Talk:List of Formula One drivers

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Neel Jani's just been added by an IP address who also added some apparent nonsense to the List of Formula One constructors. As far as I can see he's only ever been a third driver - does that count for this list? If not, he should be removed. 4u1e 07:00, 2 July 2006 (UTC)


Bobby Ball's link is to a Comedian born in 1944, thus when he's racing would make him 7. I'm not sure how to correct the problem, but I just wanted to let someone know who could, Thanks. ~S.

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[edit] South African Flags

A precedent has been established elsewhere that we use the flag that would have been used at the time to represent a driver - this allows them to remain consistent and not to have to make completely arbitrary choices where, for example, a country has split or merged over the history of the championship. It also helps with issues like use of England vs UK flags, where again employing the flag used at the time gives us a robust position.

On that basis, I've just changed a bunch of SA flags to the pre 1990s one, since all of the SA drivers pre-date the post-apartheid flag change. Happy to discuss. 4u1e 07:14, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I've made some corrections to flags (such as Canada pre-1965), but the question becomes what do we do for a driver that might have raced during one flag and finished his career under another flag? The359 06:56, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Upon going through, I've found places where this is a problem:
Those are the only problems I've found. I've left them with the modern flag for now. The359 07:25, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
As it can't be 'correct', I suggest using the most recent relevant one. 4u1e 09:49, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Map

World map showing F1 driver nationalities.
World map showing F1 driver nationalities.

I have created this map, which shows the geographical distribution of which countries F1 drivers have come from. Would it be suitable for inclusion in the article?--Diniz 20:25, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Could you possibly make it so different colours represent different numbers of drivers - eg blue for 1-10 drivers, green for 11-20, etc? – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 01:53, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

How about this chloropleth version?--Diniz 17:02, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Awesome. – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 04:03, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! Where should it go? Seeing as you brought this list up to FA standard, I think you should decide.--Diniz 11:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Table widths

Does anyone else think it would be better if all the tables were the same width? - DH85868993 12:38, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible extensions/improvements(?) to the Nationalities table

A couple of ideas I had for the Nationalities table:

  • add Wins per country (and number of drivers who achieved them)
  • Make the columns sortable (in which case we might no longer need the "rank" value in the "Number of Drivers" column)

DH85868993 01:46, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't Australia have three WDC? Hulme, Brabham, Jones? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.101.36.204 (talk) 18:49, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

It would if Hulme hadn't been from New Zealand. Bretonbanquet (talk) 18:53, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alphabetlical order of some names

I was just wondering, should Cristiano da Matta and Hermano da Silva Ramos be sorted under D, as they are now, or should they be sorted under M and S respectively? I'm not familiar with how the Portuguese-speaking are sorting names of this kind. The same can be said about some other people from countries in which Romance languages are spoken, and also some South Africans. John Anderson 15:34, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I found some answers here, but not all: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions/Archive 4#Alphabetizing conventions for names with "von". I'll write a question about this at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions too. John Anderson 22:52, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 'This page is accurate up to and including the 2007 Belgian Grand Prix (September 16, 2007)'

and yet it lists the US as having 1 current driver. Scott Speed was released from contract on july 31st.. ~ Bungalowbill —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 05:10, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

All drivers who have competed during 2007 are considered "current". You will notice that Speed, Winkelhock and Albers are still shown in bold (indicating "current") in the alphabetical tables. DH85868993 05:28, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
I edited so that the "current" drivers are only those who raced in the 2007 Brazilian Grand Prix. I can revert it if this is unfavoured. Ian X490 03:37, 31 October 2007 (UTC)