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Quiz about F1 Seasons 1958
Quiz about F1 Seasons 1958

F1 Seasons: 1958 Trivia Quiz

1958 had a new Drivers Champion and the first Constructors Champion. What do you know about Formula One's ninth season?

A multiple-choice quiz by Caeiro. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
Caeiro
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
359,705
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
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Question 1 of 10
1. After four consecutive world titles for Juan Manuel Fangio (five in total), 1958 gave us the first British World Champion. Who was he? Hint


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Question 2 of 10
2. The 1958 season marked the first time we had a Constructors World Champion. What team took that honor? Hint


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Question 3 of 10
3. Cooper cars had their first win in the first race of 1958 (the Argentine GP), courtesy of Rob Walker's privateer team. What driver achieved it? Hint


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Question 4 of 10
4. Juan Manuel Fangio retired during the 1958 season, but he still had a pole position in his farewell season. Where did he start from the front of the grid? Hint


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Question 5 of 10
5. Jimmy Bryan won the 1958 Indy 500 and Dick Rathmann had pole position, but who had the fastest lap? Hint


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Question 6 of 10
6. This driver debuted in the 1958 French GP, driving a privateer Maserati (for Jo Bonnier's team) and finished seventh, getting Ferrari's attention. He drove three races for the Italian team, finishing third twice, which was good enough fot tenth in the World Championship. Who was this U.S. driver? Hint


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Question 7 of 10
7. Only two teams scoring for the Constructors Championship did not use their own engine: Cooper and Lotus. What was the British engine used by both of those teams? Hint


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Question 8 of 10
8. Ferrari was not a very safe place to drive in the late 1950s. After Eugenio Castellotti and Alfonso de Portago died in 1957, the 1958 season saw two more drivers lose their life. Who were they? Hint


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Question 9 of 10
9. The Indianapolis 500 was, most of the times, contested only by American drivers in American cars and engines, that took part on the United States Auto Club Nacional Championship. Because of that, the winning driver of the Indy 500 was not very well placed in the Formula One Championship, since he scored only once (Pat Flaherty was the best, finishing fifth in the 1956 table). Where did Epperly, the winning constructor of the 1958 Indy, finish in the first F1 Constructors Championship? Hint


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Question 10 of 10
10. The 1958 World Champion never defended his title, because he retired after the end of the season. Why did he retire? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. After four consecutive world titles for Juan Manuel Fangio (five in total), 1958 gave us the first British World Champion. Who was he?

Answer: Mike Hawthorn

 The 1958 Drivers Championship was dominated by British drivers: Hawthorn (42 points), Moss (41), Brooks (24), Salvadori (15) and Peter Collins (14) occupied the first five places in the table.
The five titles for Fangio were 1951 and 1954-55-56-57.
2. The 1958 season marked the first time we had a Constructors World Champion. What team took that honor?

Answer: Vanwall

 Vanwall, led by Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks, won the first Constructors Championship, eight points ahead of Ferrari, Mike Hawthorn's team. Roy Salvadori was Cooper's best placed driver in the Championship (fourth), while BRM (British Racing Motors) was led by Harry Schell (sixth in the Championship).

Had there been a Constructors World Championship in the previous season with the same scoring system, Ferrari would have won it 3 times (1952, 1953 and 1956), Alfa Romeo would have won the first two (1950 and 1951), Mercedes would take the title in 1954 and 1955 and Maserati in 1957.
3. Cooper cars had their first win in the first race of 1958 (the Argentine GP), courtesy of Rob Walker's privateer team. What driver achieved it?

Answer: Stirling Moss

 Moss was a Vanwall driver, but the team's cars weren't ready for the first Grand Prix of the season, so he was allowed to race for Rob Walker. The second race of the season, the Monaco GP, was also won by a Rob Walker Cooper, driven by the team's full time driver Trintignant. Salvadori and Brabham raced for the Cooper works team, with no wins this season.

