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Formula One, abbreviated to F1 and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of single-seat open-wheel formula auto racing. It is a worldwide sport, involving an annual World Drivers Championship, most recently won in 2007 by Kimi Raikkonen, and World Constructors Championship, most recently won in 2007 by Ferrari, and is one of the most expensive sports in the world; annual team budgets average in the hundreds of millions of US dollars. It is based around a series of races — 18 in 2008 — known as grands prix, held on either permanent, custom-constructed road courses or temporary, closed-off public street circuits.
The sport is regulated by the FIA, Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, and is generally promoted and administered by Bernie Ecclestone, who largely controls the sport's commercial television rights. Read more...
The Brabham BT46 was a Formula One racing car, designed by Gordon Murray for the Brabham team, owned by Bernie Ecclestone, for the 1978 Formula One season. The car featured several radical design elements, the most obvious of which was the use of flat panel heat exchangers on the bodywork of the car to replace conventional water and oil radiators. The concept did not work in practice and was removed before the car’s race debut, never to be seen again. The cars, powered by a flat-12 Alfa Romeo engine, raced competitively with modified nose-mounted radiators for most of the year, driven by Niki Lauda and John Watson, winning one race in this form and scoring sufficient points for the team to finish third in the constructors championship.
The “B” variant of the car, also known as the fan car, was introduced at the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix as a counter to the dominant ground effect Lotus 79. The BT46B generated an immense level of downforce by means of a fan, claimed to be for increased cooling, but which also extracted air from beneath the car. The car only raced once in this configuration in the Formula One World Championship; Niki Lauda winning the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix at Anderstorp. The car was withdrawn before it could race again and the concept declared illegal by the FIA. The BT46B therefore preserves a 100% winning record.
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- ...that the 1974 French Grand Prix marked the only occasion in which F1 saw qualifying times of less than one minute? Twelve drivers managed to do that during qualifying: pole sitter Niki Lauda, eventual winner Ronnie Peterson, Tom Pryce, Clay Regazzoni, Emerson Fittipaldi, Mike Hailwood, Jody Scheckter, Carlos Reutemann, Patrick Depailler, James Hunt, Denny Hulme, and Jean-Pierre Jarier. The unexpectedly short lap times led to the circuit being extended for subsequent F1 races.
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