Formula One

The reigning Driver's Champion is Sebastian Vettel and Red bull are the reigning constructor champions, but the number 1 formula 1 driver ever would probably be Ayrton Senna. Senna was the best but Micheal Schumacher would be the most successful.

Giacomo Agostini has the most Moto GP championships with 15 total. Rossi has now matched Mike Hailwood and Carlo Ubbiali with nine titles in all classes. Rossi is currently the world champion as of now.

The current shortest F1 driver is Felipe Massa, who measures 1.66m (5 feet, 5 1/2 inches).

Because they have high rpm. 17000-19000, that equals to about 300bhp per litre.

5'4

It depends on the car, because different manufacturers will build different cars and use different designs. A car has to weigh at least 605kg to enter a race, including the driver, fluids and on-board cameras. The overall weight will be determined by the starting weight, fuel and the drivers weight.

Probably the Canadian Grand Prix, seeing as there were many crashes, a red flag and lots of rain, also the unlickely sight of Sebastian Vettel making a mistake came and Button took advantage and won.

Furthermore, the most boring race was obviously the European Grand Prix (Valencia) as it always is :)

Ayrton Senna 1st May 1994 at San Marino GP

Day before Roland Ratzenburger died.

Day before that, Rubens Barrichello had a nasty accident.

Probably Formula One's darkest weekend.

Yes. Every driver earns money for each race they compete in, no matter if they win or end up in last place.

For example, the Nascar Cup Series race at Kentucky Speedway on June 30, 2012:

1st place - Brad Keselowski ($176,470.)

43rd place - Scott Riggs ($69,317.)

Essentially F1 car brakes are the same as on your road car, they are discs clamped hydraulically by calipers which squeeze brake pads onto the rotating disc surface. The driver pushes the brake pedal which forces a piston in and pushes brake fluid down the brake pipes to the caliper where the larger surface area of the pistons there creates a hydraulic leverage effect whereby a large movement by the driver is converted to a small but powerful movement in the brake calipers. The main difference with F1 brakes is the materials used for the friction material and calipers. The discs and pads are made of carbon reinforced carbon which can cope with massive temperatures without fading and produce huge amounts of friction to slow the car down. The pistons in the caliper are made from titanium because its strong and resists heat well as well as having low heat conduction properties that stop the heat boiling the brake fluid. Modern F1 cars use 4 or 6 piston calipers at the front, the discs are suprisingly small at 278mm diameter, which is smaller than many road cars. This is not suprising though when you consider they are made from cheaper materials and have to stop 4 or 5 times the weight, albeit from slower speeds less frequently. Interestingly F1 brakes take some time to bite after the pedal is pressed. This is because the carbon needs to heat up before it displays good friction properties. This takes 1/10th of a second where the driver feels little retardation while the brakes heat up, once they do its like hitting a wall as the brakes reach 1000's degrees and stop the 500kg cars with 4g or more of deceleration.

Very quickly, Braking in an F1 car from 100km/h (or 62mph) would be fairly instant considering they can brake from 200km/h (or 124mph) in 1.9 seconds covering just 55m.

As a comparison, when performing a full stop from 200 km/h, a compact-class passenger car takes 4.1 seconds and covers 118 metres before coming to a standstill.

Yes he does. He has 3 older sisters. They are called: Tanya, Samantha and Natasha.

Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Renault by 11 seconds over his teammate, Mark Webber.

The bolt circle is 5x115 meaning there ar 5 lugs and the diameter of the circle they sit on around the center of the wheel is 115mm. 96 grand prix's also typically have a wheel offset between +20mm and +40mm. The pattern is five lug bolts in a star pattern

It realy depends on what team this engineer works for. Obviously, low financed teams will pay less and vice versa. Typically, a normal control system engineer could earn around £40 000 - £50 000 per annum.

It varies by what season, the track and the 2 tyres used. In previouse modern F1 seasons it coult be a 1 stopper or a 3 stopper. All is depended on what the track is based on tyre degradation and if any problems come up during race like puncture or a minor collision.

Each Car Manufacturer has modified and make their own racing cars. And as you can see it has now evolved to the extreme.

The Formula One series has its roots in the European Grand Prix motor racing, (q.v. for pre-1947 history) of the 1920s and 1930s. The ''formula'' is a set of rules which all participants and cars must meet. Formula One was a new formula agreed after World War II in 1946, with the first non-championship races being held that year. A number of Grand Prix racing organisations had laid out rules for a World Championship before the war, but due to the suspension of racing during the conflict, the World Drivers' Championship was not formalised until 1947. The first world championship race was held at Silverstone, United Kingdom in 1950

The Inaugural Grand Prix of F1 was in 1950

Guiseppe Farina won the 1950 GP in his Alfa Romeo

He will be driving for Mercedes GP in 2010.

In Formula 1 he drove for Ferrari between 1996 and 2006, Benetton between 1992 and 1995 and Jordan in 1991 (for the last six races of the season).

Formula 1 is the most expensive sport because of its exclusivity.

Not everyone can go racing where as everyone can go and play a bit of foot ball.

This means that advertisers see it as a good oppertunity so spend lots of money getting their name to the top.what this requires is money to buy the best engineers. money to buy the best drivers and money to buy the best directors.

This isn't cheap as they are contesting with the other 13 teams trying to do the same.

Also the materials used are ridculouly expensive. coupled with the engineering processes their price increase even more.

And f1 driver is paid on average the same as Wayne Rooney. that's an average so some get even more!!!!!!

Red bulls senior engineer also gets paid the same as Wayne Rooney (roughly and annual salary of £5mil)

Hope this has helped

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