Juan Manuel Fangio, born on June 24 1911,was the driver from Argentina who dominated the first decade of formula one racing.He won five championship titles (a record that stood up for 46 years),with for different teams (Ferrari,Alfa Romeo,Maserati and Mercedes Benz), a record that has not been broken yet.

John Michael Hawthorn was born in April 10, 1929 ,in Mexborough, Yorkshire, England. Hawthorn made his formula 1 bebut at the 1952 Belgian Grand prix,finishing 4th. A very impressive start,considering that since now it's the best performance ever achived by a British World champion in his debut.

After the world war 2 he begun racing with a Maserati. Formula One regulations were introduced by the FIA in 1946, with the aim of eventually replacing the pre-war Grand Prix structure. The next four years Ascari was at the top of his game, winning numerous events around Europe.He won the first grand prix ni Sanremo,Italy in 1948. His biggest success came when he joined Ferreri.Ferrari made her debut in Mnte Carlo with Ascari winning the 2nd place there and another 2nd place afterwards in Monza. However he was only 5th in the championship that year.He won his first world champion title in 1952,while runner up was Juan Manuel Fangio.

Jack Brabham was born in in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville,Australia,in 2 April 1926. In 1955, he made his Grand Prix debut at the British Grand Prix driving his own Maserati 250F. He soon joined cooper car company team, which was the first to runcars with the engine at the rear. In 1959 he won his first world champion with the Cooper team, as he did in 1960 too.

Emerson Fittipaldi born December 12,1946,in Sao Paulo,Brazil),is a highly successful open-wheel racing series driver,winning world championships in both Formula One and CART, and the Indianapolis 500 twice. At the age of 14 Fittiapldi was racing motorcycles and at the age of 16 hydrofoils.

Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda born February 22,1949 in Vienna,was an excellent Formula one drive from Austria and three times F1 world champion. After starting out with a Mini,Lauda moved on into Formula Vee,as was normal in Central Europe,but rapidly moved up to drive in private Porsche and Chevron sports cars.

Leiws Hamilton was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, in January 7 1985. He started racing Karts at the age of eight. He approached Ron Dennis at an awards ceremony and told him : "I'm going to race for you one day... I'm going to race for McLaren".From the Cadet ranks (1993-97),he progressed though the Junior Yamaha (1998) and Junior Intercontinental A (1999) divisions, attracting the attention of Team McLaren, which signed him for the McLaren driver development support programm.