I've been sitting on the answers to my latest quiz for a long,
long time now. So without further delay, here are...
Answers To The Grand Prix QuizAbu DhabiWell, before the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, there was a Dubai Grand Prix in 1981. Though nothing more than an exhibition, fifteen Formula One drivers of the past and of the day were on the entry list. Name those fifteen.
(0.06 points per answer, BONUS for those in the race but not on the entry list)TheFlyingCaterham wrote: NO ANSWER
yannicksamlad wrote:Entry list; Patrese, Jones , De Angelis, Pironi, Mansell , Cheever, Arnoux, Giacomelli, De Cesaris, Daly, Tambay , Winkelhock, Watson, Mass, Alboreto.
Simtek wrote:I had previously heard of this but, truth be told, I know nothing of the participants. So I'll just throw in some famous names: Fangio, Moss, Brabham, Stewart, Fittipaldi, Scheckter, Lauda, Hunt, Jones, Surtees, Hulme, Andretti, Reutemann, Ickx and... Watson
Aislabie wrote:Well I'll be damned if I know anything here, but I'll have a random stab in the dark:
SOME EIGHTIES F1 DRIVERS
Patrick Tambay
Marc Surer
Beppe Gabbiani
Keke Rosberg
Ricardo Londono
Andrea de Cesaris
Teo Fabi
Corrado Fabi
Carlos Reutemann
SOME RANDOM F1 LEGENDS
Jackie Stewart
Jack Brabham
Jacky Ickx
Dan Gurney
Bob Bondurant
Phil Hill
Juan Manuel Fangio
Stirling Moss
That's probably too many. Sorry.
That was too many, Aislabie, but you did get the most correct, including a few non-entrant list participants like Marc Surer and Phil Hill. John Watson, Denny Hulme, Jack Brabham, John Surtees, Keke Rosberg and Dan Gurney were all on the entry list for those y'all got correct, though y'all also missed out on household names like Innes Ireland, Roy Salvadori, Carroll Shelby, Richard Attwood, Derek Bell and the legendary Brian Henton. Other bonus answers would have been Helmut Marko and the revolutionary Dave Kennedy, obviously only present at Dubai just so he can actually start a motor race for once.
ArgentineThe 1971 Argentine Grand Prix was a non-championship race for what reason?
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:Wasn't it a custom of the time that Grands Prix would have their first running under non-championship conditions so that FISA could make sure the organisation and whatever would be satisfactory for full championship status or something like that. Basically a dress rehearsal.
yannicksamlad wrote:Because you had to have a 'proper race' there before you could have championship race...?
Simtek wrote: To prove it could host a world championship round, as was the standard for new or returning Grands Prix at the time.
Aislabie wrote:Because the rules at the time required a trial run of a Grand Prix at any venue not on the calendar.
All of you pretty much hit the nail on the head here. No explanation needed, move right along.
AustralianThree F1 World Championship drivers were three-time winners of the Australian Grand Prix before it became a World Championship Event. Name the three.
(0.33 per answer)Aislabie wrote:Jack Brabham, Bruce McLaren, Ken Kavanagh
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:I know Alan Jones was one (in 1980 I think), and I'll guess the other two were Jack Brabham and Vern Schuppan?
yannicksamlad wrote:Jones, Jack Brabham , Amon.
Simtek wrote:Brabham, McLaren and Moreno?
Y'all got Jack Brabham right, though only Simtek could nail Roberto Moreno's impressive three-peat in Ralt RT4's. The third driver that was left forgotten was the one-time starter, Graham McRae, who won in '72, '73 and '78. McLaren caught you guys out, having only won the non-championship race twice, Amon actually won a Grand Prix (shocker), but only once in 1969, Schuppan didn't win at all, and I have no
idea out of what hat you pulled the rabbit of Ken Kavanagh from, Aislabie.
AustrianThe non-Championship 1963 Austrian Grand Prix was the last attempted Grand Prix for five drivers. Name them.
(0.2 per answer)TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
yannicksamlad wrote:No idea.
Aislabie wrote:I remember reading in someone's signature that everything comes back to Peter Arundell, so him. Maybe someone notable... Jo Bonnier? Someone with a name I like... Pete Lovely. There should always be an Argentine... Nasif Estefano (he was an F3 driver by 1967, but I remember he tried GPs before that). And someone from an alt-championship I've been doing... Jim Hall.
