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Canada's Other F1 Track

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            The Canadian Grand Prix has been a mainstay on the calendar for decades, and since 1978 the home of the race has been in Montreal. the Track was original called   Île Notre-Dame Circuit, but it was renamed to Circuit Giles Villeneuve in 1982 after Villeneuve's fatal crash at Spa. The track is one of the driver's favourites and it is most well known for the "Wall of Champions" which is a very close wall after the last chicane that leaves no room for error and has cost drivers some race wins and erased qualifying sessions, including Jacques Villeneuve, Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill in Qualifying in the same year. It is a great track, but it wasn't the first track that F1 raced on in Canada.     Mosport (now known as Canadian Tire Motorsport Park) is a racetrack located in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada. Jack Brabham won the first race here in 1967. One of the mopre famous races was Jackie Stewart winning in 1972 in a Mon...

Top 10 F1 Liveries

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    F1 cars are amazing machines that look like beautiful rockets, and a great livery will enhance that even more. There has been some great, and not so great, liveries throughout the years. It was hard to narroe it down to just 10 but here is my list for the Top 10 FF1 liveries of all time. 10. Williams FW19       I had to have this one on the list because of Jacques Villeneuve. I was 9 when he won the drivers title in 1997 and that Rothman's livery on the Williams is one of my earliest memories. Sure, the FW18 the previous year was more dominate with Damon Hill at thew hell, but the FW19 is part of the reason why I am such an F1 fan. 9. Brabham BT52      I have always loved the look of this car. I was never really a fan of the heavy downforce, boxy looking F! cars. This car was slick and angular and the beautiful blue and white Parmalat livery is a car that pops into my head when I think of a great livery and I never even watched it race. T...