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Formula One drivers from Australia
Formula One drivers from Australia: since 1950 roughly 14-20 Australians (16 Grand Prix starters by Autosport's count) have raced in F1; Jack Brabham won three titles, Alan Jones one, and Oscar Piastri leads the current McLaren era.
Formula One drivers from Finland
Formula One drivers from Finland: nine Finnish F1 racers since Leo Kinnunen's 1974 debut, with 57 Grand Prix wins and four World Drivers' Championships from Keke Rosberg, Mika Häkkinen, Kimi Räikkönen, and ongoing driver Valtteri Bottas.
Formula One drivers from Japan
Formula One drivers from Japan have made 676 race starts without a win; Aguri Suzuki, Takuma Sato, and Kamui Kobayashi each finished third for Japan's only podiums.
Formula One drivers from the United Kingdom
Formula One drivers from the United Kingdom, the sport's most successful nationality: about 168 drivers, 332 wins, 21 titles by 11 champions including Hamilton (106 wins, 7 titles), Clark, Stewart, Mansell, and 2025 champion Norris.
Formula One drivers from the United States
Formula One drivers from the United States: American nationals in the F1 World Championship. Champions Phil Hill (1961) and Mario Andretti (1978); winners Gurney, Ginther, Revson; Sargeant ended a gap since 2015; Cadillac joins in 2026.
Formula One engines
Formula One engines (power units): hybrid turbocharged V6 internal combustion plus electric systems under FIA rules; 2026 formula has 50-50 ICE/electric split, 100% sustainable fuel, six registered manufacturers, capped customer supply prices.
Formula One Group
Formula One Group is Liberty Media's motorsport business, named for the tracking stock created after Liberty's $8.0 billion January 2017 acquisition of Formula 1 (FWONA/FWONK). It holds F1's exclusive commercial rights via FOWC/FOM, added MotoGP in 2025, and operates under the 2026 Concorde Agreement.
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 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.
Foz Coa
Foz Côa, formally the Eurocircuito de Vila Nova de Foz Côa, is a 1 km autocross circuit in Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Guarda district, Portugal.
France at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships
France is the most successful nation in the history of the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, with 408 medals, including 145 gold, since the championships began in 1893.
Francesco Bagnaia
Francesco "Pecco" Bagnaia, Italian MotoGP rider born 1997 in Turin, number 63 Ducati Lenovo Team; MotoGP champion 2022 and 2023, Moto2 champion 2018; leaves Ducati for Aprilia in 2027.
Francesco Lamon
Francesco Lamon, Italian track cyclist born 1994 in Mirano, team pursuit specialist; Olympic gold Tokyo 2020 with world record 3:42.032, bronze Paris 2024, world champion Roubaix 2021, rides for Fiamme Azzurre.
Francesco Zucchetti
Francesco Zucchetti (1902–1980), Italian track cyclist, Olympic gold medalist in the 4,000 m team pursuit at Paris 1924 with De Martini, Dinale, and Menegazzi; later professional in the United States.
Francis Moreau
Francis Moreau (Francis Georges Henri Moreau), French track and road cyclist born 1965 in Saint-Quentin; Olympic team pursuit gold at Atlanta 1996 in 4:05.930 and 1991 world professional pursuit champion; seven Tours de France; retired 2000.
Franco Colapinto
Franco Colapinto (born 2003, Pilar, Argentina) is an Argentine Formula 1 driver racing for Alpine, car 43. Debuted with Williams at the 2024 Italian GP, first Argentine F1 driver in 23 years, scored 32 career points, and is confirmed at Alpine alongside Gasly through 2027.
Franco Gandini
Franco Gandini, Italian track cyclist born 1936 in San Lazzaro di Parma; Olympic gold in the 4,000 m team pursuit at Melbourne 1956 with Faggin, Gasparella, and Domenicali; world pursuit silver 1950 and 1957, bronze 1958; professional 1958-1960.
Franco Giorgetti
Franco Giorgetti was an Italian track cyclist who won Olympic gold in the team pursuit at Antwerp in 1920 and later became a leading six-day racer in America.
Franco Morbidelli
Franco Morbidelli, Italian MotoGP rider (VR46 Ducati), 2017 Moto2 World Champion with Marc VDS and 2020 MotoGP runner-up with Petronas Yamaha; first VR46 Academy member and champion, moving to World Superbikes in 2027.
Franco Testa
Franco Testa (7 February 1938 – 22 June 2025), Italian track cyclist from Cadoneghe; Olympic team pursuit gold at Rome 1960 (4:30.90) and silver at Tokyo 1964; world silver Paris 1964; later a butcher in Mogliano Veneto.
François Cevert
François Cevert, born Albert François Cevert, was a French Formula One driver who won the 1971 United States Grand Prix for Tyrrell and was killed in practice for the 1973 race at Watkins Glen.
Frank Williams (Formula One)
Sir Frank Williams (1942–2021), founder and longest-serving Formula One team principal; Williams Racing won 9 constructors' and 7 drivers' titles and 114 GPs; tetraplegic after a 1986 crash; family sold the team to Dorilton Capital in 2020.
Franziska Brauße
Franziska Brauße, German track and road cyclist (born 1998, Metzingen), Olympic team pursuit gold at Tokyo 2020 in world-record 4:04.242, world champion team pursuit 2021 and individual pursuit 2022, rides for REMBE | rad-net Women.