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Fun Stuff => Competitions & Quizzes => Topic started by: Dare on November 12, 2007, 12:34:42 AM
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new game to go with our mystery game.You get the
answer right then you ask the next question
What year and which race was the pace car used
for the first time?
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1973 Canadian GP. I remember reading that they made a complete pig's ear of deploying it. The Safety Car was supposed to pick up the race leader, but picked up Howden Ganley's ISO-Williams. Even Frank knew that Howden wasn't leading, but in the chaos and the rain which immediately preceded the Safety Car, nobody had definitive proof of who should have been leading. A lengthy steward's meeting gave the race to Peter Revson, but they admitted that nobody could prove exactly who had won the event and that Peter was simply the one who they thought was most likely to have won it. As a result, nobody knows to this day whether Peter Revson should have won that race or not.
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your right Ali,now you may ask a question :good:
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Like the idea dare :good:
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Taki Inoue was a bit of a crash-magnet in 1995, but his Monaco crash was particularly memorable. Who crashed into him and what car was he driving?
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He crashed into the safety car but I haven't a clue what he was driving
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Steven, 1 out of 2. The Safety Car did indeed crash into him (since Taki's car was being towed away at that point, he can't really be blamed for the accident). Now can anyone name the driver?
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The things you find searching the net.......
the safety car driver was French rally driver Jean Ragnotti who was taking the safety car out for a jolly.
Rom
I hope I am right??
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Yes, rom, your answer is absolutely right! Jean Ragnotti was doing a one-off Safety Car run at Monaco because the circuit had a separate contract to run its own cars and drivers in that role back then. He was doing a circuit check and apparently Race Control forgot to tell him that one of the drivers in the previous session had not left the track. As a result, Mr Inoue was flipped over. Surprisingly, he got nothing worse than concussion.
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In the 2005 season who would be known as the 'engine killer'?? How many engines did he use for the season with an average of how many Kilometers per engine?
Bonus point: Who was the Engine saver?? And how many engines did he use??
Rom
I give this about 15 minutes before it is solved....... LOL
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That is so annoying. I came across a photo on the net yesterday of an F1 car on its roof at Monaco which was labeled in Portugese(I think) Jean Ragnotti. I assumed they had labeled it wrong but clearly it was this incident.
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Engine Killer = Kimi Raikkonen. He used the grand total of 12 engines over the course of 2005, five of which broke prematurely. I need to add up how many kilometres he did in F1 race meetings to say how many kilometres per engine.
Engine Saver = Ralf Schumacher. He used ten engines, the only driver to use the theoretical minimum number of engines to do the season.
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Ali, Engine killer is wrong.... but nice try.....
bonus question is correct Ralph, but in 2005 6 drivers achieved the perfect result of only 10 engines...
Rom
Main question is still up for grabs
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engine killer Albers
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Dare = :( Keep guessing
Rom
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engine killer Sato
in the future let's just ask one question at a
time,
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Dare = Sato correct......... sorry Dare I guess I got over-excited.......
Sato used 14 engines with an average of 627.4 km's per engine
Rom
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Dare = Sato correct......... sorry Dare I guess I got over-excited.......
Sato used 14 engines with an average of 627.4 km's per engine
Rom
lucky guess Rom,no problem on the questions,just trying
to keep it simple
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dare has asked me in the chat room to go put up a question for him.
Who has the record for most 7th places in a season?
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At a pure guess........ Jenson Button??????
Rom
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Sorry, rom. Jenson Button strung together two seventh places in the 2001 and 2003, but so far he hasn't done any seasons where he's done more than that. The record-holder got quite a few more seventh-place finishes in the season...
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Rosberg
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Ruebens B
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Sorry dare and Steven Roy. Nico Rosberg had three 7th places in 2007, while Rubens Barrichello had three 7th places in 2006. However, I sense a clue is in order here - I did not expect the question to stay open this long.
The driver who had the most 7th places in a season was racing in the 1990s, but is not on the current grid.
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Mansel
Rom
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It's not Mansell, but you're getting a lot warmer.
Next clue: the season in which the record of most 7th-places in a season was made was the same one that Mansell took the championship.
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Four days with no further attempts? I think I'd better put in an answer.
The driver with the most 7th places in one season is Andrea Montermini in 1992, who got 7th six times that year. Must have been really frustrating, what with points only going down to sixth back then.
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I guess since no-one got the right answer you get to set another question.
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What was the reason Guy Lieger always
named his cars with the letter JS with
the numbers
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In memory of his friend, Jo Schlesser.
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In memory of his friend, Jo Schlesser.
good one cham :good:
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I guess that means I have to ask a question then. Here's an easy one: who scored the first win for Frank Williams' first ground effect car, the FW07, in 1979?
