Did you know..thread.

Victor Ivanov · May 23, 2012

Did you know that there's only one World Champion from 2012 grid who has won a race in his debut season?

Metalfreaky · May 23, 2012

Did you know that R. Kubicas carsh 2007 at Montreal had a g-force peak of 75

Ole Marius Myrvold · May 23, 2012

Did you know (Erik knows cause I told him). That Ferrari in 1964 had two races where they ran in blue and white. Not red. It was a proxy team called North American Racing Team. Which ran Surtees, Bandini and Pedro Rodriguez , and operated as the factory team for the last two races that season. It was a protest against a mid-engined Ferrari race car!

Did you also know that in 1961 Olivier Gendebien entered a yellow Ferrari in the Belgian GP.

These are the only times where an official, or as in the NART-case "private" Ferrari has raced in F1 in a color other than red.

Oh, and I'm happy to be proved wrong

Chris Preston · May 24, 2012

Metalfreaky said:
Did you know that R. Kubicas carsh 2007 at Montreal had a g-force peak of 75

Did you know that Nigel Mansell's crash in qualifying in Japan reached roughly 76 g's?

Hampus Andersson · May 24, 2012

Edit: scratch that, will get a better one

Metalfreaky · May 24, 2012

Did you know that D. Coulthard drove the 96 Monaco Gp with a Helmet auf MSC because his one was soaking wet after the warm up.

Did you know that in this GP only 4 cars finished.

Hampus Andersson · May 24, 2012

Did you know that the leaders of the championship this year has only managed to grab less then half of the maximum possible points?

125 versus 61.

Hampus Andersson · May 24, 2012

Did you know....that John Surtees is the only one in the world that is a world champion on both 2 and 4 wheels?

William Levesque · May 24, 2012

Hampus Andersson said:
Did you know....that John Surtees is the only one in the world that is a world champion on both 2 and 4 wheels?

Yes

António da Cunha · May 24, 2012

Did you know that the F1 cars have more than one kilometer of cable linked to about 100 sensors and actuators which monitor and control the car?

Chris Preston · May 24, 2012

António da Cunha said:
Did you know that the F1 cars have more than one kilometer of cable linked to about 100 sensors and actuators which monitor and control the car?

That I actually believe, I'm sure if I took all the cables from my computer, steering wheels, mice, etc. it would total a few hundred metres lol. So in an F1 car which is way more technologically advanced I could see them having 1km of cable.

Victor Ivanov · May 25, 2012

Metalfreaky said:
Did you know that D. Coulthard drove the 96 Monaco Gp with a Helmet auf MSC because his one was soaking wet after the warm up.

Did you know that in this GP only 4 cars finished.

Did you know that actually only 3 cars finished not 4?

Frenzen stopped at the last lap and he didn't cross the checkered flag

Oh and did you know this was the first and only win for Panis?

Dmitry Zaharov · May 25, 2012

Victor Ivanov said:
Did you know that actually only 3 cars finished not 4? Frenzen stopped at the last lap and he didn't cross the checkered flag Oh and did you know this was the first and only win for Panis?

Did you know he actually drove into pitlane on a lap before race was finished (not on last lap). An there was no actual last lap since race was finished after 2 hours. Yes, i'm pedantic

Frentzen could have won, but he broke his front wing while trying to pass moving chicane Irvine. Panis was more patient

Victor Ivanov · May 25, 2012

Did you know that the last lap they made is the actual LAST lap cause they didn't run one more

Sauber's garaje was after the start-finish line so he actually started the last lap

Sorry for being pedantic hahahah

Dmitry Zaharov · May 25, 2012

Victor Ivanov said:
Did you know that the last lap they made is the actual LAST lap cause they didn't run one more Sauber's garaje was after the start-finish line so he actually started the last lap Sorry for being pedantic hahahah

Hmm, no i think that's not true. Start-finish line is (and was in 96) near the pit exit, and judgin from race video Sauber boxes were definitely not last, so I don't think he started last lap.