Motorsports Trivia Thread!

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Mario Andretti?

Team mate to Elio de Angelis in 1980
Team mate to Michael Andretti at Le Mans and other WEC multiple times
Team mate to Andrea de Cesaris...... perhaps?
 
TheCracker
Mario Andretti?

Team mate to Elio de Angelis in 1980
Team mate to Michael Andretti at Le Mans and other WEC multiple times
Team mate to Andrea de Cesaris...... perhaps?
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I have that as a close but no cigar as well. The guy I'm thinking of did race in F1 and North America, though.
 
Nigel Mansell was my first guess, but i couldn't find any link to Andrea de Cesaris with him either... :irked:
 
Roberto Moreno!

Elio de Angelis - 1982 F1
Andrea de Cesaris - 1991 F1
michael Andretti - 1997 Indy/Champcar
 
TheCracker
What links Wolfgang von Trips
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Died racing.

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Vittorio Brambilla
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Crashed winning.

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Eric van de Poele?
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Dropped from 5th to 9th on the last lap for Lamborghini at Imola.

Uh... beyond them all being European F1 drivers, I'm not sure what else they may have done. I can't think of another series they all competed in.

Did they all win at Sebring?
 
Liquid
Died racing.



Crashed winning.



Dropped from 5th to 9th on the last lap for Lamborghini at Imola.

Uh... beyond them all being European F1 drivers, I'm not sure what else they may have done. I can't think of another series they all competed in.

Did they all win at Sebring?
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It's a purely Grand Prix question. It also involves team mates. ;)
 
TheCracker
What links Wolfgang von Trips, Vittorio Brambilla and Eric van de Poele?
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Their final F1 races all came at the Italian GP, for one thing.
For another, they were all driving for an Italian team.
For yet another, they all raced with or against a driver named Hill.
 
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Dotini
Their final F1 races all came at the Italian GP, for one thing.
For another, they were all driving for an Italian team.
For yet another, they all raced with or against a driver named Hill.
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All very good answers, and plenty of bonus points, but not the answer I was looking for.

see my comment above about team mates.
 
Dotini
They all had female team mates!
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That's pretty much it. 👍

They're the only drivers to ever have had female team mates (racing team mates, disregarding Suzie Wolfe etc who only tested) Other female drivers have raced, but they were in single car teams.
 
Who have you got for Brambilla though, he only had three team mates, Reine Wissell, Bruno Giacomelli and Hans-Joachim Stuck?
 
For over 20 years I had the distinction of being the winner of the fastest race in the world.

- Who am I, what was the race, what was my average speed, and what did I drive?

- Who eclipsed my record, what was the race, what was his average speed, and what did he drive?

Hint#1: Our two engines together added up to 12 cylinders.
 
Being that it's that time of year, or week even. Without looking it up, I'm going to say it was the Indy 500 with someone in an offy-powered car, eventually someone beats it in a Ford V8 engined car. That's as much as I can muster at this hour of the day.
 
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Being that it's that time of year, or week even. Without looking it up, I'm going to say it was the Indy 500 with someone in an offy-powered car, eventually someone beats it in a Ford V8 engined car. That's as much as I can muster at this hour of the day.
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Not a bad attempt to guess and winnow another clue from me. I'll give you a score of
3%
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TenEightyOne
To be clear; this is for ground vehicles?
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Yes, ground vehicles. I'll go farther and say
conventional, recognizable road/circuit racing cars.
 
Okay, so the fastest race... Talladega 500? I can't think of a faster track over the lap. I dimly remember that Buddy Baker was the first ever person to set a 200mph lap there in an 88 car.

Here's half-a-guess, Dale Earnhardt (senior) has something to do with the answer, he held a lot of records there. Didn't have 20 wins there though.
 
TenEightyOne
Okay, so the fastest race... Talladega 500? I can't think of a faster track over the lap. I dimly remember that Buddy Baker was the first ever person to set a 200mph lap there in an 88 car.

Here's half-a-guess, Dale Earnhardt (senior) has something to do with the answer, he held a lot of records there. Didn't have 20 wins there though.
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Your otherwise plausible shot in the dark would seem to violate Hint #1. The violator will return to his drawing board, perhaps by way of the wet bar!
 
Avus for the non championship German Grand Prix in 1937? Hermann Lang won the event and was bested by my second guess. Arie Luyundyk at the 1990 Indy 500, which was bested by Tony Kanaan in the 2013 Indy 500.

One of those is correct.

Edit: Luyundyk's race average speed was 185.981 in his Lola

He would have been beat by Kanaan in a Chevy

Average Speed would have been 187.433

Lang would have drove a Mercedes, and average race speed was 171 mph
 
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RazorSharkz
Avus for the non championship German Grand Prix in 1937? Hermann Lang won the event and was bested by my second guess. Arie Luyundyk at the 1990 Indy 500, which was bested by Tony Kanaan in the 2013 Indy 500.

One of those is correct.

Edit: Luyundyk's race average speed was 185.981 in his Lola

He would have been beat by Kanaan in a Chevy

Average Speed would have been 187.433

Lang would have drove a Mercedes, and average race speed was 171 mph
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Your answer is indeed partially correct. Kudos for that!

I, Hermann Lang did win the Avus GP of 1937 with a Mercedes-Benz W125 (8 cylinder) and set the record for the fastest race in the world, but the remainder of your answer is incorrect. For one, my average speed was 162.61 mph. (My rival Bernd Rosemeyer set fastest lap at 172.75 mph.)

And it was not Arie Luyendyk who eclipsed me in 1990. It was another with a 4 cylinder racer not much more than 20 years after I set the record. Who was that, what was the race, what was the speed, and what was the car?
 
It doesn't come as a great surprise to me, but you seem to know more than Wiki:
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Mercedes driver Hermann Lang's average race speed of about 276 km/h (171 mph) was the fastest road race in history for nearly five decades, and was not matched on a high speed banked-circuit until the mid-1980s at the 1986 Indianapolis 500.
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Barra333
It doesn't come as a great surprise to me, but you seem to know more than Wiki:
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I had two sources for Lang's average speed:

1) Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Racing 1934-1955 by George Monkhouse, published in cooperation with Daimler-Benz and many original participants. This source gives a fastest lap by Rosemeyer at 171.6 mph.
The 1937 Avus race was run in three heats, won at the following average speeds:
1st -Carraciola at 159.55
2nd - Von Brauchitsch at 160.37
Final - Lang at 162.61
2) Power and Glory, Volume 1:1906-1951 by William Court

This source eventually linked to from your wiki link appears to agree with me both in whole and in part:
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The wiki article on "Avus" appears to be incorrect, or rather was referring to fastest laps or pole laps, not race average speed, with respect to 1937 and subsequent records for fastest laps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVUS
 
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To be honest, if you just said 'I have a source', that would trump wiki for anything relating to F1 and the Grands Prix which preceded it.
 
Barra333
To be honest, if you just said 'I have a source', that would trump wiki for anything relating to F1 and the Grands Prix which preceded it.
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Well, okay, but any source can be mistaken or in error, I suppose. With this old, old, old trivia, you can't be too careful.

Anyway, someone needs to complete solving the puzzle of my question. Shouldn't be too hard now.
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I'm going to stab at this again and say 1955 Italian Grand Prix won by Juan Manuel Fangio in a Streamlined Mercedes. I can't find average speed but some digging could pull it up.
 

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