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Clay Reggazoni at Silverstone
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There, told you it was easy. Okay Steven, your turn. :D
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Everybody knows about Michael Schumacher's debut and the sudden switch to Benetton and everyone knows Roberto Moreno was unceremoniously dumped to make way. But what caused the vacancy that gave Moreno the drive in the first place?
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He got the drive because Alessandro Nannini lost his hand in a helicopter accident. He therefore replaced him.
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Correct :yahoo:
That didn't last long.
Still I guess this proves what I have always said about Schumacher being lucky to achieve what he did. Gets a debut because one driver sprays mace at a taxi driver and gets a good car because the driver chops his arm off with a helicopter. How often does that combination come up? :tease:
Your question Vanquish89
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Correct :yahoo:
That didn't last long.
Still I guess this proves what I have always said about Schumacher being lucky to achieve what he did. Gets a debut because one driver sprays mace at a taxi driver and gets a good car because the driver chops his arm off with a helicopter. How often does that combination come up? :tease:
Your question Vanquish89
Inew about Nannini,whhats the story on
the mace
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The Jordan drive became vacant because Bertrand Gachot who depending on his sponsor at the time was either Belgian or French took exception to something a London taxi driver said to him and sprayed mace in his face. That kind of thing doesn't go down to well in the UK so he got thrown in jail. EJ was looking for a driver for Spa and Willi Weber told him Schumacher had been driving round Spa since he was 3 years old and had done 100 000 laps or something. Turns out he had never seen the place.
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In the sources I read, "mace" is known as "CS spray/gas". At the time, the UK was the only country in the EU where its use as a civilian defensive spray was illegal. Unfortunately for Bertrand, he was not aware of this. As it happened, the incident occurred while Bertrand was on his way to the big 7UP presentation Eddie Jordan did to get Jordan's title sponsor on board. As a result of Bertrand's non-appearance (due to being arrested), Jordan nearly didn't get the sponsor, and without 7UP Jordan wouldn't have made it to the 1991 starting grid.
So Michael was double-lucky there - that things went badly enough for Jordan that the seat was empty, and well enough that it existed!
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Question time: Who once went under the alias 'James Hunt' in a snowmobile race?
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Kimi Raikkonen at the start of 2007 shortly before the start of the 2007 Formula 1 World Championship opening race.
Rom
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Got it in one Rom! Your turn!
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Why was the 007 symbol painted on 1 teams Cars??
Rom
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Jaguar F1 had them on thier side mirrors as a promo tie-in with the Bond movie "Die Another Day." The bad guy drove a Jag in an on-ice chase with Bond's A-M.
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100% Correct...... your turn
Rom :good:
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Old guy question:
Ferrari was one of the last F1 teams to use disc brakes. Enzo didn't like them because the major disc brake manufacturers were British. The first time they used discs was on Mike Hawthorn's D246 at the 1958 Portuguese Grand Prix at Oporto.
Question: Where did the Ferrari team get the Dunlop discs that they put on Hawthorn's car?
Cos
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From Dunlop??
The only thing I know about the early days of discs is that they were first used on the Jaguar D-Type. So based on complete ignorance I will say that if they didn't come from Dunlop they came from Jaguar.
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Not from Jag. :nono:
This is one of those legendary stories from early F1. In fact, I had to check to be sure it was true, and not just legend.
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Easy. Ron Dennis was an apprentice mechanic in the Cooper team at the time - Enzo engaged him in conversation while Carlo Chiti stole the discs from his back pocket. Ron was sure that this was what happened but couldn't prove it and so waited fifty years to get his own back. :D
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:DD Clive explains everything about the Ferrari/McLaren feud in one easy paragraph...
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I can't believe that I have never heard this story. I also don't for a second believe that it is true. :stop:
Ron was born on June 1st 1947 so he would have been 10 or 11 at the time. :DD
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He was very old for his age. 8)
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Here's a clue:
They got them off of a car right there in the Ferrari F1 compound.
Who's was it and why did it have the Dunlop discs? :D
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a wild guess off Hawthorns Jag
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a wild guess off Hawthorns Jag
Is this the right answer Cos?
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Neither Hawthorn nor Jag, but you're very close.
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Peter Collins' Mercedes.
Blind guess
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Right guy :good:
Wrong car :nono:
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Collins personal Ferrari
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Correct, Dare! :yahoo:
Hathorn's best friend & Ferrari team mate Peter Collins had the discs fitted to his personal road car, a Ferrari 250 GT. He hoped to convince Enzo Ferrari to fit them to the F1 cars.
Collins had been killed in the previous race at the Nurburgring. Whether Enzo had the brakes put on Hawthorn's car out of respect (or guilt), or because the disc equiped Vanwalls were out-braking his cars will never be known.
Your turn. Dare.
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let me think of one