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GT40Ss.com 2004 Christmas quiz. Answers
Well, I wasn't allowed into my garage last night so I eagerly opened the garage this morning and guess what ?
It was Italian, red, made not in Modena but in Bologna,
A Ducati 999R Neil Hodgson replica. Well, hope springs eternal and there's always next Christmas.......
Thank you very much to everybody who took time and trouble to submit questions and,equally important, the answers as well. My wife reached a dizzy height of 16 questions, all correctly answered and without help.
Here goes with the answers:
1.He is running on Methanol. Methanol burns with an invisible flame, and he does not want the Marshalls to think that he is simply a very bad Break-Dancer.....he would like them to put him out please !
2.Peter Collins - from the book ‘Mon Ami Mate’
3.Phil Hill – Ferrari
4.1958
5.The Blue Book
6.Indy, Californian, and Ponoco 500’s
7.4 - Magny, Rheims, Ricard, Clermont,
8.Levers that could be dropped to the ground to dig into the road surface to stop a stalled car from rolling backwards down a hill.
9.You would be thrown from a window.
10.The MKIV Ford Zodiac.
11.Yes. Black and silver: New Zealand national sporting colours.The drivers were Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon, both Kiwis!
12.Italian. (Real name Bruno Giacomelli) and McLaren.
13.4 - Silverstone, Aintree, Donnington, Brands Hatch
14.Jacques Villeneuve
15.½rV²SCʟ (r= Air density, V= speed, S= wing area,Cʟ = lift coefficient)
16.1-5-4-2-6-3-7-8
17.Alberto Ascari
18.Bremen
19.English Racing Automobiles
20.John
21.1964
22.Zuffenhausen
23.Morgan Racer Bill Tuer from Liverpool in his VERY fast 1934 Morgan JAP. (Mallory 51.8 secs, ave 93.8 mph.
24.1 and by Gordon Jackson in 1961 on an AJS 350
25.Nitrous Oxide hidden in the roll cage
26.18,000rpm and 18 gears
27.Davina Gallica '76 British,'78 Argentine and Brazilian
28.Team Surtees were sponsored by Durex!!!!
29.Opera Singer
30.Anthony Guy Vandervell
31.Alex Issigonis
32.Sydney
33.NUB 120
34.Ferdinand Porsche
35.Ferdinand Porsche
36.Archie Scott-Brown
37.3034
38.Aston-Martin DB3
39.Baby
40.Little Mouse
41.Michael Parkes
42.Argentinian
43.LG600
44.Das Kleine Wunder
45.South African
46.Denis Jenkinson
47.Morris Garages
48.Tatra
49.Brabham/Tauranac
50.Prince Bira
51.Whitney Straight
52.Len Bailey
53.He gained pole position (Lotus 49 at Watkins Glen 1968, and Ferrari 126 turbo, Monza 1982)
54.Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Mario Andretti, Jacques Villeneuve, Emerson Fittipaldi.
55.Mario Andretti (GH:Team lotus, F1, 1968 and NM: Newman-Haas, CART, 1993)
56.Renault (Toleman became Benetton in 1984 and Benetton became Renault in 2002)became a constructor in its own right.
57.Tyrrell (1983) and Alfa Romeo (1984)
58.Danny Sullivan (with Tyrrell 1983, won Indy 500 in 1985) and Eddie Cheever (with Alfa Romeo 1984, won Indy 500 1998)
59.a. Jack Brabham
b. Fangio
c. Nigel Mansell (by Italians when at Ferrari)
d. Denny Hulme
e. Tino Brambilla
f. Froilan Gonzales
60.Silverstone (13 May 1950)
61. Guiseppe Farina (in an Alfa Romeo)
62.Fangio
63.Duns in Berwickshire, location of the Jim Clark Room.
64.Potato growing
65.Nino Vaccarella
66.Circuito Madonie.
67.Syracuse and Enna
68.1962 French GP at Rouen, Dan Gurney
69.French GP. Reims (1966), Le Mans Bugatti (1967), Rouen (1968), Clermont Ferrand (1969 and 1970), Paul Ricard/ Le castellet (1971)
70.Albi
71.Pescara on the Adriatic coast of Italy. (Home of the 1957 Pescara GP won by Stirling Moss in a Vanwall). Circuit was 16.05 miles long (=25.8 km), 1.8 miles longer than the old Nurburgring.
72.All Ford.
73.Michele Alboreto and Stefan Johanssen at Ferrari in 1985 -1986 won Le Mans together (along with Tom Kristensen) in 1997 in a TWR Porsche.
