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Alberto Ibañez Racing Legend
Number of posts : 16788 Age : 121 Location : International Simracing Organisation Registration date : 2010-09-17
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Mon 26 Jan 2015 - 11:50 | |
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Richard Coxon Racing Legend
Number of posts : 16590 Age : 36 Location : Sheffield, England Registration date : 2012-06-29
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Mon 26 Jan 2015 - 11:54 | |
| Nope, James Hunt tried it in 1989/90 with Williams i believe.
Any guess of the team? | |
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Alberto Ibañez Racing Legend
Number of posts : 16788 Age : 121 Location : International Simracing Organisation Registration date : 2010-09-17
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Mon 26 Jan 2015 - 12:49 | |
| Fittipaldi then? In 1984 he joined CART, maybe he did an attempt first with F1 but saw no chance? | |
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Richard Coxon Racing Legend
Number of posts : 16590 Age : 36 Location : Sheffield, England Registration date : 2012-06-29
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Mon 26 Jan 2015 - 13:11 | |
| Correct, He went to Rio as without the stresses of running a team, he actually missed racing, Tested the Spirit Hart, Who wanted to run 2 cars as there other driver paid alot (Enough to sign Emmo) But Emmo was so surprised/disapointed that his talent couldn't close the gap to the better engines teams, He decided not to run and went to CART.
Also the other driver didn't get a super licence so his money didn't go into the team anyway and so Emmo wouldn't have been signed anyway. | |
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Alberto Ibañez Racing Legend
Number of posts : 16788 Age : 121 Location : International Simracing Organisation Registration date : 2010-09-17
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Mon 26 Jan 2015 - 13:20 | |
| Who and when put a junkyard ex-school bus engine in his Indycar and even lead the Indy500 after outqualifying Foyt, Sneva and Johncock among others? | |
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Timo Vermeersch Racing Legend
Number of posts : 1345 Age : 54 Location : Brussels Registration date : 2009-08-11
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Mon 26 Jan 2015 - 15:37 | |
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Alberto Ibañez Racing Legend
Number of posts : 16788 Age : 121 Location : International Simracing Organisation Registration date : 2010-09-17
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Mon 26 Jan 2015 - 15:39 | |
| http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1996/Roger-Rager-Took-School-Bus-Engine-From-Junkyard-To-Indy-500-Lead/id-4049a22fb669c925c5fcfa99b27fb9f3 | |
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Timo Vermeersch Racing Legend
Number of posts : 1345 Age : 54 Location : Brussels Registration date : 2009-08-11
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Sun 1 Feb 2015 - 14:23 | |
| I think I'm up. A very very easy one. Name three families who meet both the following statements:
- they have at least two members that raced
at least two of these racing members raced both in F1 and Indycar/CART.
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Alessio Campigotto Racing Legend
Number of posts : 1249 Age : 26 Location : UK Registration date : 2011-12-29
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Sun 1 Feb 2015 - 15:31 | |
| I can name Andretti and Villeneuve, but not a third Edit: The Fittipaldi's too | |
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Frank Verplanken League Owner
Number of posts : 13574 Age : 48 Location : Nice, France Registration date : 2008-09-08
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Sun 1 Feb 2015 - 15:49 | |
| You also have the Pilettes from Belgium : Théodore, André and Teddy | |
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Timo Vermeersch Racing Legend
Number of posts : 1345 Age : 54 Location : Brussels Registration date : 2009-08-11
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Sun 1 Feb 2015 - 15:59 | |
| - Alessio Campigotto wrote:
- I can name Andretti and Villeneuve, but not a third
Edit: The Fittipaldi's too Those are the three I had in mind. Didn't know about the Pilettes. Good find that Frank. Timo | |
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Frank Verplanken League Owner
Number of posts : 13574 Age : 48 Location : Nice, France Registration date : 2008-09-08
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Sun 1 Feb 2015 - 16:02 | |
| It's a bit of a stretch since Teddy's highlight in Indycars was a DNQ at Indy I think, but still makes a link with his grandfather's 1910s achievements . And of course all three competed in international Grand Prix racing, before and during the F1 days. | |
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Number of posts : 3192 Age : 31 Location : Registration date : 2008-10-27
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Sun 1 Feb 2015 - 16:15 | |
