carpediem602004
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1) What was the bizarre incident that affected one of Trulli's races in 2000 and deprived him of a great position (he was second at that time) in his Jordan? Where did it happen?
2) After the 2005 USA Grand Prix, the GPDA issued a statement in support of Michelin. One driver in particular did not sign that paper. Who? And what was his reason?
3) Shortest Grand Prix in F1 history (in distance): When and where?
4) Most nationalities among drivers in one single F1 season: How many and what year?
5) What do Alberto Ascari, Jochen Rindt and Wolfgang Von Trips have in common?
6) Most wins of one team in one circuit: What team? How many? What circuit?
7) Adrian Newey worked for how many F1 teams in his career? Which ones? How many "drivers" championships did his creations win?
8) In which Grand Prix all the drivers standing on the podim were in the wrong position? (incluiding drivers that may have not been there)?
9) What did Ayrton Senna accomplish at the 89 USA Grand Prix in Phoenix?
10) Which F1 team in the 80's was invited by Ferrari to test in their Fiorano circuit, but declined for fear that the Maranello engineers would steal technical secrets?
After 4 question received:
dancecorona: 4 correct (one of which would require some additional info)
Julian: 3 correct (one of which would require some additional info) plus one..."almost" correct
rosbif: 6 correct plus one which we would need to debate later as my data shows incorrect (but my data may not be perfect afrer all)
WinWin: 6 correct plus one that could be debatable
I will go into debatable questions later.
rosbif, as we are here, let's debate the 1981 nationalities: In 1981 I don't see any Spanish drivers. Who do you have? As far as Colombia, Londono particpated only to practice, not even qualifying sessions (they didn't give him the license and was substituted by Surer). therefore he shouldn't be considered. Therefore I am at 15 in 1981. However, even at 16 there is one year that had more than that, without considering the qualifiers.
In 1980 15 nationalities raced and 2 DNQ (Erti-Austria and Johansson-Sweden). Hint: My answer is in the 70's
Sorry I meant 16 + 2 (I cannot even do math). It's not caused by Stella Artois in my case, but Duvel
Allan, too many Stella Artois and you missed the boat!. However, 1974 is the correct answer with 18 nationalities.
Dazcouz, you have 4 correct answers.
Well, aside for # 10, if we mix everybody's answers we have the correct ones for the first 9 questions, but no one has all of them in there. I think # 10 is hard because I found out about it while reading one of Enzo Ferrari's biographies written in 1988 from an almost unknown publication. Well, in the 80's Ferrari invited Osella, Merzario, Minardi, Wolf and Williams to test at Fiorano. They all accepted and went but Williams. It was Mansell's terror of Ferrari guys strealing info from them that he strongly persuaded Frank Williams to decline the invitation directly to Enzo Ferrari. I thought it was an interesting fairly unknown story. I really didn't expect you to know it, but it should add to rosbif's vaste and unmatched knowledge of the 80's.
Allan again, at least you could try to piece mail all the answers to get the proper ones in order. You are taking the easy way out: Just one answer and that's it! Where is your spirit? I know....the Stella Artois
2) After the 2005 USA Grand Prix, the GPDA issued a statement in support of Michelin. One driver in particular did not sign that paper. Who? And what was his reason?
3) Shortest Grand Prix in F1 history (in distance): When and where?
4) Most nationalities among drivers in one single F1 season: How many and what year?
5) What do Alberto Ascari, Jochen Rindt and Wolfgang Von Trips have in common?
6) Most wins of one team in one circuit: What team? How many? What circuit?
7) Adrian Newey worked for how many F1 teams in his career? Which ones? How many "drivers" championships did his creations win?
8) In which Grand Prix all the drivers standing on the podim were in the wrong position? (incluiding drivers that may have not been there)?
9) What did Ayrton Senna accomplish at the 89 USA Grand Prix in Phoenix?
10) Which F1 team in the 80's was invited by Ferrari to test in their Fiorano circuit, but declined for fear that the Maranello engineers would steal technical secrets?
After 4 question received:
dancecorona: 4 correct (one of which would require some additional info)
Julian: 3 correct (one of which would require some additional info) plus one..."almost" correct
rosbif: 6 correct plus one which we would need to debate later as my data shows incorrect (but my data may not be perfect afrer all)
WinWin: 6 correct plus one that could be debatable
I will go into debatable questions later.
rosbif, as we are here, let's debate the 1981 nationalities: In 1981 I don't see any Spanish drivers. Who do you have? As far as Colombia, Londono particpated only to practice, not even qualifying sessions (they didn't give him the license and was substituted by Surer). therefore he shouldn't be considered. Therefore I am at 15 in 1981. However, even at 16 there is one year that had more than that, without considering the qualifiers.
In 1980 15 nationalities raced and 2 DNQ (Erti-Austria and Johansson-Sweden). Hint: My answer is in the 70's
Sorry I meant 16 + 2 (I cannot even do math). It's not caused by Stella Artois in my case, but Duvel
Allan, too many Stella Artois and you missed the boat!. However, 1974 is the correct answer with 18 nationalities.
Dazcouz, you have 4 correct answers.
Well, aside for # 10, if we mix everybody's answers we have the correct ones for the first 9 questions, but no one has all of them in there. I think # 10 is hard because I found out about it while reading one of Enzo Ferrari's biographies written in 1988 from an almost unknown publication. Well, in the 80's Ferrari invited Osella, Merzario, Minardi, Wolf and Williams to test at Fiorano. They all accepted and went but Williams. It was Mansell's terror of Ferrari guys strealing info from them that he strongly persuaded Frank Williams to decline the invitation directly to Enzo Ferrari. I thought it was an interesting fairly unknown story. I really didn't expect you to know it, but it should add to rosbif's vaste and unmatched knowledge of the 80's.
Allan again, at least you could try to piece mail all the answers to get the proper ones in order. You are taking the easy way out: Just one answer and that's it! Where is your spirit? I know....the Stella Artois