Motorsports Trivia Thread!

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Hamilton won a race delayed by the removal of a car from the track. So did Prost.

And Hamilton won his 52nd victory, one more than Prost. Hamilton was able to change tires during the red flag.
 
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Dotini
Hamilton won a race delayed by the removal of a car from the track. So did Prost.
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The thing is though, other races have happened in the 413 with the same thing.
This is 413 races without anybody winninga race through these specific circumstances. Drivers such as Mika Salo and Romain Grosjean have done the same thing without winning the race.
 
Jimlaad43
The thing is though, other races have happened in the 413 with the same thing.
This is 413 races without anybody winninga race through these specific circumstances. Drivers such as Mika Salo and Romain Grosjean have done the same thing without winning the race.
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Is it 413 races between the Prost race and the Hamilton race, or is it 413 races from the Prost race to the Hamilton race?
 
Jimlaad43
If you take the GP number of Brazil and take away the GP number of the race in question, it is 413
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What was the number of the Brazil GP? #20 in the 2016 season?

According to my count, the Prost GP can only be the '93 French GP, since you have ruled out the Canadian.
 
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You have miscalculated then.
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I counted the list 3 times, so I made some kind of error.
I give up, since I have go off on some errands in a few minutes.
Do you have some kind of database that numbers all the GPs?
 
Jimlaad43
www.statsf1.com
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Well, I'm back early from one of my appointments. In checking your database, I cannot find a consecutive numbering of all GP's. However, Recounting and discovering an error, I now find the '93 German GP to be 413 from '16 Brazil. Have I still miscounted?

Prost won his 51st race from pole without changing tires. He did go up the escape road early on and was penalized a stop and go. Lewis broke Prost's number at Brazil with 52.
 
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Dotini
Well, I'm back early from one of my appointments. In checking your database, I cannot find a consecutive numbering of all GP's. However, Recounting and discovering an error, I now find the '93 German GP to be 413 from '16 Brazil. Have I still miscounted?

Prost won his 51st race from pole without changing tires. He did go up the escape road early on and was penalized a stop and go. Lewis broke Prost's number at Brazil with 52.
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You have the right GP. You're nearly there with the answer, but it has nothing to do with number of race wins
 
Weird quirk?

What statistic previously held by Alain Prost did Lewis Hamilton break at the 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix?

Podiums by different GP, 24 to 23.
 
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It may have to do with this:
In both events there was a red flag in the warm-up.

Or:
Both Prost and Hamilton had zero scheduled pitstops. Prost was forced to make one, Hamilton 2.
 
Dotini
Both Prost and Hamilton had zero scheduled pitstops. Prost was forced to make one, Hamilton 2.
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This is it. Lewis Hamilton made zero pitstops in the 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix, something which hadn't happened since the 1993 German Grand Prix when Prost did the whole race on one set of tyres. Refueling rules which came into effect in 1994-2009 meant that zero pitstops wasn't possible, and the subsequent two compounds rules brought in for 2007 meant that you also had to pit. Red Flags allowed some drivers like Romain Grosjean in Australia 2016 to finish without a pitstop, but Lewis was the first driver to actually win the race.
 
Jimlaad43
This is it. Lewis Hamilton made zero pitstops in the 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix, something which hadn't happened since the 1993 German Grand Prix when Prost did the whole race on one set of tyres. Refueling rules which came into effect in 1994-2009 meant that zero pitstops wasn't possible, and the subsequent two compounds rules brought in for 2007 meant that you also had to pit. Red Flags allowed some drivers like Romain Grosjean in Australia 2016 to finish without a pitstop, but Lewis was the first driver to actually win the race.
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Yet, according to the link, Lewis used 3 sets of tires.
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2016/11/13/2016-brazilian-grand-prix-tyre-strategies-and-pit-stops/

Also, how is Prost the one to have set this record, when it was the norm for many cars for decades to schedule zero pitstops?

Not that I'm complaining, mind you. This has been the most trivial question I've ever encountered, which after all is the goal of the thread.
 
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Dotini
Yet, according to the link, Lewis used 3 sets of tires.
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2016/11/13/2016-brazilian-grand-prix-tyre-strategies-and-pit-stops/

Also, how is Prost the one to have set this record, when it was the norm for many cars for decades to schedule zero pitstops?

Not that I'm complaining, mind you. This has been the most trivial question I've ever encountered, which after all the goal of the thread.
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Hamilton changed tyres under a red flag, which although he was in the pitlane, doesn't count as an official pitstop.

Prost didn't set the record, he was just the last driver to win under those circumstances.
 
In 1924, British national Henry Seagrave in a British Sunbeam won the San Sebastian GP.
In 1923 the team had defeated a very strong field at the French GP at Tours.
Two moderately trivial questions:

1) When was the next time an all British team (car and driver) won a GP on the Continent?

2) When was the next time an all British team won a championship GP?

Please give year, driver, car and race.
 

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