Alphabetical F1 - The 'F's in F1 Quiz

Answer: The Prancing Horse

The Scuderia Ferrari motor racing team was founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, originally as the racing division of the Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo. The team eventually started building their own cars and were one of the entrants at the very first F1 championship race in 1950. Their first win in the new formula was scored by Alberto Ascari at the 1951 German Grand Prix, their 100th win came when Alain Prost took victory in the 1990 French Grand Prix and their 200th win was the 2007 Chinese Grand Prix (courtesy of Kimi Raikkonen). The team have also won numerous drivers' and constructors' world championship titles during their decades in the sport - including five for Michael Schumacher between 2000 and 2004.

The "Prancing Horse" that appears on the team's logo originated from the symbol painted on the wings of the plane flown by the famous Italian First World War fighter pilot, Francesco Baracca.

The Prancing Pony was the name of the inn at Bree in J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings'. 'The Italian Stallion' was a 1970 film featuring Sylvester Stallone, as well as a nickname of one of Stallone's most famous characters - Rocky Balboa.

Answer: 1957

Juan Manuel Fangio was born in Balcarce, Argentina in 1911 and started racing in that country in the mid-1930s. He took part in the 1950 British Grand Prix - the first F1 world championship race - at the age of 38 and won three races that season on his way to becoming F1's inaugural championship runner-up. He took his first world title in 1951 with Alfa Romeo but was unable to defend it the following season after initially being left without a drive and then suffering serious injuries in a non-championship race. He again finished as runner-up in 1953 before securing four back-to-back titles between 1954 and 1957. His final world title in 1957 came when he was 46 years old, an age at which modern F1 drivers have generally long since retired.

In addition to being a five-time F1 world champion, Fangio also set a wide range of F1 records - including oldest world champion and highest percentage of both race wins and pole positions (he won 46% of the races he entered and took pole for 56% of them). He retired from the sport during the 1958 season.

Answer: Mario Andretti

The inaugural Japanese Grand Prix was the finale of the 1976 F1 season and has since gone down in F1 history as the scene of the climactic conclusion of the season-long battle between Niki Lauda and James Hunt. The race took place in appalling weather conditions, which led Lauda - who had suffered horrific burns earlier in the year - to withdraw on just the second lap. Hunt suffered a puncture but managed to hang on to the third-place finish that he needed in order to pip Lauda to the championship title. As a result of this drama, less people tend to remember who actually won the race - the American driver and 1978 world champion, Mario Andretti.

Fuji also hosted the Japanese Grand Prix in 1977 (when Hunt took victory), but the event then dropped off the calendar until it moved to the Suzuka circuit in 1987. The race returned to Fuji in 2007 and 2008, when it was won by Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso respectively.

Gunnar Nilsson and Mario Andretti were team-mates for the majority of the season. Ronnie Peterson only competed for Lotus at the first race of the season and Bob Evans appeared at the second and third races only.

Answer: Felipe

Felipe Massa, one of the most popular drivers to have appeared on the F1 grid, made his debut with the Sauber team in 2002. He joined the Ferrari team in 2004, where he went on to win 11 races and very nearly take the 2008 world championship title before suffering a life-threatening head injury at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix. He returned to the sport in 2010, but never won another race in either the remainder of his time at Ferrari or in the four years he spent at Williams before his retirement at the end of the 2017 season. Felipe Nasr drove for Sauber in 2015 and 2016, but was replaced by Pascal Wehrlein ahead of the 2017 season.

During the two years they shared in F1, Massa and Nasr (often pronounced by commentators as "Nassa") were usually found close together in the midfield and attempts to describe their interactions regularly ended in confusion. Eventually, the British F1 commentator Martin Brundle started calling Felipe Nasr "Fred" in order to make it clear who he was talking about - although presumably it didn't help people who tuned in halfway through the race and were instead left wondering who on earth 'Fred' was...

Answer: Jaguar

Ford purchased the Stewart F1 team in 1999 and rebranded it for the 2000 season as Jaguar Racing. Ford had purchased the luxury British car company, Jaguar, ten years previously. While Ford engines had won numerous world championships between 1968 and 1981, the Jaguar team did not have the same level of success. In their five seasons in the sport they managed just two third-places and a further 20 point-scoring finishes, while their best finishing position in the world championship was seventh place. Ford sold the team to Red Bull before the 2005 season and (after a few years development time) the new owners managed the success that Ford had craved - in the form of four back-to-back drivers' and constructors' championship wins.

