JOCHEN MASS WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1946 IN MUNICH, GERMANY. HIS CAREER SPANNED 105 GRANDS PRIX FROM 1973-1982. HE WON 1 RACE IN THE 1975 SPANISH GRAND PRIX DRIVING FOR MARLBORO-McLAREN WHEN IT WAS STOPPED AFTER DRIVER ROLF STOMMELEN'S HILL GH1 CAR CRASHED AND KILLED 4 SPECTATORS. THE RACE AWARDED 1/2 POINTS. LOST SIGHT IN ONE EYE HELMUT MARKO AT AGE 29 WAS DRIVING IN HIS 9TH GRANDS PRIX AT THE 1972 FRENCH GRAND PRIX IN A BRM P160 AT CLERMONT-FERRAND. HIS VISOR WAS SHATTERED BY A FLINT WHICH EMBEDDED ITSELF IN ONE OF HIS EYES. HE MANAGED TO STOP HIS CAR. HIS RACING CAREER WAS OVER. HE LATER FORMED HIS OWN FORMULA 3000 TEAM. MICHEL MAY DROVE IN 2 GRANDS PRIX - THE 1961 MONACO GP IN A PORSCHE AND THE 1961 BRITISH GP AT AINTREE IN A SCUDERIA COLONIA LOTUS 18. HE LATER BECAME AN F1 CONSUL- TANT FOR FERRARI IN 1963 ON THEIR FUEL-INJECTION DEVELOPMENT AT THE AGE OF 29. LORENZO BANDINI DROVE IN 42 GRANDS PRIX AND WAS BORN DECEMBER 21, 1936 IN BARCE, CYRENAICA NORTH AFRICA. HE WON 1 RACE AT THE VERY FIRST AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX HELD AT THE ZELTWEG MILITARY AERODROME CIRCUIT IN 1964. HE DIED IN THE 1967 MONACO GRAND PRIX OF SEVERE BURNS AFTER HIS FERRARI 312 CLIPPED A CHICANE AND ROLLED OVER, AND IT IGNITED IN FLAMES. SMALLEST MARGIN VICTORY IN F1 HISTORY PETER GETHIS WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 21, 1940 IN EWELL, SURREY-GREAT BRITIAN. HE WON 1 RACE IN HIS CAREER AT THE MONZA TRACK IN 1971 AT THE ITALIAN GRAND PRIX. IT WAS THE FASTEST ITALIAN GRAND PRIX EVER AND GETHIS DID IT IN HIS BRM P160 WINNING IN THE LAST CORNER BY 1/100TH OF A SECOND AT AN AVERAGE SPEED OF 151.634 MPH OR 244.025 KM/H. IT WAS ALSO THE SMALLEST MARGIN OF VICTORY AND PETER GETHIS HOLDS BOTH RECORDS IN ONE RACE. HE ALSO WON THE FIRST EVER F5000 TITLE IN 1969. HE LATER RAN A CORPORATE HIGH-PERFORMANCE DRIVING SCHOOL AT THE OLD GOODWOOD CIRCUIT NEAR CHICHESTER. JAMES HUNT DROVE IN 92 GRANDS PRIX. WON 10. 6 - 2ND PLACE FINISHES. 7 - 3RD PLACE FINISHES. 14 POLE POSTITIONS. WORLD CHAMPION IN 1976. HE WAS THE SON OF A LONDON STOCKBROKER. BORN ON AUGUST 29, 1947 IN BELMONT, SURREY-GREAT BRITIAN. HE WON HIS FIRST F1 RACE IN 1975 AT THE WET/DRY DUTCH GRAND PRIX AT ZANDVOORT WITH TEAM HESKETH. HE USED TO COMMENTATE WITH MURRAY WALKER ON BBC TELEVISION. BLACK-FLAGGED IN ONLY GRAND PRIX START OF HIS CAREER HANS HEYER OF GERMANY STARTED HIS ONLY GRAND PRIX ILLEGALLY FROM THE PIT LANE AT THE 1977 GERMAN GRAND PRIX AT HOCKENHEIM AFTER HE FAILED TO QUALIFY HIS ATS PENSKE PC4. HE WAS BLACK-FLAGGED OFF THE CIRCUIT. GRAHAM HILL'S CAREER TOTALS HE DROVE IN 176 GRANDS PRIX. 14 WINS. 15 - 2ND PLACE FINISHES. 