Motorsports Trivia Thread!

[Kingofweasles]

Isn't the penultimate image a screenshot from a game?

Yeah, it looks like a screenshot of Grand Prix Legends to me too.

 

[Dotini]

Isn't the penultimate image a screenshot from a game?

Good question!
It is not Mexico, I'm pretty sure of that. Perhaps it appears to depict McLaren in a Cooper leading Clark's Lotus and possibly Siffert's Brabham on about lap 9 at the Les Combes corner, Spa, 1964?

If it's a screen shot from a game, it could not be GP Legends, since that game was for cars of 1966.

 

[LancerEvo7]

Barrichello over Schumacher at US GP 2002 , aka. " Ferrari tries to perfect photo finish " thing , 0.011 s difference

Nope, but Ferrari is involved.

 

[Liquid]

Is it a non-championship race? Because the '71 Italian GP is definitely the closest championship race. And the fastest, as it happens.

 

[LancerEvo7]

Is it a non-championship race? Because the '71 Italian GP is definitely the closest championship race. And the fastest, as it happens.

It is.

 

[Liquid]

It is.

You must have missed it.

Peter Gethin winning the 1971 Italian Grand Prix by 0.01 seconds ahead of Ronnie Peterson. The top five were covered by less than half a second!

 

[LancerEvo7]

You must have missed it.

It is a non-championship race, my apologies.

 

[Liquid]

Closer than 0.01? Man, never heard of such an event!

 

[Dotini]

Closer than 0.01? Man, never heard of such an event!

There's been a surprisingly large number of non-championship F1 races, but most have used primitive time-keeping technology which could not be more precise than 0.01. It must have been dead heat, or a contact-at-the-line some place in South Africa? But I don't think Ferrari went to South Africa. Hmmm. I know it wasn't the Questor (speedway) GP.


Edit:
XXVII Daily Express BRDC International Trophy, 1975

It appears Lauda's Ferrari 312T may have beaten Emmo's McLaren by less than 0.01.

 

[Roo]

From 18:45. That's not less than a hundreth - must be a different non-championship race.

(Entertaining and interesting interview with James Hunt at 14:00 - cars not being able to follow closely due to turbulance is nothing new, it seems.)

 

[LancerEvo7]

must be a different non-championship race.

This is correct.

 

[Dotini]

Now I have found the 1962 XV BRDC International Trophy race. Hill (BRM) and Clark (Lotus) finished 1st and 2nd respectively with identical times of 1:31:34.2.

Surely this must satisfy the requirement of the original question, even though no Ferrari was involved.

 

[LancerEvo7]

Now I have found the 1962 XV BRDC International Trophy race. Hill (BRM) and Clark (Lotus) finished 1st and 2nd respectively with identical times of 1:31:34.2.

Surely this must satisfy the requirement of the original question, even though no Ferrari was involved.

I've never heard of that one, but it certainly fits the question 👍

The race I was thinking of was the 1967 Syracuse Grand Prix, where Mike Parkes and Ludovico Scarfiotti both finished 1st with a time of 1:40:58.4.

Regardless, it's your turn.

 

[Dotini]

I've never heard of that one, but it certainly fits the question 👍

The race I was thinking of was the 1967 Syracuse Grand Prix, where Mike Parkes and Ludovico Scarfiotti both finished 1st with a time of 1:40:58.4.

Regardless, it's your turn.

Whew!! Is this type of question too trivial for most us?

Mike Parkes was a good engineer as well a very capable driver.

Born 24 September 1931
Richmond Surrey, England
Died 28 August 1977 (aged 45)
Turin Italy


I must be off to my fencing lesson, so it'll be a few hours before I can post again.

 

[Dotini]

I cede this turn to @Roo

 

[TenEightyOne]

That's not less than a hundreth - must be a different non-championship race.

It's 0.1 seconds on the classification and described as "less than a car's length" on the commentary. Great vid, loved it

 

[Liquid]

Which F1 World Champion was the first to have no sort of DNS, DNA or DNQ on his Formula One CV?

That is to say, he successfully started all world championship races where he was an entrant. Non-attended GPs are acceptable.

 

[DK]

That would be Denny Hulme.

 

[Liquid]

Correct. 112 races, 112 starts.

 

[DK]

Two men won a race in ten or more consecutive F1 seasons. Name them.

 

[Carbonox]

Two men won a race in ten or more consecutive F1 seasons. Name them.

That'd be Michael Schumacher and Alain Prost.

 

[DK]

Yep, it's your turn @Carbonox.

 

[Carbonox]

Who was the first driver aged under 30 (at the time) to win a NASCAR Truck race?

 

[TenEightyOne]

Who was the first driver aged under 30 (at the time) to win a NASCAR Truck race?

Ryan Blaney?

 

[Kingofweasles]

Who was the first driver aged under 30 (at the time) to win a NASCAR Truck race?

Kyle Busch?

 

[Carbonox]

Ryan Blaney?

Kyle Busch?

Nope and nope.

 

[Bo]

Kenny Irwin Jr?

 

[Carbonox]

Kenny Irwin Jr?

Yup! Come to think of it, Blaney and Busch might've been some of the first under-20 winners, but in the - quite a lot larger - U30 category, the late Irwin got it first, back in 1997.

 

[Bo]

Not the happiest of races to win though...

Anyway, this is my first time asking a question here, so I may as well be cruel.

At the Mallory Park round of the 1978 Aurora AFX British Formula One season (July 30th), there were two notable entrants who failed to show up - one in a NOVA 532P, the other in a works Brabham BT46. Who were the two drivers?

 

[Liquid]

That's going to be hard to work out without having to simply google the answer.

Uh... Tiff Needell and James Hunt.