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Formula One World Championship races are always held on Sundays regardless of timezone / country, while MotoGP holds most races on Sundays, with Middle Eastern races being the exception on Saturday.
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* 1942 – Frank Williams, English founder and team principal of the WilliamsF1 Formula One racing team
* Adrian Sutil ( born 1983 ), German Formula One racing driver
* 1963 – Mike Gascoyne, British engineer, designer of Formula One cars
: See also: Aston Martin Racing, List of Formula One constructors
** British American Racing, a Formula One constructor
* 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.
Founded in 1960 by two Australians, driver Jack Brabham and designer Ron Tauranac, the team won four drivers ' and two constructors ' world championships in its 30-year Formula One history.
The team won two more Formula One drivers ' championships in the 1980s with Brazilian Nelson Piquet.
British businessman Bernie Ecclestone owned Brabham during most of the 1970s and 1980s, and later became responsible for administering the commercial aspects of Formula One.
In 2009, an unsuccessful attempt was made by a German organisation to enter the 2010 Formula One season using the Brabham name.
There he started driving for the Cooper Car Company works team and by 1958 had progressed with them to Formula One, the highest category of open wheel racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ), motor sport's world governing body.
In 1959 and 1960, Brabham won the Formula One world drivers ' championship in Cooper's revolutionary mid-engined cars.
By the 1961 Formula One season, the Lotus and Ferrari teams had developed the mid-engined approach further than Cooper.
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.
The Brabham BT3, the first Brabham Formula One design.
The FIA doubled the Formula One engine capacity limit to 3 litres for the 1966 season and suitable engines were scarce.
Brabham used engines from Australian engineering firm Repco, which had never produced a Formula One engine before, based on aluminium V8 engine blocks from the defunct American Oldsmobile F85 road car project, and other off the shelf parts.
At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.
Jack Brabham won his third title in 1966, becoming the only driver to win the Formula One World Championship in a car carrying his own name ( cf Surtees, Hill and Fittipaldi Automotive ).
Graham Hill took his final Formula One win in the unique " lobster claw ". Tauranac signed double world champion Graham Hill and young Australian Tim Schenken to drive for the 1971 season.
Although Hill, no longer a front-runner since his 1969 accident, took his final Formula One win in the non-championship BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone, the team scored only seven championship points.
Formula and World
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.
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.
Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ).
Formula One had a total global television audience of 527 million people during the course of the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship.
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.
It is the only team to have competed in the Formula One World Championship continuously since its inception in 1950.
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.
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 confirmed his third championship at the Italian Grand Prix and became the only driver to win the Formula One World Championship in a car that carried his own name.
* 1950 – The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
After beginning with karting, Schumacher won German drivers ' championships in Formula König and Formula Three before joining Mercedes in the World Sportscar Championship.
At the end of 1990, along with his Formula 3 rivals Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Karl Wendlinger, he joined the Mercedes junior racing programme in the World Sports-Prototype Championship.
Category: Formula One World Drivers ' Champions
Formula and Championship
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.
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.
Formula and races
A few smaller teams tried obsolete three-litre Formula One cars ( from Tyrrell, Williams, Minardi and RAM ), with little success — the Grand Prix and Indycar-derived entries were too unwieldy — their fuel tanks were about twice the size of those needed for F3000 races, and the weight distribution was not ideal.
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.
The following year the calendar was combined with that of Formula One, so the series became support races for the Grand Prix.
Hackman competed in Sports Car Club of America races driving an open wheeled Formula Ford in the late seventies.
He had a little more success in the non-championship Formula One races, where he ran his own private Coopers and took two victories.
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.
Brabham's grandson Matthew ( son of Geoff ) graduated from karts in 2010 and races in the Victorian Formula Ford Championship.
Michael and his younger brother Ralf Schumacher are the only brothers to win races in Formula One, and they were the first brothers to finish 1st and 2nd in the same race, in Montreal in 2001, and there again ( in switched order ) in 2003.
The team is the second oldest active team ( after Ferrari ) and one of the most successful teams in Formula One, having won 180 races, 12 drivers ' championships and 8 constructors ' championships.
Some major races, such as the Singapore Grand Prix, Monaco Grand Prix ( sanctioned by Formula One ) and the Long Beach Grand Prix ( sanctioned by Indycar ), are held on temporary street circuits.
It won a large number of Formula One races between and.
Patrese entered 257 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix and started 256 races making him the third most experienced F1 driver in history, after Rubens Barrichello and Michael Schumacher.
He won six Formula One races, with a record gap of over six years between two of these – the 1983 South African Grand Prix and 1990 San Marino Grand Prix.
After the crash, Hunt ( along with other drivers ) blamed Patrese for starting the accident, and viewers of Hunt's commentaries of Formula One races from 1980 – 1993 on BBC Television were regularly treated to bitter diatribes against Patrese when the Italian appeared on screen.
It pitted ten celebrities ( five male, five female ) against each other in a series of Formula One-style car races.
and holds the highest winning percentage in Formula One, 46 %, winning 24 of 52 Formula One races he entered.
Turbine cars were deemed illegal before the following year's race, so Lotus chief Colin Chapman developed the car for use in Formula One and an updated 56B competed in half a dozen Formula One races in 1971.
There was even enough interest in Group C to sustain a C2 championship for a few years ; at ' club ' level Modified Sports Car (" ModSports ") and Production Sports Car (" ProdSports ") races remained a feature of most British race meetings into the 1980s, evolving into a " Special GT " series that was essentially Formula Libre for sports or saloon cars.
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