Introduction
Lately I was intrigued by the thought that there could be an astrological clue for the results of a F1 race in which the elite of world's drivers compete. Of course, as for any driver only a date and a place of birth can be found on the web, it should be laughable to attempt a prediction for the outcome in such races, where the victory is a matter of hundredths of seconds and external agents and designs often interfere. Yet I thought that the astrological indication -if there is any- of a competent driver could be traced by the study of this specific group of people.
Method of work:
A list of 780 F1 drivers was turned into a database of the astrological program Zet8 (the list is in .zbs format, it can be renamed as .txt and viewed in the Notepad). The following concessions were applied:
1. As place of birth was taken the capital of the State whose the nationality the driver has. This concession aimed at defining only the time zone. The noon was taken as time of birth. This does not affect the results as the aspects and positions of planets were almost the same all over the world on the date of birth. For the USA, New York and East Coast Time was applied, for Australia Melbourne. Ascendant or houses were ignored as well as the position of the Moon. No astrologer has ever correlated the nervous system with the Moon, which is related only with the parasympathetic. Nervous system and reflexes have classically been attributed to Mercury, so the examination of this planet was of primary importance as well as that of Mars (athletics, rush, competitiveness) and of the Sun. Then the aspects of the above planets with Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus were examined.
2. Aspects and orbs were taken as follows:
| Sun | Mer | Ve | Mar | Jup | Sat | Uran | |
| 00o | 12 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
| 30o | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 45o | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 60o | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
| 90o | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| 120o | 10 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 5 |
| 135o | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 180o | 12 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
Result:
Number of aspects found ( P = positive, N = negative )
| Venus | Mercury | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uran | |
| P - N | P - N | P - N | P - N | P - N |
P - N |
|
| Sun | 145-236 | 267-0 | 206-181 | 203-186 | 142-243 |
146 -253 |
| Merc | 187-36 | 142-65 | 166-110 | 112-149 |
93 -141 |
|
| Mars | 151-98 | 142-65 | 150-106 | 92-147 |
84 -157 |
As the conjunction of Mercury with Saturn and Uranus was considered negative, there were no statistically significant results for the outer planets. All in a while, as the conjunction Mars-Mercury is generally considered as positive in astrology, here is the clue: only 65 out of 780 drivers (less than 1/10) have a hard aspect (semi-square, square, sesqui-quadrate, opposition) between Mars and Mercury in their natal horoscopes. Even if the conjunction Mercury-Mars is taken as negative, the number amounts to 110, that is only one out of seven drivers (here is the list , it can be renamed and viewed as .txt). Additionally, out of 110 drivers having their Mercury negatively affected by Mars, 88 have Mercury aided with positive aspects (conjunction, semi-sextile, sextile, trine) from Jupiter or Venus. If positive aspects (semi-sextile, sextile, trine) with Saturn are counted, the cases amount to 104, i.e. almost all of them have their Mercury assisted in some way.
Consequently, the lack of negative aspects between Mercury and Mars is a quality of those drivers reliably verified.