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	German Grand Prix Tickets : German Grand Prix Nascar Tickets at Cheappremiumtickets.com
		The Hockenheim circuit was built in 1939 as a high-speed test track for Mercedes-Benz who needed a venue to test for the Tripoli Grand Prix.
		Since the debut of Michael Schumacher, the German Grand prix at Hockenheim has become one of the most atmospheric races of the season, the noise in the stadium section being quite deafening at times.
		If you want to buy German Grand Prix tickets from the venue or organization box offices or their official distribution outlets, please inquire directly with the venues or organizations themselves.
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	Tripoli Grand Prix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tripoli Grand Prix in Libya was first held in 1925 and ended in 1940 following the onset of World War II.
		Part of the Grand Prix circuit, the race was held on a 71.10 km road course in Tripoli until 1933 when a new track was built, bringing the best drivers in the world to compete for the £80,000 purse, a very substantial amount at the time.
		Libya was then a colony of Italy and the new race course was opened at Mellaha Lake on May 7, 1933 by the country's Governor, Marshal Italo Balbo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tripoli_Grand_Prix (276 words)

	1938: Automobile Racing - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		Grand Prix automobile racing has been called of late the sport of dictators.
		The Pau Grand Prix, was won by a Delahaye, as was the second.
		At the Tripoli Grand Prix, Mercedes cars hit their stride and captured the first three places (the best Delahaye could do was fifth), averaging 128.79 miles per hour for the 325 miles, the fastest Grand Prix race of the year.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461500065/1938_Automobile_Racing.html (686 words)

	GrandPrix.com > Features > Historical > How to cheat in F1 - 1933 style
		Not surprisingly, there was tremendous excitement in Italy as the racers moved on to Tripoli, in Libya, for the next major event.
		Tripoli was of special significance to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, who dreamed of an empire to rival that of ancient Rome.
		There had been racing in Tripoli since 1925 but, for 1933, there was a new track -- the fastest in the world.
	www.grandprix.com /ft/ft00363.html (1437 words)

	Hermann Lang - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		He proved to be most capable on high-speed racetracks, capturing his first win in the 1937 Tripoli Grand Prix at the Mellaha Lake course in Libya which was then the fastest racetrack in the world.
		However, in 1939 he earned their grudging respect when he won five of the eight Grand Prix races he started, including victories at the Belgian Grand Prix, the Grand Prix de Pau in France, the Swiss Grand Prix and his third consecutive Tripoli Grand Prix enroute to earning that year's European Championship.
		He clocked the fastest lap at the French Grand Prix and was leading the field but engine trouble knocked him out of the race.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Hermann_Lang (686 words)

	Libya Tripoli Grand Prix from Libyaonline.com
		The Tripoli Grand Prix in Libya was first held in 1925 and concluded in 1940 following the onset of World War II.
		Part of the Grand Prix circuit, the race was first held on a 71.10 kilometer road course in Tripoli until 1933 when a new track was built, bringing the best drivers in the world to compete for the £80,000 purse, a substantial amount at the time.
		The Grand Prix was held in conjunction with the Libyan state lottery and, in the case of the inaugural event, there have long been accusations of result fixing.
	www.libyaonline.com /sport/pages.php?cid=124 (324 words)

	FORMULA ONE RACING DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORY \| GRAND PRIX RECORDS AND RACING SPEED ACES \| THE BLUEBIRD ELECTRIC LAND ...
		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.
		The grands prix, some of which have a history that predates the Formula One World Championship, are not always held on the same circuit every year.
		The Bahrain Grand Prix along with other new races in China present new opportunities for the growth and evolution of the Formula One Grand prix franchise while also raising the bar for other Formula One racing venues around the world.
	www.speedace.info /formula_one.htm (4145 words)

	virtualitalia.com - sports - italians and formula 1
		While Grand Prix, or Formula 1 racing, was not invented by the Italians, it has been repeatedly influenced by their sleek designs and innovative power.
		The first organized Grand Prix covered a distance of 126 km and was actually a "Reliability Trial Run." It was held in France, and was run from Paris to Rouen.
		The second French Grand Prix was staged under a new set of rules based on fuel consumption, effectively putting a stop to the quest for ever-larger engines.
	www.virtualitalia.com /sports/formula1p1.shtml (2859 words)

