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Silvio Moser, Bellasi. Not sure where. The number is odd, very high. Is it in a hillclimb, by any chance?

It probably is from a hillclimb. The Bellasi was entered in a handful of races, only two of which saw the car decked in Jolly Club colours. However, in those two races, the car wore the numbers 20 and 27.
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Silvio Moser, Bellasi. Not sure where. The number is odd, very high. Is it in a hillclimb, by any chance?

It probably is from a hillclimb. The Bellasi was entered in a handful of races, only two of which saw the car decked in Jolly Club colours. However, in those two races, the car wore the numbers 20 and 27.


It's the St. Ursanne (Switzerland) hill climb in August 70, which he won in the Bellasi. A rare find! been looking for this one :D
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What was so special about the 1984 San Marino Grand Prix.
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redbulljack14 wrote:What was so special about the 1984 San Marino Grand Prix?

It was a decade, more or less, before the 1994 San Marino GP? (I've already cheated and used Wikipedia. :oops: )
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redbulljack14 wrote:What was so special about the 1984 San Marino Grand Prix?

It was a decade, more or less, before the 1994 San Marino GP? (I've already cheated and used Wikipedia. :oops: )


I don't think you cheated enough... Check the entry for that race again ;).
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Only time Ayrton Senna failed to qualify for a Grand Prix?
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ADx_Wales wrote:Only time Ayrton Senna failed to qualify for a Grand Prix?


Yes. Imagine if he were still alive and somehow racing at the 2004 San Marino Grand Prix, he'd probably have had another bad race. Every 10 years.
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He would be 2 laps ahead of everyone else in 3 years time :D

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For some reason I was going to say it was the first time a field was all turbos (since Tyrrell were kicked out later). Not even close!
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redbulljack14 wrote:What was so special about the 1984 San Marino Grand Prix?

It was a decade, more or less, before the 1994 San Marino GP? (I've already cheated and used Wikipedia. :oops: )


I don't think you cheated enough... Check the entry for that race again ;).

What I meant was, I cheated and didn't want to ruin the fun for those wanting to guess without cheating! :x ;)
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dr-baker wrote:It was a decade, more or less, before the 1994 San Marino GP? (I've already cheated and used Wikipedia. :oops: )


I don't think you cheated enough... Check the entry for that race again ;).

What I meant was, I cheated and didn't want to ruin the fun for those wanting to guess without cheating! :x ;)


Nice dodging! :P
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Here's a good one:

Who won the 2003 Top Gear "Dullest Grand Prix Driver of the Year" award? (Or, in better words, the Nigel Mansell Trophy)
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Kimi Räikkönen ? :mrgreen:
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tommykl wrote:Kimi Räikkönen ? :mrgreen:


Correct.
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Guy Ligier was once champion of France in a certain sport. What was that sport, and in what year did he win that championship?
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tommykl wrote:Guy Ligier was once champion of France in a certain sport. What was that sport, and in what year did he win that championship?


I'm fairly certain it's Rugby Union but I don't know the year
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tommykl wrote:Guy Ligier was once champion of France in a certain sport. What was that sport, and in what year did he win that championship?

Motorcycles. French champ 59 and 60 or 61. I know he played Rugby for Vichy but don't think they were ever French champions. I think he did something else, yachts or something? Wasn't he something like a butcher at the age of 8 or something mad like that as well?
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I'm sure i remember hearing that Guy Ligier played rugby at international level, but as for the year, no idea..
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Guy did ride motorcycles and did play rugby at international level (in the French international B squad), but that's not what I'm looking for. You can't find it on the English Wikipedia, by the way ;)
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tommykl wrote:Guy did ride motorcycles and did play rugby at international level (in the French international B squad), but that's not what I'm looking for. You can't find it on the English Wikipedia, by the way ;)


I am absolutely sure he did a sport to do with water, swimmer maybe?
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Rowing 1947? (It's on the F1 rejects profile!!!)
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tommykl wrote:Guy Ligier was once champion of France in a certain sport. What was that sport, and in what year did he win that championship?

tommykl wrote:You can't find it on the English Wikipedia, by the way ;)

Wikipedia wrote:Sportivement, Ligier devient champion de France d'aviron en 1947. [In his sporting life, Ligier became French canoeing champion in 1947.]

English Wikipedia also says that he was an orphan, but doesn't say that it was at such a young age - 7 years old.
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Wikipedia wrote:Sportivement, Ligier devient champion de France d'aviron en 1947. [In his sporting life, Ligier became French canoeing champion in 1947.]