Simtek wrote:There was an Austrian driver who was killed the following year and whose name escapes me. He's the only one I can think of, too...
The one Austrian driver Simtek got the description of (which earns him 0.1 points) was the lovely named Kurt Bardi-Barry, who would have his last GP start at this race alongside Ian Burgess, Ernesto Prinoth,Gunther Seiffert and the lesser-known Parnell, Tim Parnell. Also, lovely shoutout to Aislabie's logical but plain
awful guesswork. It ended nicely -- Hall's last race was in Mexico that year, Estefano's in the Grand Prix of Rome that year as well -- but the rest of the guesses were way off. Lovely's and Bonnier's careers ended in
1971, and Arundell didn't even
START a World Championship Race until the
FOLLOWING year.
BahrainSimple this. Name the top three drivers in the first ever timed session at Sakhir.
(0.33 per answer)TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
Aislabie wrote:I feel like this is a trap. Logic says Michael Schumacher, Jenson Button and Juan Pablo Montoya, but creative flair says Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May.
yannicksamlad wrote:Schumacher, Barrichello , Coulthard
Simtek wrote:Schumacher (the one with the red hat) is the safe guess, but then again it's a practice session. For the others, Barrichello and... bathplug it, Button.
To quote Nelson Muntz...
HA HA. YOU ALL FELL FOR IT. Yes, Schumacher obviously was fastest in first free practice, Barrichello tagged along for the ride, but in third wasn't Button nor Montoya nor Coulthard. The guy didn't even start a race that season. Of course, I'm talking about the landmark third driver for BAR that season, Anthony Davidson.
BelgianThe two Grands Prix at Nivelles had relatively few retirements for the day. The question is, which driver failed to finish both races at Nivelles?
(Answer DOES NOT include non-classifications)TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
Simtek wrote:I know for a fact that Stoffel Vandoorne did not finish either race.
yannicksamlad wrote:Migault? ( He drove unreliable cars..)
Aislabie wrote:Literally no idea. Probably a local. Jacky Ickx maybe?
And just by stabbing wildly in the dark, Aislabie gets the correct answer. Ickx suffered fuel injection troubles in 1972 and pulled out of 1974's running with overheating issues. Migault did retire from 1974, but his Connew didn't enter a race until later in 1972. Also, I
would have counted Stoffel on a technicatlity, but come on. His mother wasn't even impregnated yet.
BrazillianWhen Interlagos altered the circuit to 4.3 km from the original 7.9 km, three corners were now taken, partially or in full, in reverse direction. Name these three turns.
(0.33 per answer)Simtek wrote: I can't even remember half the corner names at Interlagos... Er, Descido do Lago and Curva do Sol are ones I both remember the names of and know they were run in the opposite direction back in the day. And I'll say Mergulho for filler.
yannicksamlad wrote:What is now T3, Descida do Lago and Pinheirinha?
Aislabie wrote:I don't know the names of the turns at Interlagos, so we're going to have to do it by description:
The left-hander (turn 3?) at the end of the Senna S.
The double-apex left-hander (turns 4 and 5?) at the end of that straight.
The big sweeping right-hander (turn 6?) at the end of that straight.
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:3rd part of the Senna S, turn 5 (since technically turn 4 is a new turn altogether) and the first part of turn 6 (I don't remember the proper names.
Yep. Descida do Lago, Curva del Sol and the escapble name of Ferra Dura were the turns taken in a completely different direction come the revamp of Interlagos
BritishThe original track layout at Silverstone, host of the 1948 British Grand Prix, had two long straights down the runways leading to tight hairpins. Name these straights.
(0.5 per answer)yannicksamlad wrote:Hangar and Return to Hangar?
Aislabie wrote:Hangar Straight, and the current pit straight whose name I cannot remember further than that.
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:Seaman and Seagrave Straights.
Simtek wrote:Henry and Richard seem like nice names (okay, you can probably see where I'm getting at: Segrave and Seaman)
The two original straights on the runways leading to the tight hairpins were indeed Seaman and Segrave (not Seagrave, but I'll still pay points for that) straights, named after pre-war British racing legends Dick Seaman and Henry Segrave. And though I would give an arm and a leg for Silverstone to name one of their straights as 'Return to Hangar', Hangar and Farm straights are on the perimeter roads, not the runways man...
