F1 Drivers L-R Trivia

1. Daniel Ricciardo first performed a "shoey" on the podium after finishing second at the 2016 German Grand Prix. Which world champion won the race to get the opportunity to witness first hand (but not partake in) this strange new celebration?

From Quiz Daniel Ricciardo and the F1 "Shoey"

Answer: Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton, the defending world champion, recorded his fourth consecutive victory at the German Grand Prix in 2016. He controlled the race from the start and was barely challenged by the two Red Bull drivers, who completed the podium places. While the race might not have been the most exciting one in F1 history, Australia's Daniel Ricciardo certainly made the podium memorable when he pulled off one of his boots, filled it up with the champagne leftover after the celebrations and drank from it. Ricciardo's "shoey" soon became an expected part of the show whenever he finished in the top three and was able to make a post-race podium appearance. The "shoey" - an Australian party ritual normally conducted with a pint of beer - gained popularity at Australian motor racing events in 2015 and 2016 and Australian MotoGP rider Jack Miller highlighted it internationally when he took his first win in the category in June 2016. Daniel Ricciardo's maiden F1 "shoey" in Germany came just over a month later. Former F1 world champions Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso all took part in the 2016 German Grand Prix, but finished 5th, 8th and 12th respectively.

From Quiz Nelson Piquet

Answer: Ensign

Piquet won two National Go-Karting Championships and the Formula Super Vee title in Brazil before moving to the United Kingdom. He proved an immediate success by winning the 1978 British F3 title, breaking Jackie Stewarts record of the number of wins in a season. He made his Formula One debut for Ensign at the 1978 German Grand Prix. He qualified 21st but would retire with engine problems.

From Quiz Niki Lauda

Answer: March

Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda was born on February 22, 1949 in Vienna Austria. In 1971 he joined the March Formula 2 (Formula 3000) team. He impressed many people, and he would be awarded his first Formula 1 start by season's end. Niki was a driver for all of these teams during his 13 year Formula 1 career, but his first team was March.

From Quiz Tom Pryce 1949-1977

Answer: 1974

His first race was at the 1974 Formula One Belgian Grand Prix on May 12, 1974. The race was won by Emerson Fittipaldi. Pryce did not finish the event because of a Collision on lap 66.

From Quiz Alain Prost

Answer: France, 1955

Born in Saint-Chamond in 1955, Prost was an active child, participating in many sports during his childhood such as wrestling and football, which may have contributed to that nose! A fling with karting on a family holiday at the age of 14 set Prost on his way to a Formula One career.

From Quiz Pierluigi Martini

Answer: 1961

Piero was born on April 23, 1961 in Lugo di Romagna in Italy. His uncle, Giancarlo, had been a semi-successful Formula Two driver in the 1970s, although his biggest claim to fame was crashing a Ferrari 312T at the 1976 Race of Champions.

From Quiz Nigel Mansell

Answer: August 1953

'Our Nige' was born in a tiny town of Upton-on-Severn and christened Nigel Ernest James Mansell.

From Quiz Daniel Ricciardo and the F1 "Shoey"

Answer: Mark Webber

Mark Webber, who raced for Red Bull in F1 from 2007 to 2013, was the podium interviewer for the Belgian Grand Prix held at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in August 2016. It was Webber's retirement from F1 in 2013 that opened up the opportunity for Daniel Ricciardo to graduate from Red Bull's junior team, Toro Rosso, and join the main outfit in 2014. The race was won by Mercedes' Nico Rosberg, but Daniel Ricciardo was the runner-up and took the opportunity to repeat his "shoey" from the previous race in Germany. Webber duly accepted his fellow Australian's request to take part, but Rosberg and the third-place finisher, Lewis Hamilton, didn't join in! David Coulthard raced for Red Bull from 2005 (their first season in the sport) until his retirement in 2008; Sebastian Vettel raced for Red Bull from 2009-2014; and Daniil Kvyat joined them in 2015, before being unceremoniously demoted back to Toro Rosso after the first four races of the 2016 season.

From Quiz Niki Lauda

Answer: 1971 Austrian Grand Prix

His first Formula 1 race was in the 1971 Austrian Grand Prix, where he retired after 20 laps due to handling issues. He made this start with the March Formula 1 team.

From Quiz Tom Pryce 1949-1977

Answer: Nürburgring

Pryce scored his first points in only his fifth career race. He finished sixth at the 1974 German GP. The race was won by Clay Regazzoni.

