F1 Championships Trivia

1. Ferrari was definitely the car to have in the 1952 world championship. Not only did Alberto Ascari win 6 races out of 7 starts and the championship, but two of his team-mates ended 2nd and 3rd in the championship. Who are they?

From Quiz Dominating F1 Champs

Answer: Giuseppe Farina & Piero Taruffi

Farina, the 1950 world champion, was runner-up in the 1952 championship 12 point behind Ascari (24 pts to 36 pts). Taruffi surprised by winning the opening Grand Prix in Switzerland and came in third in the championship 14 points behind Ascari. Gonzales and Bonetto were team-mates at Maserati. Behra and Trintignant drove for Gordini. Moss drove for three different teams but failed to score a single point. Fangio didn't compete in the 1952 championship because of an injury sustained in a non-championship race held in Monza before the season began. Ascari and Ferrari also dominated the 1953 season. Ascari won 9 races in a row in the 1952 and 1953 seasons combined.

From Quiz F1 World Champion Drivers (1950-1970)

Answer: Giuseppe Farina

'Nino' Farina was born in Turin, Italy. He won the Championship in 1950 driving a Alfa Romeo, also in the same team was future champion Juan Fangio. In 1952 Farina changed to Ferrari, but never gained the same status again, retiring in 1955.

From Quiz The Champions of F1

Answer: Giuseppe Farina

Giuseppe "Nino" Farina is a well known name in F1 Grand Prix racing history for winning the first ever Formula One World Champion. Born in Turin, Italy in 1906, Farina raced for the Alfa Romeo team in 1950 and won three races during that season; enough to win the first ever Championship. Juan Manuel Fangio won the World Championship in 1951, also for the Alfa Romeo team, and went on to win four straight Championships from 1954 to 1957. Alberto Ascari won the World Championship in 1952 and 1953 for the Ferrari team, these two title reigns being the first two won by a driver from Ferrari. Mike Hawthorn won his only World Championship in 1958, also for the Ferrari team.

From Quiz Careers of 10 World Champions

Answer: Ayrton Senna

Senna competed in 162 Grand Prix races between 1984 and 1994 winning the World Championship with McLaren in 1988, 1990, and 1991 and a total of 41 races.

From Quiz British F1 Grand Prix Winners

Answer: Mike Hawthorn

Mike Hawthorn died tragically in a car crash on the A3 Bypass near Guildford, Surrey, in January 1959, only months after winning his title. The events that led up to the crash were not known.

From Quiz French Grand Prix: 100 Years

Answer: Ferenc Szisz

32 cars competed in the first Grand Prix at Le Mans, a circuit measuring over 100km in length. Unlike today's version of Grand Prix, the 32 cars at Le Mans started the race at 90 second intervals. Szisz originally started at Renault as an engineer but soon made his way into the driving seat, and in 1905 competed in the Gordon Bennett Cup and Vanderbilt Cup for the French marque. Szisz would earn himself a place in the history books with his victory at Le Mans in 1906, and would place second at the event held in Dieppe in 1907.

From Quiz Brazil in Formula One

Answer: Rubens Barrichello, Valencia 2009

Rubens won the 2009 European Grand Prix on board a Brawn BGP001. Massa's historical win in the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix was #99, and it took 11 GP's for the next Brazilian win, #100.

From Quiz Formula One World Champions

Answer: Keke Rosberg

In 1982, Keke Rosberg was the first Finnish World Champion. Amazingly, he only won one race in his World Championship year.

From Quiz The British Grand Prix

Answer: 1926

The very first British Grand Prix was held at Brooklands circuit, near Weybridge in Surrey in 1926. The race was the brainchild of Henry Segrave, who was the first Briton to win a Grand Prix in a British racing car, a Sunbeam. The 1950 Grand Prix was the first official Formula 1 World Championship Grand Prix.

From Quiz Never Won the F1 Title [2]

Answer: Williams

Patrese was runner-up to teammate Nigel Mansell in what was a dominating year for Williams, winning ten of the sixteen events. Patrese won in Japan in 1992, the last of his six career F1 wins. He also finished third in 1989 and 1991 for Williams and fifth for Benetton in 1993.

From Quiz Shock Wins

Answer: Mike Hawthorn

After debuting in 1952, Hawthorn earned himself a full-time ride with Ferrari for 1953. After two fourths and a sixth in the first three rounds of 1953, Hawthorn won at only his ninth attempt, holding off ex-World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio in a pulsating race on the long straights of Reims.

From Quiz Never Won the F1 Title [1]

Answer: 2nd

Frentzen was second in 1997 to Jacques Villeneuve, after Michael Schumacher was barred from the standings due to dangerous driving at the season-ending European Grand Prix. Frentzen had three career wins and eighteen podium finishes in a ten-year, 160-race career.

From Quiz Formula One World Champions

Answer: Giuseppe Farina

Born in Turin in 1906 Giuseppe was 44 when he won the title. He died in a road accident in 1966.

From Quiz F1 World Champions

Answer: Farina

Giuseppe Farina won the first official World Championship in 1950 driving an Alfa Romeo. He had started racing in 1932. After WWII he drove a Maserati, winning the 1948 Monaco Grand Prix, then rejoined Alfa two years later and won three Grands Prix. He was killed in a road accident on his way to the French Grand Prix in 1966.

