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The two that weren't answered are "Mr. Consistency", who was Mark Martin. "The Answer To Every Trivia Question" was Harry Gant, due to his long list of Nascar Busch(Now XFinity) accomplishments.
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The Bruce and Denny Show! (Actually this is Denny Hulme in the 5 and Peter Revson in these M8F's at Watkins Glen in '71),but Bruce Mclaren and Denny Hulme OWNED the Can/Am Group 7 series from the mid Sixties until the advent of the 917/K Turbo Porsches. When Bruce was killed at Goodwood in '70 Peter was brought in as his stand in. The sound of the HUGE 454 Chevy's made the famous Thunder Valley at Road America live up to its name. I saw them at StJovite, Watkins Glen and RA over the years.. Formula 1 one was wonderful but Group 7 was king!
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I totally agree! The Can-Am machinery was level-pegging with F1 in terms of lap times, and the ground literally shook beneath your feet when a large field of these big V-8's took the start. I was privileged to watch many of these same Can-Am/Group 7 cars and drivers in another international series, racing at Kent, 1963 through 1968.
McLaren M6A-Chevy, entered by Penske for Donohue, and Lola T70 Mk III entered by Shelby for Revson, USRRC Kent, 1968
For the roots of the Can Am, we trace back to the 200 mile Riverside Grand Prix of 1958 when a series of west coast USA races offering comparatively serious (to F1) prize money began to attract the world's fastest sports cars and professional drivers.
- Phil Hill in a very special 415 hp 4023 cc 4-cam Ferrari 412/MI, developed as a Scarab beater, fails to defeat Chuck Daigh's Scarab at the seminal LA Times Riverside Grand Prix of 1958. These were the two fastest sports cars Europe and America could produce at the time.
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Which drivers have the most wins without winning the championship in the following series?
Formula One
World Rally Championship
American Championship Auto Racing (AAA, USAC, CART, IRL, IndyCar)
World Touring Car Championship
British Touring Car Championship
NASCAR
DTM (1984 onwards)
For hair splitting purposes, there are two acceptable answers for the WRC.
Formula One
World Rally Championship
American Championship Auto Racing (AAA, USAC, CART, IRL, IndyCar)
World Touring Car Championship
British Touring Car Championship
NASCAR
DTM (1984 onwards)
For hair splitting purposes, there are two acceptable answers for the WRC.
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Formula One - Stirling Moss
World Rally Championship
American Championship Auto Racing (AAA, USAC, CART, IRL, IndyCar) - Helio Castroneves
World Touring Car Championship
British Touring Car Championship
NASCAR - Mark Martin
DTM (1984 onwards) - Not awfully familiar with the older days of the series, but Roland Asch?
World Rally Championship
American Championship Auto Racing (AAA, USAC, CART, IRL, IndyCar) - Helio Castroneves
World Touring Car Championship
British Touring Car Championship
NASCAR - Mark Martin
DTM (1984 onwards) - Not awfully familiar with the older days of the series, but Roland Asch?
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Correct. Moss won 16 races from 1955-1961, which is a record number for drivers who haven't won the title. He was 2nd in the championship four times and 3rd a further two times!
Also correct. Castroneves has 29 wins and has also been IndyCar runner-up an astonishing four times.
Not Mark Martin. He does have an impressive 40 wins and was runner-up five times but someone has more wins and no Grand National Sprint Cup ZEXTEL Winston Chase championships.
Not Roland Asch, no.
None of those is correct.
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Formula One - Stirling Moss
World Rally Championship
American Championship Auto Racing (AAA, USAC, CART, IRL, IndyCar) - Helio Castroneves
World Touring Car Championship
British Touring Car Championship
NASCAR
DTM (1984 onwards)
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Fair enough, my sources had Gordon Spice with 27 but it mustn't have been updated since Jackson took 5 wins last season.
Formula One - Stirling Moss
World Rally Championship
American Championship Auto Racing (AAA, USAC, CART, IRL, IndyCar) - Helio Castroneves
World Touring Car Championship
British Touring Car Championship - Mat Jackson
NASCAR
DTM (1984 onwards)
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If it's not Farfus, it was to be Alain Menu.
Is it one of Nannini, Green or Mortara? Those are the guys that come to mind, though I admit my knowledge of DTM prior to 2010 or so is very patchy.
Edit: I looked at the records of the three and Jamie Green has the most of the group with 13 wins, so that'll be my guess.
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Correct! Junior Johnson had 50 wins by the time of his retirement in 1966 but no Grand National titles. He did eventually have multiple championship successes as a team owner.
Alain Menu is the right answer with 23 WTCC victories. In my opinion one of the greatest touring car drivers ever but his best result in the WTCC was runner-up in 2012; Chevrolet pulled the plug at the end of that season just as Menu was near the front of the field on a regular basis.
You're correct about Jamie Green having 13 wins, which is a record for the Masters era, but there is one driver with more wins and no titles.
Formula One - Stirling Moss
World Rally Championship
American Championship Auto Racing (AAA, USAC, CART, IRL, IndyCar) - Helio Castroneves
World Touring Car Championship - Alain Menu
British Touring Car Championship - Mat Jackson
NASCAR - Junior Johnson
DTM (1984 onwards)
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Ceccotto is the right answer for DTM overall with one more win than Jamie Green.
