Motorsports Trivia Thread!

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How many professional (or semi-professional since at that time many had a second "real" job) drivers were there in the world in 1970 ?
(permissible difference : 5%)
 
30% of what? - actual persons in the world??

Shouldn't the answer be an amount not a percentage?

I guess at 73
 
I'm expecting an amount indeed, not a percentage.
I think you mean that 30% of race drivers in 1970 were professional, but that would be really difficult to estimate.

73 : no
 
Give us an answer please, Flat-out, I don't think anyone's ever going to get it...
 
GilesGuthrie
There are cases though where a driver has gone out in a spare car configured for the other team member. I have a photo at home of David Coulthard (complete with Saltire helmet) driving a car emblazoned with "Mika".
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Watched the 1996 F1 season review the other day and Coulthard went out at Monaco with Michael Schumacher's spare helmet. I'd forgotten about that one.

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Roo
Give us an answer please, Flat-out, I don't think anyone's ever going to get it...
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Yeah, if nobody tries, nobody will find it.
The correct answer was about 5,000.
Pretty hard to find a question that can't be answered in 1/2 second by searching on Google.

Here is another question :


What's the first name of this driver's father ?
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Indeed.
The pic is Henri Toivonen (who died in 1986 at the Rally of Corsica, but you knew that), and his father Pauli was a driver for Lancia too.

You turn Yuichi 👍
 
Good to see you around again, Yuichi...

This one shouldn't be too hard. Where/how did ex-F1 driver Michele Alboreto die?
 
Quite an easy one this.

Apart from Tyrrell which three other F1 teams tested six-wheeled cars, and which one of them designed an 8-wheeler!?
 
Williams, March, and Ferrari all tested 6-wheeled cars, and Ferrari tested an 8-wheel car, the 312T8, in 1976.

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And as the guy who originally posted that picture asked so nicely to have the source of that picture mentioned, here's the link: http://users.pandora.be/aerogi/

However:

Problem was, none of the Paprazzi who permenantly camp round the chain-link fencing at Fiorano could confirm ever seeing the T8 in action. Some years later Ferrari came clean and admitted that the picture they released was a mock up, the T8 never did exist but was purely an exercise designed to keep people thinking about what they were up to next, which at the time was designing and building an Indycar, tested in the States but unraced and intended for Mario Andretti to drive until he decided to stay with Lotus.
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If I'm right, someone else have a go, as I'm out now until Saturday evening.
 
OK, I managed to nip home briefly, so here goes:

Which was (probably) the first F1 car to test a mid-wing, and what was already special about the car?
 
Wasn't the car a Dodge Viper ?
I need to google around to check the team name. The car was racing in GT1 in the Le Mans Series I think.

Edit :

Ok, I found the Viper I was meaning, it's the one from team Chereau. But it has no lips, so it certainly isn't the answer you were expecting.

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A certain driver has 2 sons named Oliver and Joshua.
What are the names of his 2 daughters ?
 

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