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7 Rallies quizzes and 130 Rallies trivia questions.
1.
  1995 WRC Season    
Multiple Choice
 25 Qns
How well do you know the 1995 World Rally Championship Season? We're about to find out. From simple questions to hard ones...
Tough, 25 Qns, Bruce D, Jan 12 06
Tough
Bruce D
341 plays
2.
  An Introduction to Extreme E    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The Electric Odyssey
Extreme E began in 2021 as a way of raising awereness of climate change. How much do you know about one of the world's newest motorsport series?
Average, 10 Qns, Thesuperyoshi, Aug 09 23
Average
Thesuperyoshi gold member
Aug 09 23
38 plays
3.
  World Rally Championship    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Quiz about Rallying
Tough, 10 Qns, matti46, Oct 15 16
Tough
matti46
1267 plays
4.
  1998 WRC Season    
Multiple Choice
 25 Qns
The quest continues. How much do you know?
Tough, 25 Qns, Bruce D, Sep 21 03
Tough
Bruce D
357 plays
5.
  1996 WRC Season    
Multiple Choice
 25 Qns
How well do you know the 1996 season?
Average, 25 Qns, Bruce D, Aug 30 03
Average
Bruce D
263 plays
6.
  Petter Solberg    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A quiz about the best Rally driver in the world.
Average, 10 Qns, elenaran, Apr 21 05
Average
elenaran
361 plays
7.
  1997 WRC Season    
Multiple Choice
 25 Qns
The next in my series. How well do you know the 1997 World Rally Championship season?
Tough, 25 Qns, Bruce D, Jun 04 08
Tough
Bruce D
268 plays
trivia question Quick Question
Who led most of the year in the driver's championship?

From Quiz "1998 WRC Season"





Rallies Trivia Questions
1. Which car did Petter drive in 2004?

From Quiz Petter Solberg

Answer: Subaru

He drove for the Subaru Company, which is controlled by the Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.

2. Who was the world champion driver?

From Quiz 1998 WRC Season

Answer: Tommi Makinen

Makinen clinched a closely fought championship by coming from behind and taking the title on a final dramatic round.

3. Who was driver world champion?

From Quiz 1997 WRC Season

Answer: Tommi Makinen

Makinen took his second title in a row, by only 1 point from Colin McRae.

4. Why was the 1996 season significant?

From Quiz 1996 WRC Season

Answer: Last year before World Rally Cars were allowed

This was the last year before the World Rally Cars were allowed to run in the WRC. The championship had 14 rounds before McRae won the 1995 championship, and was therefore reigning champion, and Sweden was cancelled in 1990 due to a lack of snow.

5. Who was the 1995 World Rally Drivers champion?

From Quiz 1995 WRC Season

Answer: Colin McRae

After a slow start to the season, McRae fough back to win the title at the last round in Great Britain.

6. When was the driver's title officially started?

From Quiz World Rally Championship

Answer: 1979

The 1979 World Rally Champion was Björn Waldegård. Before that drivers competeed for the FIA Cup. World Rally Championship for Manufacturers started officially 1973. Before that it was called International Championship. Nevertheless the first World Championship was established in 1973.

7. Where was the first Extreme E race held?

From Quiz An Introduction to Extreme E

Answer: Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia

The first Extreme E race was the Desert X-Prix in Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia, held in April 2021. This also started a tradition of the first Extreme E race being held in Saudi Arabia. The race was won by the Rosberg X Racing team.

8. Who is Petter's brother, who also had been in the rally buisness?

From Quiz Petter Solberg

Answer: Henning Solberg

Henning is the older brother, one year older than Petter.

9. Who was manufacturer's champion?

From Quiz 1998 WRC Season

Answer: Mitsubishi

Mitsubishi clinched their first, and so far only, world championship by a great combined effort of Makinen and Richard Burns.

10. Who was manufacture's champion?

From Quiz 1997 WRC Season

Answer: Subaru

Subaru took the manufacturers title quite easily in the end, although Ford and Mitsubishi challanged during the middle of the season.

11. Who was the 1996 Drivers champion?

From Quiz 1996 WRC Season

Answer: Tommi Makinen

Makinen took his first of four world titles.

12. Who was the 1995 Manufacturer's champion?

From Quiz 1995 WRC Season

Answer: Subaru

For most of the season Mitsubishi lead the championship, but two consecutive 1-2-3 finishes by Subaru in the final two rounds sealed the title.

