The Circuit Paul Ricard in France is famous for its distinctive runoff areas. What colours are they, and what is their purpose?

(1/2) Paul Ricard features large runoff areas painted with high-friction blue and red stripes (Blue Zone and Red Zone). These are designed to slow cars down effectively if they run off track, with the red...

#PaulRicard #FrenchGP #Runoff #Safety #Circuits #f1 #formula1

The Circuit Paul Ricard in France is famous for its distinctive runoff areas. What colours are they, and what is their purpose?

(1/2) Paul Ricard features large runoff areas painted with high-friction blue and red stripes (Blue Zone and Red Zone). These are designed to slow cars down effectively if they run off track, with the red...

#PaulRicard #FrenchGP #Runoff #Safety #Circuits #f1 #formula1

Mike Spence was born #OnThisDay in ’36. He started 36 #F1 GPs & he died in an Indy hospital following a practice crash in a Lotus turbine car. Indy legend Andy Granatelli called him “pure brilliant”. Pic: Spence (Lotus 33) chases Richie Ginther’s Honda RA272, #FrenchGP, ’65.

This is my last #OnThisDay tweet today & it features an iconic #F1 car: a ’61 Ferrari 156. #AnorakFact: sitting in it is Giancarlo Baghetti, the only man to win the first championship F1 GP he entered, the ’61 #FrenchGP. He was born #OnThisDay in ’34. #MerryChristmas one & all!🎄

The Circuit Paul Ricard in France is famous for its distinctive runoff areas. What colours are they, and what is their purpose?

(1/2) Paul Ricard features large runoff areas painted with high-friction blue and red stripes (Blue Zone and Red Zone). These are designed to slow cars down effectively if they run off track, with the red...

#PaulRicard #FrenchGP #Runoff #Safety #Circuits #f1 #formula1

The #Renault team celebrate their first #F1 win. Gerard Larrousse and Jean Sage are among the jubilant onlookers during the #FrenchGP at Dijon-Prenois on July 01, 1979 in Dijon-Prenois.
2025 #AbuDhabiGP is going to be the final race for Renault in F1. #F1jp (📸David Phipps)

Watching the 2000 #Frenchgp one thing I notice at the end of the race is how slim everyone looks. The mechanics, officials, spectators, other team personnel. They all look very lean compared to nowadays.

The Circuit Paul Ricard in France is famous for its distinctive runoff areas. What colours are they, and what is their purpose?

(1/2) Paul Ricard features large runoff areas painted with high-friction blue and red stripes (Blue Zone and Red Zone). These are designed to slow cars down effectively if they run off track, with the red...

#PaulRicard #FrenchGP #Runoff #Safety #Circuits #f1 #formula1

Quand Frentzen gagnait le Grand Prix de France en 1999 à Magny-Cours… avec une jambe cassé ! 😱

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#OnThisDay in ’47 Louis Chiron won the #FrenchGP at Lyon-Parilly in a Talbot-Lago (pic); Alberto Ascari DNF’d in a Maserati. #AnorakFact: on the same day 7026 miles (11,307km) away, Oscar Gálvez won the #MarDelPlataGP in an Alfa; Juan Manuel Fangio was 5th in a Volpi-Chevy. (1/2)

Remembering Ferenc Szisz - or Szisz Ferenc if you prefer - born in Szeghalom, Hungary, #OnThisDay in 1873, the winner of the 1906 #FrenchGP at Le Mans, which 769.36-mile (1238.16km) race is usually classified as the first ever GP.

The Circuit Paul Ricard in France is famous for its distinctive runoff areas. What colours are they, and what is their purpose?

(1/2) Paul Ricard features large runoff areas painted with high-friction blue and red stripes (Blue Zone and Red Zone). These are designed to slow cars down effectively if they run off track, with the red...

#PaulRicard #FrenchGP #Runoff #Safety #Circuits #f1 #formula1

Remembering Raymond Sommer, born #OnThisDay in 1906, Le Mans winner in ’32 & ’33 & #FrenchGP winner in ’36. WW2 French Resistance service interrupted his prime, but he drove 5 #F1 GPs in ’50, finishing 4th at Monaco in a Ferrari 125 (pic). He died that year at Circuit de Cadours.

#OnThisDay in ’82, at Dijon, Keke Rosberg (Williams FW08) won the #SwissGP, which wasn’t in Switzerland but was so called because there was already a #FrenchGP at Paul Ricard in ’82. #AnorakFact: it was Keke’s first #F1 GP win, & the first by a Finn. Pic by Rainer Schlegelmilch.

Remembering Roger Loyer, born #OnThisDay in 1907. A successful bike racer - he won the 2-wheeled #FrenchGP in ’37 (Montlhéry; 175cc) & ’38 (Reims; 250cc) - he entered one 4-wheeled #F1 GP, Argentina ’54, in a Gordini. #AnorakFact: in later life he ran a car dealership in Paris.

