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  formula one   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Formula One, or Grand Prix racing, is the best known single-seater (open-wheel) auto racing class; though it has traditionally been centered in Europe, it is a worldwide sport, and involves an annual World Drivers Championship and World Constructors Championship.
The winner of the annual championship is the driver (or team, for the constructor's championship) with the most points at the end of the season.
Formula One has been called the soap opera of the sports world: the exotic locations, vast quantities of money, and famous faces involved in the "F1 circus" lend the sport an aura of glamour entirely absent from most other world sports.
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 Encyclopedia: Italian Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Italian Grand Prix was one of the inaugural Formula One championship races in 1950, and has been held every year since then.
Damon Hill driving for the Williams Formula One team in Montreal in 1995 Damon Graham Devereux Hill, born in London on September 17, 1960, is the son of the late twice Formula One World Champion Graham Hill.
The 2005 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One race, held on September 4, 2005 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza circuit.
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 Formula One - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Formula One, abbreviated to F1 and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of single-seatopen-wheel auto racing.
Non-championship Formula One races were held for many years, but due torising 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" areinterchangeable; this requirement distinguishes the sport from "spec series"such as IRL and NASCAR.
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 Formula One
Formula One, abbreviated to F1 and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of single-seater (open-wheel) auto racing; it is a worldwide sport, and involves an annual World Drivers Championship and World Constructors Championship.
Non-championship Formula One races were held for many years around the world, but due to rising costs and sinking interest, the last of these ended in the early 1980s.
A distinguishing aspect of Formula One is that the teams themselves build the cars in which they compete, unlike such "spec series" as IRL and NASCAR; consequently the terms "team" and "constructor" are interchangeable.
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 biology - 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 : F1
Formula One : F1 Formula One, or Grand Prix racing is the best known single-seater auto racing class, which involves an annual world championship.
In 1950, a world championship Formula One was established for drivers.
The winner of the annual championship is the driver (or team, for the constructor's championship) with the most points.
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 Formula One at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Formula One, or Grand Prix racing, is the best known single-seater auto racing class; it involves an annual World Drivers Championship and World Constructors Championship.
According to Ecclestone, the move is to increase Formula One's global reach, though the steady tightening of restrictions on tobacco advertising in Europe and elsewhere may also be a factor.
Formula One, abbreviated to F1 and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of single-seat open-wheel...
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 List of Formula One Grands Prix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The following is a complete lists of grands prix which have been a part of the Formula One championship season since its inception in 1950.
See 2005 Formula One season for a schedule of this year's races.
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 F1 Article, F1 Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Formula One, abbreviated to F1 and sometimes known as Grand Prix racing, isthe highest class of single-seater (open-wheel) auto racing ; it is aworldwide sport, and involves an annual World Drivers Championship and World ConstructorsChampionship.
Non-championship Formula One races were for many years held around theworld, but due to rising costs and sinking interest, the last of these ended in the early 1980s.
Formula One has been called the soap opera of the sports world: the exoticlocations, vast quantities of money, and famous faces involved in the "F1 circus" lend the sport an aura of glamour entirelyabsent from most other world sports.
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 Formula One - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Formula One, abbreviated to F1 and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of single-seat open-wheel formula auto racing.
A number of European racing organizations laid out rules for a World Championship before World War II, but due to the suspension of racing during the war, the drivers championship was not formalized until 1947, and first run in 1950; a championship for constructors followed in 1958.
Where in the 1950s a driver was lucky to find a strategically placed strawbale to absorb his impact, modern Formula One circuits feature gravel traps and tyre barriers to reduce risk of injury in crashes.
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 Formula 1 Sporting Regulations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The role of the FIA delegates is to help the officials of the Event in their duties, to see within their fields of competence that all the regulations governing the Championship are respected, to make any comments they judge necessary and to draw up the various reports required by the FIA concerning the Event.
Applications to compete in the Championship may be submitted to the FIA at any time during the previous year, but never later than 7 days after the last race of the previous season, on an entry form as set out in appendix II hereto accompanied by the entry fee provided for in the Agreement.
During the Event, the circuit shall not be used for any other purpose other than the Event except after qualifying practice on each day and during the period beginning after the free practice on race day and ending 60 minutes before the pit lane is closed.
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 Strathlachlan: Formula One Archives
The 2004 Bahrain Grand Prix is the first Formula One race to be held in the Middle East, and just about everything about the race has brought with it a unique set of challenges.
Formula One returns to Spa, much to the delight of everyone, and two new races in Bahrain and China mean a very grueling 18 race schedule.
Events from Australia, Malaysia, China and Japan which begin after midnight Eastern Time are listed as occurring on the previous day.
