Alphabetical F1 - 'C's in the Seasons Quiz

Answer: Circuit de Charade

Since the beginning of the F1 world championship in 1950, the French Grand Prix has been hosted at a wide variety of race tracks, from the public roads around Reims that made up the Reims-Gueux circuit to a modified version of the legendary circuit at Le Mans. The Circuit de Charade near the city of Clermont-Ferrand in France's mountainous Auvergne region hosted the French Grand Prix in 1965, 1969, 1970 and 1972. As might be expected given its location on the side of an extinct volcano, the track was twisty and fast with significant elevation changes around the 8km (5 mile) route. The inaugural F1 race at the circuit in 1965 was won by Jim Clark at the head of a British 1-2-3 finish. Jackie Stewart won the 1969 and 1972 events while the 1970 race was won by that year's champion, Jochen Rindt - the first driver to the win the F1 world championship posthumously.

However, like many older circuits, the Circuit de Charade was extremely dangerous with little run off area and was often littered with stones and debris. From 1973 the French Grand Prix was moved to alternate between the Paul Ricard and Dijon-Prenois circuits, before transferring to the facility at Magny-Cours in 1991. The last competitive motor race on the original layout took place in 1988 although a shorter, more modern circuit was created and continued to host races into the 21st century.

Answer: Caterham

The Caterham name first appeared in F1 in 2012 after originally starting out as the Lotus team in 2010. During their three seasons in the sport they were perennial backmarkers and never really managed to improve their pace or competitiveness despite employing well known drivers such as Heikki Kovalainen and Kamui Kobayashi. By 2014 the team were suffering significant financial problems and they were placed in administration after the Russian Grand Prix, missing the United States Grand Prix and Brazilian Grand Prix completely. The team then embarked on a successful crowdfunding exercise (where a large number of people are invited to contribute relatively small amounts of money) to raise the money needed to compete in the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi. Regular driver Kamui Kobayashi took part in the race alongside British rookie Will Stevens, who had separately raised money to take the second seat for a one-off drive. Unfortunately, Kobayashi retired from the race and Stevens finished 17th and last.

The Caterham team were officially wound up before the start of the 2015 season - their final record stood at 56 races with 0 championships, 0 wins, 0 podiums, 0 pole positions, 0 fastest laps and 0 points.

Connaught competed in F1 from 1952 to 1959, Cooper raced throughout the 1950s and 1960s (with the exception of 1951) and Coloni were on the grid between 1987 and 1991.

Answer: Hockenheimring

The Scottish racing driver Jim Clark was active in F1 from 1960 until his tragic death on April 7th, 1968 during the Deutschland Trophäe F2 race at the Hockenheimring - a then relatively unknown racing circuit. Clark spent his entire F1 career with the Lotus team and his tally of world championship victories would have been higher if his car had not let him down in the final laps of both the 1962 and 1964 seasons. He was also driving for Lotus at the fateful race in which he lost his life - his car left the track and crashed into the trees, leaving Clark with fatal injuries that included a broken neck and fractured skull.

The Hockenheimring was renowned for its narrow, high-speed track carved out of the local forest. It first hosted an F1 race in 1970, by which time it had been fitted with crash barriers to prevent another accident of the type suffered by Clark. However, the dangers inherent in racing on a heavily tree-lined circuit became too much for modern safety standards and the track was dramatically altered to eliminate the high-speed run through the forest prior to the 2002 season. As a result, the trackside memorial to Jim Clark is now set in a peaceful wooded spot some way away from the modern circuit.

AVUS and the Nurburgring have both hosted the German Grand Prix. The Spa-Francorchamps circuit is in Belgium.

Answer: Caesars Palace Grand Prix

The Caesars Palace Grand Prix was held from 1981 to 1984, although only the first two of those races were part of the F1 world championship. It was held on a temporary circuit laid out in the car park of the Caesars Palace hotel and casino on the famous Las Vegas Strip - one of the more glamorous locations visited by one of the most glamorous sports in the world (if you discount the car park bit). However, the race itself wasn't particularly popular with the drivers due to the extreme heat and the anti-clockwise nature of the track.

The inaugural Caesars Palace Grand Prix was the final race of the 1981 season. It was won by Nelson Piquet for the Brabham team and also secured his victory in that year's world championship. The 1982 event also determined the outcome of the world championship when Williams' Keke Rosberg secured the final points he needed with a fifth place finish behind the race winner, Michele Alboreto.

The CasaBlanca is a casino resort in Mesquite, Nevada. It was not on the 1981 F1 calendar, but the Moroccan Grand Prix was held near the city of Casablanca in 1958. The California Grand Casino is in Martinez, California and the Commerce Casino can be found in Los Angeles.

Answer: Gilles Villeneuve

Peter Ryan became the first Canadian to compete in F1 when he finished ninth in the 1961 United States Grand Prix held at the Watkins Glen circuit in New York State. However, it took another 17 years before a Canadian took the chequered flag to win an F1 race and the Canadian in question was the great Gilles Villeneuve. His F1 debut had come at the 1977 British Grand Prix for the McLaren team, but by the end of the season he had transferred to Ferrari and he remained with that team until his death in qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix. The 1978 Canadian Grand Prix was not just Villeneuve's first win in F1, but also the first F1 race hosted by the brand new Circuit Île Notre-Dame in Montreal, which was later renamed in Villeneuve's honour.

Villeneuve's career statistics show that he won six of the 67 races he competed in, scored seven other podium finishes and was the runner-up in the 1979 world championship (he lost out to his team-mate, Jody Scheckter, by just four points). He is remembered as one of the fastest drivers to have ever competed in F1.

