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F1 Seasons: 1950 Trivia Quiz

This is the first of a series of quizzes about F1 seasons. 1950 was the first one. Let's see what you know about it...

A multiple-choice quiz by Caeiro. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Caeiro

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
358,933

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
115

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Question 1 of 10

1. Who was the first F1 World Champion? Hint

Giuseppe Farina

Luigi Fagioli

Juan Manuel Fangio

Alberto Ascari

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Question 2 of 10

2. The first three drivers in the Championship table all drove for the same team, an Italian constructor that dominated the season. What was that dominant team? Hint

Talbot-Lago

Ferrari

Alfa Romeo

Maserati

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Question 3 of 10

3. The Alfa Romeo team won every race in the season except for the Indy 500. But only two drivers in the team managed to win a Grand Prix. Who were they? Hint

Giuseppe Farina & Juan Manuel Fangio

Luigi Fagioli & Giuseppe Farina

Juan Manuel Fangio & Luigi Fagioli

Giuseppe Farina & Alberto Ascari

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Question 4 of 10

4. A pole position doesn't always turn into a win. Farina and Fangio tied in wins in the 1950 season, but who had the most pole positions? Hint

Neither. Luigi Fagioli had the most poles.

Giuseppe Farina

Juan Manuel Fangio

Both. They had 3 poles each

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Question 5 of 10

5. Farina and Fangio also tied in fastest laps (3 each), but why were fastest laps important back then? Hint

The driver with the fastest lap won a Championship point

Fastest laps were not important

The driver with the fastest lap had pole position for the next race

The team with the fastest lap could start the next race with an extra driver

6. Technically, every driver in 1950 was a rookie, since it was the first official Championship, but there had been several F1 races before that year, so, drivers like Farina or Fangio actually started racing in the 1930s. How old was Farina when he won the last Grand Prix of the season, in Italy? Hint

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Question 7 of 10

7. The Indianapolis 500 was a part of the Formula One calendar from 1950 to 1960, although very few teams made the trip to the United States in those 11 years. In 1950 it was an all American affair and 32 out of the 33 starters even had the same engine. Nicknamed "Offy", what engine am I talking about? Hint

Offenhauser

Davidoff

Offenbach

Officer

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Question 8 of 10

8. In its early days, Formula One was a very dangerous sport. In 1950, we lost two drivers, though neither in a Championship event. Britain's Joe Fry died in a hillclimbing event and a Frenchman, who drove for Ferrari and Talbot-Lago in the 1950 season, lost his life in a non-championship race after the end of the season. Who was he? Hint

Raymond Sommer

Louis Chiron

Louis Rosier

Maurice Trintignant

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Question 9 of 10

9. In the days before advertising, cars usually had the colors of their team's country. Since Alfa Romeo was an Italian team, what was the predominant color leading the pack in 1950? Hint

Red

Blue

Green

White

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Question 10 of 10

10. The Ferrari team has always raced with their own engines. However, in the Italian GP, Clemente Biondetti entered his privateer Ferrari with a very unusual engine. What brand was that engine? Hint

Alfa Romeo

Jaguar

Maserati

Talbot

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who was the first F1 World Champion?

Answer: Giuseppe Farina

Farina became the World Champion after winning the last Grand Prix of the season (the Italian GP), beating Fangio by 3 points in the Championship.
Fagioli was third in the Championship, 6 points behind Farina.
Ascari, a future World Champion, didn't have a good season and was only fifth in the Championship, 19 points behind the World Champion.

2. The first three drivers in the Championship table all drove for the same team, an Italian constructor that dominated the season. What was that dominant team?

Answer: Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo drivers dominated the season, winning every race, pole position and fastest lap that year (except in the Indianapolis 500).
Ferrari's best placed driver was Ascari (fifth in the Championship), while Maserati's best driver was the Thai Prince Birabongse Bhanubandh (known simply as Prince Bira), that finished eight, driving for the privateer team of Enrico Plat�.
Talbot-Lago was a French constructor and their star driver was Louis Rosier, who finished fourth in the Championship.

3. The Alfa Romeo team won every race in the season except for the Indy 500. But only two drivers in the team managed to win a Grand Prix. Who were they?

Answer: Giuseppe Farina & Juan Manuel Fangio

Farina won in Great Britain, Switzerland and Italy, while Fangio won in Monaco, Belgium and France
Fagioli managed 4 second places, but no wins and Ascari was a Ferrari driver.

4. A pole position doesn't always turn into a win. Farina and Fangio tied in wins in the 1950 season, but who had the most pole positions?

Answer: Juan Manuel Fangio

Fangio had 4 poles, to Farina's 2. Fagioli had none.

5. Farina and Fangio also tied in fastest laps (3 each), but why were fastest laps important back then?

Answer: The driver with the fastest lap won a Championship point

The points scoring system was as follows: 8 points for the race winner, 6 for the second placed driver, 4 for the third, 3 for the fourth, 2 for the fifth and 1 point for the fastest lap. This rule was in place until 1960, when the last point was transferred from the driver with the fastest lap to the sixth placed driver.

Answer: 43

Farina was born on October 30th, 1906 and he won the Italian GP in Monza on September 3rd, 1950, a few days before his 44th birthday.

Answer: Offenhauser

Offenhauser made the engines that won all the Indy 500 between 1950 and 1960. In 1950, the winner was Johnnie Parsons (driving a factory backed Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser), who also had the fastest lap. Another Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser (entered by the J.C.Agajanian team), driven by Walt Faulkner, got the pole position.
The only other engine that started the race was a Cummins, in Jimmy Jackson's Kurtis Kraft (entered by the Cummins Engine Company). The car retired after 52 laps.

Answer: Raymond Sommer

Sommer died after crashing into a tree in the Grand Prix de l'Haute Garonne, in France. He had been 13th in the 1950 Championship.
Rosier died later in the 1950s, Chiron in the 70s (also, he is from Monaco and not France) and Maurice Trintignant lived well beyond his F1 career, passing away in 2005, aged 87.

9. In the days before advertising, cars usually had the colors of their team's country. Since Alfa Romeo was an Italian team, what was the predominant color leading the pack in 1950?

Answer: Red

Red was the color of Italian teams, British cars were painted green, blue was used by the French and German teams painted their cars white.

10. The Ferrari team has always raced with their own engines. However, in the Italian GP, Clemente Biondetti entered his privateer Ferrari with a very unusual engine. What brand was that engine?

Answer: Jaguar

This was the only time a Ferrari car entered a Grand Prix with an engine that wasn't made by Ferrari. Biondetti's Ferrari-Jaguar retired after a fairly anonymous race, which he started 25th on the grid (third from last).

Source: Author Caeiro

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