The "My word, that's an interesting fact!" thread

DuklaLiberec · Post by **DuklaLiberec** » Sun Aug 07, 2011 12:59 pm

Trigger Happy wrote:That's your opinion, not fact.

I understand it, Trigger Happy.

Now

Did you know that...

-the 850th F1 Grand Prix is Nico Rosberg's 100th GP and Jenson Button's 200th GP?
-this GP was also the 100th GP of the 2,4 litre V8 engines and Toro Rosso's 100th GP?
-only Mika Häkkinen could win the GP of Hungary twice in a row? (1999 & 2000)

DuklaLiberec · Post by **DuklaLiberec** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:41 pm

Did you know that 90% of the Finnish inhabitants have got blue eyes? I think the Finnish guys in our forum have got them, too.

GeneSuomi · Post by **GeneSuomi** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:59 pm

Sorry, I have bright green

Yusei Fudo · Post by **Yusei Fudo** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 4:26 pm

I have one green, and one blue

Post by **Paw** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:08 pm

Are you a husky?

or a cat?

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 2:02 pm

Did you know 2005 seemed to be the best year ever for driving games?

Gran Turismo 4 was released in Europe and North America.
Forza 1 came out.
Need For Speed Most Wanted was released, and many people say it was the best NFS since HP2 until Shift.
F1 05 is claimed to have the best intro of any F1 game, ever.
GTA:San Andreas arrived on to the PC, opening up a brand new window for this game due to mods.
Need For Madness, a free online race 'n' smash Java game was put on the web.
WRC: Rally Evolved, and Colin Mcrae Rally 2005 dominated the Rally section.
NASCAR 2006: Total Team Control is the only NASCAR game to have full team control.
Midnight Club 3: DUB edition was (and to some extent, still is) one of the best ricer tuner games on the market
LA Rush pushed the graphics on the PS2 and Xbox to the limit.
Burnout Revenge was the last true 6th gen Burnout game, due to a rather bland port of Dominator.

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 2:29 pm

As much as I aggree Alex, that is an opinion, not a fact

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 3:38 pm

Changed a few words so it makes more sense. But yeah, how many times have you seen NFS, GT, FM and GTA games that recieved high ratings released in the same year?

And anyway:
Did you know that in 2010 Bridgestone used old moulds from 1997 to make their slick tyres for F1?
Did you know that not just a driver, but an entire team was disqualified from an F1 season? Tyrrell in 1984 was DSQ'd due to unsecured ballasts that could be thrown off to shed weight.

Post by **Lukeno94** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 5:39 pm

Yes, I knew about the Tyrrell and the lead shot in the fuel/water.

DuklaLiberec · Post by **DuklaLiberec** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 7:09 pm

Did you know that...

-in 1993, Michael Schumacher got fined because of driving a motorbike without driving license?
-Juan Manuel Fangio only spoke Spanish?

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 7:43 pm

Did you know that Gerhard Berger scored the first and last wins for Benetton? Mexico 1986 and Germany 1997.

Did you also know that David Coulthard borrowed Michael Schumacher's helmet for Monaco 1996 due to his steaming up? He was allowed to race with it due to Ferrari and Mclaren having the same sponsorship at the time.

DuklaLiberec · Post by **DuklaLiberec** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 6:01 am

Unforgettable for many RSC members is the fact, that Genetleman's Formula X has reached about 2000 (

!) downloads in there.

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:57 pm

And BTW, have you ever noticed this on the Benetton B199? Look at the logo on the sidepod.

Yusei Fudo · Post by **Yusei Fudo** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:10 am

Ah, they were clever I see, so when they would be driving in Australia, the logo would be correct!

DuklaLiberec · Post by **DuklaLiberec** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:43 am

Snap! Now finally I know what this logo means, thx mate.

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 4:52 pm

Also, have any of you noticed the uncensored tobacco logo on the Minolta-Toyota 88C-V in GT5?

DuklaLiberec · Post by **DuklaLiberec** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 4:54 pm

It is very unusual that tobacco & alcohol sponsors are uncensored in racing sims, so I didn't know that.

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 4:57 pm

And the weird thing is, that sponsor never appeared on a Toyota IRL. It was an NCAA logo. Also, there's a gun manufacturer on one of the cars in GT5 and a Coor's below the Sprint Cup logo. And, on the standard version of the Ferrari F2007, there's an uncensored Martini logo.

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:04 am

Did you also know:
GT5 had to have it's "Piazza del Campo" kart track delayed due to flags of the Contrade being displayed, and the local government wasn't happy?
GTAIV was originally to be released for the PS2?
Rally Driver Michèle Mouton is the only woman to win a major rallying championship (German Rallying Championship), and finished runner-up in the 1982 WRC season? She also founded the RoC.
Ferruccio Lamborghini originally made tractors before he started making cars?
These tractors were made from old WW2 machinery metal?
Pagani may be an Italian car manufacturer, but it's founder, Horacio, is Argentinian?
Out of the 45 highest rated shows of all time, 21 of them are Superbowls?
Valentino Rossi scored 46 wins for Yamaha?

Krisu · Post by **Krisu** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 10:04 pm

Bob Barker wrote:Did you know that 90% of the Finnish inhabitants have got blue eyes? I think the Finnish guys in our forum have got them, too.

Yeah, majority of the native Finns do have blue (or grey, whatever) eyes, but 90 % ?? Personally wouldn't believe that.
I have quite dark brown

(while being a native Finn myself)

Bob Barker wrote:Unforgettable for many RSC members is the fact, that Genetleman's Formula X has reached about 2000 ( !) downloads in there.

Ah, those were the times... Even if I didn't know a heck about RSC, I got to download the car(s) somewhere. Must be one of my favourite car(s) of all time. And one the most used.

Also...

Did you know, that Emilio Alzamora won the MotoGP 125 cc world championship in 1999 with winning no races and getting no pole positions?

(Still, the drivers who came 2nd and 3rd won 5 races each that season, haha)

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 11:28 pm

Alex wrote:Out of the 45 highest rated shows of all time, 21 of them are Superbowls?

that's american audience stats only though. With world wide,things like the 1966 world cuo final and Princes Diana's funeral knock a few Superbowls out of the list

Joey Zyla · Post by **Joey Zyla** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:31 am

- Approximately 80,000 components come together to make an F1 car. The cars have to be assembled with cent per cent accuracy. If it were assembled 99.9% correctly, it would go on the track with 80 components wrongly placed.

- An F1 car can accelerate from 0 to 160 kph and decelerate back to 0 in just four seconds.

- British racer Damon Hill is one and only one Formula One racer who have won the F1 championship without leading even in a single lap.

Doorslammer · Post by **Doorslammer** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:39 am

Martyn wrote:
Alex wrote:Out of the 45 highest rated shows of all time, 21 of them are Superbowls?
that's american audience stats only though. With world wide,things like the 1966 world cuo final and Princes Diana's funeral knock a few Superbowls out of the list

Although the highest one time show audience for many years was the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Special, 26 million from memory? Although someone said that should have been attributed to Mike Yarwood (I'll never do so though, he isn't funny).

EDIT: That's a UK audience record, by the way.

My GeneRally 2 profile · Post by **TuomoH** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:48 am

Joey Zyla wrote:- British racer Damon Hill is one and only one Formula One racer who have won the F1 championship without leading even in a single lap.

Interesting claim when Hill won 8 races the year he won the championship.

Or am I missing the meaning of this sentence, not being a native speaker of English?

Post by **Lukeno94** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:58 am

That stat is completely and utterly false, I have no idea what he really means by that and I am English!

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