Imola - - -Site of the ENZO E DINO FERRARI CIRCUIT, home of the SAN MARINO GRAND PRIX since its inception in 1981. The track was the site of the Italian Grand Prix on a single occasion, in 1980. The city of Bologna is the nearest major centre.
Indianapolis - - -The famed "Brickyard" oval in Indianapolis, home to the annual Indy 500, and was also the site of 11 Grands Prix, from 1950 to 1960 inclusive. (The Indy 500 races in those years counted toward the F1 World Championship.) All 11 winners drove U.S.-designed cars powered by OFFENHAUSER engines. New, purpose-built road circuit within the Indianapolis Motor Speedway grounds will be the new home of the United States Grand Prix starting in 2000.
Interlagos - - -Race track near Sao Paulo, home of the BRAZILIAN GRAND PRIX from 1973-77, 1979-80, and since 1990.
Intermediates - - -A "halfway-house" between grooved slicks, used in dry weather, and full wet pattern tyres. Intermediates are used in damp to drying conditions when there are not significant amounts of standing water on the track surface.
Irvine, Eddie - - -The wild man of F1. Eddie is number two in a one car team. His contract at FERRARI does not allow him to win if team leader MICHAEL SCHUMACHER could benefit from the points. However, it does pay remarkably well and he has left no one in any doubt as to why he is in F1! He is possibly the only driver who can be relied upon to say something interesting. Eddie won the first race of 1999, the AUSTRALIAN G.P. While his win was thoroughly deserved, he was lucky that MICHAEL SCHUMACHER was so far back that team orders could not be brought into play.
Italian Grand Prix - - -With one exception - the ENZO E DINO FERRARI circuit in 1980, the ITALIAN GRAND PRIX has been staged at the legendary MONZA facility from 1950 through 1998, inclusive. The earliest track configuration was 6.3 km in length, swelling to 10 km for races in 1955-56 and 1960-61. The current layout is 5.8 km long with a race distance averaging a little more than 295 km for 51 laps. Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina (1953-55), Sweden's Ronnie Peterson (1973-74, 1976) and Alain Prost of France (1981, 1985, 1989) have been the most successful drivers at Monza with three victories each. The unfortunate Peterson died as the result of injuries sustained in a crash at MONZA in 1978.