Caesars PalaceA winner at a Caesars Palace Grand Prix went on to test for Brabham in 1986. Who was this driver and why was this test significant?
(0.5 per answer, BONUS 0.25 for the amazing piece of trivia I found out about this guy as well)Aislabie wrote:Someone with a memorable name: Sneva. Don't have a first name.
Significant because he Sneva actually got a race seat
yannicksamlad wrote:Alan Jones , before deciding to retire?
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:I don't know the answer to the question at all, but something tells me you mean one of the CART races that was held there in 1983 and 1984.
Simtek wrote:Ah, yes, Willy T. Ribbs. The first African-American to do... a lot of things related to racing, driving an F1 car, driving an Indy car...
Whilst Aislabie probably got the PMMF and real-life mixed up, TheFlyingCaterham got the gist of the answer and Simtek himself got the actual answer, Willy T. Ribbs, winner of the 1983 Caesar's Palace Grand Prix in CART. And yep, being the first black driver in an F1 car got you points, but the extra bonus trivia I was looking for-which I doubt any of you would've gotten- was that the school in the Disney Channel Show "The Proud Family" was named after him. Not lying, look it up.
CanadianThree drivers have come afoul of groundhogs on Ile-Notre Dame during the Canadian Grand Prix. Name these three drivers.
(0.33 per answer)TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
yannicksamlad wrote:Kovaleinan...?
Simtek wrote:Ant Davidson, most famously... I definitely know there were more but can't name names...
Aislabie wrote:Anthony Davidson, Nico Hulkenberg, Gilles Villeneuve
Almost everyone knows the story of the one Anthony Davidson incident back in 2007, but y'all missed the fact that good old Ralf Schumacher suffered the same fate as Davidson in practice for the same race. And before that, you have to cast your VHS tapes way back to 1990 to see Alessandro Nannini denied of a podium thanks to a lovely groundhog.
ChineseMost people here know F1 originally intended to go to Zhuhai International Circuit before plans were axed. Former F1 Driver Roberto Moreno does hold the ultimate lap record at Zhuhai, though, but what series did the car come from?
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:BPR Global GT Series?
yannicksamlad wrote:F3000?
Aislabie wrote:A1GP
Simtek wrote:One of the American open wheel series, Champ Car, I suppose, they were always the more global.
Out of all the series posed as answers, of course it would be the one series that didn't actually run on Zhuhai. Roberto Moreno took a Champ Car out onto the Zhuhai circuit as part of a demonstration event for a future Asian race there, but the IRL/ChampCar merger took place before those plans came to fruition.
DallasThe only Formula One Dallas Grand Prix featured an all-Lotus front row for the first time since which race?
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
Aislabie wrote:1967 Britich GP, because Clark
Simtek wrote:It starts with 19, then I'm pretty sure there's a 7. If so, the last digit has to be 8. The race in question, I will guess, was Austria.
yannicksamlad wrote:Dutch 1978?
Aislabie was more than a whole decade off. Simtek, though, was only
one race off, with the last occasion actually occuring at the very next race, the 1978 Dutch Grand Prix. Congrats to yannick on that one.
DetroitDetroit is boring. Codemasters isn't. In Codemasters' Race Driver: GRID, they used an altered layout of the Detroit Street Circuit used in F1. The question is, from which turn to which turn did the track layout remain unchanged from real life to GRID?
(Using Aislabie's pain in the neck system of one point for the answer, minus 0.1 for every turn off)Simtek wrote:1 through 9 (I haven't the faintest idea)
Aislabie wrote:Don't know. Turns one to ten.
yannicksamlad wrote:No idea
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:Aha a circuit question I should know this. It would be from Turn 9 or Turn 10 (although the turn is approached from different carriageways) to either Turn 18 (the chicanes are completely different between the Grid game and the actual circuit), Turn 1 (the corners here are much more rounded in the game) or halfway between Turn 1 & 2. I've made like five answers, I know, but I don't know what you're going off so I'm just putting forwards all the possible answers you could mean.
The one man who's been skipping all the questions actually gets a bonus here for providing all possible options to the question at hand with differences in real-life and in game. I was looking for turn 10 to turn 1, with a few creative liberties on Codemasters' part.
