Motorsport Trivia

[imadodgyumpire]

Due to my participation in the Super Bowl trivia thread on the American Football board. It occurred to me that it would good to rip-off the idea and create and "Motorsport Trivia" thread. I'll start off by asking a question and then whoever answers it then gets to ask the next question. Don't go overboard with the difficulty, unless the answer would be interesting to find out e.g...

Driver/car/venue/year of the first Australian GP? (not the Adelaide F1 race)

This would be extemely hard to answer, but interesting to find out.

So, I'll kick things off. Driver/car/venue/year of the first Australian F1 GP?

 

[Wallaby]

Ok - Quick guess

Berger, Maclaren, Adelaide, 1986.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

That's not a bad guess, Wallaby. Unfortunately, you're 1-4 with Adelaide. I'd give a clue to help out but, I'd expect a motor board regular to get this one with little trouble.

 

[tasmanlvr]

FWIW the first Formula 1 race was in 1985, at Adelaide, and Keke Rosberg won in a Williams IIRC. But the Grand Prix race itself had been running for years beforehand.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

FWIW the first Formula 1 race was in 1985, at Adelaide, and Keke Rosberg won in a Williams IIRC. But the Grand Prix race itself had been running for years beforehand.

Spot on, tasmanlvr, your turn to ask a question.

 

[rayven]

tasmanlvr has forfieted his question threw taking too bloody long to respond....

in 1990 what was the fastest 4 door production(mass produced) car in the world?

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Got no idea atm, Hopefully, it won't be an obvious answer.

 

[rayven]

It is an obvious answer for some but surprising for others....

 

[imadodgyumpire]

I'm gonna rehash because I feel like it. But this time the I'm going to change the rule a little. Instead of waiting for another one of you to answer then ask a question yourself, I'm going to ask another question instead. I'll ask a question, allow for a random amount of time to pass for some to answer (hours, day, weeks???) , and if no one answers, I'll give the answer myself, then ask another question. If none of you don't care, then I don't care too and will keep going. So there!

 

[imadodgyumpire]

So, what do the 1990 French, 98 British and 10 British GP have in common?

clue: nothing to do with F1

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

Don't cheat by using Google

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Nah, don't worry about it DREAM TEAM BUFF. This question at least, and most I will ask, it won't be as simple as just looking it up and seeing the answer. I'll give this question a couple of more hours.

edit: clue is a bit vague, so I'll say that there's something specific about those years.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Has anybody even looked at the Motor board today?

Anyway the answer was that all 3 of those races were held on the same day as that years World Cup final.

Same with the 54 French, 62 Belgian (Jim Clark's first win), 70 Dutch and 74 French. But that'd make it too hard. At least the other races, some of us have seen.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

How many Grand Prix has Alan Jones won?

clue: don't bother looking at his stats.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Right, the answer is 14. Along with the credited 12 F1wc wins, AJ won the 1980 Spanish GP ( which was later annulled from counting points towards the title. He then won that year's Australian GP, which I think would've been under FLibre rules, to allow F1 cars to compete.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Dick Johnson won his first Australian Touring Car Championship in 1981, Craig Lowndes won his first in 1996. What do Dick and Craig also have in common with these achievements?

 

[Quivorir]

This is going well.

 

[Quivorir]

In a guess for your question, they were both 21? Or 22? I don't know when the event was held

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Nope. They both won it in their first attempt at the series. Dick was in his mid-late 30s.

 

[Quivorir]

Nope. They both won it in their first attempt at the series. Dick was in his mid-late 30s.

Well my math was way off

 

[imadodgyumpire]

So, with the mentioning of Barry Mulholland in the Bathurst thread, does anyone know how many laps he completed (of a total of 130), on his way to winning the 1968 Bathurst 500? (500 miles)

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Barry completed the grand total of...1 lap!