Alphabetical F1 - Driving 'D's Quiz

Answer: Arrows

Damon Hill won his only F1 world championship title with the Williams team in 1996, but was controversially dropped for the following year in favour of Heinz-Harald Frentzen. To keep his F1 career alive, Hill joined Arrows (formerly known as Footwork) at the start of the 1997 season - a team that had finished in ninth place in the constructors' championship the previous year with the grand total of one point. Against all the odds, Hill and Arrows very nearly won the 1997 Hungarian Grand Prix, but were denied by a mechanical fault with the hydraulics that developed with just three laps to go and relegated Hill to second place. Pedro Diniz's best result of the season in the second Arrows car was a fifth-place finish at the Luxembourg Grand Prix.

Hill competed for the Jordan team in 1998 and 1999, while Diniz drove for Ligier in 1996.

Answer: Detroit

The Detroit Street Circuit wound its way around the streets of the riverside area of Downtown Detroit, passing close to both the seven skyscrapers that make up the Renaissance Center and the Cobo Center convention facility (whose arena was home to the Detroit Pistons basketball team during the 1960s and 1970s). It hosted the Detroit Grand Prix for seven years and gained a reputation as a stern test of both an F1 car's reliability and an F1 driver's stamina. The inaugural race in 1982 was won by McLaren's John Watson, while the legendary champion Ayrton Senna triumphed there in 1986, 1987 and 1988. However, the poor state of the track and the variety of problems that caused led to the race being dropped from the F1 calendar after the 1988 race. The circuit then hosted CART races from 1989 to 1991 before its use as a racing venue was terminated.

The Fair Park street circuit in Dallas hosted the Dallas Grand Prix in 1984.

Answer: Johnny Dumfries

John Crichton-Stuart inherited the title of 7th Marquess of Bute on the death of his father in 1993, but in 1986 he held the courtesy title of Earl of Dumfries and was consequently known as Johnny Dumfries during his short-lived career in F1. He spent his single season in the sport racing for the Lotus team. In the end he finished 13th in the world championship, with a total of three points from a fifth-place finish at the Hungarian Grand Prix and a sixth-place result in the Australian Grand Prix - his final race. However, to put his results in context, his team-mate Ayrton Senna scored 55 points with eight podium finishes, including two victories. The gulf in class between the two drivers was obvious.

Dumfries, Dundee, Dunfermline and Dumbarton are all towns or cities in Scotland.

Answer: Swiss Grand Prix

The Swiss Grand Prix was a historic race that pre-dated the start of the F1 world championship in 1950 and was traditionally held at the Circuit Bremgarten, near Bern. However, in June 1955 a major crash at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in neighbouring France caused the deaths of the racing driver Pierre Levegh and a total of 83 innocent spectators. Several countries, including Switzerland, banned motorsport as a direct result of the disaster and the Swiss Grand Prix, which had been held since 1934 (broken only by the Second World War) was cancelled.

Dijon-Prenois hosted a non-championship Swiss Grand Prix in 1975, but it took until 1982 before the race once again appeared on the F1 championship calendar. The race was won by that year's world champion, Keke Rosberg - the first victory of his career and the only one he achieved en route to the world title.

The European Grand Prix and Belgian Grand Prix have both been held at a variety of circuits - but not Dijon-Prenois; the Luxembourg Grand Prix was held at the Nurburgring in 1997 and 1998.

Answer: Dallara

The Italian company Dallara joined F1 in 1988 in partnership with the BMS Scuderia Italia racing team and competed for five seasons until Scuderia Italia (not to be confused with the much more famous Scuderia Ferrari) dropped them in favour of Lola. During that time they managed a few point-scoring finishes and two third places for Andrea de Cesaris and JJ Lehto. Later Dallara were involved in designing cars for Honda and Midland F1, but these never raced competitively. In 2010 the new HRT team raced Dallara chassis, but their best result was just 14th place and the technical partnership was swiftly dissolved. Dallara's next venture into F1 with the American Haas team proved more successful when the Haas VF-16 scored points on its debut.

Dallara is also a well-known name across motorsport as they have supplied cars to various racing series including Indycar, GP2 and GP3. Derrington-Francis entered one race in 1964; De Tomaso entered 15 races between 1961 and 1970, most notably for the Frank Williams Racing Team (an earlier team run by the Frank Williams of 'Williams' fame); and DeLorean would have needed to manufacture a car genuinely capable of time travel in order to appear in the F1 record books...

