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1. How many times did Nigel Mansell qualify on pole position during his championship winning season in 1992?
2. What type of car did Mike Hawthorn Drive to win the world drivers title in 1958?
3. John Surtees became world champion in 1964, how many Grand Prix did he win in this year?
4. What did Nelson Piquet achieve when he became the world championship driving a Brabham in 1983?
5. What type of car took Jackie Stewart to his first world title in 1969?
6. In Ayrton Senna's 1988 title winning season, for how many of the sixteen races did he fail to qualify on the front row of the grid?
7. Juan Manuel Fangio won five world championships but in which year did he win his first?
8. Which team did Michael Schumacher drive for on his Grand Prix debut in 1991?
9. 1979 world champion Jody Sheckter won the 1976 Swedish Grand Prix, what was unusual about the car he was driving at the time?
10. Who's tragic death handed Phil Hill the 1961 world title unchallenged?
11. Which team did 1996 world champion Damon Hill struggle with in his debut season in Formula One?
12. Graham Hill won his first world title in 1962 driving what type of car?
13. The 1980 world champion Alan Jones took his first Grand Prix win in which unlikely team?
14. How many race wins did 1976 world champion James Hunt take when unsuccessfully defending his world title in 1977?
15. With which team did 1982 world champion Keke Rosberg end his Grand Prix career in 1986, surprisingly not taking a race win?
16. Alain Prost won three world titles with Mclaren but where did he begin his Formula One career?
17. Which year did Jack Brabham win the world championship driving a car bearing his own name?
18. Jim Clark only ever drove for Lotus in Grand Prix but which car took him to his first world title in 1963?
19. Emerson Fittipaldi took two world titles in 1972 and 1974 but which car took him to the '74 title?
20. Who was the first ever Formula One world champion in 1950?
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