	German Grand Prix 2005 - Traveller's Discounts UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hockenheim was built as a test track in 1939 for Mercedes Benz who wanted a circuit to test their vehicles for the Tripoli Grand Prix.
		Grand Prix Tickets is part of the TSP group of ticket services companies.
		If you are travelling to Germany for the 2005 Grand Prix at Hockenheim you should stay in the nearby towns of Heidelberg, or Mannheim.
	www.travellersdiscounts.co.uk /german_grand_prix_2005.php (690 words)

	F1 Race Tracks
		The Monaco Grand Prix is the one race of the year that every driver dreams of winning.
		Since the debut of Michael Schumacher, the German Grand prix at Hockenheim has become one of the most atmospheric races of the season, the noise in the stadium section being quite deafening at times.
		From 1955 the British Grand Prix swapped venues between Aintree and Silverstone, but with the advent of the 1960s, Aintree fell out of favour and the race was switched between Silverstone and Brands Hatch.
	www.f1corporate.com /content/f1-race-tracks (1739 words)

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		The first of this year’s races — the European Grand Prix - will be held between May 5 and 7 2006 at the Nürburgring, the famous track in the Eifel region of Germany, 40 miles north-west of Koblenz.
		In addition to watching Grand Prix, would-be racers can even have a go themselves at the Nürburgring on the older part of the track which is no longer used for Grand Prix races.
		In the mid 1980s the track was twice used to host the European Grand Prix but its comeback as a Formula One venue was only really sealed in the mid-1990s with the success of Michael Schuamcher, from nearby Kerpen.
	www.germany-tourism.co.uk /pages/event_highlights_1039.htm (983 words)

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		At the end of that year Dorothy Paget felt that she had to bow out and the cars were sold off leaving Tim Birkin to look elsewhere, particularly as recession was looming and Bentleys also withdrew from racing.
		In 1933 he bought a new Maserati and gained 3rd place in the Tripoli Grand Prix, the story has it, burning his arm on the hot exhaust pipe during practice while reaching into the cockpit for his cigarette lighter.
		Walter Bentley maintained in his autobiography that Brkin’s death was not due to the burn but to a mosquito bite that he had picked up in Tripoli which sparked off septicemia which related back to malaria which he had picked up in Palestine during the First World War.
	www.teamquail.com /drivers/birkin.htm (628 words)

	Auto Part for Pontiac Grand Prix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The birth of a Grand Prix team does not occur every day -- or every season for that matter, Formula 1 is an extremely difficult business to break into, auto part for pontiac grand prix and very few new arrivals survive beyond their first year.
		Hamilton auto part for pontiac grand prix and Nicholson were granted unparalleled access to the team from Stewart's initial decision, giving them a behind-the-scenes look at the peaks auto part for pontiac grand prix and valleys that are an inevitable part of gaining acceptance in this ruthless sport.
		Grand Part Pontiac Prix - Grand Part Pontiac Prix Racing Stewart: The Birth of a Grand Prix Team by Maurice Hamilton, The birth of a Grand Prix team does not occur every day -- or every season for that matter, Formula 1 is an extremely difficult business to break...
	wo80.aamaa.info /autopartforpontiacgrandprix.html (1082 words)

	GrandPrix.com > Features > Globetrotter > Carnival of the animals
		Back in those days the Tripoli Grand Prix was the biggest race on the calendar.
		This may be hard to imagine given that Tripoli is in what is now known as Libya but such was the way of the world.
		One of the things about being a Grand Prix reporter is that it is very hard to get away from it all.
	www.grandprix.com /gt/gt00197.html (1437 words)