13. Who was Group N champion?

From Quiz 1998 WRC Season

Answer: Gustavo Trelles

Trelles took his third title in a row.

14. Who was Group N world champion?

From Quiz 1997 WRC Season

Answer: Gustavo Trelles

Trelles took his second consecutive title by a huge margin from Stohl.

15. Who was manufacturers champion?

From Quiz 1996 WRC Season

Answer: Subaru

Subaru won the manufacturers championship with ease. Toyota was banned for the year and Mitsubishi finished second, with Ford third.

16. Who was the 1995 Formula 2 World Champion?

From Quiz 1995 WRC Season

Answer: Peugeot

Opel scored more points than Peugeot but did not participate in events outside of Europe, which was a requirement, and so Peugeot were given the title.

17. In what country was the only snow based event in the calendar held in the 1990s?

From Quiz World Rally Championship

Answer: Sweden

The International Swedish Rally is special. Since the event began in 1962 begun no other than a Swedish or Finnish driver have won it.

18. In the third season of Extreme E in 2023, the race format was changed. What was the biggest change?

From Quiz An Introduction to Extreme E

Answer: Double header races

With the introduction of double header races for the 2023 season, two separate races are held at each location: one on Saturday and the other on Sunday. The semi-final and crazy race format was also replaced with a qualifying race format: on race day, two qualifying races, both having two heats, are held. The combined results of the qualifying races decide whether a team qualifies to the final or to the "Redemption Race", where the bottom five teams compete.to gain championship points. The winner of the overall race gets 25 points, and the winner of the Redemption Race gets 8 points.

19. What is the name of the place where he grew up?

From Quiz Petter Solberg

Answer: Spydeberg

Spydeberg is a quite small place in the south-eastern parts of Norway, not far from the Swedish border.

20. Who won the F2 championship?

From Quiz 1998 WRC Season

Answer: SEAT

SEAT clinched the title despite changing to a World Rally Car from round 9 - Rally Finland.

21. Who was F2 world champion?

From Quiz 1997 WRC Season

Answer: SEAT

SEAT took their second title by a wide margin of 112 to 44 points from Skoda.

22. Who was Ford's major new driver for 1996?

From Quiz 1996 WRC Season

Answer: Carlos Sainz

Sainz joined Ford after originally joining Toyota, who were then banned for 1996.

23. Who won the most rallies in the 1995 WRC?

From Quiz 1995 WRC Season

Answer: Carlos Sainz

Sainz won 3 rallies to McRae's 2.

24. After Group B was cancelled for the 1987 season, which were the replacement cars?

From Quiz World Rally Championship

Answer: Group A

By the late 1990s most of the cars were in the WRC class (introduced in 1997). World Rally Car is not in itself a class or group that is used under ruling terminology. Groups A and N being the current ones. Group A are specially prepared rally cars where biggest changes are allowed whereas Group N is much closer to standard production cars.

25. The first season of Extreme E had major changes to the initial season calendar, mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, one race was cancelled for a completely different reason! Which one?

From Quiz An Introduction to Extreme E

Answer: Mountain X-Prix (Nepal)

The Mountain X-Prix was cancelled due to the "difficulty of getting to the race venue". The rest of the races were cancelled, except the Ocean X-Prix, which was set to open the season - it was just postponed and became the second race after the Desert X-Prix!

26. What are the names of his parents?

From Quiz Petter Solberg

Answer: Tove and Terje

They were both rally drivers also.

27. At which event did SEAT debut their new World Rally Car?

From Quiz 1998 WRC Season

Answer: Rally Finland

After dominating the F2 championship, SEAT took the plunge and moved to the WRC class with a new World Rally Car, which would later be renamed the Cordoba WRC. Such was their domination of F2 that they still won that title without officially doing the last three events!

28. Who announced that they would be building a World Rally Car during 1997?

From Quiz 1997 WRC Season

Answer: SEAT

SEAT announced at the post-rally press conference at the San Remo rally, that they would be building a world rally car for 1998.

29. Who was the Formula 2 World Champion?

From Quiz 1996 WRC Season

Answer: SEAT

SEAT won a close fought title which went right to the last round, in the last year where F2 would run seperate events to the WRC.

30. Why was Toyota disqualified from the championship?

From Quiz 1995 WRC Season

Answer: Illegal turbochargers

In probably the most embarrasing moment in rallying, Toyota were found to have deliberately altered their turbochargers to allow more air into the engine.

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