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The Brabham BT46B. An F1 car that vacuum sucked itself to the track. It raced only a single time before getting banned, and won by over 30 seconds.

In 2004 a $300,000 diamond was lost in an F1 crash. The diamond was attached to the car to promote Ocean's 12 and was never recovered after the crash

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  1. Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) holds the record for the biggest car repair bill (via a successful insurance claim) to fix his crashed McLaren F1 - more than £900k

  2. McLaren designed a "F-duct" into their F1 car wherby a well placed drivers kneecap disrupts the airflow and stalls the rear wing, adding 6 MPH to top speed

  3. Race car driver Niki Lauda was born into a wealthy Austrian family but cut off contact because they did not support his career. Without their support he ended up having to go into debt to continue driving... but ended up becoming one of the most successful F1 drivers in history

  4. F1 driver Damon Hill had cold black tea loaded into his car rather than water so it would heat up during the race giving him a hot beverage.

  5. Gordon Murray, designer of the McLaren F1, was highly critical of VW's Bugatti Veyron. "It's like saying we're going to beat the original Mini because we're going to make a car 10mph faster on its top speed - but it's two foot longer and 200 kilos heavier. That's not car designing."

  6. A modern F1 car is capable of developing 6 G’s of lateral cornering force due to aerodynamic downforce. The aerodynamic downforce allowing this, is typically greater than the weight of the car. That means that, theoretically, they could drive on an upside down surface e.g. on the ceiling.

  7. Current F1 cars are only allowed a maximum engine displacement of 1.6L (98 in³)

  8. People pay close to $3 million to buy Ferrari FXX, but are only allowed to drive it on special track days approved by Ferrari. They can't take their car home because the FXX has advanced technology from Ferrari's F1 team that the company does not want being released to rivals.

  9. A diamond worth $300,000 embedded on the nose of one of the Jaguar F1 team's cars as a promotional stunt for the movie Ocean's 12 disappeared after Austrian driver Chridtian Klein crashed his car.

  10. After being struck by an F1 car, marshal Jansen van Vuuren's body was only identified by assembling all other marshals and realizing he was not among them [graphic footage in comments]

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About the Renault Espace F1, an 800 hp minivan powered by a V10 engine from a Formula 1 car

The legendary Supercar McLaren F1 has parts that simply “times out”. In other words parts of the car are literally on a count down timer of about a year or two, and then forces the car to stop working. - source

1977: Tom Pryce, F1 driver, was killed instantly when struck on the head by a fire extinguisher when his car hit and killed a marshal. The body of the marshal was so unrecognizable, they had to do a row call to find out who was missing. Here is the video of the moment./NSFL - source

Racing driver Jim Clark won his second F1 World Championship, the Indy 500, the Tasman Cup, the French F2 Championship and numerous saloon and sports car races. All in one year.

F1 tyres cost around £1,300 per set, and each car typically replaces their tyres 3 times during a race (roughly every 100km). - source

Airplane wheels are held on by a single central locking nut, like F1 cars.

The Renault F1 team ordered a driver to crash a car in an effort to win a race

Refuelling F1 cars during a race has been banned by the FIA twice. Once from 1984 to 1994 and more recently since 2010.

McLaren F1 tires cost $7,000 but changing the tires costs $50,000. Since it's a race car, it can only balance the tires while driving around a race track so the owner has to rent out a track & pay for transport/liability/EMT's/drivers.

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Graph showing the speed of F1 up to cars up to 2017 through the years and comparing them to other racing classes


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The McLaren Group, owners of the F1 team and McLaren road cars, helped develop Sensodyne and Aquafresh toothpaste brands.

In 1976 Elf Tyrrell introduces a 6 wheeled F1 car, which went on to win 1st place in its fourth race.

The Crazy Frog" was originally one of the original memes called "The Insanity Test" of the noise and a picture of a F1 car.

A race team glued a $300,000 diamond to the front of an F1 car and actually raced it.... Then lost it on the first lap

It takes six full Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet's to transfer all the F1 cars and team equipment to their next race

Nigel Mansell is the only person ever to have won and hold the titles for the F1 world championship and the CART Indy Car World Series simultaneously.

Theres a racing group called F1 Side car which has a person hang on and act as a counterweight in the race!

About the shortest race in history of F1 championships - 1991 Australian Grand Prix. Due to torrential rain almost all cars crashed/stopped and the ones still intact were struggling to maintain control. They had to stop the race 24 minutes from the start. Ayrton Senna won.

All-Electric F1-Style races exist, and the Cars sound like R/C Cars.

F1 driver Lewis Hamilton has a brother who has cerebral palsy. Who is also a professional race car driver.

After his death in 2015, F1 driver Jules Bianchi's car number at the time, 17, was retired in his honour.

Wet-weather tyres of F1 cars can disperse up to 85 (EIGHTY-FIVE) litres of water per second.

Since the tragic death of Ayrton Senna in 1994 the Williams F1 team have included a small Senna logo on all of their formula 1 cars.

In 2015 Rowan "Mr. Bean" Atkinson sold his 1997 McLaren F1 supercar for $12.2 million dollars. Originally purchased for around $850,000, the car went through 2 major accidents before the sale, one of them costing a little over a million to repair. Talk about profit!

British TV refused to air the 1976 F1 Grand Prix season because one of the cars was sponsored by a condom manufacturer

F1-champion Kimi Räikkönen was chased by the french police for speeding. Kimi got away and hid the car. (Article in finnish)

Kimi Räikkönen had started just 23 car races before he made his Formula 1 debut. He was asleep 30 mins before his first F1 race.

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