	The Best of the Best
		He appeared on the grand prix stage for one brief season - "a meteor," Enzo Ferrari called him - and then vanished as suddenly as he arrived.
		He came second in the second race, the Tripoli Grand Prix, and in the third race, at Avus, he won again.
		He did almost win the Hungarian Grand Prix that year, until his hydraulics packed up just a few laps from the end and he had to settle for second.
	www.atlasf1.com /99/bra/kalb.html (1879 words)

	Grand Prix motor racing - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		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.
		At the time, the Germans engineered unique race vehicles as seen in the photo here with the Benz aerodynamic "teardrop" body introduced at the 1923 European Grand Prix at Monza.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Grand_Prix_motor_racing (1387 words)

	1939 EU Report
		The next race for the Grand Prix circus should have been the Tripoli GP on May 7th, but the Italians, who were fed up with losing to the German teams, had decided that for 1939 they would not run any events for Grand Prix cars.
		The Grand Prix cars were back a fortnight later, when the Eifelrennen was held at the Nürburgring on May 21st; four Auto Unions faced no less than five Mercedes-Benz, with a Talbot and three private Maseratis making up the numbers.
		Regarding the Grand Prix of Switzerland, counting towards the European Championship, there are still as few clues about the scoring method on the evening before the decisive battle as there were at the beginning of the month, when we publicized two unofficial interim classifications.
	www.fortunecity.com /olympia/grange/54/1933to49/39report.htm (5502 words)

	Maserati Extensive Links, History and Popular Car Models
		Victories were sparse, Maserati's continued their domination in the racing sector and in 1929 they won the Tripoli Grand Prix and Mille Miglia.
		Maserati re-entered the racing circuits under their new leadership in 1946 and won straight-away the Nice Grand Prix and Marseilles G.P. Maserati's desire to venture into manufacturing road cars were duly honoured by the introduction of A6, the first ever road car of Maserati.
		In 1957 Maserati continued its dominence in the racing circuits and sweeped all three places in Argentine Grand Prix and by the end of the season Maserati won the F1 Championship.
	www.ultimateitaly.com /cars-bikes/maserati.html (800 words)

	Rudi Caracciola: Part Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		His W25 won the French, Spanish, Belgian and Swiss Grands Prix (the Belgian race at Spa with that secret fuel mixture the drivers in other teams, because of the effect of the exhaust fumes, called "chloroform") and he took several second places as well.
		One of the races in which Lang and Caracciola finished one-two was that curious Tripoli Grand Prix which the Italians (the colonial power) decided to run for 1.5-litre cars, knowing that the German teams didn't have any, while Alfa Romeo and Maserati certainly did.
		In the Prix de Berne race, on the Bremgarten circuit where he'd won the full-scale Swiss Grand Prix in 1935, 1937 and 1938, his 300SL locked a rear brake and crashed into a tree.
	www.carkeys.co.uk /features/people/658.asp (1180 words)

	Alberto Ascari - Grand Prix Racing - the whole story
		Ascari also finished ninth in the 1940 Tripoli Grand Prix in a Maserati 6CM, but by now Italy was embroiled in World War II and Alberto would not race again until 1947.
		He led his old friend Villoresi to a 1-2 in the Swiss Grand Prix at Berne's fabulous Bremgarten circuit, thereby achieving Ferrari's first ost- war international success at the wheel of the supercharged 1.5-litre Tipo 125.
		Ascari rounded off the 1949 season by leading the Italian Grand Prix from start to finish in the latest two-stage supercharged Tipo 125, but the following year saw Maranello wrestling with the introduction of their naturally aspirated Aurelio Lampredi V12s and success was patchy.
	www.gpracing.net192.com /drivers/careers/25.cfm (840 words)