7 - 3RD PLACES FINISHES. 13 POLE POSITIONS. 100 CAREER POINTS (52 WITH BRM AND 48 WITH LOTUS). WORLD CHAMPION IN 1962 & 1968. RICHIE GINTHER WAS BORN AUGUST 05, 1930 IN HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA. HE DROVE IN 52 GRANDS PRIX AND HIS ONLY WIN WAS AT THE 1965 MEXICAN GP DRIVING FOR TEAM HONDA. PHIL HILL WAS A FRIEND OF HIS OLDER BROTHER. HIS FIRST F1 RACE WAS IN 1960 IN A DINO 246 AT MONACO. HE FINISHED 2ND AT MONACO IN 1963. HE WAS RUNNER- UP IN 1963 BEHIND TEAM MATE GRAHAM HILL AND 4TH IN 1964. HE RETIRED AT THE 1967 INDIANAPOLIS 500 WHILE WAITING TO QUALIFY. HE BECAME A NOMAD IN A MOTOR-HOME IN CALIFORNIA SOON AFTER. HE DIED OF HEART FAILURE ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1989 WHILE ON HOLIDAY IN FRANCE. HE WAS 39. FERRARI'S FIRST FORMULA ONE VICTORY WAS WON BY ARGENTINE DRIVER JOSE FROILAN (FAT HEAD) GONZALEZ AT THE 1951 BRITISH GRAND PRIX AT SILVERSTONE IN A FERRARI 4 1/2 LITRE 375. HE BEAT JUAN MANUEL FANGIO IN HIS ALFA ROMEO 158 TO DO IT.HE WAS BORN ON OCTOBER 05, 1922 IN ARRECIFES, ARGENTINA. HE DROVE IN 26 GRANDS PRIX AND ALSO WON THE 1954 BRITISH GP AT SILVERSTONE IN A FERRARI 625. HE WAS THE SON OF A CHEVROLET DEALER THREE HOURS FROM BUENOS AIRES. McLAREN'S F1 BOSS' BROTHER KILLED TIM MAYER DIED ON FEBRUARY 28, 1964 PRACTISING FOR THE TASMAN CHAMPIONSHIP. HE DROVE IN 1 GRAND PRIX RACE AT THE 1962 U.S. GRAND PRIX AT WATKINS GLEN IN A THIRD WORKS COOPER-CLIMAX. HE WAS THE YOUNGER BROTHER OF TEDDY MAYER WHO LATER BECAME McLAREN'S F1 BOSS. CHAMPION SPARK PLUGS HAVE WON 340 GRAND PRIX RACES AND 21 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS AS OF THE END OF THE LUXEMBOURG GRAND PRIX 1998. TEAM PROST 1998 HAS 160 EMPLOYEES. 25 ARE ENGINEERS. ROBERTO MORENO USED TO GET SICK OFTEN FROM HIS F1 CAR MOVING BACK AND FOURTH OVER RACETRACKS AND THROUGH BUMPY CHICANES. HE WOULD THROW UP IN THE COCK-PIT AND HIS CREW USED TO HAVE TO CLEAN IT UP. DAN GURNEY - BORN APRIL 13, 1931 DROVE IN 86 GRANDS PRIX AND WON 4 RACES (1962 FRENCH GP AT ROUEN, 1964 FRENCH GP AT ROUEN, 1964 MEXICAN GP AND THE 1967 BELGIUM GP). HE ALSO WON THE 1967 RACE OF CHAMPIONS. HE WAS THE SON OF AN OPERA SINGER. HE JOINED THE F1 WORLD ON HIS RETURN FROM KOREA IN THE U.S. ARMY. HONDA PRESIDENT WAS AN F2 MECHANIC 1998 PRESIDENT KAWAMOTO-SAN OF HONDA USED TO BE A MECHANIC FOR THE BRABHAM- HONDA F2 TEAM IN THE 1960'S. HE WAS KNOWN AS "HONG-KONG MECHANIC" BY JACK BRABHAM'S PARNER RON TAURANAC. McLAREN JET LIVERY A HAWK 200 JET IS IN FULL WEST-McLAREN-MERCEDES LIVERY AS OF THE SUMMER