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Pos. Driver
1 Flag of Brazil Ayrton Senna
2 Flag of Germany Michael Schumacher
3 Flag of United Kingdom Jim Clark
4 Flag of United Kingdom Nigel Mansell
5 Flag of Sweden Ronnie Peterson
6 Flag of Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio
7 Flag of Finland Mika Häkkinen
8 Flag of Spain Fernando Alonso
9 Flag of United Kingdom Jackie Stewart
10 Flag of Austria Jochen Rindt
11 Flag of Canada Gilles Villeneuve
12 Flag of United Kingdom Stirling Moss
13 Flag of Finland Kimi Räikkönen
14 Flag of France Alain Prost
15 Flag of Brazil Nelson Piquet
16 Flag of Italy Alberto Ascari
17 Flag of Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi
18 Flag of Austria Niki Lauda
19 Flag of Germany Stefan Bellof
20 Flag of Finland Keke Rosberg
21 Flag of United Kingdom James Hunt
22 Flag of Australia Alan Jones
23 Flag of France François Cevert
24 Flag of New Zealand Chris Amon
25 Flag of Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya
26 Flag of Belgium Jacky Ickx
27 Flag of United States Mario Andretti
28 Flag of Argentina Carlos Reutemann
29 Flag of United Kingdom Tom Pryce
30 Flag of South Africa Jody Schekter
31 Flag of United Kingdom Damon Hill
32 Flag of Australia Jack Brabham
33 Flag of Italy Guiseppe Farina
34 Flag of Austria Hans-Joachim Stuck
35 Flag of Brazil Carlos Pace
36 Flag of United Kingdom Tony Brooks
37 Flag of United Kingdom John Surtees
38 Flag of France Johnny Servoz-Gavin
39 Flag of Austria Gerhard Berger
40 Flag of Switzerland Jo Siffert
41 Flag of France Didier Pironi
42 Flag of Italy Jarno Trulli
43 Flag of Australia Mark Webber
44 Flag of France René Arnoux
45 Flag of France Jean Alesi
46 Flag of United States Dan Gurney
47 Flag of Italy Ricardo Patrese
48 Flag of France Jean-Pierre Jarier
49 Flag of United Kingdom Jenson Button
50 Flag of United Kingdom Tony Brise

[edit] Tom Pryce/Jansen Van Vuuren collision

Copied from Helpdesk. I thought it was an interesting question and maybe of some use.


hey folks, i have a doubt about the tom pryce fatal crash: i dont know how much a f1 racing car weighed at 1977 but i think that jansen, who was crossing the track at 2km p/h weighed 68 kgs, and he was hit by the car at 350 km p/h, please i wanna know how much the impact weighed, thanks.--201.9.73.29 21:50, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but your question about Tom Pryce doesn't make sense as written. Could you perhaps explain what your doubt is about the crash, rather than asking for a specific quantity (collisions don't have mass), and maybe somebody could help. --Robert Merkel 23:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
He was asking about Tom Pryce. I don't know what the weight is without knowing the acceleration. However, here are some calculations for momentum (in SI units), assuming Pryce was moving at 5.0 km/h (2km/h is very slow):
MomentumPryce walking = 68kg × 5.0 km/h × 1000 m/km × 1h/3600s = 94.44444444 kg m/s
MomentumCar = 605kg × 350 km/h × 1000 m/km × 1h/3600s = 58,819.44444 kg m/s
|MomentumSum| = √ (MomentumPryce walking2 + MomentumCar2) = 58,819.52027 kg m/s
Angle = tan(94.44444444 ÷ 58,819.44444) = 0.091998025°
I hope these are correct (and helpful), it's been a while since I've done trig. − Twas Now ( talkcontribse-mail ) 23:33, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually was Jansen Van Vuuren(who was a safety marshal) who was walking the track, and Pyrce was the guy piloting the f1 car, being hit by 58 tons is really scary, but this helped, thanks.--201.9.11.148 00:30, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

If by "what the impact weighed", you mean the force imparted, then the impulse imparted to Vuuren, assuming that he was crossing the track perpendicular to the direction of the car (hence his velocity in that direction was 0), would have been ~58,819 kg m/s (or Ns). The collision would have taken place in a fraction of a second, so he would have experienced a force of well over 59,819 Newtons, equivalent to almost 6 tonnes of force. Laïka 14:54, 30 January 2007 (UTC)