	Atlas F1 Magazine: Tales from the Thirties: Tripoli, 1933
		What is repeated time and again as the story of the Tripoli race has it origins with a very likeable, entertaining, and most surprising source: Alfred Neubauer, the manager of the triumphant Mercedes-Benz teams both before and after the Second World War.
		The attention centered on the Tripoli race is blamed for the relatively poor entry by the organizers of the Alessandria race.
		The column was entitled "The Corsa dei Milioni, the 1933 Gran Premio di Tripoli — the Race that was Rigged?" and appeared in August 1999.
	atlasf1.autosport.com /2001/bri/capps.html (4776 words)

	Maseratis in Action
		During 1957 the V12-cylinder Grand Prix Maserati proved to have the right characteristics of power and handling for the driver to be able to reduce oversteer by application of the right amount of throttle.
		Gigi Villoresi at the wheel of a Maserati A6GCS 2000 at the 'Circuito del Garda' 1948 Lake Garda Grand Prix.
		Gigi Villoresi in a 4CLT/48 at the Italian Grand Prix at Turin.
	www.maseratighibli.co.uk /home18.htm (647 words)

	Alberto Ascari - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Member
		He was only seven years old when his father was killed in the French Grand Prix at the height of his racing career.
		He finished ninth later that year in the last Tripoli Grand Prix and raced in another event before World War II forced him to curtail his activities until 1947.
		He quickly followed that with a victory in the Naples Grand Prix and then, in Monaco, he was about to take the lead on the 81st lap when his wheels locked and he was thrown into the harbor.
	www.motorsportshalloffame.com /halloffame/1992/Alberto_Ascari_main.htm (556 words)

	Grand Prix of Tripoli, Herman Lang in Mercedes-Benz
		In Grand Prix of Tripoli, 1937, a Mercedes-Benz race car is driven by Herman Lang through a grove of palm trees.
		The Tripoli race, which kicked off the 1937 racing season, was the first win in Lang’s distinguished career.
		He began competing in 1935, quickly moving up the ranks and becoming part of the four-man Benz team in 1937, despite the condescending attitude of some of his fellow racers, who saw him as a mere mechanic.
	www.georgeglazer.com /prints/auto/mercedes.html (332 words)

	The Tripoli Grand Prix 1933
		Unlike the narrow, twisting course at Monte-Carlo, the Tripoli circuit was 8 ¼ miles long.
		On May 7, 1933, at Tripoli, it was nearly 100 degrees in the shade.
		Where they originated no one will ever know but in a remarkably short time there was talk of a rigged lottery and a racing scandal in the newspaper offices and the racing headquarters.
	www.ddavid.com /formula1/trip1933.htm (1664 words)

	Auto Spectator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In the course of an exceptional career, Varzi won 28 Grand Prix events in eleven years including the most difficult races, and was admired for his sober, efficient driving style.
		He won the Tunis Grand Prix and the Coppa Acerbo in cars bearing the four-ring badge in 1935, and the Tripoli Grand Prix in 1936.
		Fate was unkind to him: on July 1st, 1948, Achille Varzi met with a fatal accident during practice for the Swiss Grand Prix on the Bremgarten track near Berne.
	www.autospectator.com /modules/news/print.php?storyid=115 (333 words)

	Legends of Grand Prix Racing 1907 - 1939
		However, the ACF Grand Prix continued to be the only Grand Prix up to the start of the First World War.
		Victories in 1931: Monaco Grand Prix and Czechoslovakian Grand Prix in Brno (driver: Louis Chiron) and Tunis Grand Prix (Achille Varzi).
		Victories in 1932: Czechoslovakian Grand Prix in Brno (Louis Chiron) and Tunis Grand Prix (Achille Varzi).
	www.research-racing.de /ems04-x1.htm (3836 words)

	1939 GRAND PRIX SEASON - PART 2
		The 1939 Tripoli GP was run to the Voiturette Formula to hinder a new German victory.
		Lang took his hat trick victory at Tripoli and it must have been a satisfying one for him after the internal team troubles.
		Still in shock from the Tripoli race and with their new 4CL cars under repair, Maserati works team entered their old 6CM cars for Villoresi and Cortese in Sicily.
	www.kolumbus.fi /leif.snellman/gp392.htm (1152 words)

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