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Jum'at - 22/6
Latihan Bebas 1
Latihan Bebas 2 |
Sabtu - 23/6
Latihan Bebas 1
Latihan Bebas 2
Kualifikasi |
Minggu - 24/6
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Circuit information:
| Round Number: |
9 |
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| Race Date: |
24-06-2001 |
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| Country: |
Germany |
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| City: |
Nurnberg (click for location map) |
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| Circuit Name: |
Nurburghring |
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| Circuit Length: |
4556 m. |
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| Number of Laps: |
67 |
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| Race Length: |
305.235 m |
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| 2000 Pole Position: |
David Coulthard |
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| 2000 Winner: |
Michael Schumacher |
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| 2000 Fastest Lap: |
Michael Schumacher |
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GAMBARAN SIRKUIT |
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Gambaran
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Circuit
Description, History, Facts and
Figures
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The European Grand Prix is something of a
motor racing mongrel; a stray mutt that roams from
town to town, moving on when it is no longer
wanted. Officially, this weekend's event will be
the ninth European Grands Prix. In truth, there
have actually been many more, as the name was used
in addition to a national race's title,
theoretically bestowed on it as an honour!
Therefore the 1950 British GP, which
kicked off the inaugural Formula 1 world
championship, was also known as the European GP.
Confused? Wait, it gets worse. More recently, the
name has been used to get over the problem of
holding two races in one country, which is the
situation we have this weekend, with the race at
the Nurburgring taking place ten weeks before the
German GP at Hockenheim.
Actually, the
title of European GP was used on several occasions
before the creation of the world championship in
1950. The first race to be given the title was a
grand prix at Monza in 1923. Three years later the
race was held at the San Sebastian track in Spain.
Incredibly, one driver was taken so ill in the
extremely hot conditions, that he went to hospital
and came back to finish the race! Two other
drivers required a break in the middle of the race
and all three men were disqualified.
The
‘Ring is the nearest thing the European GP has to
a permanent home. In 1954, Fangio won for
Mercedes-Benz. In ‘61, Stirling Moss put on one of
his best performances in a Lotus to defeat the
might of Ferrari and the 1968 race will always be
remembered for Jackie Stewart's total mastery of
the treacherous conditions, winning by over four
minutes in torrential rain.
These races
were held on the old 22.5 kilometre Nordschleife,
while the circuit we know today played host to its
inaugural European GP in 1984, won by Alain Prost.
There have been five more F1 races held here since
then, but just to mess up the record books still
further, for a couple of years it was known as the
Luxembourg GP!
Perhaps the most memorable
European GP of recent times was the 1993 edition,
run at Donington Park. Typical of an Easter
weekend in England, the weather went through every
season in the space of an hour, although the main
feature was heavy rain. Ayrton Senna had started
from fourth on the grid in a less than competitive
McLaren-Ford.
He dropped one place at the
start, but in the course of the most mind-blowing
opening lap in the history of the sport, he passed
Michael Schumacher, Karl Wendlinger, Damon Hill
and finally Alain Prost in the Williams to take
the lead. As the heavens opened and shut more
often than a Mexican brothel door on Ladies Night,
Ayrton made do with a mere five pit stops to beat
Hill and Prost, who changed tyres thirteen times
between the two of them! Needless to say, there
have been no calls for the event to return to
Donington, much to the relief of the over-worked
pit
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