The 1955 Syracuse Grand Prix was a Formula One race, held on 23 October at the Syracuse Circuit in Sicily. The race was won by Tony Brooks, in his first...
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The Syracuse Grand Prix was a motor race held at Syracuse Circuit in Sicily, Italy. For most of its existence, it formed part of the Formula One non-Championship...
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Connaught Type B (category 1955 Formula One season cars)
Tony Brooks won the non-championship 1955 Syracuse Grand Prix. Connaught had intended to build a streamlined Grand Prix car based around the 2.5-litre Coventry...
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The 1954 Syracuse Grand Prix was a Formula One race, held on 11 April at the Syracuse Circuit in Sicily. The race was won by Giuseppe Farina driving a...
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The 1956 Syracuse Grand Prix was a motor race, set to Formula One rules, held on 15 April 1956 at the Syracuse Circuit, Sicily. The race was won by Argentinean...
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owner triumphs including Tony Brooks's memorable F1 victory at the 1955 Syracuse Grand Prix. The team was eventually broken up in 1957 and cars sold off after...
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Levegh was killed in the 1955 Le Mans disaster, along with 83 spectators. This would lead to the cancellation of four F1 Grands Prix. The following teams...
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racing driver. He was killed in the 1958 German Grand Prix, just weeks after winning the RAC British Grand Prix. He started his career as a 17-year-old in...
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third in the Syracuse and Rome Grands Prix in 1954. After he lost a leg in a crash during practice for the Valentino Grand Prix in 1955, Mantovani retired...
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win by a British driver in a British car in a Grand Prix since 1923, driving a Connaught at Syracuse in 1955 in a non-championship race. After the death...
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The I Avon Trophy was a non-championship Grand Prix which was held at the Castle Combe Circuit on 1 October 1955, three weeks after the end of the season...
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Previous race: 1955 Syracuse Grand Prix Formula One non-championship races 1956 season Next race: 1956 Syracuse Grand Prix Previous race: 1955 Glover Trophy...
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Giuseppe Farina (category Grand Prix drivers)
the German Grand Prix in 1953. After a string of injuries during 1954, Farina retired from Formula One after Ascari's fatal accident in 1955. Amongst five...
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by their own drivetrain. In 2005, in celebration of Tony Brooks 1955 Syracuse Grand Prix with Connaught, the company announced plans for the Type D sports...
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cars participated in 18 Grands Prix, entering a total of 52 races with their A, B, and C Type Formula 2 and Formula 1 Grand Prix Cars. They achieved 1 podium...
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The 1954 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Spa-Francorchamps on 20 June 1954. It was race 3 of 9 in the 1954 World Championship of...
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Formula One (redirect from Grand Prix formula auto racing)
A Formula One season consists of a series of races, known as Grands Prix. Grands Prix take place in multiple countries and continents on either purpose-built...
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the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. He managed an eighth at Syracuse in the Brabham in 1965, selling the car prior to the Italian Grand Prix that year. As...
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Élie Bayol (section 1955)
place at the first race of the season, the Argentine Grand Prix. In the Buenos Aires Grand Prix Formule Libre race he crashed into the crowd on the first...
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Lucien de Sanctis for the seat. The car was first entered for the Syracuse Grand Prix, the first major event run under the new 1.5-litre championship regulations...
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Bob Said (section Grand National Series)
Circuito di Senigallia; 2nd at Trullo d’Oro; and 9th at Syracuse Circuit. On February 21, 1955, Said set a new post-World War II speed record on the Daytona...
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Luigi Villoresi (category Grand Prix drivers)
Janeiro Grand Prix 1949 Giro de Sicilia 1953 Syracuse Grand Prix 1951 South African Grand Prix 1939 Targa Florio 1939, 1940 Masaryk Circuit Grand Prix 1937...
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1956 Formula One season (section Grands Prix)
racing as a result of the 1955 Le Mans disaster. The French Grand Prix and the German Grand Prix were already cancelled in 1955, but were back on the calendar...
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1957 Formula One season (section Grands Prix)
of their 1955 drivers, Maurice Trintignant. Ex-Vanwall driver Harry Schell joined Maserati from the second race on. From the French Grand Prix on, Stuart...
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1954 Formula One season (section Grands Prix)
Onofre Marimón suffered a fatal accident during practice for the German Grand Prix. Coming over one of the steep hills, he went straight through the corner...
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1961 Formula One season (section Grands Prix)
Argentina Juan Peron in 1955) caused safety concerns. The Portuguese Grand Prix was dropped from the calendar. The British Grand Prix was moved from Silverstone...
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accepted, and attended his first race at the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix. Outside of the Grand Prix weekends, he remained in his position as a neurosurgeon...
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One season. The team achieved their first race win in the 1957 British Grand Prix, with Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks sharing a VW 5, earning the team the...
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Pau Grand Prix was a non-championship Formula One motor race held on 19 April 1954 at the Pau circuit, in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. The Grand Prix...
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Formula One automobile racing has its roots in the European Grand Prix championships of the 1920s and 1930s, though the foundation of the modern Formula...
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