Grand Prix Rejects

tommykl wrote:

dr-baker wrote:Wow, I didn't actually know Damon Hill actually had a Def Leppard guitar solo! Will have to go an listen to that later.

I've had a queation lined up for a couple of weeks, just in case. Who said the following about driving for a team? (from The Daily Telegraph, 9th January 2016):

I actually had written into my contract that it must be fun and enjoyable. And that is what it was.

Is this David Coulthard upon signing with Red Bull?

Or any driver upon leaving the Ron Dennis-era McLaren?

Possible made up or over-exaggerated details on a contract...

Mansell*?




*He remains my most favourite driver in the history of anything ever, but still

I remember reading an article about Nigel Mansell signing for Williams in 1991 and he had a list of demands. Demands that Williams said were impossible.

tommykl wrote:

dr-baker wrote:Wow, I didn't actually know Damon Hill actually had a Def Leppard guitar solo! Will have to go an listen to that later.

I've had a queation lined up for a couple of weeks, just in case. Who said the following about driving for a team? (from The Daily Telegraph, 9th January 2016):

I actually had written into my contract that it must be fun and enjoyable. And that is what it was.

Is this David Coulthard upon signing with Red Bull?

No. I see your logic, but no.

I'm going to say... Eddie Irvine with Jaguar.

Miguel98 wrote:I'm going to say... Eddie Irvine with Jaguar.

No. Sorry!

I'm surprised nobody has suggested James Hunt and Hesketh Racing - even if it wasn't the case, it is the mantra that Hunt seemed to live by.

Roberto Moreno? I think the logic is clear enough.

Sadly, no and no.

I actually searched Telegraph without results, so I will say Brian Henton

Telegraph....might favour a Brit for an interview...probably alive......and open to the media....Brundle!

AxelP800 wrote:I actually searched Telegraph without results, so I will say Brian Henton

Not sure whether the Cars supplement from the Saturday edition appears online, hence why it may not be there. But it's not Henton.

yannicksamlad wrote:Telegraph....might favour a Brit for an interview...probably alive......and open to the media....Brundle!

Good logic, but it's not Martin either!

Max Chilton?

I've just scrolled back to the top of this page and realised that there were a couple of posts that I had somehow missed and overlooked and did not respond to.

MorbidelliObese wrote:Possible made up or over-exaggerated details on a contract...

Mansell*?

*He remains my most favourite driver in the history of anything ever, but still

peteroli34 wrote:I remember reading an article about Nigel Mansell signing for Williams in 1991 and he had a list of demands. Demands that Williams said were impossible.

Sorry to all those who responded since these guesses but Nigel Mansell really was the answer. The article was entitled, "When Williams ruled the world" and Mansell was talking about the 1992 FW14B.

It was the happiest time, not just because of the successes but because there was no rank [between the drivers].

The atmosphere was truly fantastic. When I unretired to drive for Williams in 1991 and 1992 it was because Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna had turned down the drive because they felt that neither the team nor the car were competitive enough. I actually had written into my contract that it must be fun and enjoyable. And that it what it was.

Sorry again for missing those correct guesses earlier, but there you are. It was Mansell. It was fun to see what other guesses came up though. Most of you were correct in thinking it was a British driver...

Just so everything's clear, MorbidelliObese gets the point, as he beat Peteroli to it by just four minutes...

Throughout his career, what did Jean-Pierre Jabouille do twice as many times as Jim Clark?

He won twice as many times Grand Prix's while driving a turbo powered car?

Won twice as many races in a car that had an engine with a number of cylinders that ended with 6

tommykl wrote:Won twice as many races in a car that had an engine with a number of cylinders that ended with 6

This answer is technically correct, although not what I'm looking for. If nobody does manage to get it in the time available it is probably worth the point but we'll see...

Is it finish in second place in a GP?

Retire from a race

Nobody has it yet - for a clue, another Jean-Pierre has done this thing half as many times as Jabouille. Giancarlo Fisichella hasn't, but he came close.

Is it that, during the first three races of the season, they scored 2 out of 3 pole positions?

Jean Pierre Jaboulle has 2 wins both of which were his only points that season. Jim Clarks only points in 1968 was his win in South Africa with him being killed in a F2 race before the next race. Fisichella won the 2003 Brazilian GP eventually but only scored points once more that year.

peteroli34 wrote:Jean Pierre Jaboulle has 2 wins both of which were his only points that season. Jim Clarks only points in 1968 was his win in South Africa with him being killed in a F2 race before the next race. Fisichella won the 2003 Brazilian GP eventually but only scored points once more that year.

This is the correct answer! Obviously there are some tragic extenuating circumstances for Clark in 1968, whereas Jabouille in consecutive seasons was mostly down to the early Renault turbo's power being matched only by its unreliability. Jean-Pierre Beltoise's only GP win at Monaco also came in a 1972 season in which he scored no other points, while Fisichella was on course to do the same, before he scored points in the late season 2003 US GP. Giancarlo Baghetti (of course), Ludovico Scarfiotti and Peter Gethin also won races in seasons in which they scored no other WDC points, as did technically speaking every Indy 500 winner from 1950-1960.

Over to you!

peteroli34 wrote:What does the the Shortest F1 race that has ever occurred have in common with the Longest track to ever hold an F1 race?

I take it both had the same number of laps?

An Italian driver scored his first sixth place in both races, whereby, at the time of the former, it wasn't a points scoring position.

Wasn't the same number of laps, but I've come up with this...

The races we're talking about are this one and this one (and I've put it in this way in case anyone doesn't want any spoilers).

In both cases, the current World Champion was on pole position for the race, while his predecessor as champion (whether or not it was the year before) was absent.

No one has got the Awnser that i am thinking of. im not sure that link was really the right word to use as its not something that occured in those races. to give a bit of a clue focus on the Longest Track and Shortest Race aspect.

Was the length of the longest track, the same as the distance of the entire shortest race?

MorbidelliObese wrote:Was the length of the longest track, the same as the distance of the entire shortest race?

Not quite but you are along the right lines

peteroli34 wrote:

MorbidelliObese wrote:Was the length of the longest track, the same as the distance of the entire shortest race?

Not quite but you are along the right lines

Was the distance of the shortest race the same as the length of two laps of the longest track?

It's a trick question, there is no link.

Besides both being temporary circuits? That in the longest the number of laps raced was 18 and the race distance predicted for the shortest was 81? Maybe tommykl's "it's close enough to give it a try" answer!

Winners average speed was the same as official lap record speed of the other ---seems unlikely given the rain but its a guess..

tommykl wrote:Was the distance of the shortest race the same as the length of two laps of the longest track?

Yes that what i was alluding too it would take you just 2 laps of Pescara to cover the 32 miles raced in the 1991 Australian GP. It would take 8 Laps of SPA the longest track on the calendar today to cover the same distance today.

Don't think for a second that thought didn't also go through my head. But look at the figures...

Two laps of Pescara: 51.6 km / 32.064 miles
1991 Australian Grand Prix: 52.92 km / 32.88 miles

The figures don't match even to zero decimal places, so though there is a vague resemblance I discounted this as being any sort of "link". And two laps of Pescara leaves 0.816 miles unaccounted for.

I'll guess Niki Lauda.