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Formula One: Formula One World Championship
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In the early years of Formula One, before the world championship was established, there were around twenty races held from late Spring to early Autumn (Fall) in Europe, although not all of these were considered significant. Most competitive cars came from Italy, particularly Alfa Romeo. After the start of the world championship these non-championship races continued. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were many Formula One races which did not count for the World Championship (e.g., in 1950, a total of twenty-two Formula One races were held, of which only six counted towards the World Championship). In 1952 and 1953, when the world championship was run for Formula Two cars, a full season of non-championship Formula One racing took place. Some races, particularly in the UK, including the Race of Champions, Oulton Park International Gold Cup and International Trophy, were attended by the majority of the world championship contenders.
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The Formula One world championship is a annual worldwide series of circuit races of around 300 kilometres in length and slightly less than two hours in duration. The cars, custom-constructed by each team (unlike Champ Car racing), are based around an open-wheel, open cockpit design, have huge wings (oriented upside-down when compared to aircraft wings as they are designed to push the cars down rather than up) and bodies designed to achieve maximum downforce for incredibly fast cornering, and despite being restricted to three litres and natural aspiration have V10 engines that can produce up to 800 horsepower.
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In Formula One, Lewis Hamilton edged closer to immortality. On Sunday, the McLaren rookie won at the rain-soaked Fuji Speedway, surviving a collision and chaos while his teammate, Fernando Alonso, crashed. The result gave Hamilton a 12-point lead in the championship with two races to go. “I’m not throwing in the towel, but unless there is a retirement from Hamilton we have to be realistic and see that it’s very hard to recover six points per race,” Alonso told Autosport. With a win next weekend, Hamilton will become the first rookie (and the youngest driver) to win the world championship.
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The 2008 Formula One calendar will not include the United States Grand Prix. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which has hosted the American round of the world championship for the past eight years, made the announcement today. Add Indianapolis to the list of other former USGP venues that includes Sebring, Riverside, Watkins Glen, Long Beach, Las Vegas, Detroit, Dallas, and Phoenix.
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The first Formula One World Championship was won by Italian Giuseppe Farina in his Alfa Romeo in 1950, barely defeating his Argentine teammate Juan Manuel Fangio. However, Fangio won the title in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956 & 1957, his streak interrupted after an injury by two-time champion Alberto Ascari of Ferrari. Although the UK's Stirling Moss was able to compete regularly, he was never able to win the World Championship, and is now widely considered to be the greatest driver never to have won the title.[3][4] Fangio... is remembered for dominating Formula One's first decade and has long been considered the "grand master" of Formula One.
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In Formula One, Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari won the 2007 World Championship in Brazil, an improbable outcome to a crazy year. Going into the race, Raikkonen was seven points behind Lewis Hamilton and four behind Fernando Alonso. And he needed several things to fall into place in order to win the title. When Hamilton suffered a gearbox glitch in the early laps and dropped down the 18th position, it looked like Raikkonen might have a chance. By that time, Felipe Massa and he were pulling away from Alonso.
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