OF 1998. SAUBER AND SKIING IN 1998 RED BULL SAUBER PETRONAS' MARKETING MANAGER UTA MULLER BROKE HIS THUMB SKIING IN BRAZIL AND JOHNNY HERBERT'S ENGINEER GIL ALEGEOT DIS-LOCATED HIS SHOULDER SKIING A WEEK BEFORE MULLER'S INJURY. JEAN ALESI WELCOMED IN ITALY WHEN JEAN ALESI WENT TO TEST AT FIORANO, ITALY IN 1998 WITH TEAM SAUBER IN MARCH, IT WAS THE FIRST TIME HE HAD BEEN BACK THERE SINCE 1995. HIS OLD FERRARI MECHANICS PUT A SIGN IN THE PIT WELCOMING HIM BACK. $ IN IMOLA 1998 GENERAL ADMISSION AT IMOLA IS lbs57. GRANDSTAND ADMISSION FOR SUNDAY ONLY IS lbs99 - lbs205. STANDING ADMISSION FOR 3 DAYS IS lbs44. SIT-DOWN PASS FOR THE 3 DAYS IS lbs124. FIRST SPANISH GP IN 1950 FERRARI'S CAME 1-2-3 WITH ALBERTO ASCARI 1ST, DORINO SERAFINI 2ND AND PIERO TARUFFI 3RD. F1 DRIVER/OLYMPIC BOBSLEIGHER ROBBIN WIDDOWS OF GREAT BRITIAN DROVE IN 1 GRAND PRIX AT THE BRITISH GP AT BRANDS HATCH IN 1968 DRIVING A COOPER-BRM T81C. HE WAS PREVIOUSLY AN OLYMPIC BOBSLEIGHER AND ALSO DROVE IN F3 AND F2 IN THE MID-60'S. 2 GP STARTS - 7 YEARS APART EPPIE WIETZES OF CANADA RENTED A LOTUS 49 FOR THE 1967 CANADIAN GRAND PRIX AT MOSPORT PARK THEN IN 1974 AT MOSPORT PARK AGAIN HE DROVE A BRABHAM BT42. JACQUES VILLENEUVE'S WORST GRAND PRIX START WAS IN THE ARGENTINE GP IN 1998 FERRARI'S LAST WIN IN IMOLA WAS WITH PATRICK TAMBAY IN 1983 (DATED 1998) JAN MAGNUSSESN QUALIFIED 22ND (LAST) IN ARGENTINA IN 1998. HE SAID - "SOME PEOPLE ARE PRAYING FOR RAIN, BUT I WANT A BLOODY EARTHQUAKE." BOBBY UNSER'S ONLY GRAND PRIX WAS AT THE 1968 US GP AT WATKINS GLEN IN WHICH HE CRASHED HEAVILY IN A BRM. ONLY DRIVER EVER FROM URUGUAY WAS ALBERTO URIA WHO DROVE IN THE 1955 AND 1956 ARGENTINE GRAND PRIX IN A MASERATI A6GCM BOTH STARTS. RAN OUT OF FUEL IN HIS ONLY GP ERIC VAN DE POELE OF GREAT BRITIAN WAS IN THE POINTS ON THE LAST LAP OF HIS ONLY GRAND PRIX AT THE 1991 IMOLA RACE IN A LAMBORGHINI 291 WHEN HE RAN OUT OF FUEL. RACED SNOWMOBILES AT AGE 8 GILLES VILLENEUVE STARTED HIS RACING CAREER ON SNOWMOBILES IN BERTHIERVILLE, QUEBEC, CANADA AT AGE 8. 152 STARTS - 5 WINS JOHN WATSON WON IN AUSTRIA 1976 - BRITIAN 1981 - BELGIUM 1982 - DETROIT 1982 - LONG BEACH 1983. YOUNGEST DRIVER IN F1 HISTORY 19 YEAR OLD MIKE THACKWELL OF NEW ZEALAND DROVE IN ONLY 2 GRANDS PRIX BUT HIS 1ST IN MONTEAL, CANADA IN 1980 MADE HIM THE YOUNGEST DRIVER TO EVER START A WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP GRAND PRIX DRIVING IN A TYRRELL. TINGLE IN SOUTH AFRICA SAM TINGLE DROVE IN 7 GRANDS PRIX FROM 1963-1969, ALL IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN GP WHICH WAS HIS HOME COUNTRY. 