Random F1 driver facts

Neil · PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 11:15 am

Thought this could be a fun thread for the remainder of the off-season. Got the idea from the F1RDT

Markus Winklehock is the only driver to start from last on the grid and to lead the same race and is the only driver to have started first and last on the grid for the same race.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 3:10 pm

Teo Fabi is the driver with most pole positions without a single lap on the lead

Soul Reaver · PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 3:42 pm

Barrichello has a curse of finishing second everywhere, so much so, he is the second driver to have most second place finishes :lol:

(Patrese 1st).

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:09 pm

another interesting fact is that between Brabham's second title in 1960 and the 1986 championship won by Prost there wasn't any champion back to back

kals · PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:26 pm

Only twice in F1 history have successive titles been won by different drivers from the same country - 1987 Nelson Piquet and 1988 Ayrton Senna for Brazil, 2008 Lewis Hamilton and 2009 Jenson Button for England.

Neil · PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:27 pm

Soul Reaver wrote:

Barrichello has a curse of finishing second everywhere, so much so, he is the second driver to have most second place finishes :lol:

(Patrese 1st).

That's a quality fact.

Mika Kimi · PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:29 pm

Thanks to Massa's "return" to Williams, we still have a driver on the grid who somewhere in his career has been a teammate of Michael Schumacher, and we have had this in all the years since 1976 (the year Riccardo Patrese made his debut).

Soul Reaver · PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 6:43 pm

I did not know we had a someone on F1 that was teammate to Schumacher for so many decades.

De Cesaris fan · PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:00 pm

kals wrote:

Only twice in F1 history have successive titles been won by different drivers from the same country - 1987 Nelson Piquet and 1988 Ayrton Senna for Brazil, 2008 Lewis Hamilton and 2009 Jenson Button for England.

1962 - Hill
1963 - Clark
1964 - Surtees
1965 - Clark

(Unless we're talking countries within the UK).

kals · PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:06 pm

De Cesaris fan wrote:

kals wrote:

Only twice in F1 history have successive titles been won by different drivers from the same country - 1987 Nelson Piquet and 1988 Ayrton Senna for Brazil, 2008 Lewis Hamilton and 2009 Jenson Button for England.

1962 - Hill
1963 - Clark
1964 - Surtees
1965 - Clark

(Unless we're talking countries within the UK).

You've answered your own questions at the end as that period covers the UK but is England, Scotland, England, Scotland.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 8:01 pm

1983 was the last season won by a "tobacco free" team until McLaren won in 2008

amq55 · PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 8:08 pm

The Italian and British GP's are the only ones that have occurred uninterrupted since the first ever season in 1950.

Monaco is the longest surviving GP in which the track has always been the same and with less alterations. (3.181km/lap in 1950 vs 3.337km/lap in 2016)

iks · PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 2:55 am

Drivers who won first race with Williams
Keke Rosberg 1982 Dijon (Swiss GP)
Nigel Mansell 1985 Brands Hatch (EU GP)
Thierry Boutsen 1989 Montreal
Damon Hill 1993 Hungaroring
David Coulthard 1995 Estoril
Jacques Villeneuve 1996 Nurburgring
Heinz-Harald Frentzen 1997 Imola
Ralf Schumacher 2001 Imola
Juan Montoya 2001 Monza
Pastor Maldonado 2012 Barcelona

4/10 went on to be world champions but Keke is the only one to win the championship in the same year.

kals · PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 3:21 am

7 of those drivers also won their last GP for Williams.

ptclaus98 · PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 3:53 am

Scotty wrote:

Alan Jones drop kicked a young child's horse after retiring from the French GP in 1978.

Mark Webber is actually two dwarves standing ontop of each other (that's how he's so tall).

Damon Hill retired from the Belgian GP one year because he forgot where he was and the confusion was too much for him.

Jacques Villeneuve has been engaged to all the Spice Girls.

Robert Doornbos is South Korea's 7th most popular racing driver.

Scott Speed's real name is Theodore Joseph Nathaniel Slotover.

Nigel Mansell once finished the 1988 Australian GP despite having severe dehyrdation, 78 broken bones, gout, liver poisioning and spastic colon (or so he says).

Alain Prost got his broken nose after he was headbutted by the horse Alan Jones punched.

Keke Rosberg is actually an alias. His real name is Danny Peters, and he was born in Naples, FL and turned to motor racing in lieu of a lackluster porn career after being woken up from a massive alcohol and drug fueled binge by the sound of engines at the 1976 Long Beach GP.

It is well known that James Hunt was the ultimate ladies man of F1, but did you know that Tora Takagi once had sex with over 60 women in a 3 hour period in the run up to the 1994 Italian GP?

Nelson Piquet was one of the co-founders of MacIntosh

The 2005 USGP debacle was actually not caused by failing Michelin tires, but because Tony George had not paid the full sanctioning fee. It was originally supposed to be just Minardi and Jordan, but Ferrari boss Jean Todt petitioned Bernie on Sunday morning to let his team run so as to not let them suffer the embarrassment of a winless season.

Many people believe the MP4-4 to be one of the most dominating cars in history. But did you know that Ron Dennis almost scrapped the idea from the start. He was concerned that the low slung nature coupled with the turbo charged V6 was going to be slow. He campaigned all throughout the offseason to create a car with a Turbo charged Ford V8 with ground effect. It took his technical staffs best efforts to explain that it would be 100 percent against the rules to build the car. Reluctantly Ron gave in but handed the plans to Lola, who used it as the base for their CART/ChampCar challengers of the early 00's. Who's laughing now, tekko boffins?

ptclaus98 · PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 3:58 am

Also as an aside to Scotty's post, JV is the only F1 driver to put the "Baby" in Baby Spice. In more ways than one! (Two if you're looking for specifics)

(One because he impregnated her, and the other because he's a whining twat)

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 3:35 pm

Scotty wrote:

Jacques Villeneuve has been engaged to all the Spice Girls.

so I guess Ginger Spice took a F1 ride before getting along with Christian Horner

on a more interesting fact, Jim Clark won 1965 championship earning 100% of the valid points, the closest possible to a perfect season (plus with a Indy 500 victory)

Philthy82 · PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:42 am

Actually running the Indy 500 was what cost him a shot at a perfect season, as he chose to miss Monaco to run Indy.

Coldtyre · PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2017 9:13 am

Mika Kimi wrote:

Thanks to Massa's "return" to Williams, we still have a driver on the grid who somewhere in his career has been a teammate of Michael Schumacher, and we have had this in all the years since 1976 (the year Riccardo Patrese made his debut).

This bothers me, because between 1976 and 1991 nobody would consider Patrese as to "have been" a teammate of Michael Schumacher. It has to start at 1991. So we've had people on the grid who were teammates with MS since 1991, nothing remarkable since he joined F1 in 1991 and only left definitively in 2012.

Mika Kimi · PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2017 9:22 am

I'm more bothered by the fact that Patrese actually made his debut in '77 instead of '76. :innocent:

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