Grand Prix facts
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Niki Lauda asked his fellow drivers in 1976 to boycott the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring due to safety concerns even after he was the fastest on the track. Fellow drivers declined and Lauda suffered a crash in the second lap which left him with half face and scalp burned.
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In 2004 a flawless diamond worth $300,000 was attached to the nose cone of each Jaguar Formula One car in order to promote the film Ocean’s 12. On the first lap of the Monaco Grand Prix, one of the drivers crashed into a barrier, and the diamond was lost.
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After crashing during the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix, Ayrton Senna's excuse was that the "wall must have moved". Nobody believed him, until he insisted it was checked. The wall had moved less than half an inch nearer the track as a result of an earlier crash.
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When Australian driver Alan Jones won the 1977 Austrian Formula 1 Grand Prix, the race organisers didn't have a copy of his national anthem to play at the podium ceremony (unaware that it was God Save The Queen). Instead, a drunk person played "Happy Birthday" on a trumpet.
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Sir Richard Branson once lost a bet with Air Asia CEO Tony Fernandes on the winner of the 2010 F1 Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi. The loser had to work as a female flight attendant on the winner's airline.
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At the 2012 International Shooting Grand Prix gold medalist Maria Dmitrienko of Kazakhstan had to listen to the entire parody of O’ Kazakhstan from Borat. The incident resulted from the wrong song being downloaded from YouTube at the last minute. Senior officials of Kazakhstan were furious
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In the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix, Jaguar fitted $300k diamonds to fronts of two of their Formula 1 cars to advertise "Ocean's Twelve". One of the cars crashed on the first lap, and the diamond, uninsured due to the nature of the stunt, was, and still remains, lost.
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In 2012, the mock anthem of Kazakhstan, from "Borat" was mistakenly played at the Amir of Kuwait International Shooting Grand Prix, instead of the actual one.
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The Triple Crown of Motorsports, defined as winning the Indianapolis 500, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the Monaco Grand Prix, has only been completed by one driver ever: Graham Hill.
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Ayrton Senna had planned to raise an Austrian flag in honour of Roland Ratzenberger after he crashed and died in 1994 San Marino Grand Prix qualifiers. Senna also died in that very race. When track officials examined Sennas car, they found the furled Austrian flag in the wreckage.
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After Wolfgang Von Trips' death at the 1961 Italian Grand Prix, his go kart track was bought by Rolf Schumacher, whose sons made their first laps there. One of them, Michael, later became the first German to win a full-length grand prix since Von Trips' win at Aintree in 1961.
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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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Scuderia Ferrari decided to remove all sponsors and sport a black nose at the 2001 Italian Grand Prix at Monza to pay respects to the victims of 9/11.
Ernst Loof, the record holder for the shortest F1 career. In his first, and last, Grand Prix, he traveled 6 feet (2 metres) off the starting grid before retiring due to a malfunction. - source
In the 2005 Formula One United States Grand Prix, 14 of the 20 cars quit the race after the formation lap out of protest since their Michelin tires were found unsafe for the final turn. - source
In 1929 a Bugatti owned by a private party won the Monaco Grand Prix.
Bugatti Type 13s were entered into the Brescia Grand Prix in 1921. It was unbeatable and four Bugatti Type 13s placed in first, second, third, and fourth places in the race.
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In the 1960 Belgian Grand Prix, two drivers died. One was flung from his car into barbed wire and beheaded. The other was hit in the face by a bird and subsequently crashed.
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Graham Hill is the only racecar driver to have won the Triple Crown of Motorsport, consisting of the Monaco Grand Prix, the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 hours of Le Mans.
Elie Wiesel has won a multitude of awards for his work including the Ingram Merrill award, Holocaust Memorial Award, Jabotinsky Medal, Prix Livre Inter, Grand Prize in Literature, Commander in the French Legion of Honor, Us Congressional Gold Medal, Medal of Liberty, Nobel Peace Prize, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom etc...
The Type 13 racer was a 660 pound sports car. The car was entered into the 1911 French Grand Prix in Le Mans. It won second place after the seven hour race.
During the 2009 Monaco Grand Prix, billboard model Jessiqa Pace's face was so distracting to the drivers her ad had to be taken down
One of Korea's 10 tallest men ever is Choi Hong Man. Japanese call him the "Korean Monster." He stands 7'2", weighs 331 pounds, was 2005 K-1 World Grand Prix Seoul Champion and had a rap group with a Korean supermodel called "Beauty and the Beast"
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