Shock Wins Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mike Hawthorn

After debuting in 1952, Hawthorn earned himself a full-time ride with Ferrari for 1953. After two fourths and a sixth in the first three rounds of 1953, Hawthorn won at only his ninth attempt, holding off ex-World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio in a pulsating race on the long straights of Reims.

Answer: Cooper

From the beginning of the Formula One World Championship, all successful cars had been front-engined. But the tiny Cooper Car Company persisted with building mid- or rear-engined cards and by 1957 the little cars, powered by a 2.0 litre Coventry-Climax engine, were proving to be rather quick and nimble.

At the 1958 Argentine Grand Prix, Stirling Moss turned the establishment on its head, driving a private Rob Walker entry Cooper-Climax to victory, beating the larger 2.5 litre front-engined Ferrari's. Maurice Trintignant further proved that perhaps rear-engined cars were the way to go with a superb victory on the streets of Monaco.

Answer: Jo Bonnier

Although the likes of Tony Brooks, Mike Hawthorn and Stirling Moss had driven the green cars, B.R.M. had struggled. But it all finally came together in 1959, with Bonnier taking pole position and a dominant race win, in between the sand hills of Zandvoort. It would be his only Grand Prix win, while B.R.M. would go on to win the 1962 Drivers and Constructors titles.

Answer: Giancarlo Baghetti

Baghetti was chosen by the Federazione Italiana Scuderie Automobilistiche (FISA) to run a Ferrari in championship and non-championship races in 1961 after a semi-successful career in the junior formulas up to 1960.

He won his first ever Grand Prix, the non-championship Syracuse Grand Prix, and then backed that up with victory at the the non-championship Grand Prix of Napoli.

Team FISA then bought a new Ferrari 156 and entered Baghetti in the French Grand Prix at Reims. After all the works Ferraris had retired, it was Baghetti who continued Ferrari's great run of results in the 1961 season, holding off the Porsche of Dan Gruney to take his first Grand Prix victory on debut.

Unfortunately for Baghetti, his career tailed off soon after. Ferrari was uncompetitive in 1962, and bad choices halted his career soon after.

(Please note: by default, Giuseppe Farina's victory at the 1950 British Grand Prix does not count as that was the first race of the newly established Formula One World Championship)

Answer: Ludovico Scarfiotti

Scarfiotti had made his Formula One debut for Ferrari in 1963 but had achieved little of note before 1966. It was only his fourth Grand Prix start, and sixth entered.

Scarfiotti was the first Italian to win the Italian Grand Prix in 15 years and would be the last Italian to win at the wheels of a Ferrari at the Italian Grand Prix in the 20th Century.

As soon as it had flourished, Scarfiotti's career folded once again, with few starts and fewer results. He tragically died at a hillclimb event in 1968.

Answer: John Love

With the new 3.0 litre rules of 1966, some teams were still playing catch up into 1967. The new Lotus 49 had still to debut, while the Brabham-Repcos were suffering teething problems. Out of nowhere, Pedro Rodriguez took his first, and Cooper's last, Grand Prix win.

But it was the heroics of local entrant John Love that caught the eye. In an underpowered Cooper-Climax, Love led nearly all the way, before a precautionary pit-stop only a few laps before the end dropped him to second place, robbing Love of probably the biggest upset victory in Formula One history!

Answer: British

Siffert had been racing for Rob Walker since 1964. Results had been few and far between, but by 1968, equipped with the simply brilliant Lotus 49 with the Cosworth DFV, performances picked up although results were still hard to come by.

But that all came to mean nothing when Siffert, in the navy blue colours of Rob Walker, took victory at Brand Hatch, his first of only two Grand Prix wins.

Siffert continued with Walker into 1969, but in 1970 moved to the new March organisation. A wasted year there meant a move to B.R.M. for 1971 and another victory but the Swiss was killed at the end of year Race of Champions.

