Motorsports Trivia Thread!

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I'm understanding the last time the driver's championship wasn't a 1-2 finish for both drivers in a team, right?

ummm... 2005?... prior to that, 2003, where Schumi and Kimi finished respectively in 1st and 2nd.
 
The way I read it was that at no race in the season did one team have its two drivers finish in 1st and 2nd places...don't know if that's correct or not...
 
If you mean a 1-2 finish in any of the races, then I think it's 1977. If you mean the last time in the championship overall, then it's this year, 2005.
 
How many Formula One drivers (as guests - not including the Stig) have set a time around the Top Gear test track in the Suzuki Liana, and who are they?
 
Roo
How many Formula One drivers (as guests - not including the Stig) have set a time around the Top Gear test track in the Suzuki Liana, and who are they?
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It's two, isn't it? Damon Hill & Mark Webber.
 
this is the one that flipped at Le Mans in 1999, right?

Mark Webber flipped it during training, but at the race it was Peter Dumbreck (dumb wreck, :lol: ) ... dunno how many flips... four?
 
Three with a half-spin, since it ended up hitting the ground wheels down, facing the opposite direction. ;) He was certainly lucky that he wasn't killed.

I remember watching that live on Speedvision, and my mouth just hung open and my eyes were glued to the set for several minutes. Just incredible.

Went back and watched a tape of that race a few months ago and it's a shame that the accident took most of the focus (although it deserved the focus). For the first four hours of the race, before the accident, the racing was some of the fiercest I've ever seen between the Mercedes-Benz and the Toyotas, with the BMW in there as well.
 
Oh, you meant three times as in three different occasions... I thought it was three flips. Oh well, I remember watching it as well, I was in Miami at the time, on college vacation and since they showed it on ESPN, it was more of a look-what-happens-on-the-other-side-of-the-world clip.

Here's an easy one...

Fernando Alonso is now the youngest ever world champion. Before him, who was, how old, and when.
 
Here's an obscure one.

What was interesting about the packaging of the engine bay in the V6 BTCC Mondeo?
 
Ummm... I'm leaving for the day, so here's a shot... the battery wasn't in the engine bay but under the driver's seat?
 
GilesGuthrie
Here's an obscure one.

What was interesting about the packaging of the engine bay in the V6 BTCC Mondeo?
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Wasn't it something along the lines that the drive connecting the engine and the transmission went in -between the Vee of the engine???
 
Gil Abobeleira
Wasn't it something along the lines that the drive connecting the engine and the transmission went in -between the Vee of the engine???
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Yeah, that's close enough.

The transverse-mounted V6 was rotated through 90 degrees so that the crank was near the firewall bulkhead, and the cylinder heads were facing forwards. Then the driveshafts ran inside the vee.

Think about that for a minute.
 
GilesGuthrie
The transverse-mounted V6 was rotated through 90 degrees so that the crank was near the firewall bulkhead, and the cylinder heads were facing forwards. Then the driveshafts ran inside the vee.

Think about that for a minute.
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the foot bone's connected to the ankle bone... the ankle bone's connected to the leg bone... the leg's bone connected to the hip bone... that's what it's all about :D
 

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