Grand Prix Rejects

So a quick question; name the team from the following key words-
Pastamatic, Sal Cisne, Caloi...

More clues will be available at intervals

Forti?

ATS (Italian one)?

Andrea Moda?

Rebaque?

Spirit?

That was an interesting question!

Those last two sound vaguely Portuguese, so I'll guess Fittipaldi?

Something tells me these are companies we've never heard of who might have been part of a certain crowdfunding effort, rather than a classic reject team of old.

Caterham!

These are indeed Brazilian companies.

I would say Forti (but novitopoli already mentioned it), so I'll say: Sauber.

My guess will be Brawn...

tommykl wrote:Those last two sound vaguely Portuguese, so I'll guess Fittipaldi?

tommykl wins - it was indeed Fittipaldi - from the collection of sponsors they had after Skol and , of course Copersucar.

Sme terrific guesses too - homed in on the era pretty well . Thanks ..over to tommykl.

Looks like Tommy's AWOL again

Which team manager's occupation was listed as 'gentleman' in his passport?

Rob Walker

MorbidelliObese wrote:Rob Walker

And that is correct!

What was unusual about Tyrrell's entries for the 1985 German Grand Prix, and what was the reason for it?

MorbidelliObese wrote:What was unusual about Tyrrell's entries for the 1985 German Grand Prix, and what was the reason for it?

Two cars with different engines because the team had only one turbo engine at the time?

novitopoli wrote:

MorbidelliObese wrote:What was unusual about Tyrrell's entries for the 1985 German Grand Prix, and what was the reason for it?

Two cars with different engines because the team had only one turbo engine at the time?

You're on the right track but this isn't the exact thing I was looking for, as Tyrrell also were running the different cars in the previous race at Silverstone, Brabham had done likewise on occasion in 1982 and Lotus in 1983 among others.

However I should add, that while the German race was the first instance of this, it also continued into the following race in Austria.

This is the one where the drivers changed numbers so that the numbers stayed with the cars that had the corresponding engine - #3 with the Renault and #4 with the Cosworth, so it was Brundle in the #3 Tyrrell-Renault and Bellof in the #4 Tyrrell-Cosworth for France and Britain, then Bellof in the #3 Tyrrell-Renault and Brundle in the #4 Tyrrell-Cosworth for Germany and Austria.

You'd think Tyrrell, of all teams, would be a bit cautious about working around the regulations given what had happened to them in 1984, but clearly Ken didn't roll that way...

This is correct! I can only assume the regulation came in post-1982 after Piquet and Patrese had swapped between the BMW and Cosworth-powered Brabhams freely, but to get around it he essentially swapped the numbers on the cars as I think it related to the entry rather than the driver sat in it.

According to James Hunt and Tony Jardine (standing in for Murray that day), Ken had OK'd it with FISA beforehand, so he was at least playing it safe

So, looks like I get to ask something now. Chew on this, though I have no idea if it's easy or hard...

Which two British Touring/Saloon Car Championship circuits (that I know of) have also held a charity roller skating race this century?

In the event that there's more than two answers, I'll award the points to whoever gets the two I'm looking for.

dinizintheoven wrote:So, looks like I get to ask something now. Chew on this, though I have no idea if it's easy or hard...

Which two British Touring/Saloon Car Championship circuits (that I know of) have also held a charity roller skating race this century?

In the event that there's more than two answers, I'll award the points to whoever gets the two I'm looking for.

It sounds like the kind of thing that might happen at the MSV tracks, so I'm going to guess Brands Hatch and Cadwell Park.

dinizintheoven wrote:So, looks like I get to ask something now. Chew on this, though I have no idea if it's easy or hard...

Which two British Touring/Saloon Car Championship circuits (that I know of) have also held a charity roller skating race this century?

In the event that there's more than two answers, I'll award the points to whoever gets the two I'm looking for.

Oulton Park and Snetterton?

Goodwood hosted an annual roller skating event not sure if it still does and hosted early btcc races the other track guess at Brands Hatch

dinizintheoven wrote:So, looks like I get to ask something now. Chew on this, though I have no idea if it's easy or hard...

Which two British Touring/Saloon Car Championship circuits (that I know of) have also held a charity roller skating race this century?

In the event that there's more than two answers, I'll award the points to whoever gets the two I'm looking for.

Taking a gamble, but Crystal Palace and Thruxton?

One of the tracks has been identified so far. Good luck with the other one!

dinizintheoven wrote:One of the tracks has been identified so far. Good luck with the other one!

Ahh, but you haven't said which one!

So I'll say the other track yet to be identified is possibly Rockingham?

dinizintheoven wrote:One of the tracks has been identified so far. Good luck with the other one!

Knockhill?

Donington Park?

Silverstone?

dinizintheoven wrote:One of the tracks has been identified so far. Good luck with the other one!

Mondello?

Just under an hour left for this one...

Right, the deadline passed 14 hours ago. I need dinizintheoven to confirm the other correct answer and whether or not anyone got it. As for the first one, I believe the answer is Goodwood, which Peteroli got. I do not know what the other circuit is, so I'm giving dinizintheoven until 8:33 pm on Sunday to give confirmation. If he does not confirm anything by that time then the full point will be given to Peteroli.

That's what I get for taking a day off the internet!

The easy one was Goodwood, which hosted the Goodwood Roller Marathon between 2001 and 2011. However, when that stopped abruptly, a bunch of Scots decided to hold The Great Scottish Skate in 2012... at Ingliston. This isn't listed as a BTCC circuit on the bottom of the main Wikipedia page that's supposed to list them all, but if you look in the pages for the three BSCC seasons from 1973 to 1975, Ingliston was included in those years. Tom Walkinshaw won the class B and C races there in 1974, for a hint of GPR credibility - though how the circuit coped with the huge Yank-tanks that were contesting class D at the time is anyone's guess.

I've seen a few pictures from The Great Scottish Skate, and it was raining. Welcome tae Scotland ye wee scunners.

dinizintheoven wrote:That's what I get for taking a day off the internet!

The easy one was Goodwood, which hosted the Goodwood Roller Marathon between 2001 and 2011. However, when that stopped abruptly, a bunch of Scots decided to hold The Great Scottish Skate in 2012... at Ingliston. This isn't listed as a BTCC circuit on the bottom of the main Wikipedia page that's supposed to list them all, but if you look in the pages for the three BSCC seasons from 1973 to 1975, Ingliston was included in those years. Tom Walkinshaw won the class B and C races there in 1974, for a hint of GPR credibility - though how the circuit coped with the huge Yank-tanks that were contesting class D at the time is anyone's guess.

I've seen a few pictures from The Great Scottish Skate, and it was raining. Welcome tae Scotland ye wee scunners.

Thank you for clearing that up

And so that does indeed mean that Peteroli asks the next question.

peteroli34 wrote:What did Patrick Depellier have written as a clause in his contract with Tyrrell?

He couldn't have a team-mate that was faster than him?

peteroli34 wrote:What did Patrick Depellier have written as a clause in his contract with Tyrrell?

Free cigarettes?

Or more seriously, total freedom to do anything he wanted away from race weekends?

I change my answer to: Depailler couldn't do anything dangerous outside racing weekends.

Miguel98 wrote:I change my answer to: Depailler couldn't do anything dangerous outside racing weekends.

Yeah i will have to give you that according to Tyrell himself "I gave Patrick his first F1 drive, at Clermont-Ferrand in 1972, and then offered him a third car for the North American races in 73. A big chance for him — and ten days before he breaks his leg falling off a motorbike! Later, when he was driving full-time for me, I had it written into his contract that he kept away from dangerous toys"