The Formula 1 world championship has been decided at Suzuka eight times.»Olivier Panis raced in 157 Formula 1 Grands Prix. He won one and was on the podium five times. He accumulated 76 world championship points, 12 of which for Panasonic Toyota Racing.»A Formula One car can decelerate from 320km/h to 80km/h (200mph to 50mph) in just three seconds, creating a forward force that so powerful it can propel the water out of a driver‘s eyes.»From a standing start, a Formula One car can accelerate to 160km/h (100mph), and then stop in less than six seconds.»On fast corners, drivers can experience forces of 4g - they effectively weigh four times their own body weight. If their head and helmet weigh 9kg (20lbs), their neck muscles alone have to support 36kg (80lbs).»During a race weekend, we collect up to 6 gigabytes of data from the car. All this data is sent back to our facility in Cologne in real time – regardless of where the race is taking place - worldwide.»Brake wear during a Formula One race is equivalent to 10 years in a road car.»If the driver blinks or glances in his mirror at Monza, where cars reach speeds in excess of 350km/h (220mph), he will travel the length of a football pitch.»The aerodynamics of a Formula One car create so much downforce that, at top speed, the car could run on an inverted track.»In the wet, a Formula One rain tyre is capable of dispersing ten litres of water per second.»Formula One drivers make more gear changes during the Monaco Grand Prix weekend than the average driver would make when travelling between London and Madrid.»There is more technology in a modern Formula One car than was used in the 1st rocket to the moon.»From his normal seating position, with all seat belts fastened and whilst wearing his usual driving equipment, the driver must be able to remove the steering wheel and get out of the car within 5 seconds and then replace the steering wheel in a total of 10 seconds.»Bahrain was the first Gulf state to discover and extract oil in 1932. »The first Toyota passenger car went into production in 1936 and today a new Toyota rolls off the production lines at the rate of one every six seconds.»The first Toyota passenger car went into production in 1936 and today a new Toyota rolls off the production lines at the rate of one every six seconds.»Albert Park played host to Panasonic Toyota Racing’s debut grand prix back in March 2002 and rewarded the rookie team with its first ever championship point as Finnish driver Mika Salo took the chequered flag in 6th place. »Imola first hosted a Formula 1 championship race in 1980 when it staged the Italian Grand Prix in place of Monza. It became the home of the San Marino Grand Prix in 1981.»The European Grand Prix has been held at four different venues since 1983. After the inaugural race at Brands Hatch in England, the Nürburgring, Donington Park, England and Jerez, Spain have all staged the race. Sunday’s race will be the 11th to be held at the Nürburgring.»Last year, 7.36 million Toyotas rolled off production lines on six continents.»The first official race through the streets of Monte Carlo was held in 1929, the same year that five-times Monaco winner Graham Hill was born.»The first time a Toyota led a Grand Prix was at the British Grand Prix in 2003 when Cristiano da Matta spent 17 laps at the front before finishing in seventh.»Jack Brabham was the oldest man to win the Canadian Grand Prix. He was 41 when he won the first race held at the Mosport Speedway in Ontario in 1967. Two years later, Jackie Ickx became the youngest winner aged 24, driving a Brabham.»Dark Side of The Moon, which Roger Waters will perform live for the first time since 1974, and which has sold more than 40 million copies around the world, has been in the US Billboard chart for a record 1,500 weeks!»The Istanbul Otodrome was designed by German architect Hermann Tilke who was responsible for the Sepang circuit in Malaysia, the Bahrain and Shanghai tracks. His work remodelling the Toyota-owned Fuji International Speedway will be on show when the Japanese Grand Prix switches to the circuit in 2007.
Awesome. An F1 cars aerodynamics will get the car to 160kph from 300kph within seconds of the driver just raising his foot off the pedal. The stopping power is equivalent to applying the brakes on an average road car. In an F1 season the ammount of fuel burned cumulativly is less than a trans atlantic flight.
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