the eve of World War II, the motorcycles Grand Prix and prestigious car races like the 24 Hours of Francorchamps and the Belgian Grand Prix were the major track events.
Once again, the prestigious races were in the spotlight: Motorcycles and Auto Grand Prix, to which were occasionally added the 24 Hours of the RACB.
In the late fifties, the RAC from Spa organized its Grand Prix of Spa, then in the early seventies, the junior RAC, its 24 Hours motorcycles.
www.vpracing.com /The_Races/Spa/spa.html   (859 words)

  
 Riding the MotoGP Motorcycles: Ducati Desmosedici, Honda RC211V, Kawasaki ZX-RR & Yamaha YZF-M1
In a dramatic turnaround, Grand Prix racing has transformed itself in the past two years -- and the powersliding, fairing-bashing, exhaust-howling racing that's resulted has been a damn good spectacle, too.
The RC211V feels to have been designed and developed all of a piece; not as a rolling computer laboratory, or a small-scale Formula 1 racer, or just as an engine producing awesome amounts of power, which must somehow be harnessed to a frame to put all that power to the track.
This is a fast, but ultimately predictable and controllable, motorcycle, one that has a huge amount of feel programmed into it.
www.motorcyclistonline.com /features/motorgp03   (3058 words)

  
 Grand Prix Phillip Island on Almondnet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
John Hopkins finished in a point-scoring position at today's Grand Prix of Turkey from the Istanbul Park Circuit as a combination of difficulties took its toll.
The Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit will be celebrating 50 years of racing in 2002.
Valentino Rossi and Dani Pedrosa are poised to add to their world championship tally in the penultimate round of the 2004 MotoGP World Championship, the Australian Grand Prix, at the magnificent Phillip Island circuit on Sunday.
www.jacuzzis-uk.co.uk /jacuzzi/grand_prix_phillip_island.html   (461 words)

  
 Popular Mechanics - Pontiac Grand Prix
The Grand Prix was restyled for 1997 and now shares the General Motors W-body platform with (among others) the Chevrolet Lumina, Buick Century and Olds Intrigue.
The Grand Prix lineup includes the SE and GT sedans and the GT coupe.
Every Grand Prix has a 16-cu.-ft. trunk, judged by owners to be plenty big.
www.popularmechanics.com /automotive/owners_reports/1271036.html   (777 words)

  
 Urb's Column
The bikes are pretty low-tech, compared to Grand Prix race cars, Indy cars, today's NASCAR entries, or Grand Prix roadracing motorcycles (which can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece).
But with motorcycles, it's a different story entirely, because the rider-vs.-rider competition is so intense.
In the 25-lap Grand National main event at Springfield, I lost track of the number of lead changes, but there must have been at least 40.
www.kafalas.com /urbcol23.htm   (905 words)

  
 Grand Prix Fundraiser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Performance Machine Service presents the 2002 Flat River Grand Prix with all the proceeds going to the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation.
Last year Motorcycle and ATV racers donated over $32,000 to the March of Dimes.
The March of Dimes is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects and infant mortality.
www.atving.com /atvconnection/Departments/Dunes/Grand-Prix-Fundraiser.cfm   (390 words)

  
 British GP - Summer sports - Sport - Virgin.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In 1948, the Royal Automobile Club held the first post-war Grand Prix there and in 1950, it was the venue for the first World Championship for Drivers, now known as Formula One.
Last year, the future of the Silverstone British Grand Prix was put into doubt as the British Racing Drivers' Club who own the lease were in financial trouble.
Spain's Fernando Alonso is another one to watch out for this season, finishing a strong second in the Spanish Grand Prix in May 2003.
www.virgin.net /sport/summersport/formula1.html   (723 words)

  
 2005 USCRA Rulebook - Grand Prix Rules
Grand Prix classes are limited to thoroughbred grand prix motorcycles, and race-prepared roadster motorcycles of comparable performance and appearance, with a maximum model year of 1967, with the following exceptions permitted regardless of model year:
NOTE: above "excepted" machines are still subject to general Grand Prix rules set forth below, irrespective of original equipment.
Rules applicable to Grand Prix Period I classes
www.race-uscra.com /grandprix.html   (258 words)

  
 2002 MotoGP - Countdown to Phillip Island underway
The new era of four-stroke grand prix motorcycles is coming to Australia.
Two more Yamaha M1s, another Honda RC211V and Kawasaki's brand new ZX-RR will be on the grid by the SKYY VODKA Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix at Victoria's Phillip Island on October 18-20.
In the meantime, Phillip Island's flowing corners are likely to help the two-stroke 500s remain competitive against the barrage of new four-strokes at the SKYY VODKA Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix.
www.mcnews.com.au /MotorcycleRacing2002/GrandPrix500/Oz_GP_Countdown_Underway.htm   (901 words)

  
 Scrapheap Challenge 2003 – Grand Prix
Joining them for this jaw-dropping grand final is Nick Jordan, an engineer with more than 30 years of working experience of motor sports for teams such as Lola.
Tim Wright is into motorcycles, scuba diving and snowboarding.
Helping the Cat-alysts in the 2003 grand final is Matt Feasey, part of the design and development arm of the Cosworth Formula 1 team.
www.channel4.com /science/microsites/S/scrapheap/challenges/grandprix   (331 words)

  
 HELLMUND AND SUZUKI MOTORCYCLES AND ATVS GRAND PRIX TAKE SECOND - RacingWest
In four Winston West races, Hellmund has posted a win, a second, a third and (slightly embarrassing to the team) a seventh place.
Despite racing older equipment, the Suzuki Motorcycles team has finished every race lap of the four races; which have been run on a variety of tracks, including a short oval, a road course and a superspeedway.
A melted spark plug wire cut Las Vegas practice short for the team, and an admitted error by Hellmund on his second qualifying lap relegated him to a third-place start.
www.racingwest.com /news/story.php3/6363   (323 words)

  
 Grand Prix
Rick's Grand Prix Bar (remember the steering wheel on the doors?) was the first go-go bar in Thailand.
Needless to say the Grand Prix's Saturday afternoon boxing schedule was never posted in the Night Owl Column again (and I don't blame Trink one bit!!)
And the Grand Prix Girls that celebrated with us that night.
www.savacool.com /GrandPrix.htm   (231 words)

  
 United States Grand Prix
It was a late night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore on the night of the Malaysian Grand Prix.
The Malaysian Grand Prix was a grueling race with an ambient temperature of higher than 100 degrees on race day.
The prize for the most accomplished motorcycle rider went to the guy whom I saw expertly threading a small motorcycle through the traffic.
www.usgpindy.com /news/story.php?story_id=4240   (975 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Suzuki GSX-R (Enthusiast Color) by Mike Seate
In 1985 Suzuki bought the technology from its championship-winning Grand Prix motorcycles to the street in the form of the groundbreaking GSX-R series.
For decades the Japanese manufacturers has built sporting motorcycles that were all motor and very little else.
For the complete package --bikes that handles as well on a racetrack as they handled in a straight-line drag race--riders had to purchase ultra expensive, ultra exotic machinery from Europeans manufacturers.
www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0760317461   (119 words)

  
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 Mick Walker`s Japanese Grand Prix Racing Motorcycles
Illustrations: Hundreds of good fl and white photos.
Description: In this book, Mick Walker describes the development of Japanese motorcycles in Grand Prix racing, a branch of the sport that they have dominated in recent years.
Profiles of top riders for each marque complement the technical history and you won`t find all of this information together in any other book.
www.pitstop.net.au /view/motorsport-bikes-grand-prix/page/query/plu/11844   (139 words)

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