This thread, comparing how many people have been in Space compared to the North Pole got me thinking about a funny fact I’ve been throwing around as a truth:
More people have been in space, than have been Formula 1 drivers.
A quick Google check gives this number:
Formula 1 drivers: 799 drivers
People in space: 400-800 persons
Which proves my funny fact wrong 
But are those numbers true? And the thread that inspired my question has yet to answer how many people have actually been in space.
A better cite for people in space is given here. It claims just under 500.
Crap. I guess I’ll have to stop telling people that funny fact then 
As a Formula One fan, I am really sorry your funny fact is turning out not to be true.
You own links show that although there are 799 F1 drivers, 65 of them never started a race, so you can bring that number down a little bit. You could also count only people who have driven an entire F1 Championship (a hard count to make in the early years of F1 when there wasn’t a championship circuit as there is today), which is, to me, a better count than that of random yahoos who have driven a F1 car by chance and circumstance.
Still, also from your own links, the number of people in space is only 489-495 depending on the definition, so that makes your case even harder.
Be patient, though. Formula One drivers are making longer and longer careers nowadays, and you can only drive a car with a long contract for many whole seasons, so the growth of that number is slower than it used to be. Space might still catch up and make F1 more exclusive.