FIA GT Championship and more: Bucharest Ring
Topic: Auto, Sport (May 9, 2007)
In 2007 one of the FIA GT Championship stages is scheduled to take place in Bucharest. The Bucharest Ring street circuit is placed exactly in the heart of the Romanian capital, around the Parliament House.
The track in the street where the FIA GT, the European FIA GT3 Championship, the GB Formula 3 and the Logan Cup races will take place counts 3180 metres length, the average speed will be 148,6 km/h for the competitors from FIA GT Championship, the time per lap around 1 minute and 15 seconds. The top speed for the FIA GT Championship competitors is 230 km/h.
The location is perfect for organizing a street race, similar to the one in Monte Carlo, which can become a refference point in the international automobilistic calendars. (more…)
Former gymnastics star Andreea Raducan claims back olympic medal
Topic: Sport (Feb 1, 2007)
Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan has requested the International Olympic Committee to give her back the medal she won at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. (more…)
World’s most expensive cars parade in Bucharest Ring
Topic: Auto, Sport (Nov 8, 2006)
Four of the world’s strongest and most expensive cars paraded around the Parliament Palace in Bucharest on Sunday, in front of approximately 15,000 enthusiastic spectators, in what was seen as the most important such event organized in Romania this year. (more…)
Real Madrid – Steaua Bucuresti 1-0: What a match!
Topic: Sport (Nov 2, 2006)
15,000 Romanians watched live how Steaua made one of its best appearances in a game doomed to failure.
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CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Real Madrid smashes Steaua in Bucharest
Topic: Sport (Oct 18, 2006)
Real Madrid defeated Steaua with an unquestionable 1-4 despite consistent resistance from the Romanian eleven on Bucharest’s Ghencea stadium on Tuesday night. (more…)
Steaua Bucharest to face Real Madrid in Champions League
Topic: Sport (Sep 6, 2006)
Romanian football team Steaua Bucharest learned August 24 that it would face Real Madrid, Olympique Lyon and Dinamo Kiev in the E Group of the Champions League after beating Standard Liege in the preliminaries.
Steaua managed to defeat Standard Liege 2-1 despite three key players were missing at the game. The two goals were scored by Valentin Badea.
It is the first time in ten years that a Romanian team reaches the Champions League groups. Ten years ago, in 1996, Steaua defeated another team from Belgium in the last preliminary game, FC Bruges. Eric Deflandre, captain of the Belgium team in 2006, played the 1996 match also.
Another 10 years ago, in 1986, Steaua Bucharest won the Champions Cup semifinal against Anderlecht Bruxelles (yes, another team from Belgium!). They also won the 1986 Champions Cup in a match against Real Madrid.
Steaua Bucharest to play UEFA semifinals
Topic: Sport (Apr 11, 2006)
Rapid’s failure to score in minute 80 sealed off the faith of the first Romanian semi-finalist football team in UEFA Cup F.C. Steaua Bucharest.
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