TRIVIA!!!!

spill it and have another go!

maroon92 wrote: spill it and have another go!

Catherine "Cat" Kizer, 1979 SCCA HProd National Champion.

Okay, here's an easier one. For what team in Formula One did Eddie Cheever drive?

EDIT: I screwed up, he raced for more than one team. I was thinking Renault, because that's where he got his best results. But he also drove for Theodore, Oscella, Hesketh, Tyrell, and Liger.

The floor is open...

here is a pretty easy one.

In which Formula 1 season were there the most previous champions contesting at least one race?

hint, the total in that season was 5.

this season, there will be 4.

In reply to maroon92:

I'm thinking 1970.

well done Oldsaw.

(it was kinda tricky, because there were 5 previous champions contesting the 66 season as well.)

66: Brabham, Surtees, G. Hill, P. Hill, and Clark

70: Hulme, Stewart, Brabham, G. Hill, and Surtees

In reply to maroon92:

And '71 should have had a record of six champions competing.

RIP, Jochen Rindt.

Oldsaw, it looks like the floor is yours. Next question!

maroon92 wrote: 66: Brabham, Surtees, G. Hill, P. Hill, and Clark

IIRC Phil Hill was driving the camera car(s) for the making of the movie Grand Prix, not actually competing in F1. He was, however, driving in Prototype races for Chaparral.

he was still credited with world championship points...

71 had 6 champions competing, but not 6 Previous champions. Plus Rindt died in 70, he was awarded the championship posthumously.

And, the first woman to score WDC points was?

Assuming you are sticking with the Formula 1 WDC, Lombardi scored .5 points in the shortened South Africa? GP.

can't remember the year though. Only woman to ever score F1 points (unless you count Lewis Hamilton)

If you meant the Rally Championship WDC points, then it would probably be Michelle Mouton.

Lella contemplating her ill-handling March, 1975.

Maroon, looks like the floor's yours..

During his younger years, Ferdinand Porsche was a chauffeur for a prominent Austrian. What was his title, and name?

I'm going to go for the obvious here..Chancellor Adolf Hitler.

I hope I'm wrong..I thought the French threw him in jail for designing German AFVs, and not for "guilt by association".

maroon92 wrote: During his younger years, Ferdinand Porsche was a chauffeur for a prominent Austrian. What was his title, and name?

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

In reply to mtn:

Wow. Do you know if Porsche was driving the day Archduke Ferdinand was assasinated? That would be wild.

friedgreencorrado wrote: In reply to mtn: Wow. Do you know if Porsche was driving the day Archduke Ferdinand was assasinated? That would be wild.

No idea, I'm not even sure if I'm right... I was just doing some math and figuring out who would be prominent Austrians when Ferdinand was young... Franz is the only guy I can think of.

mtn has the floor.

I have not yet figured out if Porsche was driving during the assassination though.

No time to think of a good one--class starts in five minutes and I'm in it til six PM--So heres a really really easy one for ya:
How many Corvettes came with the factory 5 speed?

...none

did they go from a 4 speed to a 6 speed? that seems like something that could have happened at GM.

I assume he means 5 speed MANUAL transmission, correct?

maroon92 wrote: ...none did they go from a 4 speed to a 6 speed? that seems like something that could have happened at GM.

Yep, they went from the 4 speed to the 4+3 to the six. I forget when, sometime in the C4.
maroon has the board.

And yes, I meant manual.

One driver retired as a two time world champion, then subsequently came out of retirement to win a third championship.

Who was this driver?

Niki Lauda. WDC 1975, 1977 and 1984. Only missed the 76 Championship by one point (James Hunt, McLaren) after his near-fatal crash at the Nurburgring, and his decision to pull out of the rain-soaked Japanese GP at Fuji. Came out of retirement to make enough money to save his financially challenged airline..but McLaren took a chance on him, and he rewarded them with the Championship in 84.