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The current champion is Nico Rosberg.

 

* ''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).

* ''Rubens Barrichello'': Brazilian driver who holds the record for most races contested (326 races with 322 starts) with a career that spanned nineteen seasons, longer than any other driver. Notoriously known as Schumacher's former teammate, who was forced to concede a race win to him.

* ''Sebastian Vettel'', German, the 2010 and 2011 World Champion. Holds many 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.

 

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 have slipped to the midfield in recent years. 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>

There is a website dedicated to covering the very worst F1 moments, drivers, and teams. It can be found [http://www.f1rejects.com/main.html here.]

 

* ''[[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 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.}}

* Machalcon from ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'' is an [[A Mech by Any Other Name|Eng]][[Engine Sentai Go-onger|ine]] based on a Formula 1 car.

 

* 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.

* In ''[[Iron Man 2]]'', Tony Stark enters a [[wikipedia:Historic Formula One Championship|Historic F1]] race at Monaco.

 

* 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'].

 

* 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.

* Also from Sega, 3D racing pioneer ''[[Virtua Racing]]'' had the option to drive F1 cars.

 

* 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.

 

* [[Formula One/Tropes A-M|Tropes A-M]]

* [[Formula One/Tropes N-Z|Tropes N-Z]]