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This category includes all Portuguese drivers who have participated in (or attempted to participate in): a Formula One race, or; an FIA World Championship race (not all of which were Formula One races).
This list covers the numbers used by drivers since the start of the 2014 Formula One season, when drivers have been allowed to choose a number that they would carry throughout their career. [1] From 1950 to 1973, driver numbers were allocated by the organisers of each event, with no consistent method deployed across events. [2]
In 1998, McLaren became the first Formula One team to establish a driver development program, founding the McLaren-Mercedes Young Driver Support Programme; [1] its initial cohort famously included 13-year-old kart racer Lewis Hamilton, [2] who became the first driver development program alumnus in Formula One to win the World Drivers' Championship in 2008. [3]
Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of open-wheeled auto racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. [1] The "formula" in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must conform. [ 2 ]
The Mercedes Junior Team is a driver development programme by the Mercedes-AMG F1 Team to help promote drivers from karts through the feeder series ladder to promote them to their Formula One team. All eligible drivers have been promoted to Formula One, with Pascal Wehrlein, Esteban Ocon and George Russell, the latter driving for Mercedes from ...
Casimiro de Oliveira entered the 1958 Portuguese Grand Prix with a Maserati 250F but withdrew from the event before competing in any session. He was previously a test driver for Scuderia Ferrari in 1953, and in testing the Ferrari 500 that competed in the 1952 and 1953 Formula One seasons was the first Portuguese driver to drive a car entered into the Formula One World Championship.
The FIA Masters Historic Formula One Championship is a championship that has old Formula One cars from "the golden era", which caters for 3-litre engine Formula 1 cars, from 1966 to 1985. [ 1 ] The Historic Formula One Championship , previously known as the Thoroughbred Grand Prix Championship , was a championship for Formula One cars built ...
The Grand Prix Drivers' Association (GPDA) is the trade union of Formula One drivers.Founded in 1961 and refounded in 1994, it has organised several drivers' strikes and boycotts over the years, primarily in response to unsafe circuits on the F1 calendar and other driver safety issues.