Motorsports Trivia Thread!

[Dotini]

Okay, 1987 Mexican GP.

Piquet took the checkered, but Mansell won on aggregate.

 

[Liquid]

Okay, 1987 Mexican GP.

Piquet took the checkered, but Mansell won on aggregate.

*Wiki*

Hm, very interesting. Did not know anything about this at all, which is surprising giving the circumstances of Piquet vs Mansell.

 

[SagarisGTB]

Okay, 1987 Mexican GP.

Piquet took the checkered, but Mansell won on aggregate.

Correct. 👍

 

[Dotini]

Once I failed to qualify at the Monaco GP, yet my F1 career has been successful. Who am I?

 

[Liquid]

Damon Hill failed to qualify at Monaco 1992.

 

[SagarisGTB]

Bernie Ecclestone, if you're being loose with words.

 

[Dotini]

Bernie Ecclestone, if you're being loose with words.

👍

 

[Kingofweasles]

John Watson AND Niki Lauda failed to qualify at Monaco in 1983, though again it's down to what's described as a "Successful" career...

 

[SagarisGTB]

Two F1 Grand Prix winners (world championship races only) were born on the African continent. One is well known to be Jody Scheckter, but who was the other?

 

[MonSpaNur]

Two F1 Grand Prix winners (world championship races only) were born on the African continent. One is well known to be Jody Scheckter, but who was the other?

Lorenzo Bandini (Libya).

 

[SagarisGTB]

Correct. 👍

 

[MonSpaNur]

Correct. 👍

That was easy for a guy born in Africa, I must confess.

Thanks to the might of the TV, recently the Rallycross become a Worldwide phenomenon.
That is not a surprise, the sport was born as a TV show in the 60's, (Lydden Hill, England, 16/Feb./67), the surprise is that it took all this years to really take-off.

What peculiar situation happened to Vic Elford, the winner, on the Monday after that first event?

1st. clue (05/Oct.) - Bold = correct -/- Italic = incomplete/inaccurate -/- Normal = wrong

Dotini said:
"He went in to apologize to the Porsche importer for bending a fender on his borrowed race-winning Porsche. But they forgave him when new customers, impressed with Elford's win in the stock vehicle, rushed in to buy new Porsches."
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2nd. clue (08/Oct.) - An Porsche is a expensive car and is not usually associated with mud.

3rd. clue (09/Oct.) - The phones had been invented and Elford had one in his house.

4th clue (10/Oct.) - Having been put for sale 3 years earlier, in 1967 the Porsche 911 was still little known in Britain.

5th clue (11/Oct.)* - On that day, 16/Feb./67, for the first time TV viewers saw rallycross cars bouncing over the holes of a track.

*Last clue, tomorrow I will post the answer.

 

[Dotini]

He went in to apologize to the Porsche importer for bending a fender on his borrowed race-winning Porsche. But they forgave him when new customers, impressed with Elford's win in the stock vehicle, rushed in to buy new Porsches.

 

[MonSpaNur]

He went in to apologize to the Porsche importer for bending a fender on his borrowed race-winning Porsche. But they forgave him when new customers, impressed with Elford's win in the stock vehicle, rushed in to buy new Porsches.

You not far, but it is not the correct/complete answer.

 

[Liquid]

Was it the first win in rallycross for a rear wheel drive, resulting in a sales spike?

 

[MonSpaNur]

Was it the first win in rallycross for a rear wheel drive, resulting in a sales spike?

Yes.
It was the first win in Rallycross* for a rear wheel drive and resulted in a sales spike.

But is not the correct/complete answer.

*What peculiar situation happened to Vic Elford, the winner, on the Monday after that first event?

 

[MonSpaNur]

Sorry guys, the unfortunate happenings of the recent F1 race in Japan, make me forget this thread.
I just posted two more clues.
Lets keep this thread alive.

 

[Liquid]

Name the Formula One drivers who retired as champions.

 

[Legro]

All I can think right now.
Mike Hawthorn
Jochen Rindt
Jackie Stewart
Nigel Mansell
Alain Prost

 

[Liquid]

All I can think right now.
Mike Hawthorn
Jochen Rindt
Jackie Stewart
Nigel Mansell
Alain Prost

Rindt died before he even won the championship and Nigel Mansell did come back in 1994 for Williams and 1995 for McLaren so his 'retirement' didn't hold true. But you have the three I was thinking of, Hawthorn, Stewart and Prost, so it's your turn.

 

[Legro]

Rindt died before he even won the championship and Nigel Mansell did come back in 1994 for Williams and 1995 for McLaren so his 'retirement' didn't hold true. But you have the three I was thinking of, Hawthorn, Stewart and Prost, so it's your turn.

Okay, I admit that Rindt was bit questionable one.

Non-factory winners of Le Mans 24H after WW2?

 

[Liquid]

Oooh, 1994 with the Joest 962? The one where they worked the loopholes so that it was a production car and dominated its class. Don't think that was with official Porsche backing.

 

[Legro]

As far as I know Dauer had Porsche support in 1994 race.

 

[DK]

The Rondeau M379B from 1980.

 

[Legro]

I consider that as a yes, but there are other winners without factory support.

 

[Liquid]

I'll bet some of the early winners were privateers. Ecurie Ecosse won Le Mans and they couldn't have been the works Jaguar team, surely?

 

[Dotini]

John Wyer's team won LeMans several times with elderly Ford GT40's.

 

[Legro]

I'll bet some of the early winners were privateers. Ecurie Ecosse won Le Mans and they couldn't have been the works Jaguar team, surely?

Yes, some of the early winners were privateers. And the Ecuire Ecosse is correct.

John Wyer's team won LeMans several times with elderly Ford GT40's.

Yes.

Five winners found.

 

[TheBook]

Didn't Kristensen, et al., win with a privateer-entered R8 in '05?

 

[Liquid]

I think one of the Peugeot 908s was an Oreca win, too.