Driver Numbers

[teabagyokel]

RasputinLives - Yeah, him and Jules Bianchi...

 

[The Artist.....]

I associate 27 with Jean Alesi!

Personally, I associate 27 with Ferrari, 5 with Williams and 19 with Benetton ..... I've never really attached driver significance to numbers!

Then of course there's 3 and 4 with Tyrrell, 7 and 8 with Brabham, 25 and 26 with Ligier.....

 

[Titch]

Yes apart from the numbers 1 and 2, all the other numbers are team related not driver related. It will take a bit of getting used to. And does the WDC take the number 1 or keep his own number?

 

[teabagyokel]

Titch - The Champion has a choice between 1 and their own number.

 

[Mephistopheles]

I associate 27 with kung pao chicken

 

[F1Yorkshire]

In response to the earlier morbid post with numbers being unlucky as they are associated with a drivers death, here is a list of the lucky numbers driven by the championship winner.

The most common numbers are: 1 - 14 times, 5 - 10 times, 2 - 6 times, 8,10,11,22 - 4 times


1 Juan Manuel Fangio
1 Jim Clark
1 Alain Prost
1 Ayrton Senna
1 Michael Schumacher x 5
1 Mika Häkkinen
1 Fernando Alonso
1 Sebastian Vettel x 3
2 Jack Brabham
2 Phil Hill
2 Denny Hulme
2 Alain Prost x 3
3 Graham Hill
3 Jacques Villeneuve
3 Michael Schumacher
4 Alberto Ascari
4 Juan Manuel Fangio
5 Jackie Stewart
5 Emerson Fittipaldi
5 Mario Andretti
5 Nelson Piquet x 2
5 Nigel Mansell
5 Michael Schumacher
5 Damon Hill
5 Fernando Alonso
5 Sebastian Vettel
6 Mike Hawthorn
6 Emerson Fittipaldi
6 Keke Rosberg
6 Nelson Piquet
6 Kimi Räikkönen
7 John Surtees
8 Jack Brabham
8 Jim Clark
8 Niki Lauda
8 Mika Häkkinen
10 Juan Manuel Fangio
10 Nino Farina
10 Jack Brabham
10 Graham Hill
11 Jackie Stewart
11 James Hunt
11 Niki Lauda
11 Jody Scheckter
12 Ayrton Senna
12 Alberto Ascari
12 Niki Lauda
20 Jackie Stewart
22 Juan Manuel Fangio
22 Jochen Rindt
22 Lewis Hamilton
22 Jenson Button
26 Juan Manuel Fangio
27 Alan Jones
27 Ayrton Senna

 

[Mephistopheles]

I never realized that both Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton won the championship driving car number 22

 

[tonyw151]

F1Yorkshire, wasn't Damon champion in '96 with car 5? 1 and 2 were the Ferraris

 

[Mephistopheles]

And so we can conclude that numbers 2,4,5,6,7,22 and 27 are both lucky and unlucky at the same time...

 

[Mephistopheles]

tonyw151 No Prost was champion in 95 and retired with the number 1 so Damon took 0 and Senna took 2 in 96, Ferrari hadn't won a championship in ages and wouldn't win until 2000

 

[F1Yorkshire]

I never realised how significant number 5 was. Number 9 definitely not a number that a future champion would like to take.

 

[Jos the Boss]

Mephistopheles Schumi won in '95 so the Ferraris would have had 1 and 2?

 

[mjo]

Mephistopheles I presume you mean 1993 and 1994.

 

[F1Yorkshire]

Yeah you're right. That year was the one of the few I didn't double check as I thought I knew the year. Will modify the list.

 

[Mephistopheles]

It's old age you know Jos the Boss , what causes it....

 

[teabagyokel]

Of course F1Yorkshire, the ones before 1974 weren't season-long numbers, just numbers carried on the day they secured the title. The only numbers to win since 1974 are 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 22 & 27.

I never realized that both Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton won the championship driving car number 22

Yeah, they both won it finishing 5th at the Brazilian Grand Prix in a Mercedes powered car numbered 22 wearing a yellow helmet, while Sebastian Vettel was 4th in car 15, in third position was the previous world champion in car 1, in second position was car 5 and the winner was a yellow-helmeted driver for the highest placed team in the WCC who had not won the WDC.

 

[Mephistopheles]

You'll have me believing in coincidences next teabagyokel

 

[Mephistopheles]

If anyone is at all interested and there is no reason why you should be.

In mathematical terms the lucky numbers from 1 to 99 are all odd natural numbers and are as follows.

1, 3, 7, 9, 13, 15, 21, 25, 31, 33, 37, 43, 49, 51, 63, 67, 69, 73, 75, 79, 87, 93 and 99

These number are a sifted set of integers generated by a sieve eliminating in order, every second number in the set then every third number and finally every seventh number the ones that remain are considered lucky, 27 does not appear in this set...

 

[sushifiesta]

The driver numbers will be announced today apparently.

 

[Greenlantern101]

woo something to talk about. Sooo bored.