Motorsports Trivia Thread!

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Jacques Villeneuve then. Did he have Cirque de Soliel ambitions once upon a time?
 
I'm just spitballing here, would it be Denny Hulme?
 
DK
OK, maybe Emerson Fittipaldi?
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Nope.

This should narrow the field down: all the WDCs submitted as guesses so far were WDC before this driver.
 
You're really narrowing it down, so I'm going to guess Mika Hakkinen.
 
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From the corrosion... a Lancia Flaminia?
 
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That is an AC Greyhound.
It's a 2+2 version of the AC Ace and Aceca, with tasteful aluminum body, disc brakes, 4-speed gearbox, 1000 kg, and sold with a variety of small-bore 6 cylinder engines from 1959-1963. Restorers have sometimes swapped the (Buick) Rover aluminum V-8 or 2.5 Triumph six into it.

 
It was on bringatrailer.com . The site used to be all projects...thus the name. Now they sell a dozen or so cars every day.
 
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one of my favorite pix from the "Formula Ford " era. Which race..what cars....drivers (very obvious) . Note very aero cooling ducting....all that aero and then...that!! Who was on the pole?
 
Nurburgring of 1969
Jo Siffert - Lotus 49B (Rob Walker colours)
Denny Hulme - McLaren M7A
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1973 Nurburgring a Brabham BT42 - but my eyesight fails me for a driver... I guess Rolf Stommelen
 
TenEightyOne
Ding ding, a winner :)
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OK, time for my question - which country has had the most F1 World Championship entrants (just to exclude non-championship events screwing this up), but hasn't had any Grand Prix winners?
 
DK
OK, time for my question - which country has had the most F1 World Championship entrants (just to exclude non-championship events screwing this up), but hasn't had any Grand Prix winners?
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To be clear: that's "had the most F1 WC entrants without having any GP winners"?
 
Ireland.

Edit: Republic of, I mean.
 
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Japan?
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That's right! 17 drivers from Japan have entered a World Championship event, the latest being Kamui Kobayashi. Personally, I wonder why so few Japanese drivers have found any modicum of success in F1.
 
Only 3 of those 17 have actually climbed on the podium (Aguri Suzuki, Takuma Sato and Kamui Kobayashi) with Kobayashi being the most successful.
 
Kobayashi never had a top ride, if he would have got one he would have won. (Obviously this is a discussion for another time but that is how I feel)
 
Following on from a post I made in the anomalous stats thread,

Has anyone had more consecutive retirements at the same Grand Prix than Rubens Barrichello's nine consecutive DNFs in Brazil?

My own limited research into the matter shows that Andrea de Cesaris had 7 consecutive DNFs in Brazil too and that both Derek Warwick and Jean Alesi had 6 consecutive DNFs in Australia.
 
Ryk
Nurburgring of 1969
Jo Siffert - Lotus 49B (Rob Walker colours)
Denny Hulme - McLaren M7A
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1973 Nurburgring a Brabham BT42 - but my eyesight fails me for a driver... I guess Rolf Stommelen
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Mclaren model is incorrect
 
Identify these gentlemen, what they did, and the great controversy that arose from it.

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I can't remember his name but the first winner of the 1894 Paris-Rouen race went on to murder someone. His name was something like Arnaud Lamaite.

It's not that is it?
 
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