Motorsports Trivia Thread!

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TopGearFTW
Dan Gurney - Porsche, Brabham, Eagle.
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Premature ejaculation. :yuck:

You need to specify the driver, marque, year and race.

Respectfully,
Steve

Edit: Okay, you have cleaned yourself up. Good!

But we are not finished yet.
 
Dotini
Premature ejaculation. :yuck:

You need to specify the driver, marque, year and race.

Respectfully,
Steve
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I edited that in, I realised as soon as I hit post reply :dunce:

Fangio was so close to being counted too, got pipped to Alfa's maiden win by Farina. I thought I had found the trick when I spotted his wins, until I checked more thoroughly :(
 
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I was thinking Jackie Stewart. He won Matra and Tyrrell's first wins, but he didn't get a third debut marque win. Graham Hill took the accolade for BRM.

Debut marque wins off the top of my hed: John Watson for Penske, Richie Ginther for Honda, Jacques Laffite for Ligier, Jean-Pierre Jaboullie for Renault, Damon Hill for Jordan, Jody Scheckter for Wolf, Alan Jones for Shadow and Williams but not a 3rd team...

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MazdaPrice
I was thinking Jackie Stewart. He won Matra and Tyrrell's first wins, but he didn't get a third debut marque win. Graham Hill took the accolade for BRM.

Debut marque wins off the top of my hed: John Watson for Penske, Richie Ginther for Honda, Jacques Laffite for Ligier, Jean-Pierre Jaboullie for Renault, Damon Hill for Jordan, Jody Scheckter for Wolf, Alan Jones for Shadow and Williams but not a 3rd team...

Nothing is clicking.
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Price, you are a true riot. :) A good first rifle shot, but your blunderbuss only hurts your cause...

Tap tap tap...I'm waiting, but not for April.
 
Wait a second..

Jackie Stewart

1968 Dutch Grand Prix - Matra
1970 Spanish Grand Prix - March
1971 Spanish Grand Prix - Tyrrell

Boom. Jackie Stewart stuck in my head then, thanks to Jackie's autobiography, I remembered that before the Tyrrell 001 was built they had to use a March in the mean time.
 
MazdaPrice
Wait a second..

Jackie Stewart

1968 Dutch Grand Prix - Matra
1970 Spanish Grand Prix - March
1971 Spanish Grand Prix - Tyrrell

Boom.
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Price got two of three - with a rather bald hint. But TopGearFTW got the harder answer, in my view. Both worthy winners, so TopGear gets the next question, if he will take it.

Respectfully,
Steve
 
That's a great shout, well done on that one, I completely glossed over that when I looked at Jackie's race history.

So Stirling Moss, Dan Gurney, and Jackie Stewart, that must be all of them surely?

I dunno about going next. Do you have a question lined up Mazda?
 
TopGearFTW
That's a great shout, well done on that one, I completely glossed over that when I looked at Jackie's race history.

So Stirling Moss, Dan Gurney, and Jackie Stewart, that must be all of them surely?
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Yes, but it's only to the best of my ability. I could always be wrong, so always check me.
 
Dotini
Yes, but it's only to the best of my ability. I could always be wrong, so always check me.
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Nah I'm almost certain you will have got them all. Stirling Moss was probably the easiest to get and that was still tricky due to how... insecure, for want of a better word, a lot of the constructors were back then. To be honest I completely stumbled upon Dan Gurney, I think I had only heard his name in passing before that point. I kept thinking of Jenson Button due to Honda and Brawn, even though I knew he didn't get McLaren's maiden win by a long shot :P
 
So who is posting the next question then? I know you said I could Dotini but I feel Mazda did most of the work in answering that question, plus I don't really have anything trivial enough for this thread right now :P
 
Fine. I'll throw you a very simple question just to keep going.

Who was the only driver to win two BTC championships during the 'supertouring' years?

Driver, years, cars.

If you know you're right, move on. I'm going to bed soon and I don't want to hold the thread up!

I really could't think of anything more difficult
 
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Since no-one has answered in such a long time, I will jump in and say Alain Menu.

My question: As we all know, the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix was one of the darkest days in F1's history, but what was the first F1 Championship event to be marred by a fatality, that WASN'T the Indy 500?

Year/Race/Who was involved
 
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Hmm. I know that it wasn't Stuart Lewis-Evans at the 1958 Moroccan Grand Prix, which is the earliest definite fatality that I know of, but I don't know who it actually was.

Pre-1958 fatalities. Hmm, there was an Argentinian driver called Onofre... M... something... but I don't know if his was a championship event or not.
 
Hun200kmh
Onofre Marimon, he's the first F1 fatality.
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If that is correct, you definitely get next question. I've asked far too many recently and besides, you knew his proper name. I only knew his first name...
 
Several blades of grass died at the first GP at Aintree.

Getting warm? Because I now honestly have no idea.
 
Le mans can't remember year.
Many of the crowd died and thus to this day it has been illegal to hold a race in Switzerland.
 
Farina (Ferrari), Argentina, 1953
Several (13?) spectators tragically killed in his crash.

Supposedly a spectator ran across the track. The 1950 World Champion tried to avoid him, but lost control and ran into a mass of spectators. Some reports had 15 deaths. Farina escaped injury and the race continued, despite chaos.
 
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Here's a pretty easy puzzler: His birthplace was in one country when he was born, another when he was racing, and now is in a third. Name the driver, please.

Respectfully submitted,
Steve

Edit: I'm going out for an hour or so.
 
haitch40
Hm lets see.

Schumacher=2

Il think.
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Considering Germany's precarious borders during the 20th century, almost every German driver will have 2 different countries. But three? I can't work it out. And I'm skeptical about it being a German. Seems... too obvious for a Dotini question.

We know it's someone who isn't racing now. That's a bit of help.

John Love

Born: Southern Rhodesia, 1924
Raced: Rhodesia, 1960s, 1970s
Now: Zimbabwe, since 1980
 
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I come sailing in with a technicality >__>

Prince Bira:

Born in Siam, 1914
Raced for Thailand, 1939 - 1945
Raced for Siam (Again), 1945 - 1949
Raced for Thailand (Again), 1950 - 1955
It is still called Thailand.

Yes I know that's only two countries, but this guy was my first thought, and since I wasn't terribly wrong, I thought I'd post it here anyway, just because I think it's interesting.
 

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