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Who won this years Formula A world karting championship? (clue: he's british)[/QUOTE]

Oliver Oakes

After winning this year's Formula A kart Championship, he jumped straight into tryouts for Formula Renault UK squad Team AKA.
 
Well, I guess no one is going to confirm nor deny my answer, so here is the next question. What is the fastest lap record (race or qualifying) for a GT car at Laguna Seca Raceway? This is for full body GT class cars, no Daytona Prototype-style cars, no open-wheel cars (Indy or Champ). For extra credit, give name of driver, car, and race.

Make this more fun, take a GT car to Laguna Seca in whichever race/formatt desired, and try to beat the real-life lap record.
 
GT_Beat
Well, I guess no one is going to confirm nor deny my answer, so here is the next question. What is the fastest lap record (race or qualifying) for a GT car at Laguna Seca Raceway? This is for full body GT class cars, no Daytona Prototype-style cars, no open-wheel cars (Indy or Champ). For extra credit, give name of driver, car, and race.

Make this more fun, take a GT car to Laguna Seca in whichever race/formatt desired, and try to beat the real-life lap record.


Let me see:

Ricardo Zonta, 1998, FIA-GT 500 Km, 24/10/1998, with the Mercedes CLK-LM (which is credit as CLK-GTR at GT4 :yuck: :yuck: :yuck: ) and a lap of 1m16.154s ?

And yes, it's a GT homologated car, even if only one road-going version was built :sly: :sly: :sly:
 
I actually had not found that lap record, but I will take your word for it and look it up later... its a better lap record than any thing I found in the GTS class of ALMS, or in any SCCA Pro event at that location.

SO go ahead, your turn for the question.
 
Well, there's the 1995 Swedish WRC event when Tommi Makkinen stopped at the end of the last stage for 55 seconds to hand the win to his team-mate Kenneth Eriksson; there's Austria 2002, when Rubens Barichello gave Michael Schumacher the win at the very last corner of the race.

More if I think of them. Is it either of those?
 
No, as those didn't go as scams (they happened in front of everybodies eyes) and involved only drivers from the same team.
The one I have in mind happened many moons ago and involved various drivers from more than one team...
 
it's been more than a week... I don't think anyone's going to get it

on the other hand... why is British Racing Green green? Why isn't British Racing blue, or red, or yellow, or purple with green dots and black stripes?
 
Diego440
on the other hand... why is British Racing Green green? Why isn't British Racing blue, or red, or yellow, or purple with green dots and black stripes?


I'll answer that one:

British cars normally race with BRG, as italians race in red, french in blue and germans in white (yes, white, not silver....and that's another story) because of the Gordon Bennett races of the beginning of the 20th Century.
To differentiate the cars from the national teams (it was like a "world cup for countries" and not for manufacturers per se), Gordon Bennett imposed those colors, which, 100 years later, are almost still in place (alfas and ferraris are red, renaults and peugeots are usually blue, jaguars and aston all use some sort or another of green, etc...).

Diego440
it's been more than a week... I don't think anyone's going to get it

But, I'll give you another clue: it involved some italian drivers and a lottery ticket 💡 💡
 
daan
Berger was usually 28, but I saw this photo and assumed he must have had 27 at some point.

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I didn't realise that's not Berger in the car. (I thought he was just using a different helmet style for some reason)

Bit of a bump. Since I've written my Interesting F1 Stats program, I went back and checked on this. Gerhard Berged has never officially entered or started an F1 race in car number 27. Of his 210 race starts, 112 have been in car number 28, 32 of them in car 2, 16 in car 4, 16 in car 17, 16 in car 20, 14 in car 8, 3 in car 31 and 1 in car 14.
 
There are cases though where a driver has gone out in a spare car configured for the other team member. I have a photo at home of David Coulthard (complete with Saltire helmet) driving a car emblazoned with "Mika".
 
Diego440
Speaking of bumps... any chance we could revive this thread?

Heh... I thought exactly the same thing yesterday, but didn't have time to post here.

What was unusual about the pitstops of the 1913 Indy 500 winner? Bonus point if you can tell me what was odd about the second-placed car when it crossed the line.
 
Roo
Heh... I thought exactly the same thing yesterday, but didn't have time to post here.

What was unusual about the pitstops of the 1913 Indy 500 winner? Bonus point if you can tell me what was odd about the second-placed car when it crossed the line.

Not that I'm attempting to hijack the question, but I've just started searching and although I haven't been able to find anything on the 1913 Indy 500, I did find something on the 1912 Indy 500, which seems relevant.

Meaning that I'm not sure if you got the years confused or I'm looking at the wrong thing.

Here it is
 
Nope, it's definitly 1913. I'll give you a clue: the winner was French, in a French car.

Edit: The answer is also in Wikipedia.
 
Roo
What was unusual about the pitstops of the 1913 Indy 500 winner? Bonus point if you can tell me what was odd about the second-placed car when it crossed the line.

He drank champpers (champagne) during his pit stop. Don't know about the second placed car.
 
Sting
He drank champpers (champagne) during his pit stop. Don't know about the second placed car.

Yep, that's right. Over the course of the race, Jules Goux got through 6 bottles of the stuff at the wheel of his Peugeot.

The only unusual thing about the second place car when it crossed the line was that it was on fire. But that's not importent; it's your go, Sting!
 
Sticking with the Indy 500 theme. James 'Jimmy' Murphy won the Indy 500 in 1922, but what was significant about the win? Bonus point for naming the car he drove.
 
1st win from pole at the Indy 500; the car - a Duesenberg/Miller - was the same car that won that year's Le Mans 24hrs.

Edit: Hang on, the first 24 hour race at Le Mans wasn't until 1923 :dunce: But it did win a race at Le Mans.
 
Roo
1st win from pole at the Indy 500; the car - a Duesenberg/Miller - was the same car that won that year's Le Mans 24hrs.

Edit: Hang on, the first 24 hour race at Le Mans wasn't until 1923 :dunce: But it did win a race at Le Mans.

muha caught you out there with the other race. Base question and bonus are correct 👍 and it was the french gp that was held at Le Mans. lol Go Roo!
 
Trying to be too smart for my own good, that's my trouble :D

Antonio Ascari's Alfa Romeo, whilst leading, broke down how many yards from the end of the 268-mile 1924 Targo Florio? (I'll accept within 5 either way.)
 
Roo
Trying to be too smart for my own good, that's my trouble :D

Antonio Ascari's Alfa Romeo, whilst leading, broke down how many yards from the end of the 268-mile 1924 Targo Florio? (I'll accept within 5 either way.)


I have it as 100 metres... which would make it about 109 yards
 
I have 100m too. He braked too hard, span and couldn't restart the engine. He had to push the car over the finish line, like Prost at Hockenheim '86 or Mansell at Dallas '84.
 
shouldn't be too hard.

When Group B rally cars were banned from motorsport in the mid-80s, which car did Ford produce take over the extinct RS200?
 
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