The (In)Famous number 13

The (In)Famous number 13#241832

By vlad - 01 Mar 11, 14:56

- 01 Mar 11, 14:56#241832

So, this season as well we don't have a number 13 on the grid... Years ago, my favorite driver back in the day, Jos Verstappen had this number... Later, I don't remember anyone using it... Or, do you remember someone did?

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Re: The (In)Famous number 13#241839

By Denthúl - 01 Mar 11, 15:21

- 01 Mar 11, 15:21#241839

As far as I'm aware, Verstappen never raced a car with the number 13 on it and a car with that number has only ever featured in one Formula One race.

Re: The (In)Famous number 13#241841

By vlad - 01 Mar 11, 16:19

- 01 Mar 11, 16:19#241841

Damn, I was sure that he had number 13... Or not...
Anyway, why doesn't anyone have that number?

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Re: The (In)Famous number 13#241842

By texasmr2 - 01 Mar 11, 16:21

- 01 Mar 11, 16:21#241842

The #13 is considered bad luck. Next time your in an elevator you will see that there is no 13th floor.

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Re: The (In)Famous number 13#241846

By spankyham - 01 Mar 11, 16:38

- 01 Mar 11, 16:38#241846

texasmr2 wrote:The #13 is considered bad luck. Next time your in an elevator you will see that there is no 13th floor.

In western countries that's fairly common - also in some hotel chains. China and other Asian places they don't skip that number.

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Re: The (In)Famous number 13#241848

By texasmr2 - 01 Mar 11, 16:50

- 01 Mar 11, 16:50#241848

Ah yes should have mentioned it is not a universal belief, thanks.

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Re: The (In)Famous number 13#241864

By What's Burning? - 01 Mar 11, 18:04

- 01 Mar 11, 18:04#241864

Airlines also don't have a 13th row.

Many years ago I used to install car phone into black livery cars in NYC, a lot of the drivers were Chinese and they'd tip me well in order for me to assign them cell numbers with lots of 8s in them. Even more of a juicy tip if they had no 3s in them.

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Re: The (In)Famous number 13#242072

By MattMK45 - 02 Mar 11, 17:19

- 02 Mar 11, 17:19#242072

It's odd really because my street has no number 13 in and the houses are onlt about 15 years old. It's weird that with time we haven't dropped all this superstitious behaviour.

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