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[[File:F1.svg|thumb|300px|Engineered Insanity]]
The most famous motor racing series... [[Top Gear|in the world]].
20 or so drivers drive very fast single-seat open wheel cars ("If it's got fenders, it's not a race car") around a circuit, having to complete a set number of laps. Points awarded on finishing positions crown the champion driver and champion constructor. Most of the commercial dealings were controlled by a billionaire short bloke with a mop top haircut called Bernie Ecclestone, though since January 2021, the CEO of the Formula One Group is former Ferrari team principal and Lamborghini CEO Stefano Domenicali. The political machinations of the teams and their disputes and scandals are an almost integral part of the sport and its image.
==Has a rather rich history and some famous names like:==
*''Juan Manuel Fangio'', Argentinian 5-time champion in 1951 and 1954 through 1957.
*''Alberto Ascari'', first titliest for Ferrari. Still the last Italian to win the title, and that's a long time ago (1952 and 1953).
*''Stirling Moss'', versatile English driver, never won the championship.
*''Jack Brabham'', Australian, only driver to win the title in a car of his own construction (in 1966); he also won in 1959 and 1960.
* ''Jim Clark'', Scottish driver renowned for smooth style, won two titles in 1963 and 1965 (year in which he also won an Indy 500) but died in a Formula 2 race in 1968.
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* ''Niki Lauda'', Austrian, won 1975 title for Ferrari before being [[Body Horror|scarred in a fiery crash]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp2i5-hfgok at the Nurburgring]. Returned to [[Took a Level In Badass|win again]] (in 1977 and 1984) and establish Lauda Air.
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* ''Nigel Mansell'', English driver most associated with the Williams team, with which he was champion in 1992. Crossed over to CART for its 1993 season and won the championship (and almost the Indy 500) there as well.
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*''Jenson Button'': The 2009 English champion, who finally came into prominence after his team (Honda) bounced back as the [[Awesome McCoolname|Brawn GP Team]] when team manager Ross Brawn bought it from the carmaker after they pulled out of the sport (nearly preventing Button from racing) and retrofitted it with a Mercedes-Benz engine, and caught everyone by surprise by blazing the competition.
* ''Rubens Barrichello'': Brazilian driver who held the record for most races contested (326 races with 322 starts) with a career that spanned nineteen seasons, until his longevity was surpassed by Kimi Räikkönen and Alonso. Notoriously known as Schumacher's former teammate, who was sometimes forced to concede a race win to him.
*''Fernando Alonso'', Spaniard, second youngest two time world champion. Ended Schumacher's dominance in 2005 and 2006. Has driven for McLaren, Ferrari and (after a successful stint in endurance racing with Toyota), Alpine.
*''Lewis Hamilton'': 7 time world champion (shares the record with Schumacher), the 1st as a McLaren driver and the other 6 with Mercedes. Second youngest man to win the title and did so in only his second year of racing (after finishing one point below winner Kimi Räikkönen the season before, his debut season). Even then, he won by a single point from Ferrari's Felipe Massa, [[Down to the Last Play|on the last corner of the last lap of the last race]].
* ''Sebastian Vettel'', German, won 4 consecutive championships from 2010-13. Holds several of the sport's 'youngest' records such as youngest driver to drive at a grand prix, score championship points, lead a race, earn a fastest lap, get pole position, win a race, win one ''and'' two world championships. Some of his 'youngest' records have since been taken by Max Verstappen.
*''Max Verstappen'', Belgian-Dutch, who won his first championship race in the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix, being the youngest driver to win a race. He won his first championship at the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in controversial circumstances, becoming the fourth youngest world champion, then won his second the next year at Suzuka. He is the son of former Formula 1 driver Jos Verstappen. As of the 2022 French GP, Verstappen has achieved 27 victories and 16 pole positions. At the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix, he scored the first Grand Slam of his career.