5TH PLACE IN ONLY GP ERIC THOMPSON OF GREAT BRITIAN AT THE AGE OF 32 SCORED A 5TH PLACE IN HIS ONLY GRAND PRIX START AT THE BRITISH GRAND PRIX IN 1952 DRIVING FOR CONNAUGHT. 14 YEARS IN F1 - 16 TEAMS MAURICE TRINTIGNANT DROVE IN 82 GRANDS PRIX AND WON 2 RACES: THE 1955 MONACO GP IN A FERRARI 625 AND THE 1958 MONACO GP IN A COOPER-CLIMAX. HE DROVE FOR 14 YEARS AND SWITCHED AROUND IN 16 TEAMS: GORDINI (1950-1953) - FERRARI (1954-1955) - VANWALL AND BUGATTI (1956) - FERRARI (1957) - COOPER, BRM AND MASERATI (1958) - COOPER (1959) - COOPER AND ASTON MARTIN (1960) - COOPER (1961) - LOTUS (1962) - LOLA AND BRM (1963) - BRM (1964). HUSBAND AND WIFE RACERS MARC SURER DROVE IN 82 GRANDS PRIX FROM 1979-1986 BUT RETIRED AFTER CRASHING HIS FORD RS200 AT THE HESSEN RALLY IN GERMANY IN WHICH HIS CO-DRIVER WAS KILLED. HE MANAGED HIS WIFE YOLANDA IN HER F3 CAREER AND MARC LATER TOOK OVER AS MANAGER OF BMW' GERMAN TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES. WORLD CHAMPION ON 2 & 4 WHEELS JOHN SURTESS BECAME THE 1964 F1 WORLD CHAMPION AND WITH THIS BECAME THE ONLY EVER WORLD CHAMPION ON 4 WHEELS AS WELL AS 2 WHEN HE WAS MOTORCYCLING CHAMPION IN THE MID 50'S. MICHAEL TAYLOR AND FORMER MRS. MOSS MICHAEL TAYLOR DROVE IN 1 GRAND PRIX AND PRACTISING FOR HIS 2ND AT BELGIUM, HIS STEERING COLUMN BROKE AND HE SUFFERED INJURIES THAT ENDED HIS HOPE OF AN F1 CAREER. HE MARRIED STIRLING MOSS' FORMER 2ND WIFE ELAINE BARBERINO IN 1980. JACKIE STEWARTS F1 DRIVING CAREER 99 STARTS - 27 WINS - 11 2ND PLACE FINISHES - 5 3RD PLACE FINISHES - 17 POLE POSITIONS. HE WON 27% OF HIS GP STARTS. HE WAS WORLD CHAMPION IN 1969 WITH MATRA SCORING 63 POINTS. HE WAS WORLD CHAMPION IN 1971 WITH TYRRELL SCORING 62 POINTS. HE WAS WORLD CHAMPION IN 1973 WITH TYRRELL SCORING 71 POINTS. HE DROVE FOR BRM (1965-1967), TYRRELL-MATRA (1968-1969), MARCH & TYRRELL (1970) AND TYRRELL (1971-1973). JACKIE STEWART SUFFERED FROM DYSLEXIA AT AN EARLY ACADEMIC AGE. HE ONCE WAS CLOSE TO BEING ON THE CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING TEAM FOR THE OLYMPICS. HIS FIRST GP WIN WAS THE 1965 ITALIAN GRAND PRIX AT MONZA IN A BRM. HIS LAST GP WAS THE 1973 US GP WHICH WAS THE FINAL RACE OF THE SEASON IN WHICH HE ACTUALLY NEVER STARTED AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS TEAM MATE FRANCOIS CEVERT DURING THE PRACTISE. HIS RECORD NUMBER OF WIN'S WAS HELD FOR 14 YEARS TILL ALAIN PROST BEAT IT IN 1987. STEWART WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WIDE USE OF GUARDRAILS AND THE DROPPING OF THE "OLD" SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS CIRCUIT FROM THE F1 SCHEDULE. JACKIE STEWART'S WIFE