Did you know..thread.

Rokas Charlapavicius · Aug 7, 2012

Did you know that 1982 f1 season was the season that witnessed most first time winners:

Riccardo Patrese @ Monaco
Patrick Tambay @ Hockenheim
Elio de Angelis @ Österreichring
Keke Rosberg @ Dijon (which was a Swiss GP despite the fact that the track was located in France)
Michele Alboreto @ Caesars Palace

The middle 3 made it a first time winner for three races in succession, and for Rosberg that win was enough to become world champion at the end of a season.

ufunacaoenn · Aug 13, 2012

Did you know that Damon Hill won silver in the olympics?

Source: http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/86351.html

Rokas Charlapavicius · Aug 19, 2012

Did you know that Ferguson P99 was the first 4WD car, but also the last frond engined car to win a Formula One event? It won 1961 International Gold Cup being driven by the legend Stirling Moss.

Erik Tveit · Aug 19, 2012

The fastest ever F1 lap at Nordschleife, was Niki Lauda in 1975 in qualy. Producing a lap time of 6:58.6, with a average speed of 196.289 km/h.

Andrew Holmes · Aug 28, 2012

Victor Ivanov said:
Did you know that once F1 car reaches 250 km/h it can drive upside down?

Supposedly but no-one has the guts to find out

Hampus Andersson · Sep 1, 2012

andrewholmes17 said:
Supposedly but no-one has the guts to find out

Where do i send my application?

Andrew Holmes · Sep 2, 2012

Hampus Andersson said:
Where do i send my application?

LOL!

Bradley Vanian · Sep 2, 2012

Did you know... Romain Grosjean has never completed a racing lap in a F1 Race at Spa. Both times he has raced at Spa, he has been the main cause of a pile-up which has caused both the Championship Leader + Hamilton to retire.

Scott Søvik · Sep 2, 2012

Did you know that no driver (until today) has gotten a race ban in F1 in 18 years?

Markus Neumann · Sep 3, 2012

Scott Søvik said:
Did you know that no driver (until today) has gotten a race ban in F1 in 18 years?

That's not correct. Massa got a one-race ban in 2002.

Andrew Holmes · Sep 3, 2012

Markus Neumann said:
That's not correct. Massa got a one-race ban in 2002.

friends chandler quote Ross v Russ in crossword. "and weenie number two has it". just jokin ;-)

Chris Jenkins · Sep 3, 2012

Markus Neumann said:
That's not correct. Massa got a one-race ban in 2002.

He didn't get a ban, he had a 10 place grid penalty and Sauber elected for him not to race.

Markus Neumann · Sep 3, 2012

Yeah, I just read that on F1 Fanatic too, immediately went to RD, fully expecting someone to rub it in, and there you go

Hampus Andersson · Sep 9, 2012

Did you know....that only one driver has managed to get himself into Q3 every single time this year?

ufunacaoenn · Sep 9, 2012

Is it Lewis?

Jordi Casademunt · Sep 10, 2012

Did you know...

-That in terms of world championships distribution, 2000-2011 mirrors 1950-1961? With:

1 driver with 5 championships->Fangio/Schumacher
2 drivers with 2 championships->Ascari-Brabham/Alonso-Vettel
3 drivers with 1 championship->Farina-Hawthorn-Phil Hill/Räikkönen-Hamilton-Button

-That the longest streak of non-repeating champions is 7, and happened twice, first between 1964 and 1970 (Surtees-Clark-Brabham-Hulme-Hill-Stewart-Rindt) and again between 1976 and 1982 (Hunt-Lauda-Andretti-Scheckter-Jones-Piquet-Rosberg)?

-That the 2000's were the first decade since the 60's in which no brazilian driver took a driver's championship?

-That the longest streak of non-repeating driver championship winning cars (talking about WDC here) is 5, and happened between 2006 and 2010? Renault-Ferrari-McLaren-BrawnGP-Red Bull.

And a somewhat sad one to finish.

-That, of the 4 champions that died in a racetrack crash while they were still activein Formula 1, only 2 (Jochen Rindt and Ayrton Senna) died driving a Formula 1 car?

Some of these are probably well known, but I didn't know them.

Markus Neumann · Sep 11, 2012

Since Monza, Massa has 11 wins, 11 second, 11 third and 11 fourth places

Jamie Fluke · Sep 12, 2012

Did you know that Chris Amon holds the record for the most different makes of car raced by a Formula 1 World Championship driver, with 13.

Hampus Andersson · Sep 12, 2012

Checked him out on Wiki and started laughing my ass of

thanks.

Christopher Arthur AmonMBE (born 20 July 1943 in Bulls, New Zealand) is a former motor racing driver. He was active in Formula One - racing in the 1960s and 1970s - and is widely regarded to be one of the best F1 drivers never to win a championship Grand Prix. His reputation for bad luck was such that fellow driver Mario Andretti once joked that "if he became an undertaker, people would stop dying". Apart from driving, Chris Amon also ran his own F1 team for a short period in 1974. Away from F1, Amon had some success in sports car racing, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 1966.