DutchThe Dutch Grand Prix was always held at Zandvoort Circuit, whose design was influenced by who?
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
Aislabie wrote:Bernard Eccles-Cake
yannicksamlad wrote:Mr Hugenholtz.
Simtek wrote:John Hugenholtz is the one who usually gets credited with this, but it was really Sammy Davis who was behind it, although the original roads were built by the Wehrmacht.
[insert QI klaxon]. NOPE, it wasn't the Hugenholtz that designed it despite being on the track committee. It was in fact former 24 hours of Le Mans winner Sammy Davis, no relation to the jazz singer.
EuropeanThe European Grands Prix in 1983 and 1993 were held because two circuits were scrapped off the provisional calendar. What were these two circuits?
(0.5 per answer)yannicksamlad wrote:Buenos Aires?....and Paul Ricard.
Aislabie wrote:Jerez. Literally no idea about that one. I'm going to say New York because it makes very little sense but everyone always wants a race in NYC
Simtek wrote:Moscow and New York (funny, there was a thread on Autosport about the proposed circuits for these races only a couple of days ago) were both on the provisional calendar for 1983, and... Autopolis didn't make the provisional calendar in '93, did it?
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:I'm going to guess 1983 was Flushing Meadows, but I I know 1993 would be Autopolis.
Again, by wild stab in the dark, Aislabie gets an answer half correct this time, with the New York Grand Prix axed from the calendar just four months before it was due to be held, thus the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch was the gap filler. And for 1993, Autopolis was indeed scheduled, under the moniker of the 'Asian Grand Prix', but for the reason that it's probably easier to climb Mount Fuji than to actually reach Autopolis, Donington Park went ahead and tooks its place.
FrenchPaul Ricard's return to hosting the French Grand Prix in 2018 is the third longest gap between two F1 Championship races at a venue. Name the venues with the longest and second-longest gaps.
(0.5 per answer)yannicksamlad wrote:Nurburgring and Hockenheim ?
Aislabie wrote:Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Magdalena-Mixhouca / Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:The gap would be from 1990 to 2018, so nearly 30 years. The circuits with the biggest gaps would be the Fuji Speedway (1977-2007) and Indianapolis (1960-2000).
Simtek wrote:As you specifically said F1 Championship, I shall assume Indianapolis (40 years) doesn't count. There were 30 years between visits to Fuji and my, how it's changed. As for the other... you did mean Indianapolis, didn't you?
Yes Simtek, no need for confusion. I did indeed mean Indianapolis and Fuji. Mexico City was only off the calendar for a paltry 23 years. And no, just no to Hockenheim and Nurburgring.
GermanThe 1960 German Grand Prix was a Formula Two event instead of Formula One, using a track never used for F1 before or since. What is this track?
Aislabie wrote:Norisring
yannicksamlad wrote:Eifelrennan?
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:Nurburgring Sudschleife?
Simtek wrote:Technically speaking, the track had been used by F1 before... Okay, the start/finish straight and the bit leading up to the last corner was. Yes, the answer is the Sudschleife.
Get outta here with your technicalities, you Irish encyclopedia
. Yes, it was indeed the Sudschleife, never used in a World Championship event. Well, unless you count the GP circuit as the new Sudschleife, but I don't think we shall, shall we?
HungarianWhich turns from the original Hungaroring track layout have been altered since the first Grand Prix held at the venue in 1986?
(Not disclosing how many points per answer, because that'd be a dead giveaway)yannicksamlad wrote:One and Twelve
Aislabie wrote:Turn 1, Turn 3, Turn 5, Turn 6
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:Turn 1 was made into a hairpin, the original chicane at what is now Turn 3 was bypassed and the Turn 12 extension was made. So 2 were added, 5 were removed and only 3 were physically changed.
Simtek wrote: Well, all of them when you think about it, what with resurfacing and reprofiling kerbs and the odd bit of tightening in some corners. Really provokes a Ship of Theseus-type question. As for which ones have been tightened or straightened out or whatever, I will say the first turn (tightened with the straight being lengthened), the chicane after turn 3 (removed from the F1 layout) and the third last corner (the one that used to be a kink and was tightened in about 2003).
The simplest question on the quiz in my opinion and Aislabie didn't get full marks, TheFlyingCaterham used maths and Simtek went full philosophy on me. But yes, I am looking for turn 1, turn 3 and turn 12.
