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Formula One race weekend
Formula One race weekend: the three-day Grand Prix structure (practice, qualifying, race), plus the Sprint variant at six 2026 events; Q1-Q3 knockout qualifying, 305 km minimum race distance, 25-1 and 8-1 points.
Formula One regulations
Formula One regulations: FIA Sporting, Technical and Financial rulebooks governing F1, drafted via the F1 Commission and ratified by the WMSC; covers 2026 power unit (400 kW ICE, 350 kW MGU-K), 724 kg+tyre minimum mass, $215m cost cap, points and penalties.
Formula One Teams Association
The Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) was an alliance of Formula One teams, formed in 2008 to negotiate with the FIA and best known for the 2009 breakaway crisis.
Formula One testing restrictions
Formula One testing restrictions are the FIA rules limiting when and how much F1 teams may test their cars outside race weekends, banned in-season from 2009.
Formula One tyres
Formula One tyres, supplied exclusively by Pirelli since 2011 (contract through 2028), comprise C1-C5 slick compounds plus intermediate and wet tyres, color-coded red, yellow, white, green, and blue, with allocation and two-compound rules shaping race strategy.
Formula One World Championship
The Formula One World Championship is an international single-seater motor racing series sanctioned by the FIA, first contested in 1950 and decided annually by points for drivers and constructors.
Formula racing
Formula racing: single-seater, open-wheel circuit racing under FIA-defined technical formulas, spanning the F4-to-Formula 1 ladder, Formula Junior history, and the 2026 F1 rules.
Formula rate plan
A formula rate plan (FRP) is a utility ratemaking mechanism in which a state regulator adjusts base rates each year by formula, comparing earned returns to a target.
Formula Rossa (فورمولا روسا)
Formula Rossa (فورمولا روسا), Intamin steel coaster at Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, opened 4 November 2010; hydraulic launch to 240 km/h in 4.9 s, 52 m tall, 2.07 km Monza-inspired track; world's fastest coaster until Falcon's Flight in 2025.
Formula Three
Formula Three (F3): single-seater racing class, third tier of the FIA ladder; the one-make FIA Formula 3 Championship (since 2019, 30 Dallara-Mecachrome cars) versus the historical Formula Three raced since 1950.
Formula Two
Formula Two (FIA Formula 2 Championship, formerly GP2 Series) is the FIA's spec-chassis feeder series to Formula 1, racing Dallara-Mecachrome cars on F1 weekends; 22 graduates since 2017 include champions Leclerc, Russell, Piastri, Bortoleto.
Formula unit
A formula unit is the smallest electrically neutral grouping of ions that a chemical formula represents, the counting unit for ionic compounds that do not exist as discrete molecules, like NaCl.
Formula Windsurfing
Formula Windsurfing: international windsurf racing class born in France in 1998, box class of 1 m wide boards, sails to 12.5 sq m, 70 cm fins, racing 7-25 knots; World Sailing International class since 2001, now Fin and Foil disciplines.
Formulary of the People's Welfare Pharmacy (Taiping huimin hejiju fang)
The Formulary of the People's Welfare Pharmacy (太平惠民和剂局方) is the Song dynasty's official formulary of ready-made medicines, compiled under Chen Shiwen and revised in 1151.
Formulatrix
Formulatrix is a private, employee-owned laboratory automation company founded in 2002 by Jeremy Stevenson, supplying robotic liquid handlers and protein crystallization instruments to pharma and academia.
Formwork
Formwork, also known as concrete forms, is the total system of molds and supports for freshly placed concrete, shaping it until it sets and can carry its own weight.
Formylmethanofuran dehydrogenase
Formylmethanofuran dehydrogenase (Fmd/Fwd) is a Mo- or W-containing archaeal enzyme complex that reduces CO2 and condenses it with methanofuran to formyl-methanofuran, the first step of methanogenesis, using ferredoxin electrons.
Fornaldarsögur
Fornaldarsögur, Old Norse for "sagas of antiquity," are about 35 late medieval Icelandic prose narratives of legendary Scandinavian kings and heroes before Iceland's settlement, composed between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore
The Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore is a multi-volume compilation of Hawaiian legends, chants, and genealogies gathered by Abraham Fornander, published by the Bishop Museum from 1916 to 1920.
Fornax
Fornax, originally called Fornax Chemica, is a faint southern constellation created by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in the 18th century, best known for the nearby Fornax cluster of galaxies.
Fornax Dwarf
The Fornax Dwarf, also called the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy, is a faint satellite of the Milky Way in the constellation Fornax, discovered by Harlow Shapley in 1938.
Fornax Rupes
Fornax Rupes is a 729-km-wide scarp (rupes) on Venus at 30.3N, 201.1E in the Ganiki Planitia quadrangle V-14, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for the Roman goddess of the hearth and bread baking.
Forney energy center
The Forney Energy Center is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle power plant in Forney, Texas, about 20 miles east of Dallas, with 1,894.2 MW of capacity across eight units since 2003.
Fornication
Fornication, also called premarital sex, is sexual intercourse between unmarried people. Distinguished from adultery; rooted in Latin fornix and Greek porneia; unenforceable in US law after Lawrence v. Texas (2003).
Forodesine
Forodesine (BCX-1777, Immucillin H, Mundesine) is a transition-state analogue inhibitor of purine nucleoside phosphorylase for T-cell malignancies; approved in Japan 2017 for relapsed/refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma, not elsewhere.
Foroozan Oil and Gas Field
Foroozan Oil and Gas Field, also spelled Forouzan and once called Fereidoon, is an offshore Persian Gulf field shared by Iran and Saudi Arabia, whose portion is named Marjan.
Forøya
Forøya is the name of several Norwegian islands and islets, including one in Kvæfjord, Troms (82 m), one in Aure, Møre og Romsdal, a protected pine-forest reserve in Senja, and gannet islands near Bleik, Nordland.
Forrest F. Weight
Forrest F. Weight is a neuroscientist in synaptic electrophysiology who worked at St. Elizabeths Hospital and NIAAA, showing ethanol inhibits NMDA receptors at intoxicating concentrations.
Forrest Frank
Forrest Frank (born 1995, Houston, Texas) is an American Christian pop singer-songwriter-producer, formerly of Surfaces with Colin Padalecki ('Sunday Best'). Known for Child of God (2024), Child of God II (2025), 'Your Way's Better,' five Dove Awards, three Grammy nominations, and the 2026 Jesus Generation Tour.
Forrest Goodluck
Forrest Goodluck, Native American actor and filmmaker born 1998 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is Diné, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Tsimshian; debuted as Hawk in The Revenant (2015) and starred in The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018).