Alphabetical F1 - The 'E' in Grand Prix Quiz

Answer: Brabham

Bernard Charles "Bernie" Ecclestone rose to prominence in F1 in 1971 when he bought the Brabham team from Ron Tauranac. The team had been established ten years earlier by Tauranac and the former world champion, Jack Brabham. However, Ecclestone did have previous connections with the sport - he had entered (but not competed in) two grands prix as a driver in 1958 and was the manager of the ill-fated drivers Stuart Lewis-Evans and Jochen Rindt. Under Ecclestone's ownership, Brabham won 22 F1 races, finished second and third in the constructors' championship on multiple occasions and powered Nelson Piquet to two drivers' championships in 1981 and 1983.

Ecclestone's real power in F1 came in later years when he took on the role of organising races and the commercial rights to the sport on behalf of all the teams. Prior to Ecclestone's management, F1 was a somewhat niche sport and the majority of races were not televised. He gradually turned the sport into the global spectacle seen by fans in the 21st century and expanded its reach with races in more and more countries around the world. However, he also became a controversial figure thanks to (amongst other things) the fact that he used the sport to make his own personal fortune, encouraged races in countries with dubious human rights records and faced legal charges of bribery and corruption (which were settled out of court with no assumption of innocence or guilt). His almost omnipotent presence at the helm of F1 came to an end in January 2017 following the sale of the sport to the US media giant, Liberty Media.

Answer: South Africa

The city of East London is located on the south-east coast of South Africa. The Prince George Circuit had hosted non-F1 grand prix races in the 1930s but first joined the F1 calendar as the final race of the 1962 season. The South African Grand Prix was also held at the circuit in 1963 and 1965 before it moved to a new circuit called Kyalami, located close to the city of Johannesburg, for the 1967 season. Despite losing its F1 grand prix, the Prince George Circuit continued to host motor racing into the 21st century - the South African 'Extreme Supercars' and the 'African Endurance Series' being examples of the racing series that have been contested there.

As it was the final race of the 1962 season, the inaugural South African Grand Prix was full of tension and determined the result of that year's world championship. The championship leader going into the race was Graham Hill, but second-placed Jim Clark qualified his Lotus on pole and led the race until an oil leak brought his challenge to an end with just 20 laps to go. Clark's retirement gifted both the race victory and championship glory to Hill. However, Clark went on to win in East London (and win the championship) in both 1963 and 1965.

Answer: Eagle

The Eagle car was intended to be America's answer to the domination of F1 by European manufacturers, but it only competed in the sport between 1966 and 1968 and had mixed success. It was predominantly driven by the American F1 driver and team founder Dan Gurney, who recorded the car's only F1 victory at the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix. Unfortunately poor reliability, particularly from the engine, meant that Eagle cars finished only six races out of the 25 they entered. All six finishes were recorded by Gurney; occasional drives by Bob Bondurant, Bruce McLaren and Ludovico Scarfiotti all ended in retirement.

At the end of the European portion of the 1968 F1 championship, Gurney effectively gave up on the Eagle car and instead entered the final three races of the season - all held in North America - in a McLaren car. He duly finished the 1968 United States Grand Prix in fourth place; it turned out to be his final F1 race in his home country.

Eagle cars had much more success in the American Champ Car series, winning a total of 51 races and recording three wins in the Indianapolis 500 in 1968, 1973 and 1975.

Answer: Marcus Ericsson

Marcus Ericsson became the first Swede to compete in an F1 race since Stefan Johansson in 1991 when he lined up on the starting grid for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in March 2014. He qualified for his debut race in 20th position on the grid (a result that said more about the quality of Caterham's car than Ericsson's racing talent) and retired after 27 laps with an oil pressure problem. His best result in 2014 was the 14th place that he recorded in his second race, the Malaysian Grand Prix. Unfortunately his season came to a premature end when Caterham were placed in financial administration after the Russian Grand Prix and missed the races in the USA and Brazil. Although a crowdfunding exercise allowed Caterham to compete in the final race of the season, Ericsson lost his seat to the British driver Will Stevens. However, Ericsson's career ultimately survived Caterham's demise as he was swiftly signed up by Sauber.

Tomas Enge was Czech and first raced in F1 in 2001, Harald Ertl (an Austrian) started his first F1 race in 1975 and American Ed Elisian competed in the Indianapolis 500 (then part of the F1 championship) in the 1950s.

Answer: Great Britain

The first round of the F1 world championship to be officially called the European Grand Prix was the 1983 race at the Brands Hatch circuit in Great Britain. This race was the second to be held in Britain that year (following the British Grand Prix at the Silverstone circuit) and was organised at short notice following the cancellation of an intended race in the USA. The race was won by Nelson Piquet and the Brabham team.

Other circuits and countries to have hosted a European Grand Prix include Donington Park (also in Great Britain), the Nürburgring in Germany, Jerez and Valencia in Spain and Baku in Azerbaijan. The European Grand Prix in Baku in 2016 was the first F1 race to take place in Azerbaijan and deviated from the usual practice of the race being a second event held in a country in the same year.

Prior to the 1983 race, the term 'European Grand Prix' was used as an additional honorific title added annually to the name of one of the existing grands prix held in Europe, a practice that pre-dated the start of the F1 world championship in 1950 (the first one was the Italian Grand Prix of 1923) and continued until 1977.

