2. Modern F1 car steering wheels are complex things, containing some 31 buttons and dials for various manoeuvres. The price? Only 23,000 euros.
3. Nobody knows about the exact origins of the Checkered Flag. One of the many theories states that horse races in the American Midwest in the 19th Century would end when checkered tablecloths were frantically waved to signal lunch.
4. Beatle George Harrison was so crazy about F1 that even while suffering from cancer he attended the 2000 Australian Grand Prix to wish BMW driver Jenson Button luck.
5. While everyone knows that Michael Schumacher holds the record for most wins as a driver with 7 Drivers’ Championship wins, very few know that Jason Rindt is the only posthumous World Champion (1970).
6. Of the 17 tracks hosting Grands Prix this season, only 4 are street circuits. Of these, the beautiful Monaco course is so narrow, that 3-time World Champion Nelson Piquet likened it to “riding a bicycle around your living room”.
