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Formula and 3000
The Formula 3000 International Championship was a motor racing series created by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ) in 1985 to become the final preparatory step for drivers hoping to enter the Formula One championship.
Formula Two had become too expensive, and was dominated by works-run cars with factory engines ; the hope was that Formula 3000 would offer quicker, cheaper, more open racing.
The series was staged as the Formula 3000 European Championship in 1985, as the Formula 3000 Intercontinental Championship in 1986 and 1987 and then as the Formula 3000 International Championship from 1988 to 2004.
A Lola Cars | Lola chassis in the 2000 International Formula 3000 season | 2000 season.
Formula 3000 races during the " open chassis " era tended to be of about 100 – 120 miles in distance, held at major circuits, either headlining meetings or paired with other international events.
International Formula 3000 was experiencing tough competition with cheaper formulae, such as European F3000 ( using ex-FIA 1999 and 2002 Lola chassis ), World Series by Nissan ( also known as Formula Nissan ) and Formula Renault V6 Eurocup.
: For a complete list of drivers, see List of International Formula 3000 drivers.
Sweden's Bjorn Wirdheim won the 2003 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship for Drivers
This was unusual for a young driver: most of Schumacher's contemporaries would compete in Formula 3000 on the way to Formula One.

Formula and replaced
There was no GP at Zandvoort in 1954 ( a sportscar-event replaced it ), but 1955 saw the first proper Formula One race counting for the World Championship.
A1GP bankrupted before its fifth season and the Dutch round was replaced with Superleague Formula
In the M23 was gradually replaced with the M26, the M23's final works outing being Gilles Villeneuve's Formula One debut with the team in a one-off appearance at the British Grand Prix.
Minardi left the lower division at the end of 1984, although in 1986 a modified version of their final Formula Two car, the 283, was entered without success in two rounds of the Formula 3000 championship which had replaced Formula Two in 1985.
After his sponsors stopped paying him before the 2005 German Grand Prix, Patrick Friesacher was to be replaced by Dutch Jordan test driver Robert Doornbos to create the first all-Dutch driver line-up in Formula one since Carel Godin de Beaufort and Ben Pon drove together for the Ecurie Maarsbergen team at the 1962 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.
Villeneuve moved to the newly formed British American Racing team in 1999 and stayed there for the next four seasons but, following poor results he was replaced by former British Formula Three Champion Takuma Sato.
In the 1967 Formula One season, the team fired Dragoni and replaced him with Franco Lini ; Chris Amon partnered Bandini to drive a somewhat improved version of the 1966 car.
The engines are also found in a number of British kit cars, and until recently was the basis of Formula Ford racing, until replaced by the " Zetec " engine.
He was also appointed chairman of the Grand Prix Drivers ' Association in 2010, but after losing his seat in Formula One, he was replaced by Pedro de la Rosa.
This changed in 2009, when the Renault Formula One cars replaced the Elf logos with Total logos.
It was replaced by Formula 3000 in 1985, but the FIA announced in 2008 that Formula Two would return for 2009 in the form of the FIA Formula Two Championship.
Formula A permitted the old 4. 5 L normally aspirated cars, but as the 3. 0 L supercharged cars were more than a match for these ( and the pre-War German and Italian cars were no longer available ), the old 1. 5 L voiturette formula replaced 3. 0 L supercharged cars in an attempt to equalise performance.
When F3000 was replaced by GP2 Series in 2005, the Formula 2 designation was partly revived.
Following his impressive drive in Monaco, and a short spell in Formula Two, Pryce was signed by Shadow as replacement for Brian Redman, who had in turn replaced the late Peter Revson.
Jarier left Shadow before the start of the 1977 Formula One season, for ATS, and was replaced by Italian Renzo Zorzi.
The glamour of Formula 1 had gone, replaced by a sort of loneliness.
A tuned version of this was used as the Formula One safety car, replaced by CLK 63 AMG at the beginning of 2006 Season.
Having been replaced by Nico Rosberg for 2006, Pizzonia's Formula One career was over.

Formula and Two
During this period, teams using Brabham cars won championships in Formula Two and Formula Three.
The Dutch Grand Prix was a round of the World Drivers Championship for the first time not a Formula One race, as the World Championship was for Formula Two cars that year and in 1953.
The first chassis from March, AGS and Ralt were developments of their existing 1984 Formula Two designs, although Lola's entry was based on and looked very much like an IndyCar.
Dallara briefly tried the series before moving up to Formula One, and AGS moved up from Formula Two but never recaptured their occasional success.
Brabham briefly and unsuccessfully campaigned his own second hand Formula One Maserati 250F during 1956, but his season was saved by drives for Cooper in sports cars and Formula Two, the junior category to Formula One.
The following year, he was Autocar Formula Two champion in a Cooper, while continuing to score minor points-scoring positions with the small-engined Coopers in the World Drivers Championship and driving for Aston Martin in Sportscars.
Brabham BT18-Honda of the type with which Jack Brabham dominated Formula Two in 1966
The season also saw the fruition of Brabham's relationship with Japanese engine manufacturer Honda in Formula Two.
Brabham won ten of the year's 16 European Formula Two races in his Brabham-Honda.
There was no European Formula Two championship that year, but Brabham won the Trophées de France, a championship consisting of six of the French Formula Two races.
For Bruce decided to use a British Racing Motors ( BRM ) V12 engine, but due to delays with the engine, was forced initially to use a modified Formula Two car called the M4B powered by a 2. 1 litre BRM V8, later building a similar but slightly larger car called the M5A for the V12.
The smaller Formula Two Stock Car Racing, previously known as " The Juniors " or " Junior Stock Cars ", is also very popular.

Formula and was
* Bernie Ecclestone was involved in a political scandal when it transpired he had given the Labour Party a million pound donation-which raised eyebrows when the incoming Labour government changed its policy to allow Formula One to continue being sponsored by tobacco manufacturers.
Motor Racing Developments Ltd., commonly known as Brabham (), was a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team.
In 2009, an unsuccessful attempt was made by a German organisation to enter the 2010 Formula One season using the Brabham name.
The new company would compete with Cooper in the market for customer racing cars ; as Brabham was still employed by Cooper, Tauranac produced the first MRD car, for the entry level Formula Junior class, in secrecy.
Motor Racing Developments initially concentrated on making money by building cars for sale to customers in lower formulae, so the new car for the Formula One team was not ready until partway through the 1962 Formula One season.
Tauranac, an engineer at heart, started to feel his Formula One budget of around £ 100, 000 was a gamble he could not afford to take on his own and began to look around for an experienced business partner.
Although it could be reconciled with Cyril's Formula of Reunion, it was not compatible in its wording with Cyril's Twelve Anathemas.
Before its merger with HP, it also sponsored the Williams Formula One team when it was still powered by BMW engines.
Formula One was a new formula agreed after World War II during 1946, with the first non-championship races being held that year.
The event was part of the pre-Second World War European Championship and was included in the first Formula One World Championship in 1950.
A draft specification for The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System was completed by mid-1954.

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