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 Formula One History - The Active Cars
But in 1990, Senna was leading the World Championship when the shunt occurred, and many observers feel, to this day, that Senna deliberately drove Prost off the road as a measure of revenge for the prior year.
In reality, the World Championship was won — and lost — in the first four races, all won by Ayrton Sennna.
No one had ever started a Formula One World Championship campaign with four straight victories, and for the rest it was more than demoralizing.
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 Formula One
Regulations have changed greatly as car technologies have improved, with the appearance of rear-engined cars in the late 1950s, the introduction of wings in the late 1960s, then ground effect aerodynamics in the late 1970s by Lotus, followed by the 1980s era of turbocharged engines developing upwards of 1000 horsepower.
Engine suppliers will have to sell their engines to other teams at a reasonable price and a Formula One engine will have to last a whole race weekend.
New circuits in Bahrain and China will make their debut in next year's formula 1 championship.
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 GrandPrix.com > News > Current News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Formula 1 calendar has finally be published and although there are some changes, there are some bits of good news as well, notably that the season will not drag on into November as had been discussed but will end in Brazil on October 22.
The Formula 1 Commission meets this morning to discuss the matters of the moment in Grand Prix racing but this is a big week for F1 and we are expecting a few interesting developments, not least some radical thinking for the 2008 regulations.
While Formula 1 teams continue to fight with one another and the promotion of the sport remains at the bottom of the "to do" list, the NASCAR Nextel Cup continues to show the way in terms of promoting the sport, particularly to the much-needed new generations.
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 AVault | PC | Formula One 99 Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Psygnosis adds itself to this list as it hopes to claim a slice of the demographic pie with its recent release, Formula One 99.
Being endowed with the Official F1 License, Formula One 99 is replete with all the realistic bells and whistles that you'd expect to witness on your television screen.
This means that while you may feel no qualms in acting ruthlessly in order to see your name at the top of the Driver's Championship list, you might want to think twice about cutting off your teammate if you care about succeeding elsewhere.
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 Formula Ford Zetec Cooper Tire Championship Series Web Site
With 20 points on offer each day to the race winner, plus a pair of bonus points apiece for posting the fastest lap in qualifying and the fastest race lap, the possible permutations for the two rivals – who drive for the same Fresno-based PR1 Motorsports team – are virtually endless.
Cooper Tires Championship Series Driver Ira Fierberg has announced that his number 27 Dave Freitas Racing Van Diemen will compete in the Cooper Tires Championship Series at the the VIR 400 on October 8th and 9th, 2005.
Buttonwillow, Calif. (September 4, 2005) – A pair of typically action-packed rounds of the Pacific F2000 Championship Presented by Mickey Thompson Tires/Cooper Tire this weekend at Buttonwillow Raceway Park saw 17-year-old rookie Robert Podlesni and veteran John Lombardo Jr.
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 ATLAS F1 - The Journal of Formula One Motorsport
The European Grand Prix was remarkable not only because it had thrilling moments, but also because it re-launched Williams's and Ralf Schumacher's Championship challenge after the German driver scored his first win in over a year to complete the first one-two finish of the year for his team.
The European Grand Prix was another sad affair for David Coulthard, primarily because of a lacklustre performance in qualifying, which saw him start the race from ninth.
After a couple of races that made the Championship look like it would be decided between Michael Schumacher and Kimi Raikkonen, the script of the season has changed radically since Monaco, and now both the Williams drivers are back in the hunt following their one-two finish at the European Grand Prix.
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 List of Formula One circuits - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a list of circuits which have been used for Formula One Grands Prix since 1950.
See also: List of Formula One Grands Prix; Category:Formula One circuits
Donington Park, Derby, United Kingdom (European Grand Prix)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Formula_One_circuits   (138 words)

  
 Office of Communications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Associated Press Writer Kathy Matheson reported on a day-long conference, co-sponsored by Temple's criminal justice department, in which inmates serving life sentences at Graterford Prison presented their theories on ending the culture of street crime before a group of the world's leading criminologists.
The event, held in conjuinction with the 14th World Congress on Criminology, was also covered by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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 Amazon.ca: Books: The Unofficial Complete Encyclopedia of Formula One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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A fascinating guide to landmark events in the history of Grand Prix racing from the early days of the motor car and the beginning of the World Driver's Championship.
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 UpdateSport >> F1 Formula 1 Formula One community discussion forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Discuss the possible outcomes of future Formula 1 events here.
Are you fed up with all the rule changes to Formula 1?
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 Virtual Thunder ~ Formula One World Championship 2005 Schedule
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