Jari-Mati Latvala is correct for but there is another pedantic, perhaps bonus, answer for the WRC.
Try and guess without simply Googling "List of WRC event winners".
Formula One - Stirling Moss
World Rally Championship - Jari-Mati Latvala & ???
American Championship Auto Racing (AAA, USAC, CART, IRL, IndyCar) - Helio Castroneves
World Touring Car Championship - Alain Menu
British Touring Car Championship - Mat Jackson
NASCAR - Junior Johnson
DTM (1984 onwards) - Johnny Cecotto
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Yup...and there is something wrong with the helmet, I seem to remember that he used a Bell Star, the first full head helmet. I SAW it. But Because of the rain he must have elected to use his Bell Magnum. I can speak from personal experience that they fogged up like a bastard. I met Dan there and he invited me to visit the AAR works in Ashford Kent. Which I did.
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This is Gurney pedaling his Eagle-Climax at Mexico City, 1966. He's using the obsolete 2.7 Coventry-Climax four banger, left over from the old 2.5 liter formula and distantly derived from a humble firepump engine. My (geologist) dad used Climax engines as highly efficient stationary pumping units on oil wells in Texas in the early 50's. They could be easily carried by two men. Gurney used the grown up 2.7 to very good effect in the Arciero Bros Lotus 19 Monte Carlo in the early sixties. Served Brabham for two World Championships. Not a bad unit, but less powerful than the Ferrari 2.4 V-6.
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Yes!
Racing legend Frank Arciero dies
MAY 23, 2012
Frank Arciero, who employed some of the biggest names in U.S. motorsports, died on Wednesday night.
Arciero got involved in the sport in 1943 and fielded teams in several series, including CART and the Champ Car World series, through the early part of the 2000s. His drivers won a pair of rookie-of-the-year honors in the Indianapolis 500—Randy Lanier in 1986, Fabrizio Barbazza in 1987—and Barbazza was CART's top rookie that year.
Arciero had cars in SCCA, Can-Am, Super Vee, Indy Lights, Atlantics and Indy cars over the years. His list of drivers included Dan Gurney, Parnelli Jones, Jim Clark, Bobby Unser, Roger Penske, Phil Hill, Geoff Brabham, Michael Andretti, Scott Pruett, Max Papis and Dan Wheldon.
In the 1990s, Arciero partnered with Cal Wells to field a CART team.
The son of Italian winemakers, Arciero had business interests in a California winery and a real estate development company based in Irvine, Calif.
Read more: http://autoweek.com/article/indycar/racing-legend-frank-arciero-dies#ixzz4dJLOLwoM
Frank Arciero (left) congratulating Dan Gurney on his second-place finish at the November 17, 1957 Riverside SCCA National. (Photo: Lester Nehamkin)
Dan Gurney won in Frank Arciero’s 4.9 Ferrari at Paramount Ranch on December 8, 1957. In this photo, Dan leads Bob Oker in Joe Lubin’s Aston Martin DB3S and Harold Dolden in the Sparks & Bonney Special. Oker finished 18 second behind Gurney and Dolden was a dnf. (Photo: Allan Kuhn)
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Frank and Phil Arciero ran their family concrete and sub-contacting business in Los Angeles California . Both were huge racing enthusiast and started Arciero Brothers racing in the 1950s. Their team always ran top notch and well maintained race cars and would go on to employ some of the biggest names in racing history .
The Arciero Brothers first trip to Pikes Peak was at the 42nd annual Hill Climb in 1964. Already owning one Lotus 19 race car and having success with it at road courses on the west coast. They bought another Lotus, the new model 23 to run at the 1964 Pikes Peak race. Having one of the best race cars, all they needed was one of the best to drive it. Enter Bobby Unser.
http://www.racingpastdevilsplayground.com/2017/02/06/arciero-brothers-lotus-19-and-23-at-pikes-peak/
Lotus Vintage Motorsport magazine 2008
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I know of three instances in which a national level or international level race titled "Grand Prix" was started or even finished by a two-stroke racing car. These all took place more than 80 years ago.
Can you identify them, or any others more recently? Two took place in Europe, and one elsewhere.
Who, what , where and when?
Below, the Monaco-Trossi. In testing it was pretty fast, but handling was diabolical with 75/25 weight distribution. It never raced.
The 1935 Trossi-Monaco, usually on display at the Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile
Trossi backed one of the most unusual Grand Prix cars, the Trossi-Monaco of 1935. This car featured a 16-cylinder, two-stroke cycle, two-row radial, air-cooled engine and an aircraft-like body designed by Augusto Monaco. The car was a spectacular failure and never raced in a Grand Prix event.[1]
Can you identify them, or any others more recently? Two took place in Europe, and one elsewhere.
Who, what , where and when?
Below, the Monaco-Trossi. In testing it was pretty fast, but handling was diabolical with 75/25 weight distribution. It never raced.
The 1935 Trossi-Monaco, usually on display at the Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile
Trossi backed one of the most unusual Grand Prix cars, the Trossi-Monaco of 1935. This car featured a 16-cylinder, two-stroke cycle, two-row radial, air-cooled engine and an aircraft-like body designed by Augusto Monaco. The car was a spectacular failure and never raced in a Grand Prix event.[1]
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