Answer: Patrick Depailler

Frenchman Patrick Depailler completed 95 races in F1 between 1972 and 1980, mostly for Tyrrell, but with Ligier and Alfa Romeo in 1979 and 1980 respectively. The 1974 Swedish Grand Prix at the Scandinavian Raceway near Anderstorp was just his ninth race in F1, but he took pole position, recorded the fastest lap of the race and finished on the podium in second place after being overtaken by his team-mate Jody Scheckter. Although he never placed his car on pole position again, he did record a further 18 podium finishes, including two wins - the 1978 Monaco Grand Prix and the 1979 Spanish Grand Prix.

Depailler was killed at the Hockenheimring in a test session held ahead of the 1980 German Grand Prix. A suspension failure pitched his car off the track and into the barriers.

Martin Donnelly competed in F1 in 1989 and 1990, but his F1 career was cut short by a near-fatal accident; Anthony Davidson entered 24 races between 2002 and 2008; and Robert Doornbos was active in F1 in 2005 and 2006.

Answer: Alberto Ascari

Alberto Ascari won both the 1952 and 1953 F1 world championship titles for Ferrari, although technically the cars used in both these years conformed to F2 rather than F1 technical regulations. The 1952 Dutch Grand Prix, held at Zandvoort, was Ascari's fifth win of the six he recorded that season en route to his first world title. He also won the Dutch race in 1953. Ascari's F1 career was cut short when he was killed in a sports car test in 1955, but the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort went on to be a mainstay of the F1 world championship calendar until 1985. Famous names to have won the race on multiple occasions over the years include world champions Jack Brabham, Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda, James Hunt and Alain Prost.

However, the lack of a Dutch Grand Prix on the F1 calendar didn't prevent several Dutch drivers from competing in the sport. Jos Verstappen, Robert Doornbos, Christijan Albers and Giedo van der Garde all began their careers after the loss of their country's race, while in 2016 Max Verstappen became the first Dutch driver to win an F1 Grand Prix.

Answer: Suzuka

The Dunlop Curve is the name given to the long left-hand corner on the Suzuka International Course in Japan that immediately follows the sweeping section known as the 'esses'. Degner Curve follows immediately after Dunlop; it was originally a long right-hander, but was split into two corners with separate apexes when the circuit was redesigned for safety reasons in the early 1980s. Dunlop is named after the tyre manufacturer of the same name while Degner was named after Ernst Degner - a German motorcycle racer who crashed there shortly after the circuit was opened in 1962.

Dunlop Curve was also the site of the accident at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix that fatally injured the French driver Jules Bianchi, who was competing for the Marussia team. Bianchi lost control of his car and plunged into Dunlop's run-off area, where he collided with a crane that was in the process of rescuing another car that had done the same thing on the previous lap. He died just over nine months later in hospital having never regained consciousness.

Answer: Indianapolis 500

Deidt, Del Roy and Dunn Engineering were all American racing teams who submitted entries for the Indianapolis 500 race between 1950 and 1960, when "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" was also part of the F1 world championship. Deidt finished second and third in the 1950 race with Bill Holland and Mauri Rose and eighth in 1951 with Duane Carter. Del Roy entered the race just once, with Johnny Thomson in 1953, but failed to complete the distance. Dunn Engineering had a single car in the 1957-1959 races; their only finish was a 13th place for Al Herman in 1959.

Despite being a championship race, most European-based F1 drivers chose not to bother competing at Indianapolis. In fact, no F1 world title was won with the help of points scored in the Indianapolis 500 - Alberto Ascari was the only world champion to compete in the race during this period, but he retired after just 40 laps in 1952.

Answer: Kevin Magnussen

Kevin Magnussen made his F1 debut at the 2014 Australian Grand Prix for the McLaren team. He impressed by taking fourth place on the grid in the wet qualifying session and racing well to cross the line in third place - a result that allowed him the rare honour of standing on the podium after his very first F1 race. After the race, the runner-up, Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, was disqualified for fuel flow irregularities and Magnussen was elevated into second place. However, the Australian Grand Prix turned out to be the highlight of his season as both he and his team-mate, Jenson Button, struggled with the MP4-29 car for the remainder of the year. Magnussen was then dropped by McLaren in favour of Fernando Alonso in 2015.

Kevin's father, Jan Magnussen, competed in F1 during the mid-1990s with a best result of sixth in the 1998 Canadian Grand Prix - his last race in the sport. Nellemann entered a single race in 1976 but failed to qualify and Kiesa competed in five races with the Minardi team in 2003.