Motorsports Trivia Thread!

[Dotini]

My questions are almost always too hard.

Excluding the 2005 US GP at Indianapolis, which points paying F1 GP had the fewest starters?

 

[Carbonox]

My questions are almost always too hard.

Excluding the 2005 US GP at Indianapolis, which points paying F1 GP had the fewest starters?

Argentina 1958, only 10 starters (for one reason or another).

 

[Dotini]

Argentina 1958, only 10 starters (for one reason or another).

I believe that is correct. Please take a turn.

 

[Carbonox]

Who is the only F1 driver with 10 or more years of experience, who started and ended his career in the same team?

 

[Legro]

Did the team chance it's name or kept the same name?

 

[Carbonox]

Did the team chance it's name or kept the same name?

I'm looking for a team whose name remained the same.

 

[Legro]

All I can think is that Gerhard Berger drove Benetton in 1986 and 1997, but he drove Arrows before Benetton so that isn't correct.

 

[Liquid]

Heinz-Harald Frentzen with Sauber. 9 calendar years but 10 seasons 1994-2003.

 

[Carbonox]

Heinz-Harald Frentzen with Sauber. 9 calendar years but 10 seasons 1994-2003.

Yup. Although I'm pretty sure that's still 10 calendar years.

 

[Liquid]

Let's keep it going.

Who was the only F1 driver to compete in every season of the 1990s?

 

[DK]

Jean Alesi, who made his debut in 1989 IIRC.

 

[Legro]

Jean Alesi.

Edit: DK was faster.

 

[Liquid]

And retired in 2001.

Bingo, @DK

 

[DK]

OK, my turn:

Which season had the highest number of entrants who failed to progress through pre-qualifying?

 

[Liquid]

Either 1987, 1989 or 1991. Those were some years well in the thick of pre-qualifying. Got to be around that period, what with Zakspeed, Rial, EuroBrun, Coloni, Lambo, Life, Ligier, Brabham and so on.

 

[Dotini]

1989.

There were often 13 drivers who failed to make the race.

 

[DK]

I think I worded that badly. It's the number of entrants who failed to progress from any pre-qualifying session that year.

 

[Liquid]

I'd still hazard a guess of 1989*. Coloni alone have 67 DNPQs to their credit, EuroBrun went the entirety of 1989 of never making it out of pre-qualifying.

*Or 1987

 

[Dotini]

I think I worded that badly. It's the number of entrants who failed to progress from any pre-qualifying session that year.

Sorry, could you rephrase that, please? I still don't understand. Do you want the total number for the year who failed to pre-qualify?

In 1989, normally 9 drivers failed to pass thru pre-qualifying, and a further 4 failed to qualify.

 

[DK]

In which season did the most drivers fail to progress from any pre-qualifying session in which they participated?

To clarify: if a driver competes in at least 1 pre-qualifying session but they fail to pre-qualify for the entirety of that season.

 

[Liquid]

Well, is it 1989?

 

[Dotini]

I give up.

 

[DK]

Well, is it 1989?

Yes: 4 drivers failed to pre-qualify in 1989, those being Suzuki, Larrauri, Winkelhock and Bertaggia.

 

[Liquid]

Who am I?

From the Emerald Isle, I moved over the water in the 1970s. After some time at McLaren, I dabbled with IndyCar. The chance to return to F1 and work for my compatriots was too good an offer to turn down, and the 1990s was a moderate success for me. By the end of the decade, I had swapped Ireland for Malaysia and the big cat project. My last success came in 2003 with the upper-midfield's finest Italian. Now, I supply Auntie with analysis from time to time.

 

[TheBigMan045]

Gonna go for a stab in the dark and say Bobby Rahal

 

[Liquid]

Not bad, but not correct. The time in IndyCar was very brief.

 

[Dotini]

Ralph Firman.

 

[Liquid]

No. It is not necessarily a driver.

 

[Dotini]

Gary Anderson.

 

[DK]

Eddie Jordan?