Motorsports Trivia Thread!

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Alright.

As outlined earlier in the thread, Alberto Ascari was never "Formula One" World Champion because he won the title in seasons under Formula Two regulations. Before and after this time too, it wasn't called the Formula One World Championship; it was the World Championship For Drivers.

So the question is, who was the first Formula One World Champion?
 
No! You guys are in the wrong era. Before and after Ascari, it wasn't called the "Formula One World Championship".

I want to know who was the first to win the Formula One World Championship and not the World Championship For Drivers.
 
Nelson Piquet in 1981

Excellent! This was the first year that the championship was actually called the "Formula One World Championship". It has since been applied retroactively to every title since 1950, bringing with it technical inaccuracies in Ascari and Indy.

Your turn.
 
I am a European Circuit.
I have corners called "Start Turn", "Rome", "Sand Trap", "Paris", "New Bend" and "Chicane".
What am I?
 
Ohh, interesting read?

Yeah, Eddie Cheever drove for Haas Ltd in 1986 for only one race - 1986 Detroit Grand Prix. 👍


Question time!


Out of the 34 current Indycar drivers, how many of them have driven a Formula 1 car? Name them all in your answer.

I now see where I read wrong. Haas Lolo was an American team buying cars. The last time an American Driver drove an American made car was Danny Ongais for Penske. So the article was right, I was wrong.
 
I am a European Circuit.
I have corners called "Start Turn", "Rome", "Sand Trap", "Paris", "New Bend" and "Chicane".
What am I?

Sorry for the double post and for the wild guess. That sounds like what I would name turns on Zandvoort.
 
Sorry for the double post and for the wild guess. That sounds like what I would name turns on Zandvoort.

"What do you get if you put Scrabble tiles in a shotgun... Dutch"... having said that, I'm pretty sure none of Zandvoorts bocht's are called those things.. plus it doesn't have a chicane. I could be wrong...

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My wild guess time.... Temporary circuit based on a race course (something like Solvalla)... or perhaps a variant of the Mille Miglia course... or maybe a Red Bull Air Race circuit... umm. Yup, I'm very much guessing.
 
If it isn't Most, which I'm now having second doubts about, the Paris/Roma would lead me to think it's French or Italian.
 
I'm just taking a wild-ass guess here, is it Misano?
 
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