Your questions answered archive
Your questions: Team mate crashes and more
Here’s a selection of F1 questions I’ve been emailled recently – and my attempts at answering them.
If you’ve got a question do email it in and please help out with any of the requests below if you can…
Your questions: F1 and the number 13
Al wrote in to ask this:
Has there ever been a number 13 on a car [in F1] and if so who was it?
When the FIA published the 2008 entry list last week Toyota had numbers 11 and 12 then Scuderia Toro Rosso had numbers 14 and 15. There will be no number 13 – there [...]
Your questions: McLaren’s numbers in 2008?
Richard C wrote in to ask:
Can you clarify – as a result of McLaren being barred from this years championship what numbers will they be allocated next year?
And which garages will they be allocated?
Read on for the answer.
Your questions: F1 car numbers
Tom Bellingham wrote in with this question:
I was wondering why certain number were on cars back in the ’80s and ’90s. Ferrari famously had the number 27 with Giles Villeneuve, was this number carried on with Ferraris as a tribute to him?
Were teams allowed to choose numbers back then and how was it decided? Since [...]
Your questions: Drivers’ Grand Prix lap times
Knut Urbye wrote in to ask:
I have been looking around the web and tried to figure out where i can acquire lap times for each racer. I am looking for the lap times for each sector and round and for each of the racers. Want to see if i can analyse the data and perhaps [...]
Your questions: Schumacher’s British wins
Lesley wrote this week with the following query:
How many times did Michael Schumacher win the British Grand Prix?
Well I can tell you for sure he won in 1998 – because I was there! And it was seriously wet…
Your questions: Most win/pole doubles
David Sproston wrote in to ask the following:
Who has the highest number of wins from pole position ever?
I’m sure it will come as no surprise to David to learn that it’s yet another record held by Michael Schumacher.
