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45 unusual facts about Formula One


André Milhoux

He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, the 1956 German Grand Prix on 5 August 1956, however he had to retire after 15 laps due to an engine failure.

Archie Scott Brown

William Archibald Scott Brown, known as Archie, (13 May 1927, Paisley, Renfrewshire – 19 May 1958, Heusy, Belgium) was a British Formula One and sports car racing driver from Scotland.

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

The phrase "Grand Prix Priest" refers to Horan's previous protest, in which he ran onto the track at the Silverstone Circuit during the Formula One 2003 British Grand Prix, intentionally running directly into the path of oncoming cars.

Belleville washer

Belleville washers are seen on Formula One cars, as they provide extremely detailed tuning ability.

Carlos Menditeguy

He entered 11 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, achieving one podium, and scoring a total of nine championship points.

CD-adapco

Nearly 75% of the points won during the 2005 Formula One season were awarded to drivers of cars that were designed with STAR-CD.

Csaba Csere

He specialized in stories about technical issues and first-person experiences in competition machines ranging from NASCAR stock cars to Formula One cars.

Daimler Roadliner

It was also a noisy unit in operation, said to sound like a contemporary Formula One racing car.

Desmond Titterington

He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, on July 14, 1956.

Diran Noubar

In 2009, Diran followed Portuguese ex-F1 and current WTCC driver Tiago Monteiro around the world for a whole year, shooting an extraordinary movie titled "Tiago Monteiro, The Man In Every Shot".

Dysthanasia

The term was used frequently in the investigation into the death of Formula One driver Ayrton Senna in 1994.

Ellesborough

Notable people who live in the village include former Formula One world champion racing driver Sir Jackie Stewart and the actor Sir David Jason.

Enstone

This is now the site of the Whiteways Technical Centre, where the Formula One motor racing Lotus F1 Team is based.

FC Echichens

The football club is famous for having 7-time World Formula One Champion Michael Schumacher in their squad.

Guy Edwards

Best known for his sportscar and British Formula One career, as well as for brokering sponsorship deals, Edwards participated in 17 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 13 January 1974.

Henry Pelham Lee

In 1917, Lee's engine company became Coventry Climax Engines, a company which, in the 1960s, produced championship Formula One and Two racing engines.

Hiroshi Fushida

He unsuccessfully entered two Formula One Grands Prix with Maki, the first in The Netherlands in 1975 where a blown engine prevented him from starting, and the second at the British GP the same year, where he failed to qualify.

Jari Porttila

He focuses usually on skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combined, Formula One, and ice hockey, but is able to commentate on almost everything in sports.

Juan Jover

In 1951 he participated in the Formula One 1951 Spanish Grand Prix, qualifying 18th, but he did not start the race after blowing his engine.

Kerpen

Recently Kerpen has become more famous as being the hometown of the Catholic priest and social reformer Adolph Kolping and the Formula One racing drivers Michael Schumacher and his brother Ralf Schumacher as well as Wolfgang von Trips and reggae artist Patrice Bart-Williams.

KLIA Expressway

During Formula One Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix championship every year it become as a main route to Sepang F1 Circuit from Kuala Lumpur.

Lorette, Loire

Alain Prost born 24 February 1955 at the clinique Les Berceaux - 4-time Formula One champion

Mariam Bukamal

April 2009 Presented a program in English about Sebastien Buemi of the Torro Rosso team, Formula One driver, and three-day live coverage of the Bahrain grand prix (Formula One).

Mercedes-Benz 500K

When the car collection of Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone was auctioned in October 2007 it included five pre-war Mercedes, and his 500K Special Cabriolet fetched almost £700,000 (US$1.45 million).

Mieke Buchan

SPORTS - Throughout her career Buchan has covered events including the Olympic Games, the US Open, and French Open tennis tournaments (for Tennis Channel), Australian Open Tennis (for Triple M) World Cup Soccer (SBS), the Super Bowl, Formula One, the Red Bull Air Race World Championship (Fox Sports America), the Crown Australian Poker Championship (Aussie Millions), Melbourne Cup Carnival.

Milk and Cereal

The original video spawned several recreations, including one by two students from the University of California, one featuring the puppet Yoda from Star Wars, another by a single high school student named Riley Harmon, who "cloned" himself in post-production to simulate the duet, and one by former Formula One driver Scott Speed along with his friend and fellow race driver Colin Fleming.

Monisha Kaltenborn

From 2001, she has been a member of its Management Board, and in early 2010, following the team's return to independent status following the withdrawal of former partner BMW, she was appointed CEO of Sauber Motorsport AG.