The Circuit Paul Ricard in France is famous for its distinctive runoff areas. What colours are they, and what is their purpose?

(1/2) Paul Ricard features large runoff areas painted with high-friction blue and red stripes (Blue Zone and Red Zone). These are designed to slow cars down effectively if they run off track, with the red...

#PaulRicard #FrenchGP #Runoff #Safety #Circuits #f1 #formula1

Happy Birthday to the double Moto2 champion Johann Zarco ❤️

#johannzarco #honda #frenchgp #motogp #motogp2025 #kneedown #kneedowngp #kneedownofficial #kneedownmotogp #wearekneedown

Matt Bishop: The wild French GP circuit that was too dangerous for F1 France's narrow Clermont-Ferrand circuit threaded through volcanic rock faces, sheer drops, and untamed countryside, posing one of F1's greatest-ever tests of nerve. No wonder only the very best drive...

Early July is when the #F1 #FrenchGP always used to be run. It has been held at 7 circuits - & the best was Clermont-Ferrand, a scary 50-corner switchback on real roads beside a dormant volcano. My brand-new #MotorSport column explains more. Click below.
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Pierwsze pole Minardi? Jak Jos Verstappen zaskoczył w roku 2003 - Aktualności F1, MotoGP - informacje o sportach motorowych i wyścigach samochodowych Jos Verstappen nie ma na swoim koncie tak dobrych rezultatów jak jego syn. Jednak podczas weekendu o GP Francji 2003 miał swoje 5 minut.

🇳🇱 Wczorajsze podium Nico Hulkenberga w barwach Saubera było nie lada niespodzianką. Blisko podobnej 22 lata temu był Verstappen, ale Jos ⤵️⤵️⤵️

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The #FrenchGP has been run #OnThisDay 5 times. So here’s Ronnie Peterson, in a Lotus 72E, en route to victory, at Dijon, #OnThisDay in ’74: an archetypal image of what made ’70s #F1 so utterly magical. #DabOfOppo

Franco Comotti (Ferrari 166/Scuderia Marzotto), 1952 French Grand Prix, Rouen-Les-Essarts.

Scuderia Marzotto entered a pair of Ferrari 166s for Franco Comotti & debutant Piero Carini. Comotti finished 12th in his second & last Grand Prix, Carini retired (engine) on lap 2.

French Grand Prix, Rouen-Les-Essarts, 6 July 1952.

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Pre-war ace Philippe Etancelin made his 12th & final World Championship race start. The 55 year old Frenchman finishing 8th in an Escuderia Bandeirantes-entered Maserati A6GCM.

French Grand Prix, Rouen-Les-Essarts, 6 July 1952.

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Local racers Robert Manzon (Gordini T16) & Maurice Trintignant (Simca-Gordini T15) finished 4th & 5th, Trintignant scoring his first World Championship points.

French Grand Prix, Rouen-Les-Essarts, 6 July 1952.

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#OnThisDay in 1952.

At Rouen-Les-Essarts, Alberto Ascari was unbeatable at the French Grand, leading home a Ferrari 1-2-3. Runner-up Giuseppe Farina was lapped, 3rd placed Piero Taruffi 2 laps down...

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The #FrenchGP has been run #OnThisDay 6 times. #OnThisDay 50 years ago it was run at the original Paul Ricard, a fine & fast #F1 circuit, & it was won by Niki Lauda for Ferrari. Pic: check out the intrepid spectators’ viewing positions!

The #FrenchGP has been run #OnThisDay 6 times. #OnThisDay in ’59, at Reims, Brooks (pic) won from the pole, leading all the way & finishing 27.5sec ahead of Ferrari team-mate Hill. After the race Behra, also a Ferrari driver, punched Ferrari team manager Tavoni & was sacked.

Alain Prost stood on the top step of an F1 podium for the first time, his victory coming on home soil & with Renault at Dijon-Prenois #OnThisDay in 1981.

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The #FrenchGP has been run #OnThisDay 6 times, including in ’76, at the proper old Paul Ricard, whose 1.1-mile (1.8km) Mistral Straight was followed by the super-high-speed Signes right-hander. James Hunt (McLaren, car #11) won, lifting himself into world championship contention.

The #FrenchGP has been run #OnThisDay 9 times - the earliest in ’27, the latest in 2005. The driver-car combo of John Watson & Brabham BT45B was one of the fastest of the ’77 #F1 season, yet no wins eventuated. Pic: his unluckiest near-miss came at Dijon #OnThisDay 48 years ago.

The punishing 1978 French GP: James Hunt's greatest race? 1978 was heavy going for both James Hunt and McLaren – but at that year's French GP, the British hero delivered a scintillating drive for his final career podium

The #F1 #FrenchGP has been run #OnThisDay 7 times - in ’50, ’61, ’67, ’72, ’78, ’95 & 2000. The ’78 race is rarely hailed as a classic, but it should be, for James Hunt’s 3rd place was truly heroic. Click to read a #MotorSport column I wrote about it.
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