The most famous team is ''Ferrari'', who have won the most races and championships. Ferrari fell into a slump in the 1980s but were rejuvenated by the signing of Michael Schumacher in 1996 and dominated the 'noughties. The nearest challenger is the British ''McLaren'' team, founded by the late New Zealander Bruce McLaren. Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost dominated in the 1980s driving for McLaren. The British ''Williams'' team were strong in the 'nineties, thanks partly to a strong design department, but slipped to the midfield in the 2000s, and to the rear in the late 2010s. Sports car maker ''Lotus'' is the next most successful team, but the team started slipping down the order after technical genius and founder Colin Chapman's death, withdrew from F1 in 1994 and didn't return untill 2010 when a Malaysian backed company used the name. The 'Big Four' of racing are generally considered to be Benetton/Renault, Williams, Mclaren and Ferrari since they have dominated the drivers and constructors championships since the 80's, the majority of titles going to Mclaren and Ferrari; they are the most successful teams in the sport. However the status quo was upset in 2009 with the success of Brawn (now Mercedes) and, later in 2010 and 2011, Red Bull.<ref>Note, however, that despite the changing names of teams it's still pretty much the same rivalry between two chief designers: Ross Brawn was a top tech man in ''Ferrari'' before [[Start My Own|buying out the failing]] ''[[Start My Own|Honda]]'' [[Start My Own|team]] and later selling it to ''Mercedes'', while Adrian Newey headed the ''Mclaren'' design department before moving to ''Red Bull''.</ref>
Probably the greatest technical change occurred in the late 1950s when front-engined cars were replaced by superior mid-engined cars that were lighter and handled better. This revolution led to British teams taking over from the traditionally dominant Italian Maseratis and Ferraris during the 1960s. In the 1970s cars grew larger aerofoils; inverted wings designed to create downward lift (downforce) to press the cars down on to the road and improve grip. This led to Lotus pioneering 'Ground Effect' cars that were designed to create a low pressure area under the car, further increasing grip. In the 1980s turbochargers increased power outputs to 1000hp but were banned in 1989. During that decade increased safety regulations, and stronger carbon composite cars, led to a massive drop in the number of fatal crashes. The death of Ayrton Senna in a racing crash in 1994 spurred further safety regulations and attempts to limit car performance. Many advanced 'driver aids', like ABS and traction control have been outlawed, allowed again, and outlawed again, since then - technical rule changes are often a cue for fans to say [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]. (Compare NASCAR, which banned fuel injection in 1958 - and still maintains that ban, long after carburetors have become obsolete on road cars.) In any event, the cars today have more technical affinity with the Space Shuttle than what's parked in your driveway.
Unlike other major worldwide sports, the playing field for F1 changes at every event. Many of the race tracks are equally legendary names as the drivers and cars. The most notorious is probably the ''Nürburgring Nordschleife'' in Germany - a 14 mile course with over one hundred corners, it was last used in 1976 but is still there and is even open to the public to drive round if you pay. Other famous tracks still in use are ''Monza'' (Italy), ''<s>Silverstone</s> <s> Donnington if they sort the issues</s> Silverstone again'' (UK), ''Spa-Francorchamps'' (Belgium), ''Suzuka'' (Japan) and the street race in Monte-Carlo (Monaco). A frequent gripe of fans is when an exciting track is dropped or altered in the name of safety. Currently the expansion of F1 into new countries such as China, Bahrain and Malaysia has led to several bespoke tracks that are frequently condemned for being soulless and boring, earning the derisive nickname of ''Tilkedromes''
F1 used to be notorious for frequent driver deaths, but it's a lot safer than it was - no-one
[[The BBC]] has regained the TV rights to show F1 (following a spell at [[ITV]], which struggled due to advertising problems and at least two key overtaking manouevres being missed due to [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome|inconveniently timed ad breaks]]), and brought back [[Crowning Music of Awesome|"The Chain"]] by Fleetwood Mac as the [[Theme Tune]] to its coverage - the song is long associated with F1 and car racing.
There is a website dedicated to covering the very worst F1 moments, drivers, and teams. It can be found [
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{| class="fandom-table"
|+'''Teams and drivers that are contracted to compete in the 2023 World Championship'''
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| rowspan="2" |🇨🇭 Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen
| rowspan="2" |Alfa Romeo-Ferrari
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| rowspan="2" |Ferrari
| 24. 🇨🇳 Zhou Guanyu
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|77. 🇫🇮 Valtteri Bottas
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| rowspan="2" |🇮🇹 Scuderia AlphaTauri
| rowspan="2" |AlphaTauri-RBPT
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| rowspan="2" |Red Bull
| 22. 🇯🇵 Yuki Tsunoda
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|🇳🇱 Nyck de Vries
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| rowspan="2" |🇫🇷 BWT Alpine F1 Team
| rowspan="2" |Alpine-Renault
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| rowspan="2" |Renault
|10. 🇫🇷 Pierre Gasly
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|31. 🇫🇷 Esteban Ocon
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| rowspan="2" |🇬🇧 Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team
| rowspan="2" |Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes
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| rowspan="2" |Mercedes
|14. 🇪🇸 Fernando Alonso
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| 31. 🇨🇦 Lance Stroll
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| rowspan="2" |🇮🇹 Scuderia Ferrari
| rowspan="2" |Ferrari
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| rowspan="2" |Ferrari
|16. 🇲🇨 Charles Leclerc
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|55. 🇪🇸 Carlos Sainz Jr.
