Motorsports Trivia Thread!

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SagarisGTB
That's Dempsey and Del Piero and that team raced in AmLMS. Can't recall their results though.
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You are correct. Patrick Dempsey got together with Alessandro Del Piero for the 2013 ALMS season. The team's results in ALMS were... Not extraordinary by any means, but solid enough to to warrant Porsche's attention.

However, the only victory of the year came in a car that wasn't a Porsche, and in an event that wasn't the team's usual cup of tea. As I've told, this race got Hunter S. Thompson's attention in the 70s, and saw in other years the partecipation of other celebrities - such as the aforementioned Chuck Norris, rock musician and desert wacko Ted Nugent.

Whoever gives me the name of the race will loudly be proclaimed winner of this contest; if you can also throw him who was actually driving Dempsey's entry, I'll throw in a free cookie.
 
ClydeYellow
You are correct. Patrick Dempsey got together with Alessandro Del Piero for the 2013 ALMS season. The team's results in ALMS were... Not extraordinary by any means, but solid enough to to warrant Porsche's attention.

However, the only victory of the year came in a car that wasn't a Porsche, and in an event that wasn't the team's usual cup of tea. As I've told, this race got Hunter S. Thompson's attention in the 70s, and saw in other years the partecipation of other celebrities - such as the aforementioned Chuck Norris, rock musician and desert wacko Ted Nugent.

Whoever gives me the name of the race will loudly be proclaimed winner of this contest; if you can also throw him who was actually driving Dempsey's entry, I'll throw in a free cookie.
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The Mint 400. Going to cover it for the first time inspired the creation of Hunter S. Thompson's most famous work, "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas".

I have no clue who accompanied Dempsey in that event however...
 
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Kingofweasles
The Mint 400. Going to cover it for the first time inspired the creation of Hunter S. Thompson's most famous work, "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas".

I have no clue who accompanied Dempsey in that event however...
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That's correct! He raced a Zero One with Andy Lally (gosh, that's such an alliterative name!) to a victory in Class 5500.
 
ClydeYellow
That's correct! He raced a Zero One with Andy Lally (gosh, that's such an alliterative name!) to a victory in Class 5500.
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Bah, I thought it was somebody in the Sportscar community that was his co-driver...

I'm honestly out of ideas for a question and haven't had the time to really post on GTPLANET lately, so somebody else can take my tirn.
 
d trump 1974.jpg

Name this outspoken driver by his eyes only!
His daughter, Vanina, Won a G2 Class Victory in the Chinese round of the World GT Championship, driving a Gillet Vertigo.
 
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Too Iconic! I thought putting "D Trump 1974" as the name of the picture may have tricked someone...

The Answer was indeed Jacky Ickx

you're up dingodile_r89
 
Ryk
Too Iconic! I thought putting "D Trump 1974" as the name of the picture may have tricked someone...

The Answer was indeed Jacky Ickx

you're up dingodile_r89
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I've read up on Jacky Ickx after watching the Bellof accident. Vanina bit gave it away a little too easily.

Anyway:

I am a former F1 driver. I completed about 95 races with a record of 18 podiums, 2 wins. My only pole position ever came at the Swedish Grand Prix, where I was beaten by my teammate "JS".

Who am I and who is JS?

Bonus points for the year.

I pressed the post button by mistake. I've edited the question in, tagging @Ryk in case you missed it.
 
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dingodile_r89
I am a former F1 driver. I completed about 95 races with a record of 18 podiums, 2 wins. My only pole position ever came at the Swedish Grand Prix, where I was beaten by my teammate "JS".

Who am I and who is JS?
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You're Patrick Depailler, JS is Jody Scheckter and it happened in 1974.

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You two also made F1 history at Sweden on a later date. What happened at that time?
 
It indeed was the only victory of the Tyrrell P34 (and any six-wheeled car in F1 history) so correct. With the "you two" I tried to address the fact that it wasn't only a victory, it was a 1-2 and to top it off from the pole position.
 
Well, seeing as I'm back home early, I'll have a crack.

What feat did Alain Prost achieve when he won the 1986 Australian GP? Who was the previous person to achieve this feat and in what year did he do it?
 
That's a bit vague, but I guess he definitely came from the biggest points deficit ever to win the championship in the last race (5? 7?), and the previous record would've been set by F1's very own inaugural champion, Giuseppe Farina.
 
Race win number 25. Niki Lauda was the previous person to reach a quarter-century at the 1985 Dutch Grand Prix
 
Carbonox
That's a bit vague, but I guess he definitely came from the biggest points deficit ever to win the championship in the last race (5? 7?), and the previous record would've been set by F1's very own inaugural champion, Giuseppe Farina.
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Jimlaad43
Race win number 25. Niki Lauda was the previous person to reach a quarter-century at the 1985 Dutch Grand Prix
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No and no :D

@Carbonox is in the territory, @Jimlaad43 way off
 
dingodile_r89
Well, seeing as I'm back home early, I'll have a crack.

What feat did Alain Prost achieve when he won the 1986 Australian GP? Who was the previous person to achieve this feat and in what year did he do it?
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The Professor was the first to win two championships in a row since Jack Brabham (Cooper) in '59-'60.
 
Something faster than Fangio in a supercharged 1.5 litre V16 BRM P15...

Guiseppe Farina in a modified Formula One 4.5 litre V12 Ferrari (Thin Wall) in the open support race to the 1953 British GP of the 18th of July
 
Ryk
Something faster than Fangio in a supercharged 1.5 litre V16 BRM P15...

Guiseppe Farina in a modified Formula One 4.5 litre V12 Ferrari (Thin Wall) in the open support race to the 1953 British GP of the 18th of July
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Quite right! The story of the early days of British rivalry and eventual dominance of GP racing is most amusing.
 
Very easy to forget how changeable the rules were back then. I am trying to think of a good question that isn't rooted in a V16 BRM factoid!....

What links Jochen Rindt, Mario Andretti and Keke Rosberg: beyond them all being world drivers champions.
 
Ryk
Very easy to forget how changeable the rules were back then. I am trying to think of a good question that isn't rooted in a V16 BRM factoid!....

What links Jochen Rindt, Mario Andretti and Keke Rosberg: beyond them all being world drivers champions.
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All were born in countries other than their racing nationalities.
 
Jochen Rindt - Born in Germany - Raced for the Republic of Austria
Mario Andretti - Born in what used to be Italy (Though now his birthplace is in Croatia) - Raced for The United States of America.
Keke Rosberg - Born in Sweden - Raced for the Republic of Finland.

You're up!

 
Ryk
Very easy to forget how changeable the rules were back then. I am trying to think of a good question that isn't rooted in a V16 BRM factoid!....
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Some very good points here. I'm motivated to ask some questions about technology breakthroughs, specifically disc brakes, which the insanely insane centrifugally supercharged V-16 BRM P15 Mk II is said to have pioneered for F1 cars.

1) But was the highly unreliable BRM P15 Mk II actually the first F1 to win a race using disc brakes, or might it have been Tony Vandervell's marvelously modified, very fast and drivable "Thinwall Special" 4.5 liter V-12 Ferrari 375, or even some other?

2) In the world of sports cars, Jaguar is known to have pioneered disc brakes with developments of the C Type. But so did Austin Healey with its sneaky 50 car production run of the beautiful 100S with its all-aluminum body and cylinder head. So which of these cars was the first race winner for disc braked sports cars - or was it some other?

So two questions. Please provide races, dates, cars and drivers for your answers.
 

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