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	FORMULA ONE RACING AND THE FIA FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL DE LA AUTOMOBILE
		Races are a little over 300 (A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)) kilometres (180 (A unit of length equal to 1760 yards) miles) long and are limited to two hours, though in practice they usually last about ninety minutes.
		For each race, two separate sessions were run: the first qualifying session took place on the day before the race (Saturday) at 13:00; the second qualifying session started four hours before the start of Sunday's race; in both qualifying sessions each driver drove a single timed lap.
		Cars were required to carry their race fuel in the second qualifying session; refuelling was not allowed between this and the race.
	www.solarnavigator.net /formula_one.htm (4815 words)

	Grand Prix motor racing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Influenced by these racing events, Louis Chevrolet (1878-1941), a Swiss-born employee of a French motor vehicle manufacturer would move to the United States and beginning in 1910 would become a major figure in American racing and the designer of a car for General Motors that bears his name.
		From 1927 to 1934, the number of races considered to have Grand Prix status exploded, jumping from five events in 1927 to nine events in 1929 to eighteen in 1934 (the peak pre-World War II year).
		Headquartered in Paris, France, at the end of the 1949 season it announced that for 1950 they would be linking several national Grands Prix to create Formula One with a World Championship for drivers, although due to economic difficulties the years 1952 and 1953 were actually competed in Formula Two cars.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_Prix_motor_racing (1366 words)

	Formula One - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		A number of Grand Prix racing organisations laid out rules for a World Championship before World War II, but due to the suspension of racing during the war, the World Drivers Championship was not formalised until 1947, and was first run in 1950.
		Races are a little over 300 kilometres (180 miles) long and are limited to two hours, though in practice they usually last about ninety minutes.
		Throughout the race, drivers may make one or more pit stops in order to refuel, although they are currently not allowed to change tires unless the change is essential (for instance, due to a puncture).
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Formula_One (4545 words)

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		However, in the US horse racing, particularly in the rural areas, was a sport for the common man and many hundreds of tracks were in existence in the nascent years of the sport of auto racing, and promoters could easily find a dirt surfaced horse racing track to hold a motor race on.
		The races were relatively in length, with a typical race being three laps around the one mile course, with the longest being ten laps.
		By 1907 the Automobile Club of America (AAA) was becoming a national sanctioning body for automobile racing (a role it would continue into the second half of the century, then abandon when a number of serious accidents around the world caused much public criticism of auto racing).
	www.usfamily.net /web/stauffer/Minnrace.htm (5067 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		AUTOMOBILE RACING, international competitive sport, testing the speed capabilities of specially designed automobiles and the skill of their drivers, over tracks or courses of differing lengths and construction.
		The first automobile race is considered the one held in France in July 1894, when 100 automobiles set out from Paris to Rouen.
		The first races were generally held on public roads, but with increasing concern for spectator safety, special closed-circuit tracks came into use, particularly in the U.S. The most common form of racing track is a paved oval with banked corners, from 200 m (1/8 mi) to 4000 m (2.5 mi) in length.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/autoracing.html (523 words)

	Grand Prix motor racing Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Formalized Grand Prix motor racing, the precursor to Formula One, began in 1906 when the Automobile Club de France held the very first Grand Prix for automobiles at the Circuit de la Sarthe, a 103 km racetrack built near the city of Le Mans in the Sarthe département.
		Names such as Renault, Fiat, and Mercedes, that still exist today, were on the list of entrants and tire development by firms such as Michelin soon proved key to success in auto racing along with improvements in every aspect of motor vehicle engineering and design.
		By the mid 1920s, there were many road racing circuits throughout Europe including the improved Brooklands in England, a new facility near Marseilles in France, the Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, a reconfigured Targa Florio in Sicily, one in Monza, Italy, the Lasarte course in Spain, as well as the AVUS and Nürburgring courses in Germany.
	jaded.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/grand_prix_motor_racing.html (664 words)

	Tour de France
		The race was founded as a publicity event for the newspaper L'Auto (ancestor of the present l'Équipe) by its editor, Henri Desgrange, to rival the Paris-Brest et retour (PBP) ride sponsored by Le Petit Journal and Bordeaux-Paris sponsored by Le Vélo.
		Most stages take place in France though it is very common to have a few stages in nearby countries, such as Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany, but also non-neighbouring countries such as Ireland, England and the Netherlands.
		Jacques Anquetil (France) in 1957, 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1964;
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/t/to/tour_de_france.shtml (1243 words)

	List of company name etymologies - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This is a list of company names with their name origins explained.
		Arcelor Arcelor was created in 2001 by a merger of Arbed (Luxembourg), Aceralia (Spain) and Usinor (France) in a joint venture to create a global leader with the ambition of becoming a major player in the steel industry.
		Aston Martin - from the Aston Hill races (near Aston Clinton) where the company was founded, and the surname of Lionel Martin, the company's founder.
	open-encyclopedia.com /List_of_company_name_etymologies (5608 words)