IndianIn 2003, which city agreed to host the Indian Grand Prix in 2007 before the project was declared dead?
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
Simtek wrote:I want to say Chennai but I have the feeling it was to be a brand new venue.
yannicksamlad wrote:Bangalore
Aislabie wrote:Mumbai
Aislabie was so close, but it wasn't Mumbai. It was, in fact, a large area around
Hyderabad that was designated to host an Indian Grand Prix back in 2003, but soon funds became tighter and, guess what, the city of Mumbai wanted to compete for the spot next year. So while Mumbai was considered for an Indian Grand Prix, it wasn't the city that signed the contract in 2003, so nul points for Aislabie.
Indanapolis 500No, I'm not ignoring this race for once. Instead, I ask, which driver scored the most Formula One Points whilst competing solely in the Indy 500, and how many points did he score?
(0.5 per answer)TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
yannicksamlad wrote:No idea
Aislabie wrote:Troy Ruttmann. Probably more than the points for just one win, so 10 points?
Simtek wrote:Has to be Jim Rathmann, and I'll say 25.
It was indeed a certain Jim Rathmann that scored the most points in the Indy 500's time in the calendar, though Simtek undersold it a little. His one win, one fifth place, one fastest lap and an astounding
THREE runner-up finishes earned him a total of 29 points. Bonus points if you all knew his first name is Royal. Like, not Sir or Duke, his name is literally
Royal.
ItalianWhat was the last track to host the Italian Grand Prix that wasn't Monza or Imola?
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
yannicksamlad wrote:No idea
Aislabie wrote:Milan
Simtek wrote:That was Valentino Park in 1948. An Alfa Romeo walkover.
Aislabie missed it by a year. The last Italian Grand Prix held outside of Monza or Imola was indeed at Valentino Park in Turin, while the last race held on a Milan street circuit was in 1947, just a year prior.
JapaneseThe 1976 and 1977 Japanese Grands Prix featured several one-off Japanese entries. Name all of them.
(0.2 per answer)Aislabie wrote:Masahiro Hasemi, Tony Trimmer
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:Masahiro Hasemi and Kazuyoshi Hoshino are the only names I remember.
yannicksamlad wrote:K Hoshino in a Tyrrell, Kojima with Masahiro Hasemi and Takahara and Takahara in a Surtees?
Simtek wrote:Forum legend Masami Kuwashima, motorcycle legend Kunimitsu Takahashi, my current research project Noritake Takahara, Normal32's current research project Masahiro Hasemi and the greatest Asian racing driver of all time (maybe, not a fan of superlatives): Kazuyoshi Hoshino
Say no more, Simtek, say no more. Unfortunately, to yannicksamlad, I was counting different drivers, not same drivers but different Grands Prix. And Aislabie, you're forgetting Tony Trimmer's earlier Maki disasters and his wonderful time at Melchester Racing.
KoreanEveryone knows that the Korean Grand Prix was an absolute failure money-wise. To the nearest
million, name the amount of money the Grand Prix lost in four years in
Pound Sterling.
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:36 million? Random guesstimation
Aislabie wrote:40 million, I dunno
Simtek wrote:Fiddy.
yannicksamlad wrote:£76m?
You all undersold it big time. The answer is 131 million Pounds. Yeap, you heard me right.
One. Hundred. And Thirty-One. MILLIONLuxembourgBack in the 1940's-1950's, there were four Luxembourg Grands Prix, actually held in Luxembourg. Name the four winners of this event.
(0.25 per answer)TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
yannicksamlad wrote:No idea.
Aislabie wrote:Giuseppe Farina, Juan Manuel Fangio, Alberto Ascari and one of the other Italians of the time. Maybe Villoresi?
Simtek wrote: Villoresi, Ascari and two British drivers from when it was run to F3. Les Leston, I think, was one of them, but I can't remember the other. I'll say Eric Brandon.
Villoresi and Ascari did win the Luxembourg Grand Prix back in it's glory days, then you could tell the quality of the event dipped after that. Les Leston did win the F3 event in 1952, but the win in 1951 actually went to Eric Brandon's teammate at Ecurie Richmond, Alan Brown.
MalaysianWhich former Malaysian Grand Prix winner has the unique distinction of winning the Macau Grand Prix in open-wheelers, motorcycles and Touring Cars?
