F1 Race facts
While investigating facts about F1 Race, I found out little known, but curios details like:
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.
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
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 32 of the best facts about F1 Race I managed to collect.
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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.
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Ayrton Senna once clipped a wall and retired from an F1 race, not because he made a mistake, but because the 20 ton wall had been moved 4mm.
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In 1957, Argentine F1 driver Juan Manuel Fangio broke the lap time record at the German Grand Prix 10 times in one race. In 22 laps he broke the standing record then beat his own record 9 more times. After making up a 48 second deficit he passed the leader on the last lap to take the win.
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Before Ayrton Senna's last F1 race he pleaded to a photographer, “I don’t want to race, they’re making me race”, later that day he was involved in an accident that took his life.
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Racing driver Jackie Stewart lost 57 competitors, often friends, to crashes over 11 years. He eventually became a leader in F1 safety campaigns.
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At the end of the 2002 F1 US Grand Prix race leader Michael Schumacher slowed down in order to create an artificial photo finish between him and his Ferrari teammate Barrichello, who had let Schumacher pass in an earlier race. Barichello won the race by 0.011 seconds, the closest ever F1 finish.
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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.
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F1 tyres cost around £1,300 per set, and each car typically replaces their tyres 3 times during a race (roughly every 100km).
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A Badminton shuttlecock is the fastest recorded object in sports, with a world record of 253mph (407kmh), which is 21mph faster than the fastest speed ever recorded in an F1 race.
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From 1981 to 1984, F1 hosted a race in the Caesars Palace parking lot in Las Vegas
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In the 1976 season of Formula 1, the BBC pulled out of broadcasting some of the early races because the Surtees F1 Team was sponsored by Durex, the condom company.
Lella Lombardi is the only female driver to ever earn points in a F1 race. In 1975, she was in 6th place in the Spanish GP when the race was stopped due to a major accident, and since the race wasn't at least 75% completed, they only awarded half the points. She earned 0.5 point. - source
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. - source
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.
F1 driver Lewis Hamilton can lose up to 10 pounds during a 90 minute race because of the g-forces applied to his body, the outside temperature and the heat generated from his multi-layer fire proof suit.
The Singapore Tourism Board encouraged office buildings to keep their lights on during the first F1 night race to "facilitate a captivating night-view of Singapore for international TV"
In 1976 Elf Tyrrell introduces a 6 wheeled F1 car, which went on to win 1st place in its fourth race.
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
