F1 Seasons: 1954 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Juan Manuel Fangio

Fangio took his second World Championship ahead of González. Farina was far from his best, finishing only eighth in the table, while defending Champion Ascari drove for three different teams and finished only 25th.

Answer: Mercedes

Mercedes missed the first 3 races of the season, but still gave Fangio 4 of his 6 wins in the season.

Ferrari had lost Ascari to Lancia, so González was their number one driver. Meanwhile, at Lancia, they had a similar problem as Mercedes, not having their cars ready in the beginning of 1954. They only entered the last Grand Prix of the season and both their cars (driven by Alberto Ascari and Luigi Villoresi) retired.

Gordini was a midfield team, scoring two fifth places by Élie Bayol and André Pilette (equal eighteenth in the Championship)

Answer: Bill Vukovich

Vukovich won again in the Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser entered by the Howard Keck Company.

McGrath, driving a Kurtis-Kraft Offenahuser entered by Jack B. Hinkle finished third, but secured the pole position and fastest lap. Bryan, driving a Kuzma-Offenhauser (entered by A. E. Dean) was second and Agabashian finished sixth his Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser, entered by Miklos Sperling.

Answer: Mercedes & Lancia

Mercedes had 4 poles (all by Juan Manuel Fangio), while Lancia had one in its only GP (by Alberto Ascari).
Ferrari had 2 poles in 1954 (one by Farina and another by González), but they have had pole position in previous seasons, just like Maserati, who secured one this season (by Fangio).

Answer: Alberto Ascari

Ascari had pole and fastest lap in its only race at Lancia. He had another fastest lap in his only GP in a Maserati. Villoresi was Ascari's teammate, but had no fastest laps in 1954.

Herrmann and Kling had one fastest lap each, but they both drove for Mercedes.
In a season with several drivers achieving fastest laps, Juan Manuel Fangio had 3 (2 for Mercedes and 1 for Maserati), the same as José Froilán González, in a Ferrari. Jean Behra (Gordini), Mike Hawthorn (Ferrari), Onofre Marimón (works Maserati) and Stirling Moss (privateer Maserati) each had one fastest lap each.

Answer: Juan Manuel Fangio

Mercedes dominated the French GP, with Fangio leading a 1-2 (followed by Kling). Fangio also won in Germany, Switzerland and Italy in a Mercedes, having won the Argentine and Belgian races in a Maserati.

In a difficult season, Ferrari still managed two wins, by José Froilán González (in the British GP) and Mike Hawthorn (in the Spanish GP).

Answer: They both used their own engines

Both Mercedes and Lancia did the same as Ferrari, Maserati, Gordini and Vanwall, that made their own engines. The only works team outsourcing their engines was HWM, that equipped their car (driven by Lance Macklin) with an Alta engine. It retired in its only race, the French GP.

Answer: Onofre Marimón

Marimón was considerd Maserati's lead driver after Fangio's departure for Mercedes. He died at the Nürburgring, but still managed to finish thirteenth in the Championship, even scoring a fastest lap at the British Grand Prix.

González drove for Ferrari and managed to live past his carreer, something not very common in the 1950s. Musso and Mantovani (both Italian drivers) were Marimón's teammates at Maserati. They both survived this season.

Answer: They divided the point by the 7 drivers.

Alberto Ascari (Maserati), Jean Behra (Gordini), Juan Manuel Fangio (Mercedes), José Froilán González (Ferrari), Mike Hawthorn (Ferrari), Onofre Marimón (Maserati) and Stirling Moss (a Maserati entered by the A. E. Moss team) all got 0,142857... points for their shared fastest lap in the British GP.

Answer: It was not open-wheeled

The Mercedes W196 was streamlined, so it had enclosed wheels. It worked in fast tracks, but not in twisty ones, so the team also created an open-wheel version, that debuted in the German GP at the Nürburgring.