Did you know..thread.

Michael Brown · Jun 10, 2012

Did you know... that there has been 6 championship leader changes in 7 races in the 2012 season? Button, Alonso, Hamilton, Vettel, Alonso, Hamilton. Only after the Spanish Grand Prix has there been no leader change.

Edit: I'd also like to add that there had been 4 leader changes after round 7 in 2010, which has the record for most leader changes in a season (11)

Victor Ivanov · Jun 11, 2012

Did you realize there was no SC yesterday?

Kristian Nenov · Jun 11, 2012

Did you know, that the record of most different race winners is 11 during 1982.

Kristian Nenov · Jun 11, 2012

Did you know that the most different CONSECUTIVE race winners is 9, and we're still not setting a record.

Hampus Andersson · Jun 12, 2012

Awesome stuff guys.

Victor Ivanov · Jun 12, 2012

Did you know that Hamilton has only finished in 3 races in Canada and all three were wins?

ufunacaoenn · Jul 8, 2012

I heard this yesterday on the Swedish TV (I will make my reserch after the race) but ATM Alonsos 20p lead is almost 3 times more then any other driver have had. (I belive the biggest lead before was 7p with Button after winning Melbourne)

Bradley Vanian · Jul 8, 2012

Did you know the only time a Ferrari powered car that wasn't a Ferrari won a race was the 2008 Italian GP when Vettel won in a Toro Rosso with a Ferrari Engine.

Hampus Andersson · Jul 13, 2012

Did you know....That Schumacher is the only person on the grid that has actually raced with Senna?

Chris Jenkins · Jul 13, 2012

Was De La Rosa not around before 94?

ufunacaoenn · Jul 13, 2012

Chris Jenkins said:
Was De La Rosa not around before 94?

DLR made his debut into F1 in 1999.

Hampus Andersson · Jul 13, 2012

Chris Jenkins said:
Was De La Rosa not around before 94?

Nope started in F1 1998. Jordan test driver. Full season is as Georgios says, 99.
Although you might think he out of anyone would be the true Veteran of F1

Really respect Pedro, a true racer. F the car, i-just-want-to-race type of attitude.

Michael Brown · Jul 20, 2012

Did you know that the championship leader has not won a race in 2012? I think it was also like this in 2010.

Chris Preston · Jul 20, 2012

Michael Brown said:
Did you know that the championship leader has not won a race in 2012? I think it was also like this in 2010.

Huh? Alonso has won two races in 2012...

Michael Brown · Jul 20, 2012

Chris Preston said:
Huh? Alonso has won two races in 2012...

What I mean is the driver who went into each Grand Prix leading the championship never won. When they did win, they weren't leading the WDC.

Button lead going into Malaysia, but Alonso won, and so on.

Lars Brugman · Jul 22, 2012

Did you know that there hasn't ever been a Dutch grand prix winner?

Michael Brown · Jul 23, 2012

Michael Brown said:
Did you know that the championship leader has not won a race in 2012? I think it was also like this in 2010.

Scratch that.

And yes, the championship leader going into each Grand Prix in 2010 never won that race.

Rokas Charlapavicius · Jul 24, 2012

Did you know that the last time a Grand Prix victory was shared between two drivers was in 1962 Mexican GP when the legendary Jim Clark and Trevor Taylor shared the win.
And did you know that Clark had to claw back the 57 second deficit on the leaders when he took over the car and eventually won by a narrow margin of 1 min? And did you also know that this "shared win" would not had happened if Clark was not disqualified for a push start in the first place?

Jack Sargent · Jul 24, 2012

Did you know that...........

The saying "Going Harry Flatters" is cockney rhyming slang for "going like the clappers" which means to go very fast.

The saying "going like the clappers" has two possible origins.......

1) The metal striker inside a bell is called a clapper or a hammer and can move very fast and repetitively.

2) An old Shrove Tuesday custom where people would beg by "clapping"stones together to alert farmhouses to thier presence.

What does this have to do with F1??? Well I only just clocked that it had to be F1 related.....

...der... but I remember reading "Harry Flatters" in a book called "The Last Road Race" about the Pescara GP and I really liked the saying. I think it was a widely used saying in that time of racing.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Road-R...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343166883&sr=1-1

BTW it is a fantastic read if you like that era of racing.

Hampus Andersson · Aug 7, 2012

Did you know....that in the British GP 1954, a total of seven drivers all got "fastest lap" of the race?

Ascari, Fangio, Behra, Gonzáles, Hawthorn, Marimón and Moss all set a time of 1.50s