Motorsports Trivia Thread!

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4, Monaco GP '96.

No, I ment something you can actually find, because I can't find any answers to amp's question. Search engines aren't helping. Presumably I'm searching the wrong words, or something (although I thought "finish line + reverse" might give something useful, but apparantly not).
 
I think the answer to amp's question, if I correctly understood the question, is Christian Fittipaldi at Monza in 1993. He crossed the finish line doing a back flip.
 
Sorry, I forgot about this thread :(

The answer I was looking for was Juan Manuel Fangio in the Mille Miglia of 1953. The chassis of his car broke and the steering rod on the left was disconnected so he could only steer the right hand wheel. He resorted to wall-riding effectively to keep the car on the road and away from the edges of mountains. He carried on at an average speed of over 100mph (!), and within a couple of hundred feet of the finish line he ploughed into a straw bale. The forward gears in the 'box weren't working, so he engaged reverse and travelled the last couple of hundred feet backwards. He finished in second place.

In the question I specifically said that the driver had to have the car in reverse gear and the driver must have intended to be travelling backwards. I don't think Fittipaldi would have been in reverse gear in the air :p

edit: I've just checked the 1993 Italian GP and he didn't actually cross the line in that back flip, he was back on his wheels and travelling forwards as he crossed the line.
 
It is? Righty ho then...

Which track is the oldest speedway still in use today?
 
Wrong, Google wins (shame on me) :guilty:
I searched for "oldest speedway in the world" (with the quotes, to search on the whole sentence) and got 2 results only : the first one mentioned 1903, the second one 1927, I clicked on the first one.
I'll come with a new question later tonight :sly:
 
Here it is :

The biggest crash in a Formula1 Grand Prix occurred on August 30th, 1998* (belgian GP at Spa-Francorchamps), and involved 13 cars.
What was the former biggest crash in an F1 GP ? (year, track, number of cars)


*and I missed it because my wife was giving birth to our first son at that moment !
 
11 cars retired on the first lap of the 1973 British GP at Silverstone, but I don't know if all were involved in the one accident (at least 9 were).
 
Already suggested 3 posts above, and the answer is No.

Tip : the track is correct (not the year and the number of cars involved)
 
How many circuits have hosted a Formula 1 Grand Prix, and of that total, how many have hosted more than 3 F1 races?
 

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