From Quiz F1 Drivers

Answer: Michele Alboreto

He won two Grands Prix for Tyrrell in the 1982-3 season. He lost the 1985 World Championship to Alain Prost in a McLaren. His last season was spent driving for Minardi.

From Quiz F1 Driver Championships

Answer: Michael Schumacher

Schumacher won his first two with Benetton (1994, 1995)and the next four with Ferrari (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003).

From Quiz Drivers' First Victories

Answer: Europe 1997

Having broken the winning 'jinx' he had for so many years, it was the start of many more victories and two championships for Hakkinen. There were two GPs in Spain in 1997. One in Barcelona, which was the official Spanish GP which was won by Jacques Villeneuve, and the one in Jerez, which went under the name of the European GP, which Mika won.

From Quiz They Did Have a Prayer!

Answer: Ferrari

Barrichello joined Ferrari for the 2000 season and drove for them for six years, recording a total of nine victories (despite being generally recognised as the number two driver to his team-mate Michael Schumacher). At Ferrari, Barrichello was often on the receiving end of team orders, most notably at the 2002 Austrian Grand Prix when he obeyed an order to let Schumacher pass him to take the win; but not until just before the finish line. The wider controversy resulting from this and similar incidents led to the introduction of rules banning the use of team orders to affect the outcome of a race. Barrichello's F1 debut was with the Jordan team in 1993 and he went on to race for both the Honda and Williams teams after he left Ferrari at the end of 2005.

From Quiz F1 World Champion Drivers (1950-1970)

Answer: Juan Manuel Fangio

Juan Manuel Fangio is possibly the greatest Formula One driver ever. Born in Argentina, the Master dominated F1 motor racing for over six years, winning 24 races and having 29 pole positions.

From Quiz Careers of 10 World Champions

Answer: Niki Lauda

Lauda competed in 177 Grand Prix races between 1971 and 1985, winning the World Championship with Ferrari in 1975 and 1977, and with McLaren in 1984 and a total of 25 races.

From Quiz British F1 Grand Prix Winners

Answer: He broke both his legs

Graham Hill died with five colleagues in a plane crash in freezing conditions over Arkley Golf Course, Hertfordshire, England, in 1975. He was aged 46.

From Quiz French Grand Prix: 100 Years

Answer: Lyon

The 1914 French Grand Prix took place only a week after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Serbia. The race took place under major nationalist feeling, particularly as the race would be between the French Peugeots and German Mercedes. A crowd of around 300,000 watched the race of 20 laps with 37 cars participating. At the start, two of the five Mercedes cars took off into the lead, essentially being 'rabbit' cars, to force the field to keep up with the furious pace. When Max Sailer retired on lap six, Georges Boillot, French Grand Prix winner in 1912 and 1913, took the lead and held it for several laps. But, as he had to take 8 tyre stops compared to the one tyre stop of the Mercedes, eventually the three Mercedes of Christian Lautenschlager, Louis Wagner, and Otto Salzer overtook the failing Peugeot to take a Mercedes 1-2-3 in front of a stunned and silent French crowd. Boillot would retire on the final lap with engine failure, and collapse on the front of his stricken Peugeot, a broken man. The French band refused to play the German national anthem and three weeks later, Europe was at war.

From Quiz Formula One World Champions

Answer: Alain Prost

Alain Prost won the World Championship in 1985, 1986, 1989, and 1993. Prost later set up his own team a few years after his retirement from Formula One. He called his team, Prost.

From Quiz The British Grand Prix

Answer: Silverstone

Silverstone hosted the race regularly and between 1948 and 2008 a total of 45 races were held there. Between 1955 and 1986 the race was also held at Brands Hatch and Aintree Racecourse venues. Silverstone hosted the event every year for over twenty years following that.

From Quiz Never Won the F1 Title [2]

Answer: Monjuic Park

The German won at the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix in a McLaren. His best championship finish was sixth in 1977. Maas collided with Gilles Villeneuve while practicing for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix, killing the Canadian.

From Quiz Shock Wins

Answer: Cooper

From the beginning of the Formula One World Championship, all successful cars had been front-engined. But the tiny Cooper Car Company persisted with building mid- or rear-engined cards and by 1957 the little cars, powered by a 2.0 litre Coventry-Climax engine, were proving to be rather quick and nimble. At the 1958 Argentine Grand Prix, Stirling Moss turned the establishment on its head, driving a private Rob Walker entry Cooper-Climax to victory, beating the larger 2.5 litre front-engined Ferrari's. Maurice Trintignant further proved that perhaps rear-engined cars were the way to go with a superb victory on the streets of Monaco.

From Quiz Formula One World Champions

Answer: Juan Manuel Fangio

The legendary Argentine was a master of car control. Born in 1911 his last title success came at the age of 46. He died in 1995.

From Quiz F1 World Champions

Answer: 2003

Schumacher broke Alain Prost's record of fifty-one Grand Prix victories in 2001, and secured his seventh World Championship title at the 2004 Belgian Grand Prix. He equalled Fangio's record of 5 world titles in 2002 and took his 6th in 2003.

From Quiz F1 Drivers

Answer: Chris Amon

This gifted but unlucky driver debuted in F1 at the age of 19.

From Quiz F1 Driver Championships

Answer: Juan Manuel Fangio

Fangio won in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, and 1957. He also drove for four different manufacturers!

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