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Quiz about F1 Seasons 1953
Quiz about F1 Seasons 1953

F1 Seasons: 1953 Trivia Quiz


The fourth quiz in the series. What do you know about the F1 1953 season?

A multiple-choice quiz by Caeiro. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
Caeiro
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
359,011
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
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Question 1 of 10
1. The 1953 season saw the first two-time champion in F1. Who repeated his previous season success? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Fangio returned from injury and found a new home with an Italian team. What team was he driving for in 1953? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Which Ferrari driver got his first ever win in the 1953 French GP? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. After Ferrari's failed attempt in 1952, the 1953 Indianapolis 500 was again challenged only by Americans. Bill Vukovich won, but who had pole position? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. This Argentinian, driving for Maserati, had no wins in 1953, but still managed some decent results, achieving 2 fastest laps in the season. What driver, known as "The Pampas Bull", finished sixth in the Championship? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. The 1953 season saw the first World Championship race for a well known German driver. He was not a real rookie as he had been racing since the 1930s and was even one of the drivers declared European Champion in 1939. Who was he? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. The German GP saw a multitude of local entries. Most of them were all German outfits (driver, car and engine). What were the two German engines that raced in the Nürburgring in 1953? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. A Maserati driver died in the Carrera Panamericana (in Mexico), after the F1 season. What Italian driver lost his life after being ninth in the World Championship? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. The Championship winner finished the season on 34˝ points. How did he get that half point? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. 1953 was Rob Walker's first season as a team owner in Formula One. He is often considered the best privateer ever to grace the F1 seen, as he embarrassed the works teams more than a few times. But he would probably be famous even if he never started an F1 team. What was Rob Walker's other claim to fame? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. The 1953 season saw the first two-time champion in F1. Who repeated his previous season success?

Answer: Alberto Ascari

Ascari had back-to-back wins in the 1952 and 1953 World Championships. In 1953, he was followed by Fangio (6˝ points back), fully recovered from injuries suffered early in 1952. Farina was third in the Championship, 8˝ points behind Ascari and Hawthorn was fourth, 15˝ points adrift.
2. Fangio returned from injury and found a new home with an Italian team. What team was he driving for in 1953?

Answer: Maserati

Fangio returned to F1 with Maserati. A Ferrari team headed by Ascari was Maserati's biggest rival in 1953.
Gordini were a French team. Maurice Trintingnant was their best driver in the Championship, finishing twelfth. Milano were cellar-dwellers in the championship. Prince Bira achieved their best result (eleventh in the Italian GP).
3. Which Ferrari driver got his first ever win in the 1953 French GP?

Answer: Mike Hawthorn

Hawthorn's win in France was his only victory of the season.
Ascari won in Argentina, Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and Switzerland, while Farina came home first in the German GP. Villoresi had no wins in 1953. The only non-Ferrari wins happened in the Italian GP (Juan Manuel Fangio's Maserati won) and in the Indianapolis 500 (Bill Vukovich won in a Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser entered by the Howard Keck Company).
4. After Ferrari's failed attempt in 1952, the 1953 Indianapolis 500 was again challenged only by Americans. Bill Vukovich won, but who had pole position?

Answer: Bill Vukovich

Vukovich devastated the opposition, getting pole, win and fastest lap. Agabashian, McGrath and Ayulo were, respectively, second, third and fourth.

Ferrari driver Ascari raced at Indianapolis in 1952 but did not win (the only race he started and lost in the 1952 season). He did not return for the 1953 race.
5. This Argentinian, driving for Maserati, had no wins in 1953, but still managed some decent results, achieving 2 fastest laps in the season. What driver, known as "The Pampas Bull", finished sixth in the Championship?

Answer: José Froilán González

González was undoubtebly fast, tying with teammate Fangio in fastest laps. The other fastest laps in the season (apart from the Indy 500) went to Ferrari drivers (four for Alberto Ascari and one for Luigi Villoresi).
Marimón, Gálvez and Bonetto (the last one being an Italian) were also Maserati drivers, though less successful than Fangio and González in 1953.
6. The 1953 season saw the first World Championship race for a well known German driver. He was not a real rookie as he had been racing since the 1930s and was even one of the drivers declared European Champion in 1939. Who was he?

Answer: Hermann Lang

Lang raced for Maserati in the 1953 Swiss GP, where he finished fifth.
In the 1930s, there was an F1 European Championship. The 1939 season was marred by confusion, as war started before the end of the season and, more importantly, before the scoring system was decided: some associations defended the "minimum points system" (first place scored 1 point, second scored 2, etc), under which the driver with the least points was Champion; others preferred the "maximum points system (first scored 10 points, second 6, etc), under which the driver with the most points won. Lang won under the maximum points system, while Müller won under the minimum points system.
Müller switched to racing motorcycles after the war (he was the 250cc World Champion in 1955), but Stuck and Pietsch, also F1 drivers in the 1930s, entered a few F1 World Championship races in the 1950s, with little success.
7. The German GP saw a multitude of local entries. Most of them were all German outfits (driver, car and engine). What were the two German engines that raced in the Nürburgring in 1953?

Answer: BMW & Veritas

BMW and Veritas equipped several privateer teams. Hans Herrmann's Veritas was the best placed, finishing ninth. The best BMW engined car was Rudolf Krause's Reif, entered by Dora Greifzu, in fourteenth place.
Alta was a British engine manufacturer, that equipped, among others, the Cooper and HWM teams. They were also a car manufacturer. AFM (Alexander von Falkenhausen Motorenbau) made only F1 cars; not engines.
8. A Maserati driver died in the Carrera Panamericana (in Mexico), after the F1 season. What Italian driver lost his life after being ninth in the World Championship?

Answer: Felice Bonetto

Bonetto crashed into a balcony and died of head injuries, while driving a Lancia, in a sports car event on the open road in Mexico, the Carrera Panamericana.
Musso, Mantovani and Marimón were some of his teammates in the Maserati team (although Marimón was Argentinian; not Italian).
9. The Championship winner finished the season on 34˝ points. How did he get that half point?

Answer: He shared a fastest lap, that was worth 1 point, with another driver

Alberto Ascari shared the British GP fastest lap with José Froilán González, so each got half a point.
Race wins were worth 8 points, so even a shared one would give a driver 4 points. Shared second places would give a driver 3 points (half of 6), third places 2 points (half of 4), fourth 1˝ (half of 3) and fifth place 1 point (half of 2). Keeping score was not very easy in the 50s...
10. 1953 was Rob Walker's first season as a team owner in Formula One. He is often considered the best privateer ever to grace the F1 seen, as he embarrassed the works teams more than a few times. But he would probably be famous even if he never started an F1 team. What was Rob Walker's other claim to fame?

Answer: He was the heir of the Johnnie Walker fortune

Rob Walker was a descendant of the famous whisky brand founder, Johnnie.
In 1953, he entered a Connaught-Francis for Tony Rolt, who finished twelfth in the British GP. Walker's best days were yet to come.
Source: Author Caeiro

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