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It was started in 1975 as a Formula 5000 race by event founder Christopher Pook, and became a Formula One event in 1976. [3] In an era when turbocharged engines were starting to come to prominence in Formula One, Long Beach remains one of the few circuits used from the time Renault introduced turbos in 1977 until the last Long Beach Grand Prix ...
The Palisades Fire started burning around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday between Santa Monica and Malibu. ... A timelapse video captured the Palisade Fire in California as it swelled almost six times in a ...
The 1979 United States Grand Prix West, formally titled the Lubri Lon Long Beach Grand Prix, [2] was a Formula One motor race held on April 8, 1979, at Long Beach, California.
In 1997, another son of an F1 racing legend took the titles for Williams once again, as Jacques Villeneuve became the 4th driver to take both the Formula One and CART championship (the others being Mario Andretti, Emerson Fittipaldi, and Nigel Mansell). Villeneuve also became the only Canadian to have won a Formula 1 Drivers' title.
With the Formula 1 season in full swing, McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown says F1's popularity is just the beginning. McLaren Racing CEO: Formula 1 'is just getting started' in the US [Video] Skip to ...
A Formula 5000 race was held there in 1975, and the US was just the second country (after Italy in 1957) to host two Championship F1 events in the same season. Southern California had seen a championship Formula One race before; the 1960 United States Grand Prix was held at the famed Riverside Raceway, which was just an hour's drive from Long ...
An Eagle Mk1, in early, four-cylinder Climax-engined T1F form.The car wears the Imperial blue paint, the national racing colour of the United States.. In order to run the Formula 1 operations, Gurney established the Anglo American Racers team, based in Rye, East Sussex, UK, though the cars were built in Santa Ana, California, USA by the All American Racers team.
Rory McIlroy, center, of Northern Ireland, poses for a photo with the team of Alpine driver Esteban Ocon before the sprint ahead of the Formula One US Grand Prix auto race at Circuit of the ...