Villeneuve's son Jacques was the 1997 F1 World Drivers' Champion. John Cordts and John Cannon were both Canadian F1 drivers, but they only competed in a single race each (in 1969 and 1971 respectively).

Answer: China

The first Chinese Grand Prix took place at the Shanghai International Circuit on September 26th, 2004. Rubens Barrichello and Ferrari won the race from pole position ahead of Jenson Button's BAR in second place and Kimi Raikkonen's McLaren in third. The race marked Barrichello's final victory for Ferrari as the team's performance dipped in 2005 (Barrichello managed just four podium finishes that year) and he left to join Honda in 2006.

The Shanghai International Circuit was designed by Hermann Tilke (like most modern F1 circuits) and was laid out in the rough shape of the Chinese letter 'shang'. It included one of the longest straights of all F1 circuits at 1,170m - a feature intended to encourage overtaking in a sport where the advanced aerodynamic design of the cars makes this fundamental aspect of motor racing pretty difficult. The list of past winners of the race reads a bit like a "who's-who" of modern F1 and includes world champions such as Michael Schumacher, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel.

Answer: Andrea de Cesaris

The F1 career of the Italian racing driver Andrea de Cesaris began with the Alfa Romeo team in 1980 and ended with Sauber in 1994, via McLaren, Ligier, Minardi, Brabham, Rial, Scuderia Italia, Jordan and Tyrrell. The vast number of teams that he drove for somewhat reflects the inconsistency he showed during his career - great days where he scored podium finishes and came close to claiming victory, interspersed between races where he crashed spectacularly (the multiple barrel-roll accident he had at the 1985 Austrian Grand Prix that effectively ended his career with Ligier was one of the more notable incidents). The nickname he ended up being saddled with as a result was "Andrea de Crasheris".

Andrea de Cesaris spent the grand total of one race as Michael Schumacher's team-mate. Schumacher filled in for de Cesaris' jailed Jordan team-mate, Bertrand Gachot, at the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix, but was quickly snapped up by Benetton for the remainder of the season. At that race Schumacher out-qualified de Cesaris by four places on the grid, but retired on the first lap with a broken clutch; de Cesaris was classified 13th after his engine failed with three laps to go. Andrea de Cesaris was killed in a motorcycle accident in Rome in 2014; Michael Schumacher suffered a life-changing brain injury as a result of a skiing accident in 2013.

The incorrect options were all Italian F1 drivers whose time in the sport overlapped with that of de Cesaris.

Answer: True

The British engine manufacturer Cosworth, with backing from Ford, did manage to dominate F1 for well over ten years with their revolutionary DFV (Double Four Valve) engine. The DFV made its debut at the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix in the Lotus car driven by Jim Clark, who duly went on to win the race and record the first of the DFV's 155 F1 race victories. The engine won every championship race of the 1969 and 1973 seasons and by the mid-1970s the vast majority of cars on the grid were powered by one. However, the wins began to dry up by the early 1980s as the DFV was overtaken by turbo-charged rivals. The engine's last win came in the Tyrrell of Michele Alboreto at the 1983 Detroit Grand Prix.

The DFV powered a total of 12 world championship titles for Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart (three times), Jochen Rindt, Emerson Fittipaldi (twice), James Hunt, Mario Andretti, Alan Jones, Nelson Piquet and Keke Rosberg. It also took a total of 10 world constructors' titles for Lotus (five times), Matra, Tyrrell, McLaren and Williams (twice).

Answer: Lotus

Colin Chapman founded Team Lotus - the motor racing arm of his Lotus sports car company - in the early 1950s and competed in the lower formulae before his team made its F1 debut at the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix. The first F1 victory for a Lotus was recorded by Stirling Moss two years later at the 1960 event in Monaco - although that particular car was privately entered by an independent team. Team Lotus' first win came at the 1961 United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis. The team went on to take six drivers' world championship titles and seven constructors' titles between 1963 and 1978, but floundered after Chapman's death in 1982 and eventually left F1 in 1994.

Chapman was an innovative designer responsible for creating or popularising many of the features still seen on F1 cars in the 21st century. These include the use of a monocoque chassis, side-mounted radiators and the emphasis on aerodynamics. Some of his other innovations were highly successful but ultimately banned from the sport, such as the use of skirts to achieve "ground effect" downforce. However, some of Chapman's radical designs left his cars with the tendency to be unreliable and fragile. Several F1 drivers were killed driving for Lotus, including Jim Clark, Jochen Rindt and Ronnie Peterson.

BRM was founded by Raymond Mays and Peter Berthon; Cooper was started by Charles and John Cooper; and Vanwall was founded by Tony Vandervell.

Answer: First F1 driver to stand on the podium wearing a Superman cape

At the 2006 Monaco Grand Prix, David Coulthard became the first F1 driver to stand on the podium whilst wearing a Superman cape. This somewhat peculiar first was explained by the fact that his team, Red Bull Racing, were promoting the film 'Superman Returns' at that race. Their drivers' overalls were also designed to imitate the costume of the iconic superhero. Coulthard's third place finish at Monaco also marked Red Bull's first ever podium and the penultimate one of his own career.

Christian Klien mislaid the diamond embedded into the nosecone of his Jaguar when he crashed into the barriers (damaging said nosecone) on the first lap of the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix; the diamond had been attached to the car as part of a promotional event for the film 'Ocean's Twelve'. Anthony Davidson became the first F1 driver to run over a groundhog when he hit one with his front wing during the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix - however, Ralf Schumacher nearly took this record when he narrowly avoided a groundhog during practice for the same event. At the 2016 Austrian Grand Prix both Red Bull drivers competed in overalls designed to look like lederhosen; Max Verstappen finished ahead of his team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, so took the honour of becoming the first F1 driver to finish a race while wearing them.