74.Spa Francorchamps
75.Eifel. (The Eifel Tower in Paris, and the Eifel mountains around which the Nurburgring runs.)
76.The GA was in tribute and in memory of Giovanni Agnelli, the long-time chairman of Fiat (owners of Ferrari), who died in January 2003.
77.Giancarlo Baghetti. French GP at Reims in a Ferrari, 1961. Earlier in 1961 he had also won his first two F1 races at Posillipo and Syracuse, which were both non-champioship events. He therefore had a hat-trick of F1 Ferrari wins in 1961, but had no further F1 success.
78.1976 Tyrrell-Ford driven by Jody Scheckter which had six wheels, and 1978 Brabham-Alfa driven by Niki Lauda which was a “sucker” fan car. On both occasions, it was the only win in F1 for this type of car (although the Chaparral 2J fan car had some success in Can-Am sports car racing)
79.The circuit was Monza. James Garner played Pete Aron and Yves Montand played Jean-Pierre Sarti, the driver who, in the film, died in an accident on the banking at Monza.
80.Len Terry. He went on to design the Eagle formula one cars for Dan Gurney (in which he competed in F1 between 1966 and 1968.)
81.Brabham and McLaren.
82.Michael Schumacher (debut 1991, winner 1992)
83.One. The Swiss GP at Dijon
84.Both cars failed to qualify
85.True. He competed in his own, privately entered Cooper-Maserati
86.JS was in memory of Guy Ligier’s friend Jo Schlesser who died at the wheel of a Honda F1 car at the 1968 French GP at Rouen.
87.1994. Lotus (13 GPs), Ligier (1 GP) and Benetton (2 GPs).
88.No. He competed for Benetton in 5 GPs in 1989
89.False. The Indy 500 counted towards the world championship between 1950 and 1960..
90.Mike Hawthorn, driving for Ferrari in 1958
91.Fuji (in 1976)
92.Honda.
93. i Imola
ii Silverstone
iii Suzuka
iv Monaco
v. Monza
94.Al Unser Sr
95.1988
96.Dragon Motorsport
97.Pierre Dupasqier
98.Minardi and Gianmaria Bruni
99.Pierre Kaffer and Alan McNish.
100.Stirling Moss discussing the consequences of erectile dysfunction post crash.
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Thanks guys.
The Ducati is now on the shelf in my study.
Well, I wasn't allowed into my garage last night so I eagerly opened the garage this morning and guess what ?
It was Italian, red, made not in Modena but in Bologna,
A Ducati 999R Neil Hodgson replica. Well, hope springs eternal and there's always next Christmas.......
Thank you very much to everybody who took time and trouble to submit questions and,equally important, the answers as well. My wife reached a dizzy height of 16 questions, all correctly answered and without help.
Here goes with the answers:
1.He is running on Methanol. Methanol burns with an invisible flame, and he does not want the Marshalls to think that he is simply a very bad Break-Dancer.....he would like them to put him out please !
2.Peter Collins - from the book ‘Mon Ami Mate’
3.Phil Hill – Ferrari
4.1958
5.The Blue Book
6.Indy, Californian, and Ponoco 500’s
7.4 - Magny, Rheims, Ricard, Clermont,
8.Levers that could be dropped to the ground to dig into the road surface to stop a stalled car from rolling backwards down a hill.
9.You would be thrown from a window.
10.The MKIV Ford Zodiac.
11.Yes. Black and silver: New Zealand national sporting colours.The drivers were Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon, both Kiwis!
12.Italian. (Real name Bruno Giacomelli) and McLaren.
13.4 - Silverstone, Aintree, Donnington, Brands Hatch
14.Jacques Villeneuve
15.½rV²SCʟ (r= Air density, V= speed, S= wing area,Cʟ = lift coefficient)
16.1-5-4-2-6-3-7-8
17.Alberto Ascari
18.Bremen
19.English Racing Automobiles
20.John
21.1964
22.Zuffenhausen
23.Morgan Racer Bill Tuer from Liverpool in his VERY fast 1934 Morgan JAP. (Mallory 51.8 secs, ave 93.8 mph.
24.1 and by Gordon Jackson in 1961 on an AJS 350
25.Nitrous Oxide hidden in the roll cage
26.18,000rpm and 18 gears
27.Davina Gallica '76 British,'78 Argentine and Brazilian
28.Team Surtees were sponsored by Durex!!!!
