About the cars

The average Formula One car costs $12.2 million!

The steering wheel on F1 cars has over 25 buttons on it!

The brake discs in F1 cars can reach up to 1,000°C!

The average F1 car has 80,000 individual components!

F1 cars can accelerate from 0mph-100mph-0mph in just 4 seconds!

F1 cars weigh up to 740 kg!

The halo on F1 cars can withstand up to 5 tonnes of weight!

About the drivers

The average F1 driver loses 3kg of liquid in a single race!

Lella Lombardi is the only female driver to score a point in F1!

Lewis Hamilton is the first (and only) driver to reach triple-figures when it comes to race wins and pole positions! He has 103 race wins and 103 pole positions!

About the championships

The most World Drivers Championships that have been won by a single driver is seven (Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton)!

Juan Manuel Fangio has won 5 Drivers Championships and although this has now been beaten, his record stood for 46 years!

Sebastian Vettel is the youngest driver to win a Drivers Championship - he was just 23 when he won his first of four!

There are 22 races in the 2022 F1 season. The first Formula 1 season only had 7 races!

The Scuderia Ferrari team have won the most constructor's championships - 16!

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