	Speed Weeks - Daytona Beach, Florida - History of NASCAR
		France was a visionary; he realized for stock car racing to grow, an official organization had to exist to list champions, keep statistics, and memorialize records and record-holders.
		France risked almost everything he had on building the track over a plot of swampland four miles away from the ocean.
		France happily agreed, and beginning in the 1971 season, the top division of NASCAR would be known by its present name, the Winston Cup Series.
	www.planetflorida.net /speedweek/nascar_history.htm (4318 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		Influenced by these racing events, Louis Chevrolet (1878-1941), a Switzerland Swiss-born employee of a French motor vehicle manufacturer would move to the United States and beginning in 1910 would become a major figure in American racing and the designer of a car for General Motors that bears his name.
		Image:BugattiT35B.JPG thumbleft300pxBugatti T35B As early as October of 1923 the idea of an automobile championship was discussed at the annual fall conference of the AIACR (Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus) in Paris.
		A European Championship (auto racing) 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.mauspfeil.net /Grand_Prix%20motor%20racing.html (1359 words)

	Professional Cycling Palmarès Site \| Tour de France: The origins
		At that time, however, France was polarized by the Dreyfus case, in which a Jewish, Alsatian, French Army officer named Alfred Dreyfus was accused of selling military secrets to the Germans - who of course laid claim to the Alsace.
		All the major towns are begging for cycle races, and they are bound to go along with the idea".
		He followed the race as best he could, sometimes riding in the bunch on his bicycle, then catching a train to go ahead to see to the next checkpoint - a one-man, roving commissaire, organiser and reporter.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /veloarchive/races/tour/origins.htm (1095 words)

	Isle of Man TT Races - The History - The Way Forward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Tourist Trophy Race was to be the proving ground for Westrumite compound laid down by Hope and Sons of Millwall.
		Racing on public roads was starting to have spin-offs in all sorts of directions.
		This was to be a period of transition in the history of the Race.
	www.iomtt.com /history/way.shtml (3864 words)

	PCN - Pennsylvania Cable Network - Profile List
		He was the Majority Appropriations Chairman from 1993 to1994 and the Minority Appropriations Chair from 1985 to1992 and 1995 to present.
		Major General Nicholas Kafkalas began his military career in 1939, when he enlisted as a private in the 28th Infantry Division.
		As the Majority Leader, he controls the movement of all legislation in the House of Representatives.
	www.pcntv.com /prolist.htm (8036 words)

	Encyclopedia: Dieppe, France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dieppe is a town and commune in the Seine-Maritime département of Haute-Normandie (eastern Normandy), France.
		A port on the English Channel, famous for its scallops, with a regular ferry service to Newhaven, East Sussex, Dieppe also has a popular beach, a 15th century castle and the churches of St. Jacques and St. Remy.
		Dieppe housed the most advanced French school of cartography in the 16th century, and was the premiere port of the kingdom in the 17th century.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dieppe,-France (327 words)

	Automobile Industry in Venezuela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Salaries have not increased much and the cost of acquiring and maintaining an automobile is beyond the reach of large sectors of the population.
		The U.S. is the major supplier of auto parts but U.S.export figures include parts for Japanese, Korean and European (except Fiat) cars, most of which are counted as U.S. exports since they are bought from the U.S.subsidiaries of the foreign manufacturers or from exporters of these components.
		In the case of generic parts, it is helpful to list the automobile brands, model and model years for which the component is applicable.
	www.corporateinformation.com /data/statusa/venezuela/automotive.html (9261 words)

	NASCAR Tickets
		There is even an exhibition race to be held in Suzuka, Japan, at the end of the 1996 Winston Cup schedule, called the NASCAR Suzuka Thunder Special 100.
		Racing struggled for several years, from both its "redneck" brand, and earlier than that, the law.
		The first "true" NASCAR race, in the division that would lead to the present-day WInston Cup Series, was held at the Charlotte (N.C.) Fairgrounds on June 19, 1949.
	www.barrystickets.com /autoracing/history-nascar.htm (4576 words)

	List of reference tables - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This is a list of reference tables, similar to the collection of reference tables found at the back of almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias (or an index of them, if they're scattered throughout the work).
		List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England
		List of Judicial Committees of the Privy Council and House of Lords cases
	www.unipedia.info /List_of_reference_tables.html (1053 words)

	August Book List
		Many of them will be updating their listings from time to time, so don't be surprised if they have sold some of the things offered here.
		I should include all of these in the Maltshop section of this list, but they are such wonderful true depictions of Maine life in the area where we live, near the coast and on the islands.
		Majority are for middle grade readers, a bit younger than the original readers of Maltshop books, my other favorites.
	www.midcoast.com /~w1gql/bookpage.htm (20801 words)

	The Computer Vision Industry
		This list is in roughly decreasing order of estimated revenues from the computer vision applications.
		$6.6 billion (2003), but this includes many suppliers to the industry that are not listed here.
		This is used during major televised tournaments to provide accurate tracks for balls.
	www.cs.ubc.ca /spider/lowe/vision.html (3616 words)

