[NeilP]

Some Random facts from the French GP:

Most wins by a Driver:  Michael Schumacher 8 followed by home boy Alain Prost with 6.

Most wins a by a Team: Ferrari with 17, followed by Williams with 8 and wait for it Lotus with 7.

Most wins by an Engine manufacturer: Ferrari 17 followed by Ford and Renault with 11 each.

Charles Leclerc eat your heart out if you win you will not be the first 'Monegasque' to win the French GP that belongs to one Louis Chiron who won no less than five times!

Alain Prost is just one home grown winner of the French GP there have been 10 others. The most recent besides Prost was Rene Arnoux in 1982.

Nigel Mansell is the top performing British driver with 4 wins. In total 12 British drivers have won the race.

Two Austrians have won the race Niki Lauda and Jochen Rindt

The French GP was in fact the first ever GP raced and there have been 86 in total.

For those 86 races there have been 16 different venues a total only surpassed by the Australian GP with 23.

Lots of unfamiliar and slightly more familiar (Well at least to me) constructors even allowing for age they include:  Brabham-Repco, Cooper-Climax, Maserati, Delahaye, Talbot-Lago, Auto Union, Bugatti, Sunbeam, Fiat, Dusenberg, Talbot and Peugeot.