Motorsports Trivia Thread!

[Jimlaad43]

GT-R
Aida

 

[Bo]

GT-R
Aida

Aida is Okayama, so you are correct. GTNET MAKERS and BuddyClub RSTRADA managed to bag a double podium on both days.

 

[Jimlaad43]

What does this picture have to do with F1?

 

[TenEightyOne]

What does this picture have to do with F1?

Schumey from Robot Wars?

 

[Jimlaad43]

Schumey from Robot Wars?

Yep, the red bot is named Schumey after Michael Schumacher

 

[TenEightyOne]

Two Formula 1 races have been disrupted by human track invaders.

Without using an internet search engine... which driver won both of those races?

 

[JR98]

I remember one was at the 2000 German Grand Prix, can't recall another one. I don't watch F1 that much.

 

[Carbonox]

2003 British GP.

And thus, Barrichello is the answer.

 

[TenEightyOne]

2003 British GP.

And thus, Barrichello is the answer.

Is the right answer

 

[Carbonox]

The image of that priest running on track has definitely burned into my brain, it was so bizarre to witness as a relatively new viewer.

Ahem. Who's the first driver to win a GP2 sprint race after finishing outside the points at the feature race?

 

[JR98]

Nico Rosberg?

 

[SagarisGTB]

Kovalainen?

 

[Carbonox]

Kovalainen?

Well, that was quick. 7 minutes and the answer's here already - I had better come up with better questions.

 

[SagarisGTB]

It was a lucky guess from the pool of inaugural season contenders.

Sticking with the GP2 theme: four drivers have accomplished the feat of winning multiple GP2 races during a season in which they finished outside the top ten in points. Name one of those drivers.

 

[Jimlaad43]

Olivier Pla
Nicholas Lapierre
Stefano Coletti
Jon Lancaster

 

[SagarisGTB]

All correct!

 

[Jimlaad43]

Someone else have a go

 

[TenEightyOne]

Someone else have a go

I'll take it as no one else seems to?

Roy Harroun took his Marmon Wasp to victory at the inaugural Indy 500 in 1911. His average speed was an astonishing 75mph... but what was the first-of-a-kind apparatus that his car sported?

No Googling!!

 

[Bo]

Taking a reasonable guess from my memory here - was it a rear view mirror?

 

[TenEightyOne]

Taking a reasonable guess from my memory here - was it a rear view mirror?

That was quick, yes it was

 

[Bo]

That was quick, yes it was

My early years were filled with different motorsport books, and one of them had a feature on the Wasp - it must just be something that stuck around in my head.

In the 1996 FIA ITC season, Alessandro Nannini completed a full sweep of pole, fastest laps and the race wins on two weekends. What were the two tracks?

 

[Liquid]

No Googling!!

It should go without saying that that is how this game ought to be played until there has been an exhaustive amount of guessing. Guesswork leads to clues which can lead to more organic deductive reasoning. There is no fun in just looking the answer up in a book or online.

In the 1996 FIA ITC season, Alessandro Nannini completed a full sweep of pole, fastest laps and the race wins on two weekends. What were the two tracks?

1990s touring car tracks. I'd say AVUS and Mugello.

 

[Bo]

I'd say AVUS and Mugello.

Nope and nope.

 

[Liquid]

Norisring and Alemannring?

 

[Roo]

@hsv Chucking tracks out to see what sticks... Donington and Hockenheim?

 

[Bo]

Norisring and Alemannring?

Nope.

@hsv Chucking tracks out to see what sticks... Donington and Hockenheim?

Nope.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Nurburgring and Donington?

EDIT: Dammit, Dijon prenois instead of Donington.

 

[Bo]

Nurburgring and Donington?

EDIT: Dammit, Dijon prenois instead of Donington.

You have one of those correct.

 

[TenEightyOne]

You have one of those correct.

'Ring?

 

[Bo]

'Ring?

That's one.