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Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the most restrictive class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The "formula" in the name refers to a set of rules with which all participants' cars must comply. The F1 season consists of a series of races, known as Grands Prix (translated to English as "Big Prizes"), held on purpose-built circuits and public roads. The results of each race are combined to determine two annual World Championships, one for the drivers and one for the constructors, with racing drivers, constructor teams, track officials, organizers, and circuits required to be holders of valid Super Licences, the most restrictive class of racing licence issued by the FIA.
Formula One cars race at high speeds – up to 360 km/h (220 mph) – with engines the performance of which is limited to a maximum of 18,000 revolutions per minute (rpms). The cars are capable of lateral acceleration in excess of 5 g in corners. The formula has had much evolution and change through the history of the sport. Europe, where all the Formula One racing teams are based, is the sport's traditional basis and where about half of each year's races occur. However, the sport's scope has expanded significantly during recent years and an increasing number of Grands Prix are held on other continents.
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Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940) is an Italian American former racecar driver, and one of the most successful Americans in the history of auto racing. He is one of only two drivers to win races in the four major motor racing categories: Formula One, IndyCar (USAC), World Sportscar Championship and NASCAR, the other being Dan Gurney. He also won races in midget cars, sprint cars and drag racing cars. During his career, Andretti won four IndyCar titles, the 1978 Formula One World Championship, and IROC VI (the 1978 - 1979 IROC). To date, he remains the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500 (1969), the Daytona 500 (1967), and the Formula One World Championship, and, along with Juan Pablo Montoya, the only driver to have won a race in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Formula One, and an Indianapolis 500. No American has won a Formula One race since Andretti at the 1978 Dutch Grand Prix. Andretti had 109 career wins on major circuits. Andretti had a long career in racing. He was the only person to be named United States Driver of the Year in three decades (1967, 1978, and 1984). He was also one of only three drivers to win races on road courses, paved ovals, and dirt tracks in one season, a feat that he accomplished four times.
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- ... that the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix (podium pictured) was the first Formula One race to be held at night?
- ... that Ayrton Senna was disqualified from the 1987 Australian Grand Prix for having oversized brake ducts?
- ... that the United States has had the most drivers in the World Drivers' Championship, with 156 (including Indy 500 entries from 1950-1960), ahead of the United Kingdom with 155 and Italy with 99? But the United States and Italy have only had two Champions each, to the United Kingdom's ten?
- ... that three teams withdrew from the 1960 Italian Grand Prix, saying the track was too fast?
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The 2008 Monaco Grand Prix (formally the LXVI Grand Prix de Monaco) was a Formula One motor race held on May 25, 2008 at the Circuit de Monaco; contested over 76 laps, it was the sixth race of the 2008 Formula One season. The race was won by the season's eventual Drivers' Champion, Lewis Hamilton, for the McLaren team. BMW Sauber driver Robert Kubica finished second, and Felipe Massa, who started from pole position, was third in a Ferrari. Conditions were wet at the start of the race. Massa maintained his lead into the first corner, but his teammate Kimi Räikkönen was passed for second by Lewis Hamilton, who had started in third position on the grid. Hamilton suffered a punctured tyre on lap six, forcing him to make a pit stop from which he re-entered the race in fifth place. As the track dried and his rivals made their own pit stops Hamilton became the race leader, a position he held until the end of the race. Kubica's strategy allowed him to pass Massa during their second pit stops, after the latter's Ferrari was forced to change from wet to dry tyres. Räikkönen dropped back from fifth position to ninth after colliding with Adrian Sutil's Force India late in the race; Sutil had started from 18th on the grid and was in fourth position before the incident.
Archive/Nominations Current World Championship standings
Drivers' Championship Constructors' Championship Name Team Points Constructor Points 
Sebastian VettelRed Bull-Renault 374 
Red Bull-Renault607 
Jenson ButtonMcLaren-Mercedes 255 McLaren-Mercedes482 
Fernando AlonsoFerrari 245 
Ferrari353 Standings after the 2011 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. See the 2011 Formula One season article for further season summary. Topics
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- August 2: Jenson Button wins Hungarian Grand Prix
- February 24: Bahrain Grand Prix cancelled amid political turmoil
- November 26: Bernie Ecclestone attacked outside London headquarters; no arrests made
- November 18: Vettel becomes youngest Formula One champion
- November 9: Vettel wins 2010 Brazilian Grand Prix, securing Constructors' Championship for Red Bull
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2011 Brazilian Grand Prix Round 19 of 19 · 25–27 November Autódromo José Carlos Pace 
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