- ...that slick tyres (pictured), reintroduced in 2009 after being banned in 1998, were first used in Formula One by Firestone in the 1971 Spanish Grand Prix?
- ... that the first time an onboard camera was used in a Formula One race was the 1985 German Grand Prix, on François Hesnault's Renault?
- ... that the longest gap between consecutive Grand Prix starts by a driver is more than 10 years? Jan Lammers retired from the Dutch Grand Prix on July 3, 1982, and did not make another start until the Japanese Grand Prix on October 25, 1992.
- ... that Jacques Villeneuve, Michael Schumacher, and Heinz-Harald Frentzen set identical times during qualifying for the 1997 European Grand Prix?
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