F1 Drivers E-K Trivia

1. The first race of the 1994 season was Brazil and was won by Michael Schumacher. Where did Damon finish?

From Quiz Lady Luck and Damon Hill

Answer: Second Place

Damon's teammate for 1994 Ayrton Senna was on pole. Senna had the lead from the start but lost it to Schumacher after the first pit stop. Damon started the race in 4th place. By the 55th lap Senna and Schumacher were so far ahead they lapped Damon who was running in third place. However, Senna spun off that lap and Damon was too far behind to chase down the leader, and had to settle for second place. Schumacher was the only driver to finish on the lead lap that race. Only 12 out of 28 drivers finished that race. A first place was worth 10 points and a second place was worth 6 points.

From Quiz Lewis Hamilton

Answer: Hertfordshire - 1985

Hamilton was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in 1985. He was signed to McLaren's young driver programme at the tender age of 12.

From Quiz Juan Manuel Fangio

Answer: Argentina

Born in Balcarce, Argentina in 1911 to parents of Italian heritage, Fangio began his racing career in 1934, mostly in 'touring car' races that involved long races along the dangerous roads of Argentina. It is regarded that it was in these races where Fangio learned his driving technique that would later serve him so well in Formula One.

From Quiz Giancarlo Fisichella

Answer: Minardi

Fisichella's talent was hard to identify in a poor Minardi chassis. An eighth place finish in Montreal was his best and because the team needed money, he was replaced by Giovanni Lavaggi from Germany onwards.

From Quiz Eddie Irvine

Answer: 10th November 1965

Edmund Irvine (known as Eddie Irvine) was born in Bangor, Northern Ireland. His father was a former amateur racer with the same name from Newtownards in Northern Ireland.

From Quiz Johnny Herbert

Answer: Brands Hatch

Johnny fought against terrible injuries after the accident in F3000, but he managed to regain full fitness to start his Formula One career with Benetton in 1989.

From Quiz Damon Hill: 1991-1996

Answer: Williams

Damon helped evolve the car that eventually gave Nigel Mansell his World Championship title in 1992.

From Quiz Damon Hill

Answer: London

Born on the 17th of September 1960, Damon was involved in the world of motorsport right from the start as his father, Graham, was a successful racer who in his time won two World Championships, the Indy 500 and Le Mans 24 hours. He has lived in Dublin, Ireland with his wife Georgie and their children for many years.

From Quiz Heinz-Harald Frentzen

Answer: 1994

Frentzen qualified 5th for his first race at Interlagos but spun off on lap 15 with inexperience getting to him.

From Quiz Mika Hakkinen: What Comes Naturally

Answer: 13

Mika's debut happened in the USA GP at the Phoenix street track. His first F1 qualification went very well and he started the race from the grid number 13. In the race the engine broke down, so Mika had to retire.

From Quiz Lady Luck and Damon Hill

Answer: Retired

Damon qualified in third place for the race with his teammate on pole and Schumacher in second. Lady luck was not on Damon's side this race and he had to retire from the race on the 49th lap with a transmission problem. His teammate did worse by colliding on the first lap and having to retire too. Schumacher received 10 points for the win while Damon got zero points for the retirement. After two races, Damon was already 14 points behind Schumacher in the title race.

From Quiz Lewis Hamilton

Answer: European Karting

He won the European Karting championship in 2000. In 2005 he raced for F3 and signed with ART racing in GP2 for 2006 where he won the chanpionship over runner-up Nelson Piquet Jnr.

From Quiz Juan Manuel Fangio

Answer: Alfa Romeo

Fangio was at Alfa Romeo for the first Formula One season in 1950, alongside Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina, Luigi Fagioli and Reg Parnell. Not including the Indianapolis 500, which was included in the World Championship but it was rare for European drivers to compete, Alfa Romeo won all six races. Fangio won three races, the Monaco, Belgian and French Grand Prix, but retirements in the other three races allowed Farina to take the title.

From Quiz Giancarlo Fisichella

Answer: Ralf Schumacher

Although the pair later got on well in the paddock, that was not the case in 1997. Schuey Jnr knocked Giancarlo out of a podium spot in Argentina and the Italian paid back the compliment by taking Ralf out at the start of the Luxembourg Grand Prix.