Answer: Esteban

The Mexican driver Esteban Gutierrez made his F1 debut with the Sauber team in 2013 and managed one solitary points scoring finish (a seventh place in the 2013 Japanese Grand Prix) over the course of two years with the team. He was dropped for the 2015 season, but returned to the sport in 2016 with the brand new American team, Haas F1.

Esteban Ocon (who was born in Normandy, France in 1996) competed in the final nine races of the 2016 F1 season. He took over the second Manor car from the Indonesian driver Rio Haryanto after the summer break and his debut took place at the Belgian Grand Prix. His best result of the season was a 12th place finish at the penultimate race in Brazil and he was duly signed by the (much more successful) Force India team for the following year.

Another notable example of an F1 grid with a large proportion of the drivers sharing the same first name occurred in 2009 when Sebastien Bourdais, Sebastien Buemi and Sebastian Vettel all took part in the first nine races of the season (after which Sebastien Bourdais lost his seat).

Answer: Energy recovery systems

The regulations introduced for the start of the 2014 F1 season proved to be a major departure from the engines used in earlier years. The six components of the new 'power unit' were an internal combustion engine, turbocharger, control electronics, energy store (a.k.a. battery) and the motor generator unit-kinetic (MGU-K) and motor generator unit-heat (MGU-H). The latter two were energy recovery systems that allowed the drivers a 'boost' of power that they could deploy strategically around each lap - either as an overtaking aid, defensively to protect against being overtaken, or simply to minimise lap times. A version of the MGU-K had been used in previous seasons under the name 'KERS' and recovered kinetic energy lost under braking. The MGU-H was attached to the turbocharger and recovered heat energy from the exhaust gases.

Overall the new 'engines' were smaller than the devices they replaced (a 1.6 litre V6 internal combustion engine compared to a 2.4 litre V8) and, controversially, much quieter. Some F1 fans (and one Bernie Ecclestone) were clearly dismayed that the traditionally loud, growling engine noise had been considerably muted. On the other hand though, some fans appreciated the fact that the reduced engine noise meant that suddenly other noises could be heard, such as the squealing of the tyres when drivers locked their brakes.

Answer: Nelson Piquet

The German Grand Prix was the 11th out of the 16 F1 races held in 1978. Nelson Piquet, a rookie driver from Brazil, made his debut at the event in a one-off race for the back-of-the-grid Ensign outfit. He then joined the BS Fabrications team (who were racing an old McLaren car) for the next three races, achieving his first race finish with a 9th place at the Italian Grand Prix. He also competed in the final race of the season for the Brabham team - where he stayed for the next seven seasons and took his first two world championship titles in 1981 and 1983.

Piquet later joined the Williams team in 1986 and took his third and final world championship title with them in 1987. He then went on to drive two seasons each for the Lotus and Benetton teams before retiring at the end of the 1991 season. Overall he won 23 grands prix during his 14 years and 204 races in F1 - his first came at the 1980 United States Grand Prix West at Long Beach in California and his final victory was secured at the 1991 Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.

Answer: Guy Edwards

Guy Edwards, who was born in Macclesfield in Cheshire in 1942, took part in nine races for Graham Hill's Embassy Hill team in 1974 and six for Hesketh Racing in 1976. His best result in F1 was a seventh place finish at the 1974 Swedish Grand Prix. The 1976 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring started in the wet but most of the leading drivers, including Niki Lauda, stopped for dry weather tyres at the end of the first lap. This meant that Lauda was racing with the backmarkers when he lost control of his Ferrari, which crashed into a fence and an earth bank before bursting into flames and being hit by several other cars. One of those backmarkers was Guy Edwards who, along with fellow drivers Harald Ertl and Brett Lunger, saved Lauda's life by pulling him from his burning car. Amazingly, despite horrific burns, Lauda returned later that season and very nearly won the world championship. The story of this dramatic F1 season was told in the 2013 film 'Rush' in which Edwards was portrayed by the actor James Norton.

Edwards was later awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for his actions. The silver medal is predominantly awarded to civilians and is given for "exemplary acts of bravery".

Paul Emery was a British F1 driver whose career consisted of one retirement from the 1956 British Grand Prix, while Vic Elford (also British) competed in 13 races between 1968 and 1971. Despite what his name might imply, Paul England was an Australian driver; his F1 career also consisted of a single race - the 1957 German Grand Prix.

Answer: Estoril

The Autódromo Fernanda Pires da Silva at Estoril was originally built in 1972 and appeared on the F1 calendar for the first time in 1984 when the Portuguese Grand Prix returned after an absence of 24 years. The 1985 Portuguese Grand Prix was the second race of the season and held in extremely wet conditions. These circumstances gave Ayrton Senna the chance to showcase his amazing wet weather driving skills. He nabbed pole position, led the race from start to finish and recorded the fastest lap. By the time the chequered flag came down, Senna was over a minute ahead of everyone else and had lapped the entire field except for the second-placed driver, Michele Alboreto. This race confirmed the abilities Senna had first displayed in his drive to second place in the rain-affected Monaco Grand Prix the previous year. Of course, Senna's driving skills in the dry were equally good and he went on to become a triple F1 world champion before his untimely death in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.

Estoril was dropped as an F1 Grand Prix venue in 1997. Other notable F1 achievements to take place at the circuit included Niki Lauda clinching his third and final world title in 1984, four-time world champion Alain Prost's 150th grand prix start in 1989 and (for fans of David Coulthard) David Coulthard's first F1 victory in 1995.

The incorrect options are all cities in Portugal - but none of them hosted an F1 race in the 1980s.