Three of Jaguar's drivers did manage to stand on the top step of the F1 podium either before or after their time with the team - Eddie Irvine, Johnny Herbert and Mark Webber.

Answer: Brazil

Emerson Fittipaldi made his F1 debut at the 1970 British Grand Prix and won the F1 world drivers' title in 1972 and 1974 with Lotus and McLaren respectively. He was the first Brazilian driver to win an F1 race and was 25 when he set a new record for the youngest driver to win the world championship in 1972 (a record that lasted 33 years until Fernando Alonso's win in 2005, aged 24).

Wilson Fittipaldi (Emerson's elder brother) first entered F1 in 1972 when he competed for Brabham at the Spanish Grand Prix. He finished the season without scoring a point and with a best result of seventh place. He remained with the team for the following season during which he managed a single points-scoring finish (fifth place at the German Grand Prix) before being dropped. His final season as a driver was 1975 after he set up a team with his younger brother and took to the track at the wheel of his own car. After again failing to score, he retired from driving to concentrate on managing the team. His double world champion brother then had a go at driving their car instead, with not much more success.

The brothers' team was initially known as Copersucar-Fittipaldi after their main sponsor, a Brazilian sugar and alcohol company. It survived in F1 until the 1982 season, after which a combination of lack of success and lack of money resulted in its closure.

Answer: Jordan

Force India's roots can be traced back to the Jordan team, which was set up by the Irish businessman (turned F1 TV pundit) Eddie Jordan in 1991. Jordan sold his team to the Midland Group in 2005, who sold it to Spyker (a Dutch sports car company) in 2006, who then sold it on to Vijay Mallya and his business partner Michiel Mol in 2008. Michael Schumacher's association with the team lasted for just one race in 1991. Having impressed on his debut for the fledgling Jordan team, he was quickly snapped up by Benetton and went on to win seven world championship titles and gain legendary status in the sport.

Jordan's fortunes didn't match those of Schumacher. As Jordan, the team won four races between 1998 and 2003 and finished third in the constructors' championship in 1999, before floundering at the back of the grid during the Midland and Spyker eras. Their transformation into Force India saw them move back towards the front of the midfield with fourth-place finishes in the constructors' championship in 2016 and 2017.

Answer: Maria Teresa de Filippis

Maria Teresa de Filippis was born in 1926 and competed successfully in range of motorsport events before becoming the first woman to take part in an F1 race in 1958. She entered the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix in a privately run Maserati but failed to qualify to actually take part in the race. Her first race start was the 1958 Belgian Grand Prix and her tenth-place finish turned out to be her only F1 result as she was forced to retire from both the Portuguese and Italian Grands Prix. A further failure to qualify at the 1959 Monaco Grand Prix ended her short, but historic, F1 career.

After a lengthy period away from motorsport, she became involved again in later life and became Vice-President of the F1 Grand Prix Drivers Club in 1997 and then their Honorary President in 2011. She died in 2016 at the age of 89.

Clotilde Fasolis was an alpine skier who competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics; Michela Fanini won the 1994 Giro d'Italia Femminile cycle race; and tennis player Silvia Farina Elia was a Wimbledon quarter-finalist in 2003.

Answer: Reims

The first world championship French Grand Prix was held at Reims in 1950 and won by Juan Manuel Fangio for Alfa Romeo. The race returned to the same circuit, which was set up on the roads around the village of Gueux, a further nine times between 1953 and 1966 before financial difficulties led to its permanent closure. While the 1950 race was the first French Grand Prix to be held as part of the F1 world championship, the race actually had a much longer history dating back to 1906. Reims first hosted a French Grand Prix in 1932 - a race won by the legendary Tazio Nuvolari.

Overall the French Grand Prix has been hosted by more than 15 different venues; in the championship era these have included Rouen, Clermont Ferrand and Le Mans, in addition to Dijon, Magny Cours and Paul Ricard.

Answer: Nico Rosberg

Keke Rosberg became the first Finnish F1 world champion when he took the title with Williams in 1982. His son, Nico Rosberg, emulated his father in becoming an F1 world champion when he won with Mercedes in 2016, but didn't follow in his footsteps as a Finnish world champion as he competed for Germany (he was born there and his mother is German).

Finland has been home to a surprisingly large number of successful F1 drivers given its population size. Mika Hakkinen won back-to-back world championships with McLaren in 1998 and 1999, while Kimi Raikkonen took the title in 2007 for Ferrari. Other notable Finns in the sport include Valtteri Bottas, Heikki Kovalainen, Mika Salo and JJ Lehto.