Taken from Motor Sport, May 2006

When Nico Rosberg took the fastest lap in his first grand prix, in Bahrain, it was pointed out to him that he was only the fourth driver in history to achieve this feat. Keke’s boy doesn’t miss much: yes, he was pleased to be one of only four, but smilingly suggested that really it was three, the fourth being merely the driver who set fastest lap at the first world championship grand prix…

The race in question was, of course, the Grand Prix d’Europe, at Silverstone in May 1950, and the man who set the fastest lap also took pole position and won the race — and doing it all, what’s more, with a patched-up collarbone. He then went on to become the first world champion.