Heikki Kovalainen leaving the pits before the first Circuit of the Americas United States Grand Prix in 2012. His helmet was so cool. Gosh I miss that noise as they would sit at pit out and do practice starts right next to you.
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Source: F1 Sokuho Grand Prix
Illustrations by Fumio Murayama
I'm reading Sid Watkins' Beyond the Limit and he talks about the F1 teams hating the headrest in the 1990s. One team boss told him it had cost his team $1m in development costs, but the science was there and Max Mosley insisted.
It became mandatory in 1996 and that season Jos Verstappen has a massive crash at Spa that season - luckily very close to the medical centre. Watkins said that without the headrest Jos would either have been dead or seriously brain damaged without the headrest. Max was born over a year later.
No spoilers please on the rest of the book but it's a fascinating, if occasionally dry, read.
I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the wdc standings if they never reset between seasons, instead the wdc standings are calculated by every drivers previous 19 race results. This shows how periods of dominance extend beyond single seasons.
I chose 19 races because thats how many races there were in 2014.
Found a July 1985 copy of Road and Track that had a 1985 F1 season grid preview. Magazine scans.
Remove if this isn't allowed.
https://rakesh-i.github.io/stint-data/ just got my website working again.
Brian Tyler conducts the London Philharmonic in a rendition of the full F1 Theme.