| Besides the obvious families above, I found the Fabis. Although Corrado's career was certainly more forgettable than his brother's he drove in both IndyCar and F1. There was also Bobby and Jerry Unser, Jerry was at Indy in 1958. | |
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Frank Verplanken League Owner
Number of posts : 13574 Age : 48 Location : Nice, France Registration date : 2008-09-08
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Sun 1 Feb 2015 - 16:21 | |
| Indeed the Fabis which have the distinction of having accomplished that feat in one year : 1984 . I don't agree with the Unsers though as only Bobby ever came close to Grand Prix racing, while Jerry never did . | |
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finally gone :) Racing Legend
Number of posts : 3192 Age : 31 Location : Registration date : 2008-10-27
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Sun 1 Feb 2015 - 16:24 | |
| I guess it depends if you count the Indianapolis 500 from 50-60 or not ? | |
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Frank Verplanken League Owner
Number of posts : 13574 Age : 48 Location : Nice, France Registration date : 2008-09-08
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Sun 1 Feb 2015 - 16:29 | |
| Well Indy 500 was part of the World Drivers' Championship but it was never a Formula 1 race - up to 1956 it was to pre-war GP rules and from 1957 onwards to USAC Indycar rules. Best proof is that it didn't even count for the first (1958-60) F1 Constructors' Cups alongside the other GPs | |
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Frank Verplanken League Owner
Number of posts : 13574 Age : 48 Location : Nice, France Registration date : 2008-09-08
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Sun 1 Feb 2015 - 16:38 | |
| The Brabham dynasty also qualifies : Jack, David and Gary all did both some F1 and Indycars I think. Geoff only Indycars. | |
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finally gone :) Racing Legend
Number of posts : 3192 Age : 31 Location : Registration date : 2008-10-27
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Sun 1 Feb 2015 - 16:47 | |
| Ah I see, that was quite a mess in the 50's Not sure Gary Brabham qualifies as driving in F1 as he had a Life For those who wonder, there's a Matthew Brabham currently in Indy Lights. | |
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Jacob Fredriksson Racing Legend
Number of posts : 1047 Age : 34 Location : Sweden Registration date : 2014-01-15
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Sun 1 Feb 2015 - 16:53 | |
| - Frank Verplanken wrote:
- The Brabham dynasty also qualifies : Jack, David and Gary all did both some F1 and Indycars I think. Geoff only Indycars.
David never did Indycars, but Gary did the Australian race in '93 and '94! As for the Fittipaldi's no father and son did run both F1 and Indycars, Wilson could never bother with Indy! | |
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Frank Verplanken League Owner
Number of posts : 13574 Age : 48 Location : Nice, France Registration date : 2008-09-08
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Frank Verplanken League Owner
Number of posts : 13574 Age : 48 Location : Nice, France Registration date : 2008-09-08
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Sun 1 Feb 2015 - 17:08 | |
| - Jacob Fredriksson wrote:
- David never did Indycars, but Gary did the Australian race in '93 and '94!
Thanks for the correction I thought David had done a one-off Indycar driver somewhere in his career. | |
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Timo Vermeersch Racing Legend
Number of posts : 1345 Age : 54 Location : Brussels Registration date : 2009-08-11
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Sun 1 Feb 2015 - 19:58 | |
| The two Fabi-brothers indeed. I should have known those.
The Villeneuves are similar to the Fittipaldi in that way that it wasn't father and son who ran both Indy and F1. Gilles went straight from F Atlantic to F1 and never looked back. It was Gilles' brother Jacques Sr who did both F1 and Indy as did Jacques Sr off-course.
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Alberto Ibañez Racing Legend
Number of posts : 16788 Age : 121 Location : International Simracing Organisation Registration date : 2010-09-17
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Fri 13 Feb 2015 - 13:43 | |
| In that line, another very easy one: Name the guys who have won both the top open wheel championships at both sides of the Atlantic, F1 and USAC/CART/Indycar | |
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Timo Vermeersch Racing Legend
Number of posts : 1345 Age : 54 Location : Brussels Registration date : 2009-08-11
| Subject: Re: Motorports trivia/quiz Fri 13 Feb 2015 - 13:57 | |
| Mario Andretti, Emerson Fittipaldi, Nigel Mansell and Jacques Villeneuve.
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Alberto Ibañez Racing Legend
Number of posts : 16788 Age : 121 Location : International Simracing Organisation Registration date : 2010-09-17
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