Motorsports Trivia Thread!

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J_Starscream
Oh, it's because he tragically died in a helicopter crash. But that's not the answer.
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Well, the tragedy was that he killed a man and his son while pulling a show-off manouevre that the heli wasn't capable of. I suggested the answer as a reasonably-bad-taste joke.
 
Oooh, not often I'm even thinking along the right lines! Unfortunately my rally knowledge is not that good, but we're after either an event where he crashed twice at, or crashed away from the rally stage itself since it was 1 location. Since it's not Wales, Spain? Random guess - I was 3 years old in 1992!
 
Pezzarinho17
Oooh, not often I'm even thinking along the right lines! Unfortunately my rally knowledge is not that good, but we're after either an event where he crashed twice at, or crashed away from the rally stage itself since it was 1 location. Since it's not Wales, Spain? Random guess - I was 3 years old in 1992!
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I was only 6 in '92, so that's no excuse!

Nope, not Spain.

Perhaps this isn't as well known as I thought. We've established it was a Subaru Legacy driven by McRae, and it took a lot of punishment on this event; a hint would be that this was a WRC round. As McRae only started 13 WRC rounds in Legacys and 3 of those were Rally GB, which isn't correct, there's 10 possibilities remaining. Whoever gets the last piece of the puzzle takes it.
 
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Roo
I was only 6 in '92, so that's no excuse!

Nope, not Spain.

Perhaps this isn't as well known as I thought. We've established it was a Subaru Legacy driven by McRae, and it took a lot of punishment on this event; a hint would be that this was a WRC round. As McRae only started 13 WRC rounds in Legacys and 3 of those were Rally GB, which isn't correct, there's 10 possibilities remaining. Whoever gets the last piece of the puzzle takes it.
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Rally Finland. He Rolled the car in Practice and twice more but went on to finish
 
I seem to remember McRae having a fairly big smash in Finland way back in 1992, if my mind isn't failing me. Is that it?

EDIT: ARGH! Tree'd by seconds! :banghead:
 
DcrRaikkonen
Rally Finland. He Rolled the car in Practice and twice more but went on to finish
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Is the right answer.

On the 1992 1000 Lakes rally in Finland McRae rolled the car once in shakedown and twice during the rally itself, eventually finishing 8th.





@DcrRaikkonen, your turn!
 
What is the largest gap ever from a first win to the second win in the 24 hours Of Le Mans for a driver.
 
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The question is worded rather poorly, I have to say. It could be a gap between... anything.
 
Bo
The question is worded rather poorly, I have to say. It could be a gap between... anything.
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Fixed and @Legro You're turn as McNish won in 1998 and didn't win again till 2008. JJ Lehto won in 1995 and didn't win again until 2005. Hurly Haywood would be wrong as he first won in 1977 and again in 1983
 
DcrRaikkonen
Fixed and @Legro You're turn as McNish won in 1998 and didn't win again till 2008. JJ Lehto won in 1995 and didn't win again until 2005. Hurly Haywood would be wrong as he first won in 1977 and again in 1983
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Those are only 10 years. Alex Wurz took his first win in 1996 and his second in 2009, so that's 13 years. Hurly Haywood would be wrong though, as you say :D
 
TenEightyOne
:D

Here's a fairly easy one; The Silver Arrows (aka works Mercedes) weren't always silver. What colour were they "traditionally" before they were silver, and why did they change?
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Was it white ? and something to do with the paint so raced in plain metal.
 
I think they were red but had to change when that colour was given to Italian entries instead?

EDIT: ^That sounds more likely!
 

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