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Today's random F1 facts:

^{Daily Facts by /u/Fart_Leviathan}

• At age 10, Lewis Hamilton asked McLaren team boss Ron Dennis for an autograph, and told him: "One day I want to be racing your cars". In 2007 Hamilton made his F1 debut with McLaren.

• 1960's privateer Bob Anderson scored his only podium in a car that he financed via taking out a loan on his life insurace, using the fact that if he wrecked it and died, the insurance would serve as collateral.

• Brawn GP won the first two races the team entered in 2009, becoming the first team to do so since Alfa Romeo in 1950.

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