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| rowspan="2" |🇺🇸 MoneyGram Haas F1 Team
| rowspan="2" |Haas-Ferrari
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| rowspan="2" | Ferrari
|20. 🇩🇰 Kevin Magnussen
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|27. 🇩🇪 Nico Hülkenberg
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| rowspan="2" | 🇬🇧 McLaren F1 Team
| rowspan="2" |McLaren-Mercedes
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| rowspan="2" |Mercedes
|4. 🇬🇧 Lando Norris
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| 81. 🇦🇺 Oscar Piastri
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| rowspan="2" |🇩🇪 Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team
| rowspan="2" | Mercedes
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| rowspan="2" |Mercedes
|44. 🇬🇧 Lewis Hamilton
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|63. 🇬🇧 George Russell
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| rowspan="2" |🇦🇹 Oracle Red Bull Racing
| rowspan="2" | Red Bull Racing-RBPT
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| rowspan="2" |Red Bull
|1. 🇳🇱 Max Verstappen
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|11. 🇲🇽 Sergio Pérez
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| rowspan="2" |🇬🇧 Williams Racing
| rowspan="2" |Williams-Mercedes
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| rowspan="2" |Mercedes
|23. 🇹🇭 Alexander Albon
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|🇺🇸 Logan Sargeant
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==[[Live-Action TV]] ==
*''[[Top Gear]]'' has had various F1 drivers as their 'Star in a Reasonably Priced Car'. Unlike most of the stars, they have their own leader board due to their skill superiority. {{spoiler|Rubens Barrichello currently{{when}} leads the leader board, beating [[Badass Driver|The Stig's]] time by a tenth of a second.}}
**{{spoiler|Consequently, the Stig has developed an [[Berserk Button|irrational hatred]] for him.}}
**Both Jackie Stewart and Mika Häkkinen have been featured in segments where they teach presenter James May (aka 'Captain Slow') how to drive like a racer.
**Series 13 had {{spoiler|1=Stig reveal himself...as Michael Schumacher. It wasn't, as he was later revealed to be Perry McCarthy.}}
**Also in Season 13, during the 'rear wheel drive' challenge, the presenters were in a race in France. One of the other competitors was former driver Olivier Panis. He called their cars shitboxes.
**As mentioned below, the original Stig was {{spoiler|1=the talented but unlucky Perry McCarthy.}} He outed himself in his biography, and was subsequently fired due to a clause in his contract saying that if his identity was revealed, he must be fired.
**The second Stig, who was with the show from series 3 through series 15, was revealed to be {{spoiler|[[wikipedia:Ben Collins (racing driver)|Ben Collins]]}}. They are now on their third Stig.
**Season 14 had the presenters attempt to make art out of cars. David Coulthard helped Jeremy out with his art, using a 2005 Red Bull car. Specifically, using paintballs fired from the exhaust pipe of the Red Bull car. Onto a canvas Clarkson was holding in front of him. [[Groin Attack|It didn't go well.]]
{{quote|'''Coulthard:''' [''as Clarkson lies in a fetal curl on the ground''] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|I'm not giving him mouth to mouth.]]}}
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*John Frankenheimer's 1966 movie ''Grand Prix'', starring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, and Yves Montand is pretty much the definite Hollywood treatment of Formula One.
*[[Roman Polanski]] produced a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068178/ documentary] following Jackie Stewart's 1971 Monaco GP victory.
*''Senna'', a documentary on Ayrton Senna has been produced. It premiered in Japan during the 2010 Japanese Grand Prix weekend, and was a competitor in the 27th Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Audience Award for Documentary Film.
*In ''[[Iron Man 2]]'', Tony Stark enters a [[wikipedia:Historic Formula One Championship|Historic F1]] race at Monaco.
==[[Music]]==
*Teenage Fanclub's 1995 album [[wikipedia:Grand Prix (album)|''Grand Prix'']] had a Simtek on the cover.
*Robbie Williams's video for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVaf7nurSZY 'Supreme'].
==[[Video Games]]==
*There have been a large number of officially licensed games.
*The highly successful ''[[Super Monaco GP]]'' series on Sega Megadrive / Genesis, which weren't FIA officially licensed games and thus made use of [[Expy|Expies]] for both cars and drivers ; the second game however had Ayrton Senna's supervision and thus was the only real-name driver displayed there.
**As [[In Name Only]] as it is, Sega had previously made an "original" Monaco GP in the late 1970s.
*Also from Sega, 3D racing pioneer ''[[Virtua Racing]]'' had the option to drive F1 cars.
==[[Western Animation]]==
*The Autobot Mirage on ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' turns into a formula one car.
**The Stunticon Drag Strip turns into an orange version of the [[wikipedia:Tyrrell P34|Tyrrell P34 6-wheeled]] F1 car.
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