What is the most exciting F1 Trivia you know or have heard of ?

Question

i saw this one:

Nicky is one day younger than the double Formula One champion Fernando Alonso loooool

and i figured out that that Martin Brundle raced Ayrton Senna !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

loool not really exciting. lol

Answer 1

-Nelson Piquet once jumped out of his car whilst it was travelling down the pits, just so he could see the look on everyone's face when a car with no driver in rolled past! (He actually managed to injure himself jumping out.)

-Al Pease is the only F1 driver to be disqualified from a race for driving too slowly. He was racing in a 3 year old car, and qualified 11 seconds off pole position. When he was black flagged he had done 22 laps, but the leaders were up to lap 40!

-Wurz always wore one blue boot and one red one for luck.

-Michael Schumacher was the first (and so far only) driver to finish (and win) a race in the pit lane at the 1998 British Grand Prix. He was giving a stop-and-go penalty near the end of the race, but the Ferrari team decided to bring him in on the last lap. As the start-finish line was before his pit box, he won the race before he served his penalty! After the race the FIA decided that the penalty they had given Schumacher was actually unfair in the first place.

Answer 2

I don't know whether its true but Michael Schumacher raced with a potentially fatal fracture in his neck vertebrae during the 1995 season. It wasn't diagnosed until an end of season check up.

Weird!

I like the frogs in the hotel room story!

Answer 3

Gerhard Burger put 20 frogs in Senna's hotel room one night

Answer 4

Diego Maradonna trying his hand at it

Answer 5

Those grid girls always get me excited : )

Edit:

F1 was started in 1950 but overalls and helmets were NOT MANDATORY until 1963-65.  That's at least 13 years of them driving in those deathtraps without them!

Answer 6

in monaco GP a driver on average will exceed 6 G's on the turn

Answer 7

More Berger trivia - He threw Ayrtons new briefcase out of a helicopter!! (Senna had said it was indestructible... Gerhard promptly tested it!!!)

Berger also replaced Ayrton's passport photo with a picture of a  man's 'area'... Senna's fame meant that it wasn't checked much, but he went to Argentina and was held there because of the photo lol Senna glued all Berger's credit cards together as a retaliation..

lol it was never meant to be nasty... they were very close friends.

Nelson Piquet once described Nigel Mansell's wife as the ugliest in the world and called Nige an 'uneducated blockhead'... this is when they were teammates lol!!!

Brundle and Senna raced in F3 together... as well as F1..

If Ron Dennis' first team was more successful... Lewis Hamilton could be driving a Rondel-Mercedes!!! in lovely Blue and maroon... lol

Answer 8

1979 F1 world champion Jody Scheckter failed a driving test with the South African army for "A lack of coordination"

Answer 9

Senna and Mauricio Gugelmin filled Bergers shoes with shaving foam on a train in Japan and berger had to go to a dinner with a tuxedo and trainers on because of it.

Theres loads of practical jokes by Berger. When Senna shouted at him for putting frogs in his bed, Berger said 'Didn't you find the snake?'

Oh and Kimi's excuse for missing Micahel's party for his last race in Brazil - 'I was havin a sh*t.'

Answer 10

Luigi Faioli was 53 years and 22 days old when he won the Grand Prix of France in 1951 is the oldest winner while Louis Chiron raced at the age of 59.

Fernando Alonso is the youngest at 22 years and 27 days to win a GP (Hungarian Grand Prix in 2003 with a comfortable 16.7 second advantage over runner-up Raikkonen. Alonso was with this also the first Spaniard to win a Grand Prix.)

Mike Tackwel was nineteen years, five months and 29 days when he started in the GP of Canada in 1980. He crashed in the race and was not able to start in the restart. He was never seen since in the F1 is the youngest driver.

Jackie Stewart won the GP of Spain in 1969 with two laps ahead of Bruce McLaren, who became second

Peter Gethin won the Grand Prix of 1971 with an average speed of 242.616 km/h.

Juan Manuel Fangio became world champion in 1957 at the age of 47, the oldest to do so.

At the Grand Prix of Germany in 1953, there were 34 cars starting the race.

At the Grand Prix of Italy in 1965, the leading position changed 41 times to another driver

Answer 11

Lella Lombardi is the only female driver to finish in the points, 6TH at the Spainish GP in 1975!

At the 1992 British GP the hopeless Andrea Moda F1 team expected driver Perry Mcarthy to qualify on wet tyres- it was a bone dry sunny day!

Andrea De Cesaris started 208 GPs but NEVER won any!

Answer 12

some years back apparently the tyres were inflated with hydrogen, only problem with that urban myth is hydrogen is extremely explosive!  whoever put the lie out obviously didnt know their basic science.

Answer 13

I guess nobody remember that any and all the F-1 drivers, then, and now (and in the future) started as clumsy drivers, nervous and unsure of themselves. It was only because of the patience and the encouragement of their coaches that they made their mark felt in the sport. Think about it.

Answer 14

raikkonen- "i was having a ****".  "

Martin Brundle- "That must mean you will have a lighter car on the grid"

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4HHUkHbgAt...