HELEN IS THE GODMOTHER TO ZARA PHILLIPS, DAUGHTER OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL OF SWITZERLAND. DANNY SULLIVAN'S F1 RUN DANNY SULLIVAN WAS BORN ON MARCH 09, 1950 IN LOUSIVILLE, KENTUCKY, U.S.A. HE DROVE IN 15 GRANDS PRIX IN THE SEASON OF 1983 WITH TYRRELL. HE HAS ALSO WORKED AS A LUMBERJACK, JANITOR, CAB DRIVER AND A CHICKEN RANCH HAND. HE GUEST STARRED ON "MIAMI-VICE" IN 1986. ONLY CHAMPIONSHIP POINT IN A 4WD WAS ACCOMPLISHED AT MOSPORT PARK IN THE 1969 CANADIAN GRAND PRIX DRIVING A 4WD MATRA MS84 WAS DRIVER JOHNNY SERVOZ-GAVIN WHO FINISHED 6TH. CARROLL SHELBY IN FORMULA ONE CARROLL SHELBY WAS BORN ON JANUARY 11, 1923 IN LEESBURG, TEXAS, U.S.A. HE DROVE IN 8 GRANDS PRIX IN 1958 WITH MASERATI AND 1959 WITH ASTON MARTIN. SHELBY WON THE 1959 LeMANS RACE WITH ROY SALVADORI IN AN ASTON MARTIN DBR1. CARLOS REUTMANN - "GOVERNOR" CARLOS REUTMAN WAS ELECTED GOVERNOR OF ARGENTINA'S SANTE FE PROVINCE IN 1991. HE DROVE IN 146 GRANDS PRIX AND WON 12 TIMES. HIS CAREER SPANNED FROM 1972- 1976 WITH WILLIAMS, 1976-1978 WITH FERRARI, 1979 WITH LOTUS AND 1980-1982 AGAIN WITH WILLIAMS. 76 LAPS LLYOD RUBY OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS DROVE 76 LAPS IN HIS ONLY F1 RACE AT THE 1961 US GRAND PRIX AT WATKINS GLEN DRIVING A SQUARE-BODIED EX-JIM HALL LOTUS 18. THE CAR EXPERIENCED MAGNETO DRIVE FAILURE. CANADIAN PETER RYAN DROVE IN THE 1961 US GRAND PRIX IN AN EX-LOTUS 19. HE WAS KILLED ON JULY 02, 1962 AT REIMS DRIVING AN IAN WALKER RACING LOTUS. HE WAS 22 YEARS OLD. CONNAUGHT'S LAST F1 START WAS DRIVEN BY BOB SAID OF THE U.S.A. AT AGE 27 WITH A CONNAUGHT B-TYPE AT SEBRING IN 1959. $ AT CATULUNYA 1998 GENERAL ADMISSION WAS lbs50. STANDING ADMISSION FOR 3 DAYS WAS lbs66. SITDOWN PASS FOR 3 DAYS WAS lbs119. 3 DIFFERENT CAR NOSE COLOURS IN BARCELONA 1951 FERRARI ENTERED 3 RED CARS WITH ALBERTO ASCARI'S CAR NOSE COLOURED BLUE, LUIGI VILLORESI'S WAS SILVER AND FROILAN GONZALEZ'S WAS YELLOW. DROVE A 66' IN 67' AND 69' AL PEASE OF CANADA DROVE A 1966 EAGLE F1 WITH A 2.7-LITRE CLIMAX FOUR CYLINDER ENGINE IN THE 1967 AND 1969 CANADIAN GRANDS PRIX, BOTH AT MOSPORT PARK. ROGER PENSKE IN FORMULA ONE ROGER PENSKE WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 20, 1937 IN SHAKER HEIGHTS, OHIO, U.S.A. HE DROVE IN ONLY 2 F1 STARTS AT THE 1961 AND 1962 US GRANDS PRIX AT WATKINS GLEN DRIVING PRIVATELY OWNED COOPERS. RAW EGGS BEFORE THE LIGHTS GO OUT CESARE PERDISA OF ITALY DROVE IN 7 GRANDS PRIX AND AT EVERY RACE, IN THE COCK- PIT, HE WOULD CRACK AND SWALLOW AN EGG WHOLE IN A MASERATI OR A FERRARI JUST BEFORE THE LIGHTS WENT OUT AT THE START OF A RACE. 