Do you
know?
Formula 1 teams like McLaren, Ferrari, and Red Bull
spend approx. 320 million USD per
year. This spending includes Car Cost, driver cost, team management cost, and many
other small extra costs.
Fact 1: The Formula 1 automobile racing is
the highest class of single-seater auto car racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and owned by the Formula One Group. The “formula” in the F1 name refers
to a set of rules that all participants need to follow.
Fact 2: The distance of a
Grand Prix may not exceed 305 km, and no race may last for more than two
hours.
Fact 3: The first motoring contest took
place on July 22, 1894, and was organized by a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal.
Fact 4: F1 car is assembled with approx.
80,000 separate components.
Fact 5: An F1 car can accelerate and
decelerate from 0 to 160kph and then back to zero in just four seconds.
Fact 6: A Grand Prix driver changes gears
between 2,500 and 4,000 times in a race.
Fact 7: Only
six women have entered a Grand Prix between 1950 and 2016, and
the number of men entered in that period was 822.
Fact 8: Susie Wolff is the first woman in
22 years to take part in a Formula One Grand Prix weekend during the 2014
British Grand Prix.
Fact 9: Racing tires are designed to last 90 – 120 km. Moreover, F1 car tires
rotate approx. 50 times in a second when the car is running at maximum speed
.
Fact 10: F1 helmets are among the toughest
things in the world.
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