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
Aislabie wrote:John Surtees
yannicksamlad wrote:Johnny Cecotto ?
Simtek wrote:That's definitely going back to the Formula Pacific days, if not back to the Thomson Road days. John MacDonald is one of the first names I would think of from the pre-F3 era of Macau.
John Surtees might be ambidextrous in cars and bikes, but he never participated in Macau or even Malaysia for that matter. Cecotto won the touring car race in Macau, but not any other accolades I'm looking for. The answer then is indeed John MacDonald, the most successful open-wheel driver ever in Macau, winning both the Grand Prix and the Touring Car race the same year, and adding on to his win in Motorcycles,
PLUS being a four-time winner of the Malaysian Grand Prix. Damn, what a record to have.
MexicanThe baseball stadium integrated into the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Foro Sol, has held numerous concerts. Which act attracted the highest confirmed audience to the stadium?
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
Aislabie wrote:Bernie Ecclestone's High Flying Birds
Simtek wrote:I know the Stones played there recently...
yannicksamlad wrote:Shakira.
There are technically two right answers to this question, but I can see why y'all didn't even bother with this question. Coldplay's three-day tour attracted a record single day attendance during one of their three shows, but Metallica's three-day tour of Foro Sol actually had a higher overall gate than Coldplay, though there are no individual attendance records that I can find, so I would've given points to both answers if only you guys believed in Chris Martin and Enter Sandman a little more.
MonacoName all non-Championship Monaco Grand Prix winners. NON-Championship.
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0.09 per answer)
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
yannicksamlad wrote:No idea.
Aislabie wrote:Dick Seaman, Giuseppe Farina, Louis Chiron, Juan Manuel Fangio, Louis Chiron, Raymond Sommer, Louis Rosier, Emilio Villoresi
Simtek wrote:Vittorio Marzotto and Nino Farina from the post-war period. And, judging from the number of points per answer, I'm assuming... wait, are you including all of the pre-war races? That's a bit of a misleading question. Okay, "Williams", Dreyfus, Chiron, Varzi, Nuvolari, Moll, Fagioli, Caracciola and von Brauchitsch
Sorry if I misled you again Simtek. Yep, I meant all races non-championship, both pre-war and post-war. And in true Simtek fashion, you got them all correct. And in true Aislabie fashion, I have to correct him that there are no two Louis Chirons.
MoroccanWhat disease sidelined Stirling Moss and hampered Juan Manuel Fangio's performance in the 1957 Moroccan Grand Prix?
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
yannicksamlad wrote:Hepatitis?
Aislabie wrote:Literally no idea. Lupus?
Simtek wrote: Asian Flu (possible misspelling of Avian Flu)
No, not everything is Lupus. It was indeed Asian Flu, and that's no misspelling. I actually looked it up, and you want to know why it was called Asian Flu? It was a flu that came from Asia. Who would've known.
PacificIncluding non-F1 events, which two circuits have hosted the 'Pacific Grand Prix'?
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0.5 per answer)
Aislabie wrote:Tanaka International (Okayama now), and it's a toss-up between Motegi and Surfers Paradise. I'm going for the latter.
yannicksamlad wrote:Aida and Motegi.
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:Well obviously Aida is one of them, but not sure about the other. I'd hazard a guess it was an American race though.
Simtek wrote:Aida and Lagana Seca
The obvious one was indeed Aida. The second, more obscure one was actually held at Laguna Seca pre-Andretti Hairpin. And no, I wasn't counting the MotoGP race, so no Motegi here.
PescaraIn the 1957 Pescara Grand Prix, the only such event to be a part of the World Championship, what did the paddock suggest that Maserati used to gain an incredible pace advantage in practice?
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
yannicksamlad wrote:No idea
Simtek wrote:Fangio. Put him in your car and everyone will think you have an unfair advantage.
Aislabie wrote:A shortcut.
This answer I actually had to look outside the wide realms of Wikipedia to find. Rather unbelievably, every team in the garage accused Maserati of lacing their fuel with nitromethane, or in our simple terms, good old
NITRO.
PortugueseThe Portuguese Grands Prix seemed to be a red-flag magnet in my opinion. In-between 1986 and 1992, how many red flags were shown during the course of the race?
yannicksamlad wrote:2 red flags??
Simtek wrote:I'll say four
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:4?