	Search Results for Audi - Encyclopædia Britannica
		In the world rally championship circuit, Tommi Mäkinen (Mitsubishi) of Finland won his second consecutive Rally of Monte Carlo in January 2000, but he failed to win another race all season and was...
		major German automobile manufacturer, founded by the German government in 1937 to mass-produce a low-priced “people's car.” Headquarters are in Wolfsburg.
		There were six different winners in the 14-event 2003 world rally championship (WRC), but in the end Petter Solberg (Subaru) of Norway won his first WRC title by only one point (72–71) over his...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Audi&chooseSearch=0 (509 words)

	The 1925 Automobile World Championship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As early as October 1923 the possibility of a future automobile championship was discussed at the annual fall conference of the AIACR (Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus) in Paris.
		The championship should not depend on one race alone but had to be the result of the outcome of European events, such as the Targa Florio as the most interesting and most difficult race in the world.
		With only one mandatory race still to be run, the European manufacturers, except Fiat, had their points removed from the Indianapolis 500 for not starting at the American race, while the Indianapolis 500 contestants did not score points at the French Grand Prix for not starting there.
	www.kolumbus.fi /leif.snellman/1920s/25a.htm (7554 words)

	Master List - Finding Aids - RBSC - Princeton University Library - part 2
		The majority of the collection refers to the 1972 presidential campaign involving Senator McGovern and includes organizational charts, press releases, publications, reports, speeches, family and campaign photographs, slides of Vietnam, cassettes and tapes of speeches, radio and public service announcements, and campaign posters.
		Her correspondence is particularly strong for the many periods of time when she resided in Paris, France, and for the year 1975, when she lived in New York City and met and visited with many intellectuals.
		One major project was the commissioning of a Carnegie-funded "Study of Education at Princeton University." Also detailed is Osborn's later work on the computerization of the University data files for the improvement of the admissions process.
	libweb2.princeton.edu /rbsc2/aids/msslist/colls2.htm (14780 words)

	LIST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Set in Miami, Officer O'Conner (Walker), stripped of his badge, is recruited to infiltrate the Miami street racing circuit in an effort to redeem himself.
		A US Army Major (Marvin) is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers in World War II.
		A woman (Ryan) flies to France to confront her straying fiancé (Hutton), but gets into trouble when the charming crook (Kline) seated next to her uses her for smuggling.
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	About Race Blog
		In five years F-1 race cars will be filled up with spirit or with vegetable oil and they will not lose energy while braking because of compound electronics and decrease of tracking force.
		In 2007 he won't participate in races at all if only he will become one of the managers of the team Read more...
		Rally raid is automobile racing on highways or in off-road conditions...
	www.aboutracesblog.com (1484 words)

	GaySports - Gay Recreation - Lesbian Recreation - gay and lesbian sports site, for sports enthusiasts and athletes ...
		Auto racing (also known as automobile racing, motor racing or autosport) is a sport involving racing automobiles.
		With both automobile construction and racing dominated by France, the French automobile club, the ACF, staged a number of major international races, usually from or to Paris, connecting with another major city in Europe or France.
		In drag racing, the objective is to complete a certain small distance, laid out of over a straight stretch of road, in the shortest possible time.
	www.gaysports.com /page.cfm?Sectionid=14&typeofsite=storydetail&ID=515&storyset=yes (1067 words)

	Monterey Historic Races 2003--Laguna Seca, California
		was one of the major attractions (and one of the biggest crowd pleasers) of the entire 2003 Historic Races annual Monterey Bay bash; I had great difficulty coaxing away the milling crowd long enough to capture this shot.
		They raced in Italy, they trounced various Ferraris and Maseratis all over Europe and they accumulated points towards both the 1964 and 1965 World Manufacturers Championship while they were competing in Italy.
		Nürburgring was its first race as an Alan Mann team car, where it took 3rd place in GT It was restored by Mike McCluskey in 1983, and until 1999 was owned by Carroll Shelby.
	www.cobracountry.com /articles-cobra/monterey-03/home.html (2818 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of major automobile races in France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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	TAG Heuer and Formula 1
		On the Luc circuit in the south of France, thanks to TAG Heuer, a young hopeful in Swiss automobile sport was able to drive his first few laps at the wheel of a Formula 1 racing--car, an Arrows-Ford A20 from the “TAG Heuer Formula 1 driving school with AGS”.
		The Formula BMW ADAC Germany championship features races between 30 young drivers from more than 14 different countries, and is considered one of the most competitive and significant championships for aspiring Formula 1 drivers.
		Unique in the world, the vocation of this driving school, thanks to classes given at various levels and in various phases, is to enable both amateurs and young drivers to discover the subtleties and sensations of driving a 500 kg Formula 1 car equipped with an almost 700hp engine.
	www.europastar.com /europastar/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000580905 (891 words)

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