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Those of you who love golf must be highly familiar with the PGA Tour. It is the most prestigious championship in the world of golf, with top professional golfers from all around the world competing for the ultimate title. What most golf fans don’t know is the fact that there are several different PGA Tour event categories; that is what we are going to discuss in this article.

PGA Tour Majors are the main set of events in this competition. The four top competitions, which are the the Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, The (British) Open Championship, and the PGA Championship, are classified as Majors and each receive 100 OWGR points automatically.

Next, we have the World Golf Championships or WGC. WGC is a set of events co-sanctioned by the International Federation of PGA Tours. It is a golf tour designed to attract top golfers from all around the world including those who are not members of the PGA. A lot of amateur golfers use the WGC as a good starting point to join the official PGA Tour.

There are two tournaments that are rated as Unique. The first one is of course the SBS Championship, the first tournament of the season. The other golf tournament rated as Unique is the The Players Championship. This competition attracts the best professional golfers from all round the world and is given 80 OWGR points.

Aside from the event categories we’ve discussed earlier, there are also events categorized as Invitational including the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Verizon Heritage, the Memorial Tournament and the AT&T National.

With the Red Bull Racing being a strong team in the current Formula 1 season, Mark Webber is certainly looking at a strong chance of winning the season as well. With Vettel as his teammate, the Australian driver will certainly maximize the opportunity and try to take the title. Webber has always been an exceptional driver nonetheless.

Born August 27th, 1976, Webber started racing in the Formula 1 in the 2002 Australian Grand Prix. Unfortunately, he had to wait no less than 130 races before he finally won his first Grand Prix in 2009; Webber won his first Formula 1 trophy in the 2009 German Grand Prix at Hockenheim. He was already with Red Bull Racing at the time.

As he continues his career in the Formula 1, Webber scored more victories and built a prominent career. The 2009 Formula 1 season ended with Webber in 4th place; he scored 8 podiums and 2 first-place finishes during the season. His points was 69.5 that particular season.

Aside from racing in the Formula 1, Webber also joined the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He drove for AMG-Mercedes in the 1998 and 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans, putting his skills as driver to the test. He then joined the European Arrows, a team competing in the International Formula 3000 in 2000 before transferring to Super Nova Racing the following year. It was in 2002 that he was brought to Formula 1 and raced as the driver of KL Minardi Asiatech in the competition.

We’ve talked about a lot of Formula 1 drivers records before, yet there are still so many interesting things to uncover from the long history of Formula 1. In this second part, we are going to take a look at more interesting facts about Formula 1 drivers. Let’s have a look!

We already know that Michael Schumacher is holding the record for most victories in Formula 1. He is way ahead of his competitions; the closest driver is Alain Prost with 51 victories. However, Michael Schumacher is only third when it comes to percentage of victories compared to the number of appearances. The person holding that record is Juan Manuel Fangio who won 24 out of 52 races.

Both Alberto Ascari and Michael Schumacher are holding the record for most consecutive wins with 7 wins each. Ascari did it in the 1952–53 season while Schumacher accomplish it in the 2004 season. Also in 2004, Schumacher matched Nigel Mansell’s record for most consecutive wins from the first race of the season with 5 wins.

Lewis Hamilton along with Jacques Villeneuve are holding the record for most wins in their first Formula 1 season. Villeneuve won 4 races in his first Formula 1 season in 1997 while Hamilton won 4 races in his debut year in 2007. However, Hamilton was not the youngest driver to win a Formula 1 race even though he was only 22 years and 154 days when he won the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix; the youngest winner is Sebastian Vettel who won the 2008 Italian Grand Prix at the age of 21 years and 73 days.

The Formula 1 is always interesting to follow, with top teams and drivers competing for the drivers and constructors championships. There are some interesting records in the history of Formula 1, but in this part we are going to take a look at some of the drivers’ records and great accomplishments.

A driver is considered to have entered the race if they attempt to compete in at least one official practice session with the intent of entering the race. In terms of number of entries, the driver holding the most entries is of course Rubens Barrichello with a total of 302 entries. Michael Schumacher is in second place with 264 entries, while Riccardo Patrese is third with 257. Both Barrichello and Schumacher are still racing so it is certainly possible to see them improve their records.

The youngest driver to start so far in the Formula 1 history is Spanish driver Jaime Alguersuari. He drove for the first time for Scuderia Toro Rosso in the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix at the age of 19 years and 125 days. Louis Chiron, on the other hand, is noted as the oldest driver to start a race. He started in the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix at the age of 55 years and 292 days.

Despite of his recent not-so-successful comeback, Michael Schumacher is still holding the record for most victories. Out of 264 entries, he won 91 races throughout his career in the 1991-2006 period. He has yet to win a race this season, but of course things can still improve for the Formula 1 legend.

Super League is a professional rugby league in Europe, with top teams competing for the championship title. There are a total of fourteen teams competing in the competition, 12 of them are from England while the remaining two are from Wales and France respectively. Although this competition was first intended to be a European rugby competition, French team Paris Saint Germain is the only team outside the UK competing in the competition.

If you love the Super League, you will certainly be familiar with St Helens, Leeds and Bradford. These three teams are dominating the Super League since it was started in 1996. At the end of each season, the winner gets to play the winner of Australasian National Rugby League. The meeting is called World Club Challenge and is often considered the most prestigious meeting in the world of rugby leagues.

The latest winner of the 2009 Super League is the Leeds Rhinos. They won the Super League Grand Final against St Helens with a final score of 18 – 10. The same teams played the 2008 and 2007 Super League Grand Final with a final score of 24–16 and 33–6, however, St Helens were the league leader in 2007 and 2008 while Leeds Rhinos led the league in 2009.

The League Leader’s Shield is a trophy given to the team leading the league, while the team that wins the Super League Grand Final takes home the Super League trophy. The best player of the season is awarded with the Man of Steel Award.