0 VICTORIES IN F1 - 3 VICTORIES AT LeMANS HENRI PESCAROLO OF FRANCE DROVE IN 57 GRANDS PRIX WITH HIS BEST RESULT 3RD IN THE MONACO GP OF 1970 DRIVING A MATRA. HE WON LeMANS IN 1972, 1973 AND 1974 WITH PARTNER GRAHAM HILL IN 1972 AND GERARD LARROUSSE IN 1973 AND 1974. MIKA HAKKINEN WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1968 IN HELSINKI, FINLAND. HE WON THE BRITISH F3 CHAMPIONSHIP IN 1990. HIS 3RD RACE HAD HIM FINISHING 5TH IN A LOTUS-JUDD. HE RACED WITH JOHNNY HERBERT AS TEAMMATES IN 1992. JIM HALL WAS BORN IN ABILENE, TEXAS, U.S.A. ON JULY 23, 1935. AFTER HIS PARENTS AND SISTER WERE KILLED IN A PRIVATE PLANE CRASH, HE INHERITED A $15 MILLION FORTUNE. WITH ONLY 11 GRANDS PRIX ENTERED FROM 1960-1963, HE SURPRISED EVERYONE FINISHING 5TH IN THE 1963 GERMAN GRAND PRIX AND 6TH IN THE 1963 BRITISH GRAND PRIX. HE LATER BECAME INVOLVED IN INDY CAR RACING. JOHNNY HERBERT BROKE BOTH HIS LEG IN A FORMULA 3000 RACE AT BRANDS HATCH IN AUGUST OF 1988. HE FINISHED 4TH IN HIS DEBUT F1 RACE FOR BENETTON IN BRAZIL IN 1988. MURRAY WALKER POLLED IN 1998 76% OF PEOPLE POLLED IN A TELE TEXT POLL ON ITV HAVE REQUESTED MURRAY WALKER COMMENTATE ANOTHER YEAR. SCHUMACHER IN SPA 1998 "I WAS NOT LOSING SELF CONTROL IN THE CAR. IF YOU LOOK AT THE VIDEO YOU CAN SEE THAT I LEFT ABOUT 40 METRES BETWEEN US OUT OF THE PREVIOUS CORNER. WHEN HE (COULTHARD) DIDN'T PULL ACROSS ON THE STRAIGHT, I PRESUMED THAT HE WOULD NOT BE LETTING ME THROUGH BEFORE THE NEXT CORNER." PUSHED A CAR OUT OF GAS LUIGI PIOTTI DROVE IN 6 GRANDS PRIX BUT WAS BEST KNOWN FOR PUSHING STIRLING MOSS' FERRARI 250F BACK TO THE PIT'S AT MONZA AFTER MOSS RAN OUT OF FUEL. THIS GESTURE HELPED MOSS TO WIN THE 1956 ITALIAN GRAND PRIX AT MONZA AND PUT HIM IN THE HEARTS OF HIS HOME TIFOSI. DIDIER PIRONI WON LeMANS IN 1978. BELGIUM GRAND PRIX IN 1980. SAN MARINO GRAND PRIX 1982. DUTCH GRAND PRIX IN 1982. HE WAS KILLED ALONG WITH JOURNALIST BERNARD GIROUX AND FORMER F3 RACER JEAN-CLAUDE GUENARD WHEN THE POWERBOAT PIRONI WAS RACING WENT OVER AN OIL TANKERS WAKE AT FULL-SPEED AND FLIPPED OVER. 7 IN 75' TYRES HAD 7 LATERAL GROOVES IN 1975 ON THE REAR WHEELS. SAM POSEY DROVE IN 2 GRANDS PRIX IN 1971 AND 1972 IN A SURTESS BOTH TIMES. BOBBY RAHAL DROVE IN ONLY 2 GRANDS PRIX. THE 1978 US AND 1978 CANADIAN GP'S FOR WALTER WOLF'S TEAM. NELSON PIQUET DROVE IN 204 GRANDS PRIX. HE WON 23 RACES, CAME 2ND IN 20 RACES, CAME 3RD IN 17 RACES AND HELD 24 POLE POSITIONS IN HIS FORMULA ONE CAREER. HE WON 11% OF HIS STARTS AND FINISHED ON THE PODIUM 60 OUT OF 204 RACES WHICH AMOUNTS TO 34% OF THE TIME. JEAN-LOUIS SCHLESSER WAS THE NEPHEW OF DRIVER JO