Motorsports Trivia Thread!

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Legro
Unless, of course, Volvo 670 is a typo and they actually meant 760, which would be more on the disappointing side in a 'we'll give you an 8-year-old company car' sort of way.
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Might be C70 - it doesn't sound all that different in English when compared to "670" and it would fit both the timeframe and the sporty image.
 
Legro
Unless, of course, Volvo 670 is a typo and they actually meant 760, which would be more on the disappointing side in a 'we'll give you an 8-year-old company car' sort of way.
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The Volvo 670 is a truck, don't know how far back that goes, unless they both drove the 1920s classic Volvo 670 which is vanishingly unlikely. Which of the Schumachers did you mean and which car?

My question: Martin Brundle crashed heavily in practice for the 1984 Monaco Grand Prix. He returned to the pits, said he was okay, and got in the spare car to go again. He then said something to Ken Tyrrell which led to Ken leaning into the car and switching it off. What did he say?
 
More specifically, I think it was "Which way do I turn out of the garage?"
 
Liquid
More specifically, I think it was "Which way do I turn out of the garage?"
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That is correct.

@Jimlaad43, in the book he says that he couldn't remember which track he was at (or pretty much anything) but he didn't ask that, just which way to leave the pits.
 
Greycap
Might be C70 - it doesn't sound all that different in English when compared to "670" and it would fit both the timeframe and the sporty image.
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That's a good call.

Doesn't change the fact someone at the development team should have paid more attention to what they were doing though.
TenEightyOne
The Volvo 670 is a truck, don't know how far back that goes, unless they both drove the 1920s classic Volvo 670 which is vanishingly unlikely. Which of the Schumachers did you mean and which car?
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The 'Mercedes SL estate', but it seems @Liquid has edited out the 'estate' part.
 
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just tripped over this the other day....good timing....who won the race?
I had wondered what the H these two had in common, as in not much... then Riverside poked into my brain. I watched the train of elephants going through the esses in 71...quite a show,...(elephants because they all raised their left and right front wheels in the various corners in the esses like elephants at the circus with their legs on the round stands in the center ring)
 
what do these three cars have in common....
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where are they racing and who is the driver(s)
 
I don't know any answers but I'm gonna guess it's the same driver in all three pictures?
 
I'm just going to take a wild guess and say David Brabham.
 
I know who it is, but I cheated and did some research so I won't say.
 
DesertPenguin09
I know who it is, but I cheated and did some research so I won't say.
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Same, although based on the knowledge of the location and year of the Toyota.
 
GTP_Nail
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The never-made-it-to-F1 Jeff (Jack? John?) Krasnoff. He raced with a lot of before-they-were-famous F1 names in Japan but, for whatever reason, never got any F1 interest. I think he died in a race crash in the early 00s? Apologies to all if that's incorrect. I used to have a picture of that Jaaaag on my garage wall :)
 
It's Jeff Krosnoff. Very distinctive helmet. Went into the catchfence at Toronto '96, and died upon contact with a pole.
 
Dotini
It's Jeff Krosnoff. Very distinctive helmet. Went into the catchfence at Toronto '96, and died upon contact with a pole.
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Just watched it, horrific crash, apparently it killed a marshall too :(
 
GTP_Nail
where are they racing and who is the driver(s)
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The first two venues are LeMans (co-drivers Leslie and Martini & Irvine and Martini), and the 3rd is in Japan, likely Suzuka.
 
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what is the car on the bottom of the poster
 
Sorry it took me a while to get a question together:

Which F1 driver trained as a circus acrobat?
 
Total guess time

Jean-Denis Deletraz
 
TenEightyOne
Nope. Or if he did he's not the guy I'm thinking of :)
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I have no sources for any of that, I just guessed the first F1 driver that popped into my head.

Same goes for my next guess, Pedro Diniz
 
Jimlaad43
I have no sources for any of that, I just guessed the first F1 driver that popped into my head.

Same goes for my next guess, Pedro Diniz
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Nope. Narrow your guesses to WDCs.
 
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