F1 Seasons: 1951 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Juan Manuel Fangio

Fangio lost the 1950 World Championship to Farina by just 3 points, but he secured it in 1951, with a 6 points advantage over Ascari, an Italian driver.
González finished third, 7 points behind Fangio and 5 ahead of Farina (Italian, like Ascari), who was only fourth.

Answer: Alfa Romeo

Juan Manuel Fangio drove for Alfa Romeo in 1951, as he had done the previous season. The team was not so dominant, though, as they had 4 wins, to Ferrari's 3.
Talbot-Lago's best was a fourth place (Louis Rosier, a privateer, was their best driver, finishing twelfth in the World Championship) and Maserati was not the top team they would be in the future, as none of their cars finished in a point scoring position in 1951.

Answer: José Froilán González

González won the British GP, the first of a hat-trick of victories for Ferrari (Ascari won the next two races, in Germany and Italy).
Villoresi had no wins this season (he finished fifth in the Championship after 3 third place finishes) and Farina was an Alfa Romeo driver.

Answer: Ferrari & Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo had the most pole positions: four (all by Juan Manuel Fangio) against three from Ferrari (two by Alberto Ascari and one by José Froilán González).
Talbot-Lago and Maserati had no pole positions in the 1951 season.

Answer: 7

Alfa Romeo had all the fastest laps, except for the Indy 500. Five were by Juan Manuel Fangio and two were by Giuseppe Farina.

Answer: BRM

BRM (British Racing Motors) entered two races in 1951 (in Great Britain and Italy). In the British GP, they finished fifth (with Reg Parnell), their best result of the season.
Alta and ERA (English Racing Automobiles) also entered the 1951 Championship (with privateer teams), but had no points scoring finishes.
HWM (Hersham & Walton Motors) had a works team and a future race winner in Stirling Moss, but their best result was an eighth place in the Swiss GP (by Moss).

Answer: Novi

Duke Nalon's Kurtis Kraft-Novi, entered by Jean Marcenac, won pole position for the Indy 500. The win and fastest lap, though, went to Lee Wallard's Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser, entered by Murray Belanger.

Answer: Cecil Green

Green finished fourth in the 1950 Indy 500 (he retired in the 1951 edition), scoring 3 points that put him thirteenth in the F1 World Championship. He died on July 29th, while qualifying for the Winchester round of the AAA Sprint Car Championship. Mackey died the same day as Green, when he crashed in the exact same place, shortly after qualifying was resumed.
Coincidentally, Brown also died on July 29th, but in a different event (the AAA Champ Cars race held at the Williams Grove Speedway). Hellings died later that year (November 11th) in a plane crash.

Answer: They did nothing, because shared races were allowed at the time

Shared races were allowed and took place up to 1960 (though they were no longer allowed to score points since 1957). The points were split between the drivers that shared the car, so, Fangio got just 4 points for this win, instead of 8 (he actually got 5 for the race, since he also had the fastest lap).
The French GP was Fagioli's only career win, while Fangio had two more this season (in Switzerland and Spain). The other Alfa Romeo win in 1951 came from Farina, in the Belgian GP.

Answer: I've killed my mother

Enzo Ferrari spend several years working for Alfa Romeo, both as a driver and as sporting director. When González won the British GP ahead of Fangio's Alfa, he felt he was (metaphorically) killing his mother, the team that brought him into the (sporting) world.