Aisable wrote:Four.
Four is indeed correct. One in 1990 for Aguri Suzuki injuring Alex Caffi in an incident, one in 1987 for a multi-car collision on the opening lap and
two in 1988 for separate incidents on the grid.
RussianBefore the Russian Grand Prix was implemented in 2014, what year was a Russian Grand Prix included in a provisional calendar, but scrapped?
yannicksamlad wrote:2008?
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:1986?
Aislabie wrote:I don't know, but if we assume the USSR was some sort of Orwellian nightmare I have to say 1984.
Simtek wrote:Ah, as I said before, 1983, though that was to be the Grand Prix of the Soviet Union, as Grand Prix of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was a bit unwieldy and the other extreme of GPRSFSR is a bit of the same. 2003 sounds about right to me.
Yeah, Simtek was kinda right on the Soviet Grand Prix name. Whoopsie. And yes, it was scheduled to be in 1983, which is damn close to Aislabie's trivial, jokey answer.
San MarinoThe Grand Prix was dropped from the calendar in 2007 to 'make way' for another Grand Prix? Which Grand Prix did San Marino have to scoot aside for?
Simtek wrote:The new one at... there was no new one. The European Grand Prix was also axed too (well, sort of). I find this highly suspicious...
Aislabie AND yannicksamlad wrote:Singapore?
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:I don't believe there were any new venues added in 2007 apart from Fuji Speedway, so I'd guess it was a cancelled or postponed event. I'll guess the Singapore Grand Prix
Indeed, there were no new races in 2007, making this question seem irrelevant. However, there was a
returning track to the calendar: Spa-Francorchamps. The Belgian Grand Prix was set to make a return to the calendar in 2007, and with the aim of reducing the calendar length that year, San Marino was cleared out for Spa to return.
SingaporeNo, I'm not gonna talk about Thomson Road. Instead, I'll talk about Marina Bay. More specifically, turn 18. This turn is notorious for catching drivers out going under the grandstand. Name all the victims of the barrier at turn 18.
(0.11 per answer)TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
yannicksamlad wrote:Liuzzi, Karthikeyan, Raikkonen, di Resta...
Aislabie wrote:Mark Webber, Pastor Maldonado, Heikki Kovalainen, Sergio Perez, Jules Bianchi, Sebastian Vettel, Felipe Massa, Jolyon Palmer. All guesses. hope one sticks.
Simtek wrote:Senna, Kobayashi, Kubica... You've lost me. Okay, you want me to say Maldonado, so I'll say Maldonado.
Yep, I've kept track. Massa and Sutil with the funniest thing I've ever seen in 2008, then Kobayashi being a blockade for Bruno Senna, then Alguersuari, Glock, Karthikeyan, Ricciardo and Alexander Rossi all binning it on their own accord. I forgot to add Nico Rosberg's practice incident into the list, so bonus for that, as well as a bonus for mentioning Sebastien Bourdais' brief spin into the escape road.
South AfricanThe 1981 South African Grand Prix was almost the start of a breakaway championship by FOCA in the midst of the FISA-FOCA war, but the idea for the championship was scrapped due to poor attendance. What was the name that this championship would've been run under?
yannicksamlad wrote:No idea
Simtek wrote:F1RWRS. Okay, the "Grand Prix World Championship" or something.
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:Grand Prix World Championship?
Aislabie wrote:Nope I got nothing. World Grand Prix Series?
Not surprising no answers here are correct, given the awful names that FOCA came up with. The 1981 South African Grand Prix was supposedly run under the "World Federation of Motorsport", with drivers aiming for the "World Professional Drivers Championship". I think sticking to F1 is much better.
SpanishThe 1980 Spanish Grand Prix was yet another race declared a non-championship race due to the withdrawal of FISA teams. This denied one driver of their only championship points. Who was he?
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
yannicksamlad wrote:Villota, surely not ?
Aislabie wrote:Emilio de Villota?
Simtek wrote:Poor Patrick Gaillard. He was supposed to be brilliant, too. Also denied Dave Kennedy his only world championship start.
Yep, the sad tale of Patrick Gaillard lives on. And I'll give a teeny tiny bonus to Simtek for mentioning that Dave Kennedy fact I legitimately had no idea about until now. And yep, it surely wasn't de Villota.
