Gigi's guide to Formula 1
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New to F1?
But what is formula 1?
Formula 1 is a car racing sport. But overall, it's about strategy, engineering, sportsmanship and a life style!
Every year occurs two championships, the drivers championship(wins the driver with most points accumulated during the season) and the constructors championship(wins the team with biggest sum of points between their both drivers)
In the sport there are multiple teams, each with two drivers, and their goal is to win the most points they can in the season.
In a season(a year) there are 24 Gran Prix. The Grand Prixes are the races. They are distributed along the year and always occur on sundays , but the week and weekend before the race are always very eventful. We call them raceweeks and raceweekends.
How does it work?
Each raceweek follows this schedule:
- Wednesday: Media day
- Thursday: Free Practice 1 Free practice sessions allow teams to test and fine-tune their cars before qualifying and the race. There are typically three one-hour practice sessions. During these sessions, teams familiarize themselves with the track, test car setups, and gather data to optimize performance for qualifying and the race.
- Friday: Free Practice 2Free practice sessions allow teams to test and fine-tune their cars before qualifying and the race. There are typically three one-hour practice sessions. During these sessions, teams familiarize themselves with the track, test car setups, and gather data to optimize performance for qualifying and the race. & Free Practice 3Free practice sessions allow teams to test and fine-tune their cars before qualifying and the race. There are typically three one-hour practice sessions. During these sessions, teams familiarize themselves with the track, test car setups, and gather data to optimize performance for qualifying and the race. or Sprint qualifying and Sprint
- Saturday: Qualifying
- Sunday: Race
Why you should love it as well
- The engineering!: Aside from being a fisical sport, F1 cars are the most technological cars in the world, and there is so much to learn about them!
- The strategy: It's not just a sunday race, it's about the entire week of planning and thinking how they're going to win the next race, and the entire year of thinking how they're going to get the best possible placement in the championship.
As you can see, it is a very fun sport, if you'd like to watch 18 millionaires, 1 billionaire and 1 poor guy running in circles, you might like to see what teams we have
Teams Parade
Mercedes
Ferrari
Kick Sauber
Red Bull
Alpine
McLaren
Racing Bulls
Aston Martin
Williams
Haas
Drivers:
Mercedes
Ferrari
Kick Sauber
Red Bull
Alpine
McLaren
Racing Bulls
Aston Martin
Williams
Haas
Drivers
We have 2 drivers per team, with 10 teams there are 20 drivers in total:
- Lando Norris
- Oscar Piastri
- Max Verstappen
- Charles Leclerc
- Esteban Ocon
- Gabriel Botoleto
- Lewis Hamilton
- George Russell
- Kimi Antonelli
- Alexander Albon
- Lance Stroll
- Yuki Tsunoda
- Pierre Gasly
- Carlos Sainz
- Nico Hulkenberg
- Oliver Bearman
- Isack Hadjar
- Fernando Alonso
- Jack Doohan
- Franco Colapinto
However, in the 75 years of F1 history, we have some really remarkable drivers that deserve to be mentioned, and some of the current drivers are also pretty awesome, here are my favourite drivers ever:
- Ayrton Senna
- Lando Norris
- Oscar Piastri
- Kimi Antonelli
F1 Media
Since F1 is such an incredible sport, there has been made a lot of media about it, here are some of the best:
Ayrton Senna
The best Formula 1 driver of all time!
Ayrton Senna wasn’t just a Formula 1 driver — he was a force of nature. With unmatched precision, fearless speed, and deep passion, he became a three-time world champion and one of the greatest racers the world has ever seen. But beyond the track, Senna was a complex and deeply human figure: spiritual, fiercely competitive, and devoted to helping others. His mysterious intensity, breathtaking wet-weather drives, and tragic death at just 34 left the world in awe — and in tears. To know Senna is to witness brilliance, courage, and a legacy that still inspires. Once you start learning about him, you won’t want to stop.
Curiosities
- He always had a Brazilian flag hidden in his car in the case he won the race. At the time of his death he had an Austrian flag in his car to commemorate a fellow race car driver Roland Ratzenberger of Austria, who was killed on the same track the day before in a car crash as well.
- In 2014 a survey conducted by the institute "Datafolha" shows that Ayrton Senna is the biggest idol in the Brazilian sport with 47% of the votes, followed by Pelé with 23%.
- He spoke four languages; besides Portuguese, English, Spanish and Italian.
- To remember the 20 years of Ayrton Senna's death, in 2014 the Maldives Islands launched a series of stamps in honor of him.
- The world's most famous Brazilian heavy metal band, Sepultura, dedicated the album Roots, released in 1996, to Ayrton Senna.
- A star of the constellation Auriga receives the name of "Senna" by the International Star Registry.
- One of the Senna main hobbies was aeromodelling.
- Born at 2:45 p.m.
- British musician Chris Rea composed in 1994 a song in honor of the racing driver, named: "Saudade Part 1 and 2".
Want to know more?
Curiosities
My collection of fun facts i collect from the internet!
- All 20 cars in all races, qualifying sessions, practice, and testing in a year combined burn less fuel than one transatlantic flight from London to New York
- A modern F1 car is made up of 80,000 components.
- The first ever RedBull can was sold in the same year Sebastian Vettel was born - 1987.
- Nico Rosberg never drove an F1 race as world champion
- Markus Winkelhock led 100% of races he started in. He's also the only driver to start from first and last in the same race
- George Harrison (ex The Beatles) funded Damon Hill throughout his F3 & F3000 career.
- charles leclerc owns 10% of a racehorse. he shares it with a basket ball player(?) called tony parker. the horse is called afghany.
- pierre gasly really likes pandas. he said years ago that one day he wanted to make a house for a panda in his own house, and he said it AGAIN last year.
- Hans Heyer is the only driver to DNQ, DNS, DNF and DSQ for the same race(German GP 1977). He didn't quality for the 1977 German Grand Prix, so he snuck his car out onto the track and raced 10 laps. Only when his gearbox jammed (wasn't able to finish the race) did the officials realize what he had done, and disqualified him. He earned himself a lifetime ban from Formula One in the process. He's still alive, meaning the ban is still in effect.
- Jacques Villeneuve released a music album in 2007.
- Senna and Gerhard Berger had a notorious prank battle that culminated with Berger filling Senna’s Australian hotel room - including his bed and his clothes - with live frogs. Senna spent all night catching them and in the morning proudly confronted Gerhard and told him he’d rounded up the exact number of frogs Berger had put in his room. To which Gerhard replied, “Did you find the snake…?” Apparently Senna got very little sleep for the rest of the week…
- Slim Borgudd was a drummer for ABBA, and was also a formula 1 driver for ATS and Tyrell. The car even had the ABBA logo as an unpaid sponsorship.
- Christian Horner is married to one of the Spice Girls.
Fun Stuff
You can print out these images and build your own f1 car and/or helmet!