Answer: Mario Andretti

After sporadic forays into Formula One since 1968 for the likes of Tyrrell and Lotus, Andretti made his first start for Ferrari at the 1971 South African Grand Prix and promptly won the race, holding off the Tyrrell of Jackie Stewart. Due to his commitments into American IndyCar racing, Andretti only made six starts in 1971 so could not build on this success.

He did not enter Formula One full-time until 1975 with Parnelli. He moved to Lotus in 1977 and won the title in 1978 with the all-conquering Lotus 79. His last Grand Prix start was for Ferrari at the 1982 Las Vegas Grand Prix.

Answer: Peter Gethin

Always a classic thanks to Monza's slipstreaming nature without the chicanes that ruined the circuit from 1972 onwards, the Italian Grand Prix threw up another bizarre result with Gethin in his B.R.M. holding off the March of Ronnie Peterson, Tyrrell of Francois Cevert and Surtees of Mike Hailwood to the flag, having gone from fourth to first in a single lap.

The first five cars were covered by only .61 of a second, the closest finish in the twentieth century.

Answer: Monaco

In atrocious conditions on the streets of Monaco in 1972, Beltoise guided his B.R.M. from fourth to first to easily take his first and only Grand Prix win, and B.R.M.'s last after 21 years of competition. It would be Beltoise's only points of the season as his career tailed off much like that of B.R.M., who finally pulled out of Formula One at the end of 1977.

Answer: Vittorio Brambilla

1975 was a season of firsts and onlys, with Pace winning his only Grand Prix at Interlagos in Brazil, and Mass winning the Spanish Grand Prix at Montjuic.

Brambilla's day of days came at the Osterreichring, where in wet conditions he steered his March-Ford to the lead after a battle with the Hesketh of James Hunt, and was leading when the red flag flew on lap 29. In celebration, the Italian promptly threw up his hands in delight and crashed into the barriers!

Answer: 1977

Drafted in after Tom Pryce had been killed in a shocking accident at Kyalami in 1977, Jones carried on his good results from his drive at Surtees in 1976 with some stand-out performances for Shadow but his win at the Osterreichring really made people sit up and take notice, as Shadow had only four podiums to their name since their debut in 1973.

While Shadow went on to collapse in the middle of 1980 due to the breakaway of team members to form Arrows in 1978, Jones joined the Williams team for the 1978 season and won the 1980 World Championship two years later.

Answer: 1983

Alboreto had taken his first win in Grand Prix at the Las Vegas Grand Prix in 1982, when the normally-aspirated Cosworth DFV's were marginally competitive against the turbos. But by 1983, turbocharged engines were dominating, with Ferrari, Renault and the BMWs of the Brabham team blitzing the opposition.

But on the tight, twisty streets of Detroit, Alboreto led a Cosworth DFV 1-2-3 to take the 155th and last win for the engine that had made its debut all the way back in 1967. It was also the last victory for the Tyrrell squad before their exit from the sport 15 years later in 1998.

Answer: Ligier

Panis had twice stood on the Formula One podium - with a second place in 1994 (German Grand Prix) and 1995 (Australian Grand Prix) - but he made full use of the atrocious conditions at Monaco in 1996 to sneak his way from 14th on the grid to win after the likes of Damon Hill and Jean Alesi had retired while leading the race.

It was a race of high attrition that saw only three drivers take the chequered flag.

Answer: Johnny Herbert

It was a race that almost nobody wanted to win. Difficult wet-dry conditions made it almost impossible for the drivers in terms of strategy, but many drivers were robbed of either first points or wins in their career - both Giancarlo Fisichella and Ralf Schumacher retired while leading, both never having won by 1999.

However, it was the Stewart-Ford of Herbert that kept calm during the storm, literally, to take his third win of his career and Stewart's one and only before they became Jaguar in 2000. Barrichello almost made it a dream day for the Stewart team, finishing third with the two Stewarts split by the Prost of Jarno Trulli.