The Monaco Grand Prix (French: Grand Prix de Monaco) is a Formula One motor racing event held annually on the Circuit de Monaco, in late May or early...
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/ 43.7346500; 7.421333 The 1936 Monaco Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at Circuit de Monaco on 13 April 1936. Heavy rain contributed to a...
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Grand Prix motor racing, a form of motorsport competition, has its roots in organised automobile racing that began in France as early as 1894. It quickly...
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the 1930s, and the Prix de Monte Carlo held twice in the 1950s. The first support race for the Monaco Grand Prix was held in 1936 as a race for 1.5 litre...
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The French Grand Prix (French: Grand Prix de France), formerly known as the Grand Prix de l'ACF (Automobile Club de France), is an auto race held as part...
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Philippe finished a highly creditable fourth at the inaugural Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco, behind winner William Grover-Williams. Continued improvement...
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Bugatti Type 51 (category Grand Prix cars)
A victory in the 1931 French Grand Prix was a good start for the type, and it notably won the 1933 Monaco Grand Prix with Achille Varzi beating Tazio...
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Philippe Étancelin (category Grand Prix drivers)
Prix de Dieppe 1931 Grand Prix de la Marne 1929, 1933 Pau Grand Prix 1930, 1936 Grand Prix de Picardie 1932, 1933 Grand Prix de Reims 1927, 1929 Circuit...
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The 1936 Grand Prix season was the third year of the 750 kg Formula. The next iteration of the Mercedes-Benz did not prove successful and the team withdrew...
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2014 Historic Grand Prix of Monaco was the ninth running of the Historic Grand Prix of Monaco, a motor racing event for heritage Grand Prix, Voiturettes...
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Louis Chiron (category Grand Prix drivers)
the Monaco Grand Prix. Coming from a family of wine-growers, Louis Chiron's father gained employment as a butler in the Hôtel de Paris at Monaco. As a...
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List of winners of Triple Crown of Motorsport races (category Monaco Grand Prix)
the Circuit de Monaco. The Indianapolis 500 was introduced in 1911, followed by the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1923 and the Monaco Grand Prix in 1929. All...
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Bugatti (redirect from Automobiles Ettore Bugatti)
design beauty and numerous race victories. Famous Bugatti automobiles include the Type 35 Grand Prix cars, the Type 41 "Royale", the Type 57 "Atlantic" and...
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83 km) Dieppe Grand Prix circuit, saw 47 starters. Delage fielded three cars: a pair with 1,242 cc (75.8 cu in) (78 by 130 mm (3.1 by 5.1 in)) De Dion-Bouton...
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Giuseppe Farina (category Grand Prix drivers)
American Automobile Association-sanctioned Vanderbilt Cups of 1936 and 1937. He became a Grand Prix winner when he won the 1937 Grand Prix of Naples...
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René Dreyfus (category Grand Prix drivers)
years. In 1929 he entered his first professional race, the inaugural Grand Prix of Monaco, finishing first in his class and fifth overall. The following year...
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Juan Manuel Fangio (category Grand Prix drivers)
the Argentine, Monaco and Italian Grands Prix. In each case the points were shared between the two drivers. After the Monaco Grand Prix, where Fangio struggled...
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William Grover-Williams (category Grand Prix drivers)
as "W Williams", was a British Grand Prix motor racing driver. He is best known for winning the first Monaco Grand Prix. During World War II, Grover-Williams...
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Lucy O'Reilly Schell (category Grand Prix drivers)
"L'Ecurie Bleue a gagné le Grand Prix de Cork". Automobile et Tourisme sur la Côte d'azur (in French). Des automobiles-clubs de la Côte d'Azur. pp. 7, 8...
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The Pau Grand Prix (French: Grand Prix de Pau) is an annual championship automobile road event for single seater racing cars organised by the L'Automobile...
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Bugatti Type 57 (category Bugatti automobiles)
743 cc engine like the Tank. The famous, 57S-based, 57G Tank won the 1936 French Grand Prix, as well as the 1937 24 Hours of Le Mans. Three 57G Tanks were produced...
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Rudolf Caracciola (category Grand Prix drivers)
with his fellow driver Louis Chiron, but a crash in practice for the Monaco Grand Prix left him with multiple fractures of his right thigh, which ruled him...
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Raymond Sommer (category Grand Prix drivers)
won a number of sports car and minor Grand Prix events, and finished in fourth place in the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix, the second round of the newly-instituted...
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Tazio Nuvolari (category Grand Prix drivers)
pp. 107–109. Snellman, Leif; Muelas, Felix. "VI Grand Prix de Monaco". The Golden Era of Grand Prix Racing. Archived from the original on 18 December...
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Antonio Brivio (category Grand Prix drivers)
Mille Miglia (1936). His greatest successes in Grand Prix races were third places in the Monaco Grand Prix in 1935 and German Grand Prix in 1936. That year...
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Jacky Ickx (category Belgian expatriates in Monaco)
at the Monaco Grand Prix, where he ran fifth before retiring with a driveshaft failure. The car started to improve and at the German Grand Prix (held at...
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Hellé Nice (category Grand Prix drivers)
in various Grand Prix motor racing, hillclimbing and rally events at a time when it was rare for a woman to do so. She won the Grand Prix Féminin and...
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Auto Union racing cars (category Grand Prix cars)
The Auto Union Grand Prix racing cars types A to D were developed and built by a specialist racing department of Auto Union's Horch works in Zwickau, Germany...
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The 1935 Grand Prix season was the second year of the new 750 kg Formula. The success of the previous year encouraged the AIACR to reinitiate the European...
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The 1935 French Grand Prix (formally the XXIX Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France) was a Grand Prix motor race which was held at Montlhéry, France...
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