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| This quiz has questions featuring the 12 Hours of Sebring, Ferrari, GT cars and many other topics. This is a picture from the 2017 12 Hours of Sebring. |
See how you do in this year's Rouen-les-AFX Christmas Motor Sport quiz. The answers will be published in 1 week's time on our sister blog Auto Vitesse. There are a possible 100 points to be scored by answering the following 12 questions. Have fun!
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1. Name the seven circuits to host the French GP since 1950. (1 point for each). Lots of drivers have won World Championship French GP at two different circuits but one driver has won at three different circuits, Who? (Three Points).
2. Can you name this car from the four World Champions who drove various versions of it. Graham Hill gave the car its shakedown run and raced it once but crashed in it. Jim Clark drove it on its first test run but never raced it. Mario Andretti took over the car during a race but collided with his teammate. Emerson Fittipaldi drove the car in its last race as a contemporary race car and gave the car one of its rare finishes. (5 points). One bonus point for each other driver who raced (ie actually started a race in) one of these cars (maximum of 4 points).
3. Who came second to both Sidney Allard’s Allard in the 1952 Monte Carlo Rally and second to Alfonso de Portago’s Ferrari in the 1956 Tour de France Automobile? (5 points), a bonus point for the make of car that he drove in these events. (1 point for each)
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| de Portago's Ferrari |
4. Which two drivers have won the 12 Hours of Sebring in the same year as they won the F1 Championship? (2 points for each). A bonus point for which one did it twice. An extra point for the make of car they drove in these three 12 hours.
5. Name as many drivers as you can who won a World Championship Grand Prix and also the 24 Hours of Daytona, but not necessarily in the same year? (1 point for each up to a maximum of 6). The 6 hours of 1972 does not count and neither do the shorter races before 1966.
6. Which car won races driven by the following drivers? Klaus Ludwig, David Kennedy and Jim Crawford. Desiré Wilson and Jonathan Palmer also drove one together at Brands Hatch to a fourth place. In what two series did the wins occur.
7. Who is the only driver to have won the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the F1 World Championship and a Coupe des Alpes? (5 points). A bonus point for the make of car that he drove in the Coupe des Alpes. A Coupe des Alpes was awarded to those competing in the Alpine Rally who finished the event unpenalised, meeting all the target times (they did not necessarily win the rally).
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| Cooper-Maserati T81 |
8. Can you name the seven drivers who scored F1 World Championship points in a Cooper-Maserati T81 in 1966 or 1967? (1 point for each).
9. We all remember the 1990 F1 Championship because of the controversial way the Championship was, in effect, won in Japan. However, do you remember which six drivers won a World Championship GP in 1990? (a point for each driver and an extra point for what make of cars they drove).
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| Formula One Ferrari |
10. Who are the last ten drivers to have won a F1 World Championship Grand Prix in a Ferrari? (a point for each).
11. The 2010 F1 Championship was another classic season and wasn’t won until the final race. Which five drivers won a World Championship GP 10 years ago in 2010? (a point for each and an extra point for the cars they drove.
12. Which four British Drivers have won either the WEC Drivers Championship between 2012 and 2020 or the WEC GT Drivers Championship between 2013 to 2020? (one point for each, plus a bonus point for the make of car they drove).
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| A WEC car at Le Mans in 2018 |
