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GRAND PRIX MOTOR RACING DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORY | FORMULA ONE RECORDS AND RACING SPEED ACES | THE BLUEBIRD ELECTRIC ... (14761 words) |
 | 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. |
 | The French Grand prix was held at on the Bugatti circuit at LeMans. |
| French Grand Prix 2002 (1414 words) |
 | Ferrari´s French team principal Jean Todt, the Napoleon of Grand Prix Racing was caught by his emotions and in the general cheering also Michael Schumacher´s blond wife Corinna, otherwise staying in the background, gave some television interviews as an exception. |
 | Grand Prix Racing had grown from a competition of medium-sized companies to a league of international groups, and for that reason, for the first ones sometimes it is nearly impossible finish among the first six places. |
 | Fangio had won 24 of 51 Grand Prix driven, he died at Buenos Aires in 1995 at the age of 84 being seriously ill. When being in better health conditions Micheal Schumacher had meet him personally, because both the Argentine and the German had been Mercedes-Benz drivers in their careers. |