Motorsports Trivia Thread!

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Who am I and which season was it?

- I completed more than 75% of the races in a specific F1 season.
- I scored one pole position that season.
- However, I never scored points, or even came close to a point-scoring position on the whole season.
 
Yup, quite a lot of points. In fact an 8th place in that Brazilian race where he got pole. So yeah, no correct answer found yet.
 
Nope, he didn't get a pole position - to be honest I have never heard of him, but an F1 history book of mine says he didn't have any. ^^
 
He was Fittipaldi's teammate at Lotus in '72 and was utter garbage. Didn't score any points, but I thought a pole might have been possible...
 
MazdaPrice
He was Fittipaldi's teammate at Lotus in '72 and was utter garbage. Didn't score any points, but I thought a pole might have been possible...
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Nah, no poles for him, only Carlos Reutemann was a surprising polesitter that season... in his first race BTW... that's where he only finished 7th, but later got a 4th so he obviously isn't the right answer. :sly:
 
Teo Fabi, 1986 Austrian Grand Prix 1985 German Grand Prix pole position holder, 0 points in that year's WDC.
 
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Hun200kmh
Teo Fabi, 1986 Austrian Grand Prix 1985 German Grand Prix pole position holder, 0 points in that year's WDC.
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That's the one! Indeed Fabi had a bit of a strange season, qualified on pole that one time but only finished 12th at best. Well, his season was plagued by retirements, but you can't really call the Toleman a very competitive machine anyway.
 
My turn again so here goes:

In Formula One, when (what GP) were the lap times recorded to the thousandth of a second for the first time?

If someone posts the answer with a link to the source, please continue, I'll be out for a while now! 👍
 
SagarisGTB
I believe it was the 1971 United States Grand Prix? I'll let someone confirm that.
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I'm pretty positive it was, given how they still used only tenths of a second in the late sixties, but that race had thousandths already.
 
I believe that's correct, 1971 US GP. The previous race, Canada 1971, was measured in hundredths at least and I doubt thousandths came before that.
 
Dale Earnhardt after he won the 1998 Daytona 500? I know he said something about a monkey...
 
A Lotus driver back in the late 60s possibly early 70s. I think it was Hockenheim, the Cosworth V8 was just too dominant, if I remember.

Edit: I'm going for Rindt. Hockenheim. 69/70.

Not definite about the year.
 
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Yes! Sometimes you have to really pay attention to the wording in question.

This is of course the Ferguson P99 with the legendary Stirling Moss behind the wheel back in 1961. And this was an era full of 'non-championship' events, hence why I was careful to not explicitly say 'Grand Prix'. The damp conditions made for an easy victory, but 4WD never took off in F1. Disasters for Cosworth and Lotus confirm this.

Over to you, nitro.
 

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