From Quiz Eddie Irvine

Answer: Japanese GP

Eddie's debut was in 1993, he came in sixth, scoring 1 championship point. This put him joint 20th in the championship that year. Eddie was the runner-up in F3000 in Japan that year and was therefore racing in Japan when the F1 road show rolled in. He replaced Emanuele Naspetti at Jordan for the last two races of the season.

From Quiz Johnny Herbert

Answer: Fourth

Johnny finished less than eleven second behind the winning Ferrari driven by Nigel Mansell.

From Quiz Damon Hill: 1991-1996

Answer: Alain Prost

Nigel Mansell won the 1992 Championship, but Frank Williams signed Alain Prost for 1993, and having been his teammate at Ferrari Mansell, left and went to America for the Indy Car Series.

From Quiz Heinz-Harald Frentzen

Answer: Sauber withdrew.

Heinz-Harald's team-mate and good friend Karl Wendlinger was seriously injured in a crash at the harbour chicane in Thursday free practice. Sauber withdrew not knowing about Wendlinger's condition, nor if it was a car breakage that caused the shunt.

From Quiz Mika Hakkinen: What Comes Naturally

Answer: Lotus

After his first Formula 1 tests with Benetton Mika, he started his Formula 1 Championship career in 1991 with Lotus-Judd team in car number 11. Mika's debut happened in the USA GP at the Phoenix street track.

From Quiz Lady Luck and Damon Hill

Answer: Sixth place

Lady Luck was not around for this race. The 1994 Imola race will go down in history as the blackest day Grand Prix racing can remember. The tragic weekend started with a qualifying crash that claimed the life of Roland Ratzenberger, and the race itself will always be remembered for the death of Ayrton Senna. Damon started the race in 4th place. The race was run in two parts after Senna's crash, and the results were determined by aggregate. Damon finished one lap down in 6th place and earned 1 point. Schumacher received 10 points for the win, giving him 30 points from 3 races. Damon had only 7 points from the first three races.

From Quiz Juan Manuel Fangio

Answer: 4

Fangio took four pole positions, at the season opening Swiss Grand Prix (which he won), then at the Belgian, French (won) and Italian Grand Prix. He also won the season ending Spanish Grand Prix, where he started second on the grid. Fangio finished the season on 31 points, beating the Ferrari's of Alberto Ascari and Jose Froilan Gonzalez into second and third. 1950 World Champion Nino Farina could only manage one victory and finished fourth overall.

From Quiz Giancarlo Fisichella

Answer: Montreal

In 1997, a brilliant drive in Canada saw Giancarlo's Jordan finish in a well-deserved third place behind Michael Schumacher and Jean Alesi.

From Quiz Eddie Irvine

Answer: Rubens Barrichello

Rubens finished just one place ahead of Eddie at 1993 Japanese GP.

From Quiz Johnny Herbert

Answer: Brazil

Johnny's first race was on 26th March 1989 at Jacarepagua circuit in Brazil. Ten Grand Prix races were held here, the last being in 1989. Another track in Brazil is Interlagos.

From Quiz Damon Hill: 1991-1996

Answer: Second

Senna romped home in first place for his record sixth win at Monaco, beating Graham Hill's previous five wins. Monaco was Hill's third runner-up spot in the season.

From Quiz Damon Hill

Answer: 22

Although he took part in 122 Grand Prix, starting in 115, he only won 22 of them. His first victory was at Hungarian GP on 15th August 1993 and his last was with the Jordan Team in 1998 in Belgium.

From Quiz Heinz-Harald Frentzen

Answer: Monza

Frentzen was 3rd but only after retirements for the front-runners Schumacher, Alesi and Berger.

From Quiz Mika Hakkinen: What Comes Naturally

Answer: Keke Rosberg & Rosberg

From Quiz Lady Luck and Damon Hill

Answer: Retired

Lady Luck was once more not on Damon's side on this race day. This time he retired due to a first lap collision involving Mika Hakkinen, Gianni Morbidelli, and Pierluigi Martini. Schumacher left Monaco with 10 more points, taking his total to 40 while Damon scored another zero. By the end of race 4, Damon was now trailing by 33 points.

From Quiz Lewis Hamilton

Answer: difficult

He said that the Malaysian Grand Prix was the most difficult race he had had so far. Due to the fact that he ran out of water in the cockpit, he was being hunted down by Raikkonen at the end and that he knew that the Ferrari's were lighter therefore slightly quicker. Lewis finished second in this race.

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