Irrelevant F1 Facts and News and Stuff

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'Ferrari, Seb Fan' didn't seem to....

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Stroll is the first Canadian not named Villeneuve to score points in an F1 race.

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Hamilton now has the same number of pole positions as Ayrton Senna and Bruno Senna combined.

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... and in fewer races.

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Quite. Lewis on 195 entries, A. Senna on 162. Senna version B on 46.

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Senna was the King of qualifying, best of the modern era for sure.

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This was kind of sweet. The oldest person to drive a modern F1 car is 79-year old Rosemary Smith, former rally driver.
http://en.f1i.com/news/273404-video-rosemary-smith-79-just-tested-renault-f1-car.html

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... but was she faster than Palmer?

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One would assume she was. Yes. I am putting her on the list for 2018.

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So. We (well, the F1 community) sometimes brings up bonus points for fastest lap or pole position, like its done in Formula 2. I saw a comment on a Facebook post that I liked more. What if teams got constructors bonus points for things like fastest pit stop?

These points would not count for the driver, but would count for the teams. That should give them an incentive to further improve their pit stops. Let us be honest, fast pit stops are really cool to see. They are already close to going under 2 seconds (they have done once or twice. Williams and Red Bull both did 1.92 right?).

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Interesting idea but I'd rather see safe pit-stops (all wheels secured) than blisteringly fast ones.  Actually I don't much care for pit-stops in racing: I like my overtaking done (without DRS) out on the track rather than with undercuts/overcuts.

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With Vettel winning this race, we've had 4 different winners in succession: Ricciardo, Bottas, Hamilton Vettel. This hasn't happened since 2012, when the following 7 won consecutive races:

Button, Alonso, Rosberg, Vettel, PASTOR MALDONADO, Webber, Hamilton. That season saw 8 winners over the full year, with Raikkonen joining the fray near the end of the season.

With 4 different winners this year, we're just awaiting a Verstappen or a Raikkonen win to bring the total to 5. That would be the highest number of different winners in a season with this engine formula. 4 is tied with last year. It is not inevitable that one of the two will win this season. Raikkonen should have, today. Also in Monaco.

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Also, the 2017 Hungarian Grand Prix was the first GP to not feature a Brazilian driver since the 1982 San Marino Grand Prix where 4 teams boycotted the race. That's 35 years ago. The same race would also be Gilles Villeneuve's final race, since he was killed during qualifying for the next race, the Belgian Grand Prix.

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https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/prema-would-be-keen-on-f1-customer-car-entry-941982/

Prema would do F1 if they could run customer cars.

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That's jolly good of them.  Of course customer cars equals death to teams like Williams & Force India....