From Quiz Alain Prost

Answer: Formula Renault

Having been karting since 1970, Prost soon progressed to become a proficient karter, and was awarded a seat in Formula Renault for the 1976 season. He soon delivered results, winning successive Formula Renault titles in his debut year in 1976 and another in 1977 before moving on to Formula Three.

From Quiz Pierluigi Martini

Answer: Formula Fiat

Piero made his Formula Fiat Abarth debut in 1980, competing in only four races before making a jump into the Formula Three category.

From Quiz Nigel Mansell

Answer: Engine Fell Off

Amazingly, the engine did fall off. The kart was real cheap, and Nigel was very inexperienced. But he learned a lot on that one day.

From Quiz Daniel Ricciardo and the F1 "Shoey"

Answer: Max Verstappen

After Daniil Kvyat was demoted from Red Bull to Toro Rosso after his home race in Russia, Red Bull executed a driver swap and Daniel Ricciardo's new team-mate for the remainder of the 2016 season was Toro Rosso's Max Verstappen. The Dutch teenager justified his promotion immediately by winning his first race with Red Bull and his second place in Malaysia was his third of the season and fifth podium appearance in total. Although Verstappen started ahead of Ricciardo on the second row of the grid in Malaysia, it was Ricciardo who had the better race and he was ahead of Verstappen and inherited the race win when the previous leader, Lewis Hamilton, suffered an engine failure in his Mercedes. Their one-two finish was Red Bull's first since the end of the 2013 season. The Friday practice session for the 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix took place on Max Verstappen's 19th birthday. Earlier in 2016, the Malaysian government had announced that the legal age for drinking alcohol in the country would be raised to 21 from December 1st, 2017. If they'd chosen to implement that policy immediately, then Verstappen's "shoey" would have been illegal! The incorrect options all took part in the race, but Carlos Sainz drove for Toro Rosso, Valtteri Bottas for Williams and Esteban Ocon for the Manor team.

From Quiz Nelson Piquet

Answer: Once

Piquet won the 1981 World Championship at Caesers Palace in Las Vegas by finishing fifth, and finishing on 50 points after Carlos Reutemann lost his head and could finish only 8th to finish on 49 points. But the Argentine driver had led the World Championship for the majority of the season and was only headed by Piquet after the Dutch Grand Prix. Piquet and Reutemann were actually equal on 45 points after this race, but Piquet was considered leader due to his three wins compared to Reutemann's two wins.

From Quiz Niki Lauda

Answer: Second

The 1974 Argentine Grand Prix was Niki's first race for Ferrari. He finished second in a race that was won by the McLaren of Denny Hulme.

From Quiz Tom Pryce 1949-1977

Answer: Shadow

He drove for Token in his first career race, and drove for Shadow for the rest of his career. Shadow's first race as a team came in the 1973 South African Grand Prix. Its last race was the 1980 French Grand Prix.

From Quiz Alain Prost

Answer: European Formula Three Championship

Prost continued his domination of the junior categories during the late 1970s, dominating the French championship in both years but also delivering the goods in the European theatre, and by the end of the year was on the shopping list for numerous Formula One teams for the 1980 season.

From Quiz Pierluigi Martini

Answer: 3

Piero's first year in Italian F3 came in 1981, where he finished 12th in the championship without much real success. 1982 was much better for Piero, with wins at Misano, Imola and Monza helping him to third in the championship and a contract with Pavesi in the European F3 Championship for 1983.

From Quiz Nigel Mansell

Answer: Triumph Dolomite

Yes, even the team owner of Unipart said his engine supplier were crap. The engines were at least 20hp down on all their rivals

From Quiz Daniel Ricciardo and the F1 "Shoey"

Answer: Nico Rosberg

Third place at the 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix went to Mercedes' Nico Rosberg who had been the pole sitter for the race, but ended up at the back of the pack after a collision with Sebastian Vettel in the first corner. Despite this mishap, he was able to extend his lead in the world championship as his team-mate and nearest challenger, Lewis Hamilton, retired from the race following an engine failure. Another win at the next race in Japan then gave Rosberg enough of a points advantage that he was able to hold onto his championship lead to the end of the season, despite Hamilton winning all of the last four races. Rosberg became world champion 34 years after his father, Keke Rosberg, had achieved the same feat, and then stunned the F1 community by announcing his immediate retirement from the sport. The Malaysian Grand Prix wasn't Rosberg's first opportunity to take part in Ricciardo's new "shoey" tradition, but it was the first time that he accepted the challenge. Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen, who both drove for Ferrari in 2016, ended up 4th and 6th in the championship, respectively.