SCHLESSER. HE DROVE IN 1 GRAND PRIX AT MONZA IN 1988 AND COLLIDED WITH AYRTON SENNA. HIS WIFE MARIANA SIMONESCU WAS BJORN BORG'S 1ST WIFE. ARGENTINA 1998 DAVID COULTHARD'S POLE POSITION IN ARGENTINA WAS HIS 6TH CAREER POLE AND HIS FIRST WITH McLAREN SINCE AIDA IN 1995. HE MARRIED THE NURSE WHEN JOHN SURTEES WAS HOSPITALIZED IN 1978 WITH MEDICAL PROBLEMS, HE STARTED A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE WARD NURSE WHOM HE LATER MARRIED AND HAD 3 CHILDREN WITH. JACKIE'S BROTHER JIMMY JIMMY STEWART WAS 8 YEARS OLDER THAN JACKIE WHEN HE DROVE IN THE ONLY GP OF HIS CAREER AT THE 1952 BRITISH GRAND PRIX IN A COOPER-BRISTOL. HE RETIRED FROM AUTO RACING AFTER A HUGE SHUNT IN AN ASTON MARTIN AT LeMANS IN 1955. RACE CAR DRIVER AND PIG FARMER TIM PARNELL, THE SON OF REG PARNELL DROVE IN THE 1961 BRITISH AND ITALIAN GRANDS PRIX IN A PRIVATELY OWNED LOTUS 18. HE MANAGED PARNELL RACING IN 1964 AFTER HIS FATHER'S DEATH OF PERITONITIS AFTER COMPLICATIONS DURING AN APPENDIX OPERATION. TIME WAS THE BRM WORKS TEAM MANAGER FROM 1970-1974. HE LATER BECAME A PIG FARMER NEAR DERBY, GREAT BRITIAN. TOM PRYCE DROVE IN 42 GRANDS PRIX WITH HIS BEST PLACE 3RD IN BOTH THE AUSTRIAN GP OF 1975 AND BRAZILIAN GP OF 1976. HE WAS KILLED WHEN HE HIT A MARSHALL WHO WAS CROSSING THE TRACK AT THE 1977 SOUTH AFRICAN GRAND PRIX. THE FIRE MARSHALL'S FIRE EXTINGUISHER HIT HIM IN THE HEAD AND KILLED HIM ON MARCH 07. FERRARI'S MOST POINTS IN A SINGLE SEASON CAME IN THE 1998 SEASON EVEN THOUGH THEY LOST THE CHAMPIONSHIP TO McLAREN. SINCE FERRARI ENTERED FORMULA ONE IN 1950 THEY HAVE 'NEVER' SCORED AS MANY POINTS AS THEY DID IN 1998. MIKA HAKKINEN AND BRUCE McLAREN TIED ON THE PODIUM THEY EACH HAVE "27" PODIUM FINISHES AT THE END OF THE 1998 RACE IN SUZUKA, JAPAN. MIKA HAKKINEN BECAME WORLD CHAMPION IN 1998. DAVID HOBBS DROVE IN ONLY 7 GRANDS PRIX IN HIS CAREER IN F1 WITH HIS BEST FINISH IN THE 1974 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX IN 7TH PLACE DRIVING A YARDLEY McLAREN M23 AFTER REPLACING MIKE HAILWWOD WHO WAS INJURED AT THE NURBURGRING. HOBBS BECAME A MOTOR RACING COMMENTATOR. HE WAS BORN ON JUNE 09, 1939 IN LEEMINGTON, SPA. J J LEHTO'S REAL NAME J J WON THE 1987 FF2000 BRITISH AND EUROPEAN TITLES AS WELL AS THE 1988 BRITISH F3 TITLE. HE WAS ALSO FERRARI'S TEST DRIVER FOR 1989. HE FINISHED 3RD AT THE 1991 SAN MARINO GP AT IMOLA WITH TEAM DALLARA. HIS REAL NAME IS JYRKI JARVILEHTO. HE WAS BORN ON JANUARY 31, 1966 IN ESPOO, FINLAND. HE CHANGED HIS NAME FROM JYRKI JARVILEHTO TO J J LEHTO ON THE ADVICE OF KEKE ROSBERG WHO'S CHRISTIAN NAME IS KEIJO ROSBERG. NICOLA LARINI WAS BORN