Answers of the Motorsports Quiz.

2. Answers follows…..

3. 1.The trophy is named after a famous
British driver. Who?

4. Answer
• Hawthorn Memorial Trophy has been
awarded to the most successful British or
Commonwealth F1 driver every year since
1959 named after Mike Hawthorn .

5. 2.Which town connects?

6. Answer
• Le Mans
• First mentioned by Ptolemy.
• One of the racing track is Bugatti Circuit
(named after Ettore Bugatti ).
• Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was born.

7. 3.Id the comic hero.

8. Answer
• Michel Vaillant

9. 4.What would ve been blanked out?

10. Answer
• Stirling Moss
• Once he himself was stopped by a palace
guard who joked: "Who do you think you are?
Stirling Moss?" Moss smiled and replied "Sir
Stirling Moss, actually."

11. 5.What was the subject
of the movie?

12. Answer
• Operación Fangio
• Cuban rebels kidnapped Juan Manuel Fangio
on February 23, 1958, but he was later
released, and remained a good friend of his
captors afterwards. The incident was
dramatized in a 1999 Argentine film directed
by Alberto Lecchi .

13. 6.An inspirational story.

14. Answer
• David Purley, upon witnessing the crash of
Roger Williamson, pulled over and abandoned
his own race in a desperate and valiant
attempt to rescue him, but he was unable to
put out the fire or turn the car upright. Purley
was awarded the George Medal for his rescue
attempt.

15. 7.Explain.

16. Answer
• Damon Hill , appeared on "Demolition Man",
the opening track of Def Leppard's album
Euphoria.

17. 8.Who?
What was the occasion?

18. Answer
• Fernando Alonso drove José Froilán González
' Ferrari 375 F1 for four laps of the Silverstone
track on the 60th anniversary of Ferrari's first
Formula One World Championship race
victory.

19. 9.Id the brand.
Shares its name with a Formula One
constructor.

20. Answer
• Walter Wolf Racing , notable for winning the
1977 Argentine Grand Prix, the very first race
the team entered .

21. 10.Identify the farmer.

22. Answer
• Jody Scheckter

23. 11.Gimme a command.

24. Answer
• GENNNNNTLEMENNNNN, STARRRRRT
YOURRRRRR ENNNNNNNGINES!
• Tony Hulman

25. 12.
1) He is best known for
starting a certain tradition
in car racing. What?
2) A certain device is also
named after him. What?

26. Answer
• Dan Gurney
• Spraying champagne from the podium
• This device, called a Gurney flap, increases
downforce and, if well designed, imposes only
a relatively small increase in aerodynamic
drag.

27. 13.Gimme a story.

28. Answer
• Hitler had ordered a Mercedes-Benz 770, at that
point Mercedes' most expensive car, but due to
the amount of time spent upgrading the car in
line with the Nazi leader's wishes, the delivery
was late. To mollify Hitler's anger, Rudolph
Caracciola was dispatched by Mercedes to deliver
the car to the Brown House in Munich. Caracciola
drove Hitler and his niece Geli Raubal around
Munich to demonstrate the car. The house flag of
the NSKK, a Nazi organisation which Caracciola,
like most of his fellow German racing drivers,
joined.

29. 14.An Air Flight named
after the person pictured
below was involved in a
deadly air crash of 1991.
Why this question here?

30. Answer
• Lauda Air Flight 004 named Mozart crashed
due to a thrust reverser deployment and
resulted in the deaths of 223 people.Upon
hearing of the crash, Niki Lauda, retired
Formula 1 race driver and owner of the airline,
travelled to Thailand.

31. 15.The tradition started by A & broken
for the first time by B . What?

32. Answer
• Louis Meyer requested a glass of buttermilk
after winning his second Indy 500 race in
1933. After winning his third title in 1936, he
requested another glass but instead received
a bottle.
• The tradition was broken in 1993 when
Emerson Fittipaldi drank a celebratory bottle
of orange juice instead of milk.

33. 16. Whose memorial?

34. Answer
• Louis Chevrolet

35. 17.A controversial winner of 1966.

36. Answer
• Pauli Toivonen was awarded a controversial
first place on the 1966 Monte Carlo Rally after
a protest by the Citroën team manager against
the top finishing British cars. As a result, the
top three placing Minis of Timo Mäkinen,
Rauno Aaltonen and Paddy Hopkirk and Roger
Clark's 4th place Ford Cortina were
disqualified.

37. 18. Who is this hottie?

38. Answer
• Pippa Mann

39. 19. His successor might be most
familiar to you.

40. Answer
• Sundaram Karivardhan

41. 20.What’s the connection?

42. Answer
• Spa
• Agatha Christie ‘s most famous detective
Hercule Poirot hails from Spa,Belgium.
• Spa , named after the town.
• The Belgian Grand Prix is held in Circuit de
Spa-Francorchamps.