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Impossibly fast cars driven by brave and handsome young men of all nationalities in a variety of exotic backdrops throughout the world, with beautiful women looking on adoringly Of course it s glamorous Don t let anyone tell you otherwise unless it s a mechanic who just completed an all-nighter fixing a damaged Formula One car while the guy who crashed it took a supermodel out for dinner

TV just can t get enough of Formula One Around 100 TV channels throughout the world broadcast each Grand Prix Over 500 journalists are accredited to cover the championship for newspapers and specialist magazines Formula One gets its glamorous, dramatic and colourful message across To find out how to get the most accurate and reliable information about Formula One, head to 17

Before the advent of commercial sponsorship in the late 1960s, Formula One cars used to race in their national colours This tradition dated back to the turn of the twentieth century and a competition called the Gordon Bennett Cup, the direct forebear of Grand Prix racing In this competition, teams represented each of the five participating countries in a sort of inter-nations cup event For easy identification, each country was allocated a colour Italy was represented by red (still seen today in the Ferrari team s livery), France by blue, Britain by green, Germany by white, and Belgium by yellow These colours remained an intrinsic part of the sport until corporate liveries rendered them redundant

Countries have often been converted to Formula One after one of their countrymen has succeeded in the sport This was certainly the case with Finland, which for decades had been interested only in rallying (a sport of road-based cars racing against the clock, rather than wheel-to-wheel, through forest tracks and closed roads) The Finns became alerted to Formula One s existence when Keke Rosberg won the 1982 World Championship By the time Rosberg s prot g Mika Hakkinen won his two world titles in 1998 and 1999, the Finns were fervent followers, trailing their national flags to circuits around the world Since Hakkinen s retirement they now have a new hero in the form of Kimi Raikkonen Fernando Alonso has turned Spain onto F1 in a big way and Michael Schumacher s success transformed F1 in Germany from a minority interest sport to something that virtually every man in the street is aware of

Grand Prix racing has a rather long and lustrous history It began at the turn of the twentieth century as a proving ground and publicity medium for road car manufacturers It was still so when it was first labelled Formula One half-way through the century But toward the end of the 1950s it acquired a life of its own, regardless of the plans of the road car manufacturers that had always formed its core The sport proved so popular that even when the manufacturers pulled out, other specialised F1 constructors were able to step into the breach and provide the hardware for the star drivers who had become the fans main focus of interest

With the perspective of time, it s possible to distinguish the critical moments in the sport s history and its evolution into the fantastic high-tech, highentertainment, high-drama show of today

The first Grand Prix race was held at Le Mans, France in 1906 The French initiated the event as a way around the three-car entry restriction imposed on each nation by the previous premier motor racing competition, the Gordon Bennett Cup At the time, France was far and away the leading car producer in the world (times change, eh ) and took exception to being limited to just three cars So with characteristic chauvinism (maybe times don t change), the French devised their own competition the Grand Prix in which no such restriction existed and where honours would be fought out not between countries, but between manufacturers It s a lineage that continues to this day