Motorsports Trivia Thread!
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Well, Le Mans' speed record is a 1988 non-works Peugeot sportscar which recorded a speed of 252mph in the Le Mans 24hrs. I can't see many other public road records being faster than that.
Those portions of LeMans and Spa which are closed off public roads would count. and that Peugeot is honking fast, but it is an incorrect answer. The record is faster than that.
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Very good attempt, but two of your five facts are quite wrong.
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Blame Wiki
European champion Rosemeyer died in the attempt to elevate that record on the same day it was set by....?
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Yes, it was the W125, a contemporary Grand Prix car with a streamlined body and the 8 cylinder engine replaced with a V-12.Blame Wiki
Must be Caracciola in the Merc then?
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So. My go then....?
Q) Which German-born WDC also won the very first race of a very American series in a very un-American car?
Driver - Series - Car
Q) Which German-born WDC also won the very first race of a very American series in a very un-American car?
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Schumacher competed in sports cars for Mercedes. It later became ALMS so I wonder whether he won the first race in the Mercedes C8?
EDIT: Oh so very wrong...
EDIT: Oh so very wrong...
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Nopes 
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Jochen Rindt was German born...
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Jochen Rindt won the 1969 American GP in a Lotus - but it was only a first for him.
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Wrong. That was still a very European series.
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Caracciola was alive and did race sporadically in 1955, but there's no way he could have won the first USAC race with a 'non-American' machine.
It's got to be something like Schumacher winning the first IMSA GT event or whatever successor series came about in the late 80s. I'd consider something like the first endurance race at Daytona but not won by a German-born WDC.
It's got to be something like Schumacher winning the first IMSA GT event or whatever successor series came about in the late 80s. I'd consider something like the first endurance race at Daytona but not won by a German-born WDC.
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I even looked into World Touring Cars, with only Frank Biela fitting the German WDC role... Still a world drivers champion. Raced Audi's in America as well...
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Hans Stuck Sr. was certainly a successful hillclimbing champion of the 1930s but I don't know if that would qualify him as a 'world' champion. Hans-Joachim Stuck Jr. certainly was a world champion, world sportscar champion in 1985.
But one of those two winning the first of a distinctly American event in un-American machinery..? Perhaps Hans-Joachim Stuck won the first IMSA GT event in a Porsche.
But one of those two winning the first of a distinctly American event in un-American machinery..? Perhaps Hans-Joachim Stuck won the first IMSA GT event in a Porsche.
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It's hard to give you a clue without giving it away...
Small clue might be that you'd probably never associate the driver or the car with the race series - a race series that's been run on and off for almost half a century. Or the car with the driver. For that matter.
Small clue might be that you'd probably never associate the driver or the car with the race series - a race series that's been run on and off for almost half a century. Or the car with the driver. For that matter.
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