To keep us all amused in the wintry days ahead, I have decided that I will start every day (apart from the Christmas week off) with a Fascinating F1 Fact (FFF), which will give readers some extraordinary insights into the rich history of the sport. I have already tweeted the fact that “in 1952 Richard Kuchen built a V8 for the AFM team. In German “kuchen” means cake – so we have had a Cake F1 engine, but as this is the start of the series, I figured that you might like a bonus FFF, so here it is: In 1967 Formula 2 team owner Ron Harris commissioned Frank Costin to design him a car. The result was the Protos chassis, which was made from wood. That year the German GP was run concurrently with the F2 race and so a wooden car competed in F1 – driven by Brian Hart.

FFF will be back tomorrow…