Last driver born in each decade to start a Grand Prix?
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Last driver born in each decade to start a Grand Prix?
Kimi is presumably the last driver born in the 1970s to start an F1 race. So what about the other decades?
(I think I have the first one right!)
1890s: Louis Chiron (b. 1899) - 1956 Monaco GP
1900s: Louis Rosier (b. 1905) - 1956 German GP
1910s: Edgar Barth (b. 1917) - 1964 German GP
1920s: Graham Hill (b. 1928) - 1975 Brazilian GP
1930s: Vittorio Brambilla (b. 1939) - 1980 Italian GP
1940s: Rene Arnoux (b. 1948) - 1989 Australian GP
1950s: Gerhard Berger (b. 1959) - 1997 European GP
1960s: Michael Schumacher (b. 1969) - 2012 Brazilian GP
1970s: Kimi Raikkonen (b. 1979) - 2019 Bahrain GP
(I think I have the first one right!)
1890s: Louis Chiron (b. 1899) - 1956 Monaco GP
1900s: Louis Rosier (b. 1905) - 1956 German GP
1910s: Edgar Barth (b. 1917) - 1964 German GP
1920s: Graham Hill (b. 1928) - 1975 Brazilian GP
1930s: Vittorio Brambilla (b. 1939) - 1980 Italian GP
1940s: Rene Arnoux (b. 1948) - 1989 Australian GP
1950s: Gerhard Berger (b. 1959) - 1997 European GP
1960s: Michael Schumacher (b. 1969) - 2012 Brazilian GP
1970s: Kimi Raikkonen (b. 1979) - 2019 Bahrain GP
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Maybe Gerhard Berger was the last driver born in the 1950s to start a race?
It's not an important statistic at all, just a curiosity.
It's not an important statistic at all, just a curiosity.
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Last driver born in the 1940s to start a race must be Rene Arnoux (b. 1948) in 1989 Australia.
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Mario Andretti (b. 1940, so technically the 1930s) in 1982
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Maybe Karl Kling (b. 1910, so technically the 1900s) in 1954?!
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In England, we wouldn't say 1940 is the 1930s. Otherwise we would have celebrated the new millennium in 2001.
So, it would have to be Brambilla born in 1939 who raced at Imola in 1980 (and crashed hard at Tosa).
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1910s - Edgar Barth (b. 1917) - 1964 German GP
Well, thread over
Well, thread over
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The new millenium did start on 1 January 2001!
There was no year 0.
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Louis Chiron, I think, is also the last Monegasque driver to stand on the podium before Leclerc.
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Yep at Monaco 1950.
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Just a few facts:
http://daistwasdran.de/millenni.htm
A decade starts with year xxx1 and ends with xxx0 as there was no year "0".
So e.g. the 1980s started on 1 January 1981 and ended 31 December 1990. That is a fact, although nobody applies to that... no matter where or who.
http://daistwasdran.de/millenni.htm
A decade starts with year xxx1 and ends with xxx0 as there was no year "0".
So e.g. the 1980s started on 1 January 1981 and ended 31 December 1990. That is a fact, although nobody applies to that... no matter where or who.
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Fair play. But thanks for your help. In modern times, Schumacher is by far the oldest driver to start a Grand Prix at 43, followed by Nigel Mansell in 1995 who was 42 and Pedro De La Rosa who was 41.
Kimi has been the oldest driver on the grid since Mark Webber retired at the end of 2013.
Kimi has been the oldest driver on the grid since Mark Webber retired at the end of 2013.
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