29.Opera Singer
30.Anthony Guy Vandervell
31.Alex Issigonis
32.Sydney
33.NUB 120
34.Ferdinand Porsche
35.Ferdinand Porsche
36.Archie Scott-Brown
37.3034
38.Aston-Martin DB3
39.Baby
40.Little Mouse
41.Michael Parkes
42.Argentinian
43.LG600
44.Das Kleine Wunder
45.South African
46.Denis Jenkinson
47.Morris Garages
48.Tatra
49.Brabham/Tauranac
50.Prince Bira
51.Whitney Straight
52.Len Bailey
53.He gained pole position (Lotus 49 at Watkins Glen 1968, and Ferrari 126 turbo, Monza 1982)
54.Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Mario Andretti, Jacques Villeneuve, Emerson Fittipaldi.
55.Mario Andretti (GH:Team lotus, F1, 1968 and NM: Newman-Haas, CART, 1993)
56.Renault (Toleman became Benetton in 1984 and Benetton became Renault in 2002)became a constructor in its own right.
57.Tyrrell (1983) and Alfa Romeo (1984)
58.Danny Sullivan (with Tyrrell 1983, won Indy 500 in 1985) and Eddie Cheever (with Alfa Romeo 1984, won Indy 500 1998)
59.a. Jack Brabham
b. Fangio
c. Nigel Mansell (by Italians when at Ferrari)
d. Denny Hulme
e. Tino Brambilla
f. Froilan Gonzales
60.Silverstone (13 May 1950)
61. Guiseppe Farina (in an Alfa Romeo)
62.Fangio
63.Duns in Berwickshire, location of the Jim Clark Room.
64.Potato growing
65.Nino Vaccarella
66.Circuito Madonie.
67.Syracuse and Enna
68.1962 French GP at Rouen, Dan Gurney
69.French GP. Reims (1966), Le Mans Bugatti (1967), Rouen (1968), Clermont Ferrand (1969 and 1970), Paul Ricard/ Le castellet (1971)
70.Albi
71.Pescara on the Adriatic coast of Italy. (Home of the 1957 Pescara GP won by Stirling Moss in a Vanwall). Circuit was 16.05 miles long (=25.8 km), 1.8 miles longer than the old Nurburgring.
72.All Ford.
73.Michele Alboreto and Stefan Johanssen at Ferrari in 1985 -1986 won Le Mans together (along with Tom Kristensen) in 1997 in a TWR Porsche.
74.Spa Francorchamps
75.Eifel. (The Eifel Tower in Paris, and the Eifel mountains around which the Nurburgring runs.)
76.The GA was in tribute and in memory of Giovanni Agnelli, the long-time chairman of Fiat (owners of Ferrari), who died in January 2003.
77.Giancarlo Baghetti. French GP at Reims in a Ferrari, 1961. Earlier in 1961 he had also won his first two F1 races at Posillipo and Syracuse, which were both non-champioship events. He therefore had a hat-trick of F1 Ferrari wins in 1961, but had no further F1 success.
78.1976 Tyrrell-Ford driven by Jody Scheckter which had six wheels, and 1978 Brabham-Alfa driven by Niki Lauda which was a “sucker” fan car. On both occasions, it was the only win in F1 for this type of car (although the Chaparral 2J fan car had some success in Can-Am sports car racing)
79.The circuit was Monza. James Garner played Pete Aron and Yves Montand played Jean-Pierre Sarti, the driver who, in the film, died in an accident on the banking at Monza.
80.Len Terry. He went on to design the Eagle formula one cars for Dan Gurney (in which he competed in F1 between 1966 and 1968.)
81.Brabham and McLaren.
82.Michael Schumacher (debut 1991, winner 1992)
83.One. The Swiss GP at Dijon
84.Both cars failed to qualify
85.True. He competed in his own, privately entered Cooper-Maserati
86.JS was in memory of Guy Ligier’s friend Jo Schlesser who died at the wheel of a Honda F1 car at the 1968 French GP at Rouen.
87.1994. Lotus (13 GPs), Ligier (1 GP) and Benetton (2 GPs).
88.No. He competed for Benetton in 5 GPs in 1989
89.False. The Indy 500 counted towards the world championship between 1950 and 1960..
90.Mike Hawthorn, driving for Ferrari in 1958
91.Fuji (in 1976)
92.Honda.
93. i Imola
ii Silverstone
iii Suzuka
iv Monaco
v. Monza
94.Al Unser Sr
95.1988
96.Dragon Motorsport
97.Pierre Dupasqier
98.Minardi and Gianmaria Bruni
99.Pierre Kaffer and Alan McNish.
100.Stirling Moss discussing the consequences of erectile dysfunction post crash.
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Thanks guys.
The Ducati is now on the shelf in my study.