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Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and owned by the Formula One Group. The FIA Formula One World Championship has been one of the premier forms of racing around the world since its inaugural season in 1950. The word "formula" in the name refers to the set of rules to which all participants' cars must conform. A Formula One season consists of a series of races, known as Grands Prix (French for 'grand prizes' or 'great prizes'), which take place worldwide on purpose-built circuits and on public roads.

The results of each race are evaluated using a points system to determine two annual World Championships: one for drivers, the other for constructors. Drivers must hold valid Super Licences, the highest class of racing licence issued by the FIA. The races must run on tracks graded "1" (formerly "A"), the highest grade-rating issued by the FIA. Most events occur in rural locations on purpose-built tracks, but several events take place on city streets.

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Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton MBE (born 7 January 1985) is a British racing driver who races in Formula One for Mercedes AMG Petronas. Coming from a mixed background, with a black father and white mother, Hamilton is the first and only black driver to race in Formula One. A five-time Formula One World Champion, he is often considered the best driver of his generation and widely regarded as one of the greatest drivers in the history of the sport. He won his first World Championship title with McLaren in 2008, then moved to Mercedes where he won back-to-back titles in 2014 and 2015 before winning his back-to-back titles again in 2017 and 2018, joining Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher as drivers with five or more World Championship titles. Statistically the most successful British driver in the history of the sport, Hamilton has more World Championship titles (5) and more race victories (81) than any other British driver in Formula One. He also holds records for the all-time most career points (3,302), the most wins at different circuits (25), the all-time most pole positions (87) and the most grand slams in a season (3).

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Did you know...

... that Sebastian Vettel's (pictured) win from pole position at the 2008 Italian Grand Prix made him both the youngest driver to take pole position and the youngest driver to win a Formula One race? Also, it was the youngest podium in F1 history. With Vettel winning the race, Kovalainen finished 2nd, and Robert Kubica finished 3rd.
... that the Ferrari F60 was named to celebrate Ferrari's 60 years in Formula One?
... that racing engineer Harvey Postlethwaite said he agreed to join the Hesketh Racing team because they got him drunk?
... that the 1952 and 1953 World Drivers' Championships were run under Formula Two rules?

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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.

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Current World Championship standings

Drivers' Championship			Constructors' Championship
Name	Team	Points	Constructor	Points
Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	284	Mercedes	505
Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	221	Ferrari	351
Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-Honda	185	Red Bull Racing-Honda	266

Standings following the 2019 Italian Grand Prix

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History of Formula One • Formula One regulations • Formula One cars • Formula One racing

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Drivers (Champions, Grand Prix winners) • Constructors (Champions) • Grands Prix • Circuits • Records • Points scoring systems • Colors • Fatal accidents

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The first lap of the 2008 Bahrain Grand Prix with Jenson Button leaving the track

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