Nazan Eckes

Nazan Eckes was briefly part of the presenting team for RTL's coverage of Formula One, presenting pieces on the city and/or country hosting the event.

New Miami, Ohio

One of Armco's best-known products may be the crash barriers installed around many auto-racing tracks, particularly in Formula One.

Nilai Komuter station

For the former, tents and additional ticket counters are usually prepared in anticipation of an increased influx of passengers during the Malaysian leg of the Formula One tournament.

Offshore powerboat racing

One of the benefits of sponsoring an offshore powerboat team, as stated by team owner and driver Bjørn Rune Gjelsten, is that in Formula One motor racing, 1 million will only allow a small space, whereas in offshore powerboating, this covers the whole of the boat.

Porsche 360

By 1952 Formula One rules had changed and while Dusio attempted to source a 2 liter motor for the car a lack of funds relegated one of the most advanced Grand Prix cars of its day to a few Formula Libre events and quick retirement.

Porthleven

Former motor racing driver Chris Craft, who competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race for over a decade, including a third-placed finish in 1976, as well as two races in Formula One, was born in Porthleven.

Posillipo

Franco Ambrosio, the wheat magnate and Formula One racing team sponsor, lived in Posillipo until his death in 2009.

Real Time Race

In a televised interview for BBC Click Mark Wilkin, Formula One editor of the BBC, commented that viewers wanted something more sophisticated than CGI video games.

Renault Grand Prix

Michelin tyres were also used hundred years later for Renault's 2006 World Championship winning Formula One car, the Renault R26.

Royal Stewart tartan

The tartan had also become well known in motor racing circles a decade earlier, as three-time Formula One World Champion Jackie Stewart used a distinctive band of Royal Stewart tartan around his crash helmet.

Speedway World Championship

Gradually, it became apparent that the single-night event was getting obsolete, and a Grand Prix series similar to that used in Formula One and MotoGP was implemented in 1995 - while the system with qualifiers and a final was now used to qualify riders for the next Grand Prix series.

Spencer Summers

His son Shane Summers was a racing driver who competed in a few non-Championship Formula One races, but was killed in an accident practicing for the 1961 Silver City Trophy at the Brands Hatch circuit in Kent.

TBWA Worldwide

It hosted a game where users could leave objects on a race track to stop the then Formula One leader, Lewis Hamilton, from winning the last grand prix of the year in Brazil.

Ted Lapidus

Lapidus sponsored the French Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives Formula One auto racing team in 1990 via the Ted Lapidus product name.

Tom Rubython

Tom Rubython is a British journalist, entrepreneur and publisher with an interest in business topics and Formula One racing.

Tony Scott Andrews

Tony Scott Andrews was appointed as permanent chief steward of the Formula One World Championship by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) at the start of the 2006 season.

Yordan Miliev

Outside of football, he lists his hobbies as watching films and Formula One.

Zeltweg

The Zeltweg Airfield was used as a racing circuit in the 1960s and hosted the Formula One Grand Prix in 1964.


1954 French Grand Prix

The 1954 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Reims on 4 July 1954, the same date of 1954 Football (Soccer) World Cup Final.

1965 Italian Grand Prix

The 1965 Italian Grand Prix (formally the XXXVI Gran Premio d'Italia) was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on September 12, 1965.

1995 Italian Grand Prix

The 1995 Italian Grand Prix (formally the LXVI Pioneer Gran Premio d'Italia) was a Formula One motor race held on September 10, 1995 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy.

2001 European Grand Prix

The 2001 European Grand Prix (formally the XLV Warsteiner Grand Prix of Europe) was a Formula One motor race on June 24, 2001 held at Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany.

2001 French Grand Prix

The 2001 French Grand Prix (formally the Mobil 1 Grand Prix de France) was a Formula One motor race held at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours, France on 1 July 2001.

2005 German Grand Prix

The 2005 German Grand Prix (formally the LXVII Großer Mobil 1 Preis von Deutschland) was a Formula One motor race, held on July 24, 2005 at the Hockenheimring in Hockenheim, Germany.

2009 Italian Grand Prix

The 2009 Italian Grand Prix (formally the LXXX Gran Premio Santander d'Italia) was a Formula One motor race held on September 13, 2009 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy.

Aldo Costa

Aldo Costa (born 5 June 1961) is an Italian engineer and the Engineering Director of the Mercedes Formula One team.

