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Tuesday’s announcement that an all-American team plans to join the Formula One grid in 2010 took both sides of the Atlantic by surprise. And given that there hasn’t been a ‘stateside’ race since 2006 and it’s been more than two decades since a US team tried its luck in the sport, it’s perhaps no wonder that more than a few people were...

Think Formula One racing and the numbers that normally spring to mind are power outputs, top speeds and budgets. But numerically speaking there is far more than meets the eye to the average Grand Prix season.

Did you know, for example, that brake discs can reach temperatures of up to 1000 degrees Celsius? Or that it takes around 40 hours to assemble a gearbox?...