English Wikipedia also says that he was an orphan, but doesn't say that it was at such a young age - 7 years old.


Are you saying F1R is wrong? :o

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Wikipedia wrote:Sportivement, Ligier devient champion de France d'aviron en 1947. [In his sporting life, Ligier became French canoeing champion in 1947.]

English Wikipedia also says that he was an orphan, but doesn't say that it was at such a young age - 7 years old.


Are you saying F1R is wrong? :o

http://www.classic-days.fr/2010/pages/E ... 0_bio.html

No, I'm saying that my translation of the word 'aviron' was wrong. Clearly. :oops:
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In 2005, when we had the one set of tyres per race rule, what would happen if a driver got a puncture mid race? The team could change tyres problem free? A penalty was imposed? Would they need to retire?
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Tyres could be changed for safety reasons.
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Refuelling was not allowed on the stop the tyre change was made. Let's say you had planned pit stop on lap 26, then get puncture on lap 25 - you had to replace the tyre on lap 25 and then pit again in the next lap for refuelling.
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I remember at the time really enjoying the 2005 season becuase finally it was someone other than Schumacher/Ferrari doing most of the winning, but looking back now the one set of tyres per race rules, aggregate qualifying, the fastest driver in qualfying often starting in midfield, and drivers just trawling round at the back for ages just so they get a better qualifying slot for the next race were all just stupid really. :)

(Not as bad as the stupid "fuel burn" phase of Q3 in 2006 and 2007 though) :lol:
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Here's one.

In the off-season between 2004 and 2005 what did McLaren sell to Red Bull Racing through David Coulthard?
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Wizzie wrote:Here's one.

In the off-season between 2004 and 2005 what did McLaren sell to Red Bull Racing through David Coulthard?

Adrian Newey?
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Wizzie wrote:Here's one.

In the off-season between 2004 and 2005 what did McLaren sell to Red Bull Racing through David Coulthard?

Adrian Newey?


No but nice guess :lol:
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Wizzie wrote:Here's one.

In the off-season between 2004 and 2005 what did McLaren sell to Red Bull Racing through David Coulthard?


Plane? Truck?
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Wizzie wrote:Here's one.

In the off-season between 2004 and 2005 what did McLaren sell to Red Bull Racing through David Coulthard?


Plane? Truck?


Nope

Hint: Think of some of the electrical systems in the car
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Wizzie wrote:
Faustus wrote:
Wizzie wrote:Here's one.

In the off-season between 2004 and 2005 what did McLaren sell to Red Bull Racing through David Coulthard?


Plane? Truck?


Nope

Hint: Think of some of the electrical systems in the car

The steering wheel, IIRC - Coulthard requested, and obtained, permission from McLaren to purchase quite a few bits of their cockpit systems, along with permission from Red Bull to redesign the ergonomics of the cockpit around what Coulthard had been used to at McLaren (so he would be able to adapt to Red Bull more quickly).
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Here's one that'll have you bringing up wikipedia. Don't ask me, I don't know it either.

What's the longest full name of an F1 driver? Longest I know is Nelson Angelo Tamsma Piquet Souto Maior, our favorite Brazilian driver and current NASCAR driver.
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Peter wrote:Here's one that'll have you bringing up wikipedia. Don't ask me, I don't know it either.

What's the longest full name of an F1 driver? Longest I know is Nelson Angelo Tamsma Piquet Souto Maior, our favorite Brazilian driver and current NASCAR driver.

Straight from my head: Alfonso de Portago.
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Peter wrote:Here's one that'll have you bringing up wikipedia. Don't ask me, I don't know it either.

What's the longest full name of an F1 driver? Longest I know is Nelson Angelo Tamsma Piquet Souto Maior, our favorite Brazilian driver and current NASCAR driver.

Straight from my head: Alfonso de Portago.


Alfonso Antonio Vicente Eduardo Angel Blas Francisco de Borja Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton

Dear God, what a name. Imagine the driver's license or birth certificate. Would need it's own file cabinet :lol:
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Right, that is longer than the driver who I would have thought of first - His Serene Highness Prince (Mom Chao) Birabongse Bhanudej Bhanubandh, otherwise simply known as Prince Bira.
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Not the longest, but I quite like Jonkheer Carel Pieter Antoni Jan Hubertus Godin de Beaufort.

There's also Wolfgang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximilian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips.
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See, I can beat you all. The driver in F1 history with the longest name is quite clearly...

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