Top Gear - James May & Jackie Stewart

 sir Jackie Stewart the Flying Scot on Top Gear!

The Story of Enzo Ferrari

Enzo Ferrari documentary from YouTube. Enjoy!

Random Formula One World Records IV

The records never stop! And when they do people break them again.

Please note that these records were made before August 22th 2013.

Here we go:

• Most consecutive points finishes: Kimi Räikkönen - in 27 races (the record is still going and ends when he doesn't finish in the points).
• Highest average points per race entered: Sebastian Vettel - 11.05 points per race
• Highest percentage of races finished in the points: In the points at the only race / 100% - Dorino Serafini, Eric Thompson and Oscar Alfredo Galvez.
• Most championship points in a season: Sebastian Vettel - 392 points in 2011.
• Most championship points in a season before 2009 and the new scoring system: Michael Schumacher - 148 points in 2004
• Highest percentage of possible points in a season: 100% - Alberto Ascari in 1952 and Jim Clark in 1963 and 1965.
• Highest percentage of total possible points in a season: Michael Schumacher - 84.71% (144 points of 170 possible points)
• Most career points without being world champion: Mark Webber - 953,5 points
• Most career points recalculated to the 2010 scoring system: Michael Schumacher with 3890 points
• Total races finished in the points recalculated to the 2010 scoring system: Michael Schumacher with 226 point finishes
• Highest average points per race started, recalculated to the 2010 scoring system: George Amick would have gotten 18 points in the only race he started = 18 points per race
• Most championship points in a season recalculated to the 2010 scoring system: Sebastian Vettel still wins with his 392 points from the 2011 season.
• Most races led from the start till the end: Ayrton Senna - 19 races
• Most races led for at least one lap: Michel Schumacher - 142 races
• Most laps led in Formula One history: Michael Schumacher - 5111 laps
• Longest distance led (total) in Formula One history: Michael Schumacher - 24 144 km
• Most laps led without a victory: Chris Amon - 183 laps
• Most consecutive laps in the lead: Alberto Ascari - 304 laps
• Most of pole & win at the same grand prix: Michael Schumacher - 40 GP's
• Most wins from pole position in a season: Nigel Mansell (1992) and Sebastian Vettel (2011)
• Most of pole, win and fastest lap at the same grand prix: Michael Schumacher - 22 GP's
• Most of pole, win, fastest lap and led the whole race at the same grand prix: Jim Clark - 8 GP's
• Fewest world championship season before first title: Champion in the 2nd season - Jaques Villeneuve (1997) and Lewis Hamilton (2008)
• Most world championship seasons as a runner up: Stirling Moss and Alain Prost - 4 seasons

1985 European Grand Prix

Nigel Mansell

Another full race from the 80's. Enjoy this nostalgic grand prix!

FIA press conference schedule - Belgium

World champion Sebastian Vettel and all four of the grid’s French drivers are among those due to face the media at Spa-Francorchamps on Thursday afternoon, while on Friday it will be the turn of senior team personnel, including Pat Symonds making his first appearance in his new role as Williams’ chief technical officer. The line-ups in full...

Thursday, August 22, 1500 hours local time (1300 GMT)
Jules Bianchi (Marussia), Giedo van der Garde (Caterham), Romain Grosjean (Lotus), Charles Pic (Caterham), Jean-Eric Vergne (Toro Rosso), Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull).

Friday, August 23, 1600 hours local time (1400 GMT)
Nick Chester (Lotus), Andrew Green (Force India), Jean-Michel Jalinier (Renault Sport), James Key (Toro Rosso), Tom McCullough (Sauber), Pat Symonds (Williams).

The qualifying and post-race conferences with the top three drivers will take place immediately after the respective sessions.

(Info from f1.com)

Grand Prix Golden Years - Documentary

Niki Lauda and John Watson

F1 Documentary film for all of you racing fans out there.

Random Formula One World Records III

Let's do more of these again shall we!
Please note that these records were made before August 21th 2013.

OK! So here we have some more Formula One World records:

• Most victories in a season: Michael Schumacher - 13 wins in 18 races (2004)
• Most consecutive victories from first race of the season: 5 victories - Nigel Mansell (1992) and Michael Schumacher (2004)
• Most victories in first F1 world championship season: 4 victories - Jaques Villeneuve (1996) and Lewis Hamilton (2007)
• Fewest races before first victory: victory in 1st race - Johnnie Parsons (1950), Giancarlo Baghetti (1961) and Giuseppe Farina (won the first F1 GP ever in 1950)
• Most points without a victory: Nick Heidfeld - 259 points (some of the points are after the new scoring system)
• Victory from farthest back on the grid: John Watson - 22nd (United States GP West 1983)
• Most victories at the same Grand Prix: Michael Schumacher - 8 victories at the French GP
• Most consecutive pole positions at the same GP: Ayrton Senna - 8 poles at the San Marino GP (The last pole was taken the day before he passed away)
• Most pole positions in a season: Sebastian Vettel - 15 poles of 19 GP's in 2011
• Highest percentage of pole positions in a season: Nigel Mansell - 14 pole positions in 16 Grand Prix's = 88% (in the 1992 season)
• Most starts from the front row: Michael Schumacher - 116 front row starts in 308 races
• Best front row start percentage: Juan Manuel Fangio - 48 starts from the front row in 52 Grand Prix's  = 92,31%
• Most consecutive starts from front row: Ayrton Senna - 24 starts (from the German GP in 1988 to the Australian GP in 1989)
• Most starts from front row in a season: Sebastian Vettel in 19 races (2011). Ayrton Senna (1989), Alain Prost (1993) and Damon Hill (1996) started all their GP's from front row but the seasons only had 16 GP's.
• Most fastest laps in a season: 10 fastest laps - Michael Schumacher in 2004 and Kimi Räikkönen in 2005 and 2008.
• Most consecutive fastest laps: Alberto Ascari - 7 fastest laps in 1952-1953
• Best podium finish percentage: Dorino Serafini entered one race in 1950 and stood on the podium = 100%
• Most podium finishes in a season: Michael Schumacher (2002) and Sebastian Vettel (2011) - 17 finishes. Schumacher was on the podium in every race in 2002 but Vettel was in 17 of 19 races.
• Most consecutive podium finishes: Michael Schumacher - 19 finishes (2001-2002)
• Most consecutive podium finishes from the first race of the season: Michael Schumacher - 17 podium finishes in 2002
• Most world championship points combined: Michael Schumacher - 1566 (1369 with the old scoring system and 197 with the new one)
• Most world championship points combined after the new scoring system: Sebastian Vettel - 1101
• Total races finished in the points: Michael Schumacher - in 221 races