World Champion Mike Hawthorn had just one win (the French GP), but was more regular than the Vanwall drivers, Moss (who, aside from the Argentine GP, won in Holland, Portugal and Morocco) and Brooks (who won in Belgium, Germany and Italy). Peter Collins had Ferrari's other win, in the British GP, while Jimmy Bryan, in a George Salih entered Epperly-Offenhauser took the Indianapolis 500.
4. Juan Manuel Fangio retired during the 1958 season, but he still had a pole position in his farewell season. Where did he start from the front of the grid?

Answer: Argentina

 Fangio entered only two races in 1958: the Argentine GP (driving a Scuderia Sud Americana Maserati) and the French GP (driving his own private Maserati). He finished both of them in fourth place.

Dick Rathmann, driving a Watson-Offenhauser, entered by Kalamazoo Sports Inc., took pole for the Indianapolis 500, while the rest of the pole positions went to drivers from Vanwall (three by Stirling Moss, one by Tony Brooks and another by Stuart Lewis-Evans) and Ferrari (all four by Mike Hawthorn).
5. Jimmy Bryan won the 1958 Indy 500 and Dick Rathmann had pole position, but who had the fastest lap?

Answer: Tony Bettenhausen

 Tony Bettenhausen, driving a Cars Inc. Epperly-Offenhauser, registered the fastest lap in the 1958 Indy 500, but he finished only fourth. Pole man Rathmann retired in the very first lap, Bryan won and Amick (driving a Norman C. Demler Epperly-Offenhauser) finished second.

The other fastest laps of the season went to Mike Hawthorn (5), Stirling Moss (3), Juan Manuel Fangio (1) and Phil Hill (1).
6. This driver debuted in the 1958 French GP, driving a privateer Maserati (for Jo Bonnier's team) and finished seventh, getting Ferrari's attention. He drove three races for the Italian team, finishing third twice, which was good enough fot tenth in the World Championship. Who was this U.S. driver?

Answer: Phil Hill

 Hill also got the fastest lap in the Italian GP. Von Trips was one of his Ferrari teammates, but he was German (and was racing since 1956), Schell drove for BRM and Maserati (in Jo Bonnier's privateer team) and Shelby drove privateer Maseratis for Scuderia Centro Sud and Temple Buell).
7. Only two teams scoring for the Constructors Championship did not use their own engine: Cooper and Lotus. What was the British engine used by both of those teams?

Answer: Climax

 Climax engines equipped the Cooper and Lotus cars. The other teams scoring in 1958 (including Vanwall and BRM) used their own engines. Alta engines could be found in the Connaughts (ran by Bernie Ecclestone).
8. Ferrari was not a very safe place to drive in the late 1950s. After Eugenio Castellotti and Alfonso de Portago died in 1957, the 1958 season saw two more drivers lose their life. Who were they?

Answer: Luigi Musso & Peter Collins

 Musso died during the French GP, while Collins passed away less than a month later, in the German GP. Hawthorn and Von Trips, also Ferrari drivers in 1958, survived the season.
9. The Indianapolis 500 was, most of the times, contested only by American drivers in American cars and engines, that took part on the United States Auto Club Nacional Championship. Because of that, the winning driver of the Indy 500 was not very well placed in the Formula One Championship, since he scored only once (Pat Flaherty was the best, finishing fifth in the 1956 table). Where did Epperly, the winning constructor of the 1958 Indy, finish in the first F1 Constructors Championship?

Answer: Not classified

 The constructors entering the Indianapolis 500 didn't score any points for the Constructors Championship. If it did, the 8 points for the win would be good enough for sixth in the table.
10. The 1958 World Champion never defended his title, because he retired after the end of the season. Why did he retire?

Answer: He was saddened by the death of Peter Collins

 The 1958 World Champion, Mike Hawthorn, retired after winning his title, not because he had nothing more to prove, but mainly because his best friend and teammate, Collins, died during the season. He was also concerned about the lack of safety in the F1 circuits and decided he had had enough. Ironically, he would be killed three months later, in a road accident, making him the fifth Ferrari driver (after Eugenio Castellotti, Alfonso de Portago, Luigi Musso and Peter Collins) to die in less than two years.
Source: Author Caeiro

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