Ok, you might think I am stupid, but I dont understand why Heikki has number 23 this season....I thought I knew how the numbers are given to drivers but if I was right then he should have an even number. And the second thing - there were 22 drivers at the start of this season so why he has 23?
I hope there are many more intelligent people on this forum who can tell me

Not sure about odd and even number thing, but can explain why his car is no.23 when it's only 22 drivers. That's because no.13 is missing!! superstitions, maybe....

oooooh thank you! it might be superstitious, but its simple at the same time

Yup, 13 is not used in F1, and in a whole lot of other series, due to indeed, superstition

there i have an answer for the 13

The number 13 has not been in use in Formula One racing since 1976 and has only twice made an appearance at racetracks in the World Championship.

Moises Solana raced with the number 13 on his car at the 1963 Mexican Grand Prix for Scuderia Centro Sud in a BRM. He qualified 11th on the grid and also happened to finish the race placed in 11th spot after only finishing 57 laps after which he experienced an engine failure.

At the British Grand Prix of 1976 when Divina Galica attempted and failed to qualify in a Surtees Cosworth, she was also carrying the number 13 on her car. She qualified in 28 spot but only 26 cars were to take part in the race.

And that was the last time we saw the number 13 in Formula One racing. And it seems as if it will never make an appearance again.

Formula 1 teams are now no longer given the number 13 when car numbers are given out to them. The team now finishing seventh in the previous year's championship will take numbers 14 and 15 as opposed to 13 and 14.

f1 has female drivers? i never knew that i always assumed there was a separate competition for women like in football and such. oh well, haha i learnt something new.

Yeah, if memory serves me correctly there were 5 female drivers in F1 history, and one of them even managed to score half a point!!!

My mum jokes that its because women don't have as good spacial awareness as men (apparently).
I said 'You don't need to parallel park it!'

i wonder, if f1 was all women would we have grid boys instead of grid girls?

Did you see that there were grid boys in Valencia? Button definitely had a grid boy, and someone else, I forgot who

I didn't know anyone else did but I saw Louise from ITV getting all excited about Jenson's grid boy.
He wasn't even that nice.

how do you score half a point in a grand prix?
and how did it happen?