Bhanurangsi Savangwongse

His most famous son is the Formula One racer, Prince Birabongse Bhanutej Bhanubandh, better known as Prince Bira.

Buick V8 engine

Surplus engine blocks of the Oldsmobile (6-bolt-per-cylinder) version of this engine formed the basis of the Australian Formula One Repco V8 used by Brabham to win the 1966 Formula One world championship.

Cameron McConville

In 2007, Cameron began a new motorsport reporting role with Channel Ten, including co-hosting the Formula One coverage.

Consalvo Sanesi

Consalvo Sanesi (28 March 1911, Terranuova Bracciolini, Arezzo – 28 July 1998, Milan) was best known as the Alfa Romeo works' test driver in the period following World War II, but he also competed in five Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on September 3, 1950.

Delia Scala

During the mid-1950s she gained much publicity for her relationship with Formula One race car driver Eugenio Castellotti.

Ferrari 290 MM

Engine was a V12 at 60°, derived from the 4.5 liter which was then used in the scuderia's Formula One cars.

Ford Mustang I

The Mustang I made its formal debut at the United States Grand Prix in Watkins Glen, New York on October 7, 1962, where test driver and contemporary Formula One race driver Dan Gurney lapped the track in a demonstration using the second "race" prototype.

Gerhard Hennige

In the 1990s, he served as the conditioning coach for Formula One racer Michael Schumacher.

Grand Prix du Comminges

After World War II, the creation of Formula One saw the Grand Prix du Comminges modified to a Formula Two event but, with the top drivers no longer competing, economics dictated cancellation after the 1952 race.

Grand Prix of Indianapolis

The race will be contested on a new, modified layout of the circuit previously used for the Formula One United States Grand Prix as well as the Moto GP motorcycle event.

Harry Stiller

He is particularly well known for being the person responsible for starting Alan Jones in Formula One in 1975 alongside James Hunt in the Hesketh F1 team.

Heinz-Harald Frentzen

Heinz-Harald Frentzen (also known as 'HHF'), (born 18 May 1967, in Mönchengladbach) is a German racing driver most famous for his career in Formula One.

Hoon

Former Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton was described as a "hoon" by a magistrate as he fined him A$500 after being caught by Victoria Police performing fishtails and burnouts in his Mercedes-AMG C63 two days before the 2010 Australian Grand Prix.

Hungaroring

The Hungaroring is a motor-racing circuit in Mogyoród, Hungary where the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix is held.

Juan Sánchez Vidal

Eventually, his hobby led him to meet some airline personalities, some of them famous celebrities, like Niki Lauda, Formula One champion and owner of Lauda Air.

Lella Lombardi

Born in Frugarolo, Piedmont, she participated in 17 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 20 July 1974.

Matra MS620

Fitted with a 1.9-litre version of the BRM Formula One V8 engine, four cars were built, but were mostly used as developmental cars.

Matthew Brabham

Brabham is a third-generation racing driver; he is the son of Geoff Brabham and the grandson of three time Formula One World Champion Sir Jack Brabham.

Mazda MXR-01

Instead, teams would be required to use technologically advanced V10 powerplants similar to those used in Formula One.

Mo Nunn

He ran the Ensign Formula One team in the late 1970s and early 80s, and later worked for Chip Ganassi's highly successful Champ Car team, before founding Mo Nunn Racing for the 2000 season.

Nivelles-Baulers

Built in 1971, the circuit hosted two rounds of the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix in 1972 and 1974 during the time when the race was supposed to alternate between Walloon and Flemish circuits.

Skid block

Initially applied to Formula One cars in 1994, it has also been used in other categories including Formula 3000 and Formula Three.

Spirit 201

The Spirit 201 was a Formula One/Formula Two racing car designed by John Baldwin and Spirit Racing co-founder Gordon Coppuck which was raced in European Formula Two from 1982 to 1984 and in Formula One in 1983.

Suresh Kalmadi

Mr Kalmadi, asf the Indian Olympic Association, signed an agreement to bring the Formula One Grand Prix to India in 2007.

Tochigi Prefecture

The track also hosts many other race events including Formula One and motorcycle races as well as festivals and fireworks events.

Ulrich Bez

While at Porsche, he led Vehicle Research and Development and motor sport programmes in Formula One and World Endurance Championship in Indianapolis and Le Mans.

Williams FW09

The problems with the 1984 chassis were noted by broadcaster Clive James, opining in FOCA's season review video that Rosberg had managed "to make the Williams look driveable, which everyone including Frank Williams knew it really wasn't".