ON MARCH 19, 1964 IN CAMAIORE, ITALY. HE WON THE 1986 ITALIAN F3 TITLE. HELMUT KOINIGG DROVE IN 2 GRANDS PRIX WITH A 10TH PLACE AT MOSPORT PARK, CANADA IN 1974. AT THE 2ND RACE OF HIS CAREER HE WAS KILLED AT WATKINS GLEN WHEN HIS SLOW PUNCTURE CAUSED HIS CAR TO GO OUT OF CONTROL AND SLIDE BENEATH INSECURELY MOUNTED GUARD RAILS ON OCTOBER 06, 1974. HE WAS A MONTH SHY OF HIS 26TH BIRTHDAY. JOHNNY HERBERT AND HIS KNEES JOHNNY HERBERT CRASHED AT BRANDS HATCH IN AUGUST OF 1988 AND SHATTERED HIS ANKLES. HE SAID - "FOR YEARS AFTERWARDS BITS AND PIECES OF GRASS OR RUBBER WOULD WORK THEIR WAY OUT OF MY FEET. I THINK THE LAST BITS APPEARED IN 1991. HELSINKI TO BUDAPEST AIRLINES DURING THE WEEK OF THE HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX 1998 PUT ON 20 EXTRA FLIGHTS FROM HELSINKI TO BUDAPEST. MIKA SALO'S SWIMMING POOL AT THE BOTTOM OF MIKA SALO'S INDOOR SWIMMING POOL AT HIS NEW HOME IN HELSINKI HE HAS A MOSAIC OF HIS HELMET INBEDDED IN THE FLOOR. BAR CODES WON'T STICK BAR CODES ARE STUCK TO ALL TYRES BY THE FIA GOVERNING BODY TO PROVE LEGALITY. BUT AT BRAZIL IN 1998, THE BAR CODE WOULD NOT STICK TO THE OUTSIDE OF THE TYRE WALL DUE TO A TEXTURE CHANGE. JEAN ALESI OUT OF GAS JEAN ALESI IGNORED HIS REPEATED RADIO TRANSMISSIONS TELLING HIM TO PIT FOR FUEL AT THE GRAND PRIX OF AUSTRALIA IN MELBOURNE IN 1997. HE IGNORED HIS PIT BOARD WHICH WAS DISPLAYING A HUGE "IN" ARROW, AND HIS PIT CREW WAVING AT HIM HANGING OVER THE PITWALL. RESULT - OUT OF GAS AND THE RACE. HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX THE CAPITAL CITY OF BUDA PEST CONSISTS OF TWO CITIES: BUDA ON ONE SIDE OF THE DANUBE AND PEST ON THE OTHER SIDE. PEST IS MORE MODERN AND IS WHERE MOST DRIVERS STAY WHICH IS CLOSER TO THE TRACK. BUDA IS AN OLDER CITY. F1 HAS BEEN GOING TO BUDAPEST SINCE 1986. THESE CITIES HOUSE MANY TURKISH BATHS. STUART LEWIS-EVANS WAS BORN APRIL 20, 1930 IN LUTON, GREAT BRITIAN. HE DROVE IN 14 GRANDS PRIX AND TOOK POLE POSITION IN THE 1957 ITALIAN GRAND PRIX AT MONZA. ON LAP 42 OF THE MORROCCAN GRAND PRIX ON OCTOBER 25, 1958 HE CRASHED HEAVILY WHEN HIS VANWALL TRANSMISSION LOCKED UP. HE SUSTAINED SERIOUS BURNS IN HIS CRASH. HE DIED 6 DAYS LATER. FIRST F3000 TEAM FOUNDED LAMBERTO LEONI FOUNDED THE FIRST EVER F3000 TEAM AT THE AGE OF 34. HE HAD DRIVEN IN ONLY 1 GP RACE WHICH WAS THE 1979 ARGENTINE GRAND PRIX FOR TEAM ENSIGN. HE ALSO WON THE 1977 MISANO F2 RACE WITH TEAM TRIVELLATO IN A CHEVRON-FERRARI V6 AT MISANO-ADRIATICO. JOHN LOVE WAS SIX-TIME SOUTH AFRICAN F1 CHAMPION IN THE EARLY 60'S. HE DROVE IN 9 GRANDS PRIX AND WAS BORN DECEMBER 07, 1924 IN BULAWAYO, RHODESIA.