Off-season blues? Try some F1 trivia...

[Pupik]

Post your answers in the thread, and I'll give credit as I edit. Questions refer only to race meetings and events concerning world championship-status events from 1950-2003, excluding the Indy 500 races of 1950-60, unless otherwise noted.

Here's the first ten questions:

1. What was the first F1 team to use an engine that didn't use pistons, and what type of engine was it?
daan - Lotus, Pratt & Whitney turbine engine (1971 Italian GP)

2. Who was the first female driver to start in F1?
Dee Man - Maria Teresa de Filippis (drove a non-factory Maserati 250F in 3 races during 1958).

3. What country holds the record for the most World Championship races held within its borders in the same year?
daan - USA (1982, USGP West @ Long Beach, Detroit GP, Las Vegas GP)

4. In which race was the red flag first used (good luck with this one)?

5. What was the last front-engined car to be used in F1?
daan - Ferguson P99-Climax (Was last raced in the '61 British GP, by Stirling Moss and Jack Fairman. It only made one Championship appearance, but did well in several non-champ races that year.)

6. What was the first race in which Ferrari didn't race in their Italian Racing Red livery?
JEC - (Close enough.) The '64 United States GP. Enzo got in a brick-a-brac with the FIA concerning the SportsCarWC and the eligibility of the Shelby Cobras. Ferrari threatened to boycott F1 if the Monza round of the WSC wasn't cancelled. (Shelby would have surely won the sports car title in '64 had the race gone on as planned.) The FIA bowed to this, and Ferrari entered their cars as NART (N. American Racing Team) Ferraris. With Enzo showing up to the races anyhow, which pretty much makes them Scuderia Ferrari, since the title was on the line.

7. Which race had the least number of starters?
Wastegate - 1958 Argetinian GP, 10 starters (9 finishers).

8. Which race had the largest number of finishers?
Dee Man - The British GP in 1952 had 22 cars finish the race. (Likely to stay the record; what with only 20 starters...)

9. What was the last car to win a race with absolutely no sponsorship?
Wastegate - Hesketh 380 (1975 Dutch GP).

* 10. What two drivers to lost their F1 ride mid-meeting because they couldn't get an FIA Superlicence?
Roo - Perry McCarthy had his license taken away mid 1992 Brazilian GP, but got it back for the Spanish GP and failed to qualify for several other races (because of the Andrea Moda car and team being rubbish)

* (Apparently, there are two answers for number 10, I forgot about 'ol McCarthy because he at least "won" his F1 ride back! But there is another...)

Good luck!

 

[daan]

Without looking anything up...

1 Lotus - gas turbine
2 Desire Wilson
3 USA
4
5 A Ferrari of some sort. Enzo wasn't keen to put the engine in the back
6 All the Ferrari's? Rob Walker had a green one for Stirling Moss
7 Monaco in some year or other
8
9
10

 

[GilesGuthrie]

They're toughies Pupik!

 

[millencolin]

these questions are a noodle stratcher. im not going to look them up it will take a while but damn they ARE TOUGH

 

[Pupik]

Actually, I encourage you to look them up. Some of them you may never find, though...

Desire Wilson wasn't the first female F1 driver. She was actually the third one to give it a go, though.

Ferrari was the last team to win a GP with a front-engined car, but they weren't the last team to race one in a GP, surprizingly.

Ferrari never officially entered a green Ferrari for Stirling Moss, but they were set to offer a privateer one for him until injured himself in early 1962, and thus, it never raced in a Championship GP. There were yellow Ferraris entered for Olivier Gendebien from 1958 to 1961, but they were also private-issue.

A 1966 race at Monaco does hold the record for the least number of classified finishers, though.

 

[Dee Man]

The first female f1 driver was Maria Teresa de Filippis who competed in three GP's in 1958

 

[daan]

5 I did a search and the Ferguson P99 was mentioned as the last front engined GP car. I've never heard of it and the page also mentioned "Sterling" Moss so I've no idea how accurate that is.

6 It'll be the Australian GP from 1997. They changed to a Marlboro Sponsor/TV friendly colour.

 

[Roo]

7. An unresearched guess: 1975 Spanish GP? Did any teams actually pull out, or was it just a threat?

 

[millencolin]

Originally posted by daan
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6 It'll be the Australian GP from 1997. They changed to a Marlboro Sponsor/TV friendly colour. [/B]

yeah i heard something about that. they changed the tone of the red colour. its brighter or lighter or something like that.

 

[Roo]

10. Perry McCarthy had his license taken away mid 1992 Brazilian GP, but got it back for the Spanish GP and failed to qualify for several other races (because of the Andrea Moda car and team being rubbish)

 

[Pupik]

Ferrari changed their colors temporarily, it was many years before the Marlboro deal, though.

And The '75 Spanish GP wasn't the first race in which the red flag was first used, but it was the first F1 race to be shortened before 60% was completed, making the first "half-points" race.

 

[Dee Man]

8. The British GP in 1952 had 22 cars finish the race

 

[JEC]

no 6 - I think this was a US GP in the early 60's when they ran in blue - 62-63? But again you could argue that as the official entrant was the North American Ferrari distributor... this wasn't a works entry....

 

[Pupik]

Close enough.

 

[Wastegate]

Some great questions here Pupik. I've got a couple of stabs at a couple of the unanswered questions.

7) 1958 Argentinian Grand Prix, 10 starters. Won by Stirling Moss in a Rob Walker Cooper-Climax. Amazingly 9 of the 10 starters were classified, an unusually high percentage in those days. Maybe with the number of financially struggling F1 teams we'll be back down to 10 starters again soon.

9) The Wolf WR1 had little or no sponsorship and won a few times in 1977. But I think the answer might be the Hesketh 308 driven by James Hunt in the Dutch Grand Prix 1975.

An interesting aside to No10 is that according to Roberto Moreno, the Andrea Moda car was not rubbish but quite good really. But the team was so rubbish at preparing and engineering the car it never qualified. No2 driver Perry McCarthy was seldom let out for a run in qualifying sessions, often failing to complete a timed lap at all.

 

[Roo]

That's what I ment.

 

[Pupik]

Originally posted by Wastegate
Some great questions here Pupik. I've got a couple of stabs at a couple of the unanswered questions.

7) 1958 Argentinian Grand Prix, 10 starters. Won by Stirling Moss in a Rob Walker Cooper-Climax. Amazingly 9 of the 10 starters were classified, an unusually high percentage in those days. Maybe with the number of financially struggling F1 teams we'll be back down to 10 starters again soon.

9) The Wolf WR1 had little or no sponsorship and won a few times in 1977. But I think the answer might be the Hesketh 308 driven by James Hunt in the Dutch Grand Prix 1975.

An interesting aside to No10 is that according to Roberto Moreno, the Andrea Moda car was not rubbish but quite good really. But the team was so rubbish at preparing and engineering the car it never qualified. No2 driver Perry McCarthy was seldom let out for a run in qualifying sessions, often failing to complete a timed lap at all.

Correct on 7 and 9. The Wolf did have Castrol and Goodyear sponsorship on it, as I recall.

I'm going to give up the answer on #4: the '73 British GP. It used to be that a start-line wreck meant the show just went on. But during the 70's, saftey devices started getting consideration, and things like proper flag marshalling came into effect. And Jody's Scheckter's start-line spin caused 9 cars to be wrecked, including the entire Surtees team.