Motorsports Trivia Thread!

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Name the only Formula 1 driver who was born in Turkey.
(If no correct answers within 24 hours, then the name is revealed.)

Respectfully submitted,
Steve
 
Jason Tahincioglu?

I think he did a demonstration run in a formula 1 car. I'm probably wrong though.
 
jcm
Jason Tahincioglu?

I think he did a demonstration run in a formula 1 car. I'm probably wrong though.
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You are wrong, but more imporantly, you are jcm! The long-lost jcm who has already won his turn to ask question. So I will withdraw mine, hold it in reserve, and ask you to take shot!

Respectfully,
Steve
 
Dotini
You are wrong, but more imporantly, you are jcm! The long-lost jcm who has already won his turn to ask question. So I will withdraw mine, hold it in reserve, and ask you to take shot!

Respectfully,
Steve
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That's okay, I can't think of a good question anyway. This one is very hard, and I want to see if anyone gets it. Wikipedia doesn't even know!

Unless I didn't read it properly...
 
GTPorsche
Has to be someone very obscure and decades ago. My searching so far has come up with nothing.
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He qualified mid-pack for a major Formula 1 Grand Prix, but retired 17 laps from the finish with gearbox troubles. Most of his career was in sports cars.

No further hints.

Respectfully,
Steve
 
Alfonso (Alphonse) Thiele, born in Istanbul, drove a Scuderia Centro-Sud Cooper-Maserati at the Italian GP at Monza, 1960. This race was held on the combined road course/high banking 10km circuit, which was boycotted that year by the British teams. It was one of the few events which organizers opened to F2 cars to make up the field - although Thiele's car was a full bore F1 machine.

http://en.espnf1.com/cooper/motorsport/driver/806.html

Respectfully submitted,
Steve
 
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You basically win this thread, Dotini.

Who has the next question? I have one in mind. Not such a difficult one.
 
MazdaPrice
You basically win this thread, Dotini.

Who has the next question? I have one in mind. Not such a difficult one.
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I'm not trying to win anything, just ask puzzling questions which do ultimately have good answers.

Please go ahead and take a turn at the wheel, Price. :)

GTPorsche
That's definitely an obscure driver and decades ago.
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Perhaps the rules of the OP should be amended? I'm :cool: for playing by the rules.
 
No, it's cool. My searching didn't give me results because I was looking for Turkish drivers, even though I had a feeling the driver wasn't actually that nationality. I was also expecting it to be a British citizen.

No need to change the rules of the game now.
 
Steve your questions are good as the answer can't be found with a quick Wikipedia search. I don't know enough about F1 to be able to hazard a reasonable guess otherwise I'd contribute more.
 
TyrrellRacing
Steve your questions are good as the answer can't be found with a quick Wikipedia search. I don't know enough about F1 to be able to hazard a reasonable guess otherwise I'd contribute more.
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This. 👍

I'd rather burn out on searching and not find the answer instead of immediately finding it.

I get to learn more that way.

I knew the Coloni-Subaru answer without even searching for it. Just didn't get to the thread in time.
 
Yeah, I knew the Subaru answer too, just that it was already answered by the time I read the question. Okay, some more F1 for you. Please tell me:

The last driver to start races for three teams in one season.

Name / Year / Teams

Bonus points if you can tell me something else interesting about this particular statistic.
 
My first thought was Roberto Moreno. When I checked, yep, 1991 he drove for Benetton, Jordan & Minardi.

The interesting thing was that he was moved out of Benetton to make way for some unknown driver by the name of Michael Schumacher.
 
daan
My first thought was Roberto Moreno. When I checked, yep, 1991 he drove for Benetton, Jordan & Minardi.

The interesting thing was that he was moved out of Benetton to make way for some unknown driver by the name of Michael Schumacher.
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Spot on. It wasn't such a difficult question, but I thought it might have taken a bit longer than that.

That wasn't the bonus trivia I had in mind though, because it's quite well known that Schumacher replaced Moreno. It's tied to the three teams in a season bit; he actually drove four cars in 1991, because in addition to the Jordan 191 and Minardi M191, Benetton began the year with the B190B for the first two races, before the B191 came along.

In any case, kudos to daan and it's his turn.
 
I'm at work so can't really come up with much at the minute, but have a go at this (quite easy) one.

Which current F1 driver cannot hold an in-depth conversation with his dad in his dad's native language?
 
Ther you go. Nice and easy. Nico is supposedly learning more Finnish, but I don't belive he speaks much of it at the minute.
 
My last stab at a challenging Formula 1 question. This is also probably easier than I think it is, but...

To my knowledge, there are only two drivers who have won consecutive Grand Prix races in the same country.

i.e. This race was in country X, and the next race was also in country X. And driver Y won both races.
 
Good question. A wee bit of lateral thinking got me remembering that Australia went from the last Grand Prix to the first so that could have been one of them, and Damon Hill won the '95 Australian GP as the last GP of the year, and the first GP in '96 was also in Australia which was also won by Hill.

Then I thought the other must have been the 2 US GP West and East races, but they were never run back to back. Then I noticed that the last GP of 1980 was the US GP won by Alan Jones, and that was followed by the 1981 US GP West race also won by Jones.
 
Ah, yes, the '95 Pacific GP (held in Japan) and '95 Japanese GP both won by Schumacher.
 
daan
Good question. A wee bit of lateral thinking got me remembering that Australia went from the last Grand Prix to the first so that could have been one of them, and Damon Hill won the '95 Australian GP as the last GP of the year, and the first GP in '96 was also in Australia which was also won by Hill.

Then I thought the other must have been the 2 US GP West and East races, but they were never run back to back. Then I noticed that the last GP of 1980 was the US GP won by Alan Jones, and that was followed by the 1981 US GP West race also won by Jones.
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pezzarinho17
Michael Schumacher was the second to it in 1995 (Japan)
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I give you both top marks, with daan getting the A* for finding a 3rd race which I was unaware of. I knew of the 1995 & 1996 Australian Grands Prix and the 1995 Pacific & Japanese Grands Prix, with the latter being the only one of these unique occurances to take place in the same season.

daan - 2 correct answers

1980 United States Grand Prix, Watkins Glen (USA) - Alan Jones
was followed by
1981 United States Grand Prix West, Long Beach (USA) - Alan Jones

1995 Australian Grand Prix, Adelaide (AUS) - Damon Hill
was followed by
1996 Australia Grand Prix, Melbourne (AUS) - Damon Hill

pezzarinho - 1 correct answer

1995 Pacific Grand Prix, Aida (Japanese) - Michael Schumacher
was followed by
1995 Japanese Grand Prix, Suzuka (Japanese) - Michael Schumacher

Yours again, daan.
 
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I'll try and think up a question, but if someone has one they want to ask, they can feel free.
 
A quick one;
Besides the Tyrell P34, name the 3 other cars to use 6 wheels in Formula 1 (though none of them were raced)
(2 of them shouldn't be difficult to find, but its the 3rd which is more obscure...)
 
Williams FW08B.

I know Ferrari dabbled with a 6-wheeler, but couldn't tell you the model name.

Unsure on the 3rd team.
 

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