Motorsports Trivia Thread!
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I recall that it involved Mike Hawthorn and two other drivers; Hawthorn needed to pit and pulled across "Driver A" who swerved into "Driver B". "Driver B" became airborne and the wreckage landed in a packed grandstand. The bonus points should go to someone who can recall the names of drivers "A" and "B"... I think they were relative unknowns.
There's a great documentary about it on YouTube, I'll find a link later when I have time
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You can have the next question.I recall that it involved Mike Hawthorn and two other drivers; Hawthorn needed to pit and pulled across "Driver A" who swerved into "Driver B". "Driver B" became airborne and the wreckage landed in a packed grandstand. The bonus points should go to someone who can recall the names of drivers "A" and "B"... I think they were relative unknowns.
There's a great documentary about it on YouTube, I'll find a link later when I have time
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I recall that it involved Mike Hawthorn and two other drivers; Hawthorn needed to pit and pulled across "Driver A" who swerved into "Driver B". "Driver B" became airborne and the wreckage landed in a packed grandstand. The bonus points should go to someone who can recall the names of drivers "A" and "B"... I think they were relative unknowns.
There's a great documentary about it on YouTube, I'll find a link later when I have time
Pierre Levegh (possibly spelt wrong) in a Mercedes 300 SLR was Driver B. I forget the name of Driver A - although as soon as someone posts it I'll recognise it - but I know he was driving an Austin Healey.
Monaco 1982. Prost was leading with 3 laps to go before crashing at the chicane; Patrese took the lead but spun at the hairpin with 1 and a half laps to go; Pironi took the lead before running out of fuel in the tunnel on the last lap; de Cesaris would have taken the lead but ran out of fuel earlier in the lap whilst 2nd; Derek Daly - with no rear wing on the car and only half a front wing - would have taken the lead but ran out of fuel too; Patrese retook the lead and came through to take the victory.
The other would be the European GP in 1999 at the Nurburgring, I guess - Frentzen retired from the lead halfway through the race with a mechanical problem after his pitstop; Coulthard took the lead but crashed on slicks on a wet track; Fisichella was then leading but spun off; Ralf Schumacher then got a puncture having assumed first place; Herbert became the new leader and won the race.
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Lance Macklin. Fangio was also in the vicinity of the crash on the far left.
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Very, very, very almost perfect.
As Hawthorn swerved right across Macklin to get to the pits, Macklin lost control and swerved left into the middle of the track where he then regained control but was directly in the path of the much-faster travelling Levegh. Levegh drove into the back (rear-left) of Macklin and the sleek lines of the Austin-Healey essentially functioned as a ramp as Levegh's car ploughed into the crowd.
Just behind Macklin, slightly further left, was Fangio. Who knows whether we may have lost the Argentine after just two titles had he been in front of Levegh?
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I'm not sure if either of those tracks were actually created specifically for American racing series, I could be wrong though.
Calder Park Thunderdome in Australia was made to bring NASCAR here to Australia, it's identical to one of the U.S (Charlotte, I think), but I'm not exactly sure if it was created by NASCAR. They did do a few exhibition races though.
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I'm pretty sure that it was created for AUSCAR, an Australian version of NASCAR. They might have tried to get NASCAR to come over for an exhibition race or three, but long-term, the establishment of the AUSCAR series was the aim.
It never amounted to anything, though.
It never amounted to anything, though.
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I think the Lausitzring was made with IndyCar in mind.
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IMO that's because Mercedes took the rules change to 1.6 V-6 turbo hybrid seriously, and began thinking and engineering far sooner than anyone else. And came up with the split turbo that, to this day, nobody else has and nobody else will have. It will take a new formula to altogether reset the power plant rules to change the situation. Once the Germans get an advantage, they spend the time and money to keep it. Everyone else is running for scraps until this current formula 1 rules package changes to something where everyone has to start over on a totally new design concept.