From Quiz Nelson Piquet

Answer: First fuel stop in modern F1

Brabham had started using turbocharged BMW engines at the start of 1982 to counter the threat from Renault and Ferrari. The BMW engine was powerful but thirsty so Brabham had the idea of a mid-race stop for fuel and tyres. The idea was attempted three times in Britain, France and Germany but neither Brabham would make it to the half-way stage at either event due to retirements. But, at the Austrian Grand Prix both Piquet and teammate Riccardo Patrese would stop at the halfway point and collect fuel and tyres. Both cars would retire from the race.

From Quiz Tom Pryce 1949-1977

Answer: Lead a Formula 1 race

Pryce was the first Welshman to lead a Formula One Grand Prix. He led two laps of the 1975 British Grand Prix.

From Quiz Alain Prost

Answer: 6th

Prost became a part of a select group by scoring a point on his debut when he brought his McLaren-Ford home in 6th place on his debut in Buenos Aires. His first season at McLaren was a learning curve for the young Frenchman, as the McLaren-Ford of that season was not a worldbeater, but Prost managed more points scoring drives in Brazil, Britain and Holland. Prost finished 15th overall in the championship with five points.

From Quiz Nigel Mansell

Answer: Andrea de Cesaris

Andrea de Cesaris has quite a reputation for crashing, earning the nickname 'de Crasheris.' Nigel would fight back from the injury to test a Lotus car only a couple of months later, and get the testing job.

From Quiz Daniel Ricciardo and the F1 "Shoey"

Answer: Christian Horner

Red Bull's first one-two finish since 2013 was obviously an occasion that warranted the team principal himself going up to the podium to collect the team's winner's trophy - as, in general, the top teams circulate this honour around various members of their race team. The usual downside of making this very public appearance is that the team's representative tends to get showered in champagne, but is not given their own bottle to retaliate with. However, the "shoey" might potentially be seen as a bigger downside of making a podium appearance when Daniel Ricciardo is around... Christian Horner's "shoey" was probably not the most embarrassing or unpleasant celebration of his career as Red Bull's team principal. At the Monaco Grand Prix in 2006, he had rather unwisely promised to jump naked into the team's swimming pool if one of their drivers ended up on the podium (Red Bull had never scored a podium finish at that point in their F1 history). David Coulthard duly finished third and thanks to a sponsorship deal between Red Bull and the 'Superman Returns' movie, Horner was able to claim a Superman cape to cover his modesty when he honoured his word and jumped into the water. Horner is also known outside of F1 for marrying the singer and former Spice Girl, Geri Halliwell, in 2015. The incorrect options were all F1 team principals in 2016 - Toto Wolff at Mercedes, Maurizio Arrivabene at Ferrari, and Franz Tost at Toro Rosso.

From Quiz Nelson Piquet

Answer: 9

Piquet was the pole king of 1984 with 9 pole positions, each rewarded with a scooter. He took pole at the South African, San Marino, Canadian, Detroit, British, Austrian, Italian, European and Portuguese Grand Prix. But, Piquet would only win two races, the Detroit and Canadian Grand Prix. Clearly the fastest car, the Brabham-BMW was appallingly unreliable and Piquet suffered numerous retirements while in strong positions. This caused him to finish only 5th overall in the 1984 Drivers Championship.

From Quiz Niki Lauda

Answer: 1974 Spanish Grand Prix

Niki had the pole for all of these races. The 1974 South African Grand Prix was where Niki got his first pole. The 1974 Dutch Grand Prix was where Niki got his only other win in 1974. Niki finished second in the 1974 French Grand Prix.

From Quiz Tom Pryce 1949-1977

Answer: 0

Tom Pryce never won a Formula 1 race. His highest career finish in Formula 1 was third.

From Quiz Alain Prost

Answer: 1981 French Grand Prix

After scoring his first podium at the 1981 Argentinian Grand Prix, Prost would win his first grand prix on home soil at the French Grand Prix held at Dijon. Prost won two further races in 1981, in Holland and Italy. He finished 5th overall in the championship with 43 points.

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