Motorsports Trivia Thread!

[Liquid]

Bingo. Your turn.

 

[SVT Cobra GT]

Someone else can take my turn for me.

 

[Carbonox]

Oh, goody.

Who are the only F1 drivers who, after winning their only / last championship, did not win another race in the series, despite going on to race for 3 more full seasons?

 

[Pezzarinho17]

Did James Hunt race for 3 years after McLaren?

 

[SagarisGTB]

Jacques Villeneuve, Emerson Fittipaldi and Mario Andretti are the 'obvious' ones.

Edit: Looking it up, it seems Fittipaldi won races in 1975, so not him.

Edit2: Phil Hill could be a third? I looked up Hulme and G.Hill and they don't match the requirements. I'm positive all the other champions won races or retired/died within 3 years of their last championship.

 

[Carbonox]

Jacques Villeneuve, Emerson Fittipaldi and Mario Andretti are the 'obvious' ones.

Edit: Looking it up, it seems Fittipaldi won races in 1975, so not him.

Edit2: Phil Hill could be a third? I looked up Hulme and G.Hill and they don't match the requirements. I'm positive all the other champions won races or retired/died within 3 years of their last championship.

Fittipaldi was wrong, Phil Hill only did about half the races in 1963, so he doesn't count, but Villeneuve and Andretti were who I was looking for. Both had the misfortune of having their championship-winning teams suddenly crumble the very next season, followed by some time spent racing for lower budget teams. And, in Andretti's case, CART.

 

[Kingofweasles]

Michael Schumacher? I believe he fits the requirements.

 

[SagarisGTB]

Schumacher won races in 2006 (and one infamous GP in 2005).

Only two drivers have won the Targa Florio, 24 Hours of Le Mans and an F1 World Championship GP. Who are they?

 

[Pezzarinho17]

Nuvolari is one.

 

[Dotini]

Graham Hill, for one.

 

[Pezzarinho17]

Did Graham Hill not win something?!

 

[Carbonox]

EDIT: Screw me. I thought people were still answering my question.

 

[Dotini]

Lorenzo Bandini was the other.

 

[SagarisGTB]

Correct. Graham Hill and Lorenzo Bandini.

You're up.

 

[Dotini]

I Yield. Someone else please take a shot.

 

[Liquid]

Which non-works engine manufacturer has won the most F1 world drivers championships?

Edit: By non-works I mean not a car manufacturer's engine.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Coventry Climax?

 

[Fryto]

Cosworth?

 

[Liquid]

Coventry Climax?

Correct.

Coventry-Climax, 4
Cooper 1959
Cooper 1960
Lotus 1963
Lotus 1965

Repco, 2
Brabham 1966
Brabham 1967

BRM, 1
BRM 1962

Which, incidentally, makes BRM the only privateer team to win with their own engines. Finally, TAG's two titles should not be counted as non-works because they absolutely and definitely were Porsche engines merely with TAG naming rights.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Someone else can have my turn.

 

[Carbonox]

Gonna jump at the opportunity again.

What's the last time there has been a first time winner in 2 consecutive races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup?

 

[Dotini]

Which non-works engine manufacturer has won the most F1 world championships?

The Cosworth DFV was originally produced by Cosworth for Team Lotus, with development sponsored by Ford.
It powered 12 World Champions, 10 Constructors Champions, and versions won Indy 10 times and LeMans twice.

Other than Peugeot DOHC 4 valve per cylinder engine of 1913, the Cosworth DFV was probably the most important racing engine ever produced.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosworth_DFV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Henry_(engineer)

 

[Liquid]

@Dotini An arguable point and one I had considered myself, but the Cosworth engines are, correctly or not, down as Ford in the record books. It definitely was the most important racing engine made after the second world war, no doubt about that. As you mention, the extended DFX family dominated American circuit racing for a decade.

 

[Dotini]

Which, incidentally, makes BRM the only privateer team to win with their own engines.

Vanwall was a winner with their own engines, as was Eagle-Weslake.

It's interesting that you describe BRM as a privateer. A very interesting story, but they attempted to fund themsleves through a national industrial trust fund - a sort of socialist subscription financing, which was a disaster.

 

[Liquid]

Vanwall was a winner with their own engines.
It's interesting that you describe BRM as a privateer. A very interesting story, but they attempted to fund themsleves through a national industrial trust fund - a sort of socialist subscription financing, which was a disaster.

Another excellent point, but my question was strictly about drivers' championships. The BRM trust fund was a very weird set up; no wonder they struggled during the 1950s. Raymond Mays did see Britain dominate motorsport, but sadly not through his own ERA and BRM ventures.

 

[Dotini]

Another excellent point, but my question was strictly about drivers' championships. The BRM trust fund was a very weird set up; no wonder they struggled during the 1950s. Raymond Mays did see Britain dominate motorsport, but sadly not through his own ERA and BRM ventures.

Vanwall, who made their own engines, won the very first Constructor's Championship in 1958. Meaningless then, meaningless now, I suppose.

 

[Carbonox]

Guys, I wouldn't otherwise want to interfere with the party, but you're dragging on with an old question that already got answered, and a new one's already in play.

Gonna jump at the opportunity again.

What's the last time there has been a first time winner in 2 consecutive races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup?

 

[TenEightyOne]

It's interesting that you describe BRM as a privateer. A very interesting story, but they attempted to fund themsleves through a national industrial trust fund - a sort of socialist subscription financing, which was a disaster.

Yup, money problems in F1 aren't new despite many people who seemingly thing so I'm not sure I'd describe BRM as a 'privateer', they made their own engines/chassis and sold them on to genuine fully-privateering teams. BRM were effectively "works" in that they represented the entire parent operation.

 

[Dotini]

What's the last time there has been a first time winner in 2 consecutive races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup?

By "Sprint Cup", do you refer exclusively to the years 2008-2014? Before that, it was the Nextel Cup, and before that was Winston Cup.

 

[Carbonox]

By "Sprint Cup", do you refer exclusively to the years 2008-2014? Before that, it was the Nextel Cup, and before that was Winston Cup.

I know of the different sponsors, and was referring to the whole history of the Cup.