Motorsports Trivia Thread!

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which was the first AWD (all wheel drive) RACE CAR (not production car).

who drove it, where, how was he, age, and his social security number... OK, just kidding. Just the marque, model and year.
 
so ummm... more than 24 hours and no answer... perhaps a hint is in order? Alright, it's a European car
 
Diego440
and the marque is in GT4 :O...
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Spyker? From 1904?

The first 4WD car, the Spyker, was also the first with a 6-cylinder engine and it was to this element of Jacobus Spijker's creation that most attention went when it was introduced at the Paris Motor Show at the end of 1904. In its months as a demonstration vehicle it gained huge amounts of publicity for the Dutch marque, and this time the 'steering-wheel drive' as it was called back then took all the headlines. The Joseph Laviolette-designed machine was certainly the center of amazement at the Crystal Palace in the spring of 1905 when its 8.6-litre engine and all-wheel traction rocketed it up nearby Anerley Rise. Even more miraculously, it also managed to climb the steps in front of the exhibition building! In 1906 the Spyker had its competition debut in the Birmingham Motor Club hillclimb. Jacobus Spijker entered it to drive it himself, and on the boat to Harwich the entire Spyker crew prayed for rain. God must have had his Dutch channel open and answered their prayers, as the Spyker won the event quite easily. On a rain-drenched day it was in fact one of the few cars to reach the top of the hill…
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You know, when I first entered the question, I was under the impression that the first AWD race car was the 1932 Bugatti Type 53... but after looking for Yuichi's single-seater issue, I found the 1903 Spyker. In fact, that's the answer, the Spyker 60/80... there were some versions of it which were single seaters and some weren't, so Yuichi's question was valid and answered as a yes...

Anyhow, here are pics of the 60/80. And we now await David's question...
 
What word did Juan Manuel Fangio paint onto his Chevrolet TC Coupe when he took part in the 1939 Grand Premio Argentino de Carretera?
 
Balcarce.. Yuichi beat me to it. I was confused since he used a 1939 Chevrolet chasis in 1946, and that one had something completely different written on it.
 
Google is everyone's best friend....

The new question:

Unless Jenson Button is disqualified from the San Marino GP, who was the last driver to be dq'd after the race?
 
EDIT: Actually, I change my answer, since no one has answered since. The dq'd drivers would be indeed, J Button and T Sato... they both have been dq'd for the next two races...
 
I said UNLESS THEY WERE DQ'D. Sorry had to get that off my chest. If the question needs some clarification, it's after the race, not before or during the race.
 
Yuichi
I give up. The answer was David Coulthard in 2000 in the Brazillian GP.
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Oh, sorry, I thought you said unless J Button was DQ'd... T Sato was also DQ'd. I also didn't get a message saying that this thread had been answered, although I am susbscribed to it. Hence, I thought no one had answered back. Still, shoot the next question, if you will.
 
Where is the only horse racing circuit that has held a Formula 1 GP, and what was notable (from a British point of view) about the race?
 
Aintree. Stirling Moss won it, just ahead of Fangio. Moss just made it across the line first and he doesn't know whether Fangio let him win or not.
 
What GP driver was nicknamed 'The Pampas Bull', and 'El Cabezon' ('Fat Head')?
 
Which former F1 driver died recently at age 80 and which was his best finishing position...?
 
sheesh.. 24 hours and not even a guess... time for a clue, perhaps. He participated in a total of 10 races, out of which the first and last were the South African GP... I don't think that will make it easier :scared: But good luck either way
 
Just wandered in here, and found an easy one! John Love is, I think, the answer. His best finishing position in a F1GP was 2nd in the 1967 South African GP with a Cooper T79 Climax 2.8.

In fact he nearly won the race, and would have been one of the most unfancied runners to have ever won a Grand Prix.
 

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