Motorsport in the United Kingdom the official governing body of motorsport in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom has been a major player in the Formula One World Championship since it began in 1950, providing ten different world champions, winning 18 titles between them, more than any other nation. Mike Hawthorn became the first British world champion in , defeating Stirling Moss, labelled by many as "the greatest driver never to have won the world championship". The country won four consecutive titles between 1962 and 1965, with Graham Hill, Jim Clark (twice) and John Surtees. Hill won again in 1968, and was succeeded by Jackie
Formula 1 (board game) Victoria and Albert Museum, a prominent art and design museum in London. The museum describes the game by saying "It was a success when released in 1962, and was released in various international editions throughout the next two decades." The British broadsheet newspaper the "Daily Telegraph" carried an online motoring-section article in 2004 noting that "In the 1970s, many a wet Saturday afternoon could happily be spent in your living room, ... Waddington's Formula 1 – the prince of all board games – on the floor." and the following year the same column mentioned it as a recommended retro purchase.