David Coulthard, Mika Salo and Jacques Villeneuve with their hair shaved off at the post-Suzuka 96 party.

The Estoril circuit

Another circuit seriously damaged in the name of security: Zeltweg, now A-1 Ring.

Computer simulations by Tyrrel:

• Melbourn
• Nürburgring
• Imola
• Estoril
• Spa-Francorchamps 145307 bytes JPEG 20323 bytes GIF
• More maps at Mitchell McCann's page

Grand Prix Racing - the whole story

News

• Gale Force page For information and results as they happen for F1 Grand Prix
• F1 timing (Bernie killed it)
• F1 Live
• GP World
• Atlas - news
• F1 rumours
• Icnsportsweb Williams team columns - news
• Icnsportsweb
• Pitlane
• La Gazzetta Dello Sport
• English Autosport
• Portuguese Autosport
• 1998 Formula 1 Press Conferences
• There are two newsgroup about F1:
  - rec.autos.sport.f1 which was created in the summer of 1994. You can find its charter here or at the ISC ftp site.
  - rec.autos.sport.f1.moderated which was created in the summer of 1999.

FAQs and Miscellaneous

• Books about F1
• So you want to drive a F1
• Who's Who in F1
• F1 FAQ (by Mitchell McCann): local copy 1996 - 1997 official site
• The FIA and TV rights
• Secrets in F1 (NOT!):
  • contracts
  • engines's RPM
• engines's power
• the performance of a F1 car - top speed (F1 and others)
• Past and present in F1:
  • The points system
  • The number system
  • Engines rules
• FIA - 1997 Formula One Technical Regulations
• Carbon-Carbon Composites (the material used in F1 brakes)
• Six wheels F1 cars - Pete Fenelon's Motor racing page - The Williams six-wheeler at the Williams museum

Other sites

• Cartooms
• Photos and cartooms
• Motorsport News International Web pages
• Gazzetta dello Sport (Italian Sport Newspaper)
• Ansa: an Italian news agency
• The Racer Archive
• Montreal Grand Prix 1995
• Photos by Paul-Henri Cahier Photos by Paul-Henri Cahier
• Photos by Herb Edgecomb
• On The Edge Images
• FIA - without frames - site map
• Pete's racing page
• Jacques Steiner's page
• Gilles Villeneuve Commemorative Stamp Project
  Stamps - Gilles Villeneuve
• Books
• Search engine
• Altavista F1 links

Active Drivers

• Damon Hill - unofficial
• Heinz-Harald Frentzen
• Jacques Villeneuve
• Jean Alesi (unofficial)
• Johnny Herbert Website
• Toranosuke Takagi Suporter's Club

Inactive Drivers

• Nelson Piquet , one of the greatests and a very cool person.
• Pedro Lamy
• Taki Inoüe , the slowest driver ever to drive a complete season ?
• Pierluigi Martini

Teams in 1997

Engine manufacturers

• Renault F1 - (without frames)
• Peugeot
• Mercedes-Benz

Technical pages

• f1mech
• stevendegroote
• motor-tech
• gtf1

  Not necessarily F1-related, but I have recently learnt that Ricardo Consulting Engineers does engine design and testing for various car companies, and they also build ECU software. (Mostly in 68000 (now named Coldfire) assembler.)