SwedishThe Swedish hosted several non-championship races before 1956. What was the official name of these events?
yannicksamlad wrote:No idea
Aislabie wrote:I don't know this at all, but wasn't ice racing quite popular? I'll go with the Swedish Grand Prix Road Race
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:Swedish Summer Grand Prix and Swedish Winter Grand Prix?
Simtek wrote:I suppose you're referring to the "Sveriges Vinter Grand Prix" if my Swedish is correct. Although I believe there was a Summer counterpart once, too.
Yep, the Swedish loved ice racing, so much so those sycho Swedes wanted to have two Grands Prix, one in the summer on regular roads and one in the winter on...ice, calling each event the Swedish Summer and the Swedish Winter Grand Prix.
SwissThe three Swiss Grand Prix from 1950 to 1952 saw a career-ending incident in each event. Whose careers was cut short by these incidents?
(0.33 per answer)TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
yannicksamlad wrote:Nope
Simtek wrote:I was sure I could remember at least one of them, but my mind's blank on this one.
Aislabie wrote:Rudi Fischer, Peter Whitehead and maybe Cabantous? Trying to think of people who disappeared from F1 pretty early on.
This question was very mean, as one crash didn't necessarily take place in F1, but in one of the support events. Eugene Martin had a massive crash in 1950 that left him with serious injuries all but ending his career, with an attempted comeback at Pau only injuring further spectators and ending his career entirely. Henri Louveau struck a lamp post in 1951 and quit racing afterwards to start a car dealership. And in 1952, the biggest name in pre-war racing, Rudolf Caracciola was attempting a very late comeback into racing, but a spectacular crash into a tree forced him to retire from racing altogether. Sorry for breaking you, yannicksamlad
TurkishWhy was there a $5 million fine on the national sporting council of Turkey and the Turkish Grand Prix organisers after the 2006 running of the event?
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
Aislabie wrote:For the #bantz
yannicksamlad wrote:Dog on track
Simtek wrote:Because the FIA does not recognise the sovereignty of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Yeah, its president gave out one of the trophies.
The blasted doggo incident was in 2008 and, reportedly, nothing really happened. I guess a dead dog has lesser value than the president of a highly controversial state appearing on an international stage, as that incident was the one that attracted the fine.
United StatesHow many years has there been a running of a Grand Prix within the United States
without an actual United States Grand Prix?
yannicksamlad wrote:7 ..?
Aislabie wrote:Eight.
Simtek wrote:There's probably been at least one every year since about the fifties. F1 only, though, the answer is... 8? 5 if Long Beach counts.
TheFlyingCaterham wrote:I'd guess the Indianapolis 500 doesn't count. I know 81-88 ran without a proper US GP, but somehow just those eight make the question feel too easy, so I shall guess 9
The assumption of the Indy 500 strikes again. (That actually rhymes a little. Okay, not really). Yes, it is eight without the Indy 500 counting, but I was indeed adding the 500 to my list, so that bumps it all up to seventeen.
United States WestThe United States West Grand Prix was held at the Long Beach Street Circuit throughout it's existence on the calendar. Thus, name the podium of the first ever race at Long Beach.
(0.33 per answer)TheFlyingCaterham wrote:NO ANSWER
yannicksamlad wrote:Regazzoni, Lauda Depailler ( or are we talking the F5000 race the year before?)
Simtek wrote: That was the F5000 race from 1975... and I actually don't know the answer
Aislabie wrote:I feel a curveball, like the first race wasn't an F1 race or something. So I'll go Mario Andretti, Al Unser, and AJ Foyt. If it was an American race, one of them must have made it to the front, surely?
Once again, yannicksamlad trips the QI klaxons, though with a cautionary note that he might trigger it. Kinda like shooting yourself in the foot trying to unload a round. Indeed the race was the F5000 event in 1975 featuring the likes of Andretti and Unser, but both of them and loads of other drivers failed to finish as well, leading to the remarkably beautiful reject podium of Brian Redman, Vern Schuppan and Eppie Wietzes.
With all that, plus the bonus points for comedy (I'm looking at you, Aislabie's Austrian Grand Prix logic), here are the tables...
The Grand Prix Quiz Results1. Simtek -- 23.822. TheFlyingCaterham -- 11.